Just gathering up some of the books I’ve been yammering about over the past few months…



Fiction (contemporary):

Gravity Is The Thing by Jaclyn Moriarty
Strange Flowers by Donal Ryan
This Happy by Niamh Campbell
Nothing But Blue Sky by Kathleen MacMahon
Here Is The Beehive by Sarah Crossan
Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner
Olive by Emma Gannon
Beach Read by Emily Henry
Scenes of a Graphic Nature by Caroline O’Donoghue









Fiction (speculative, magic realism, etc):

The Dead Wife’s Handbook by Hannah Beckerman
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
XX by Angela Chadwick
The Harpy by Megan Hunter
The Grace Year by Kim Ligget
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Grief Is The Thing With Feathers by Max Porter
The Time of My Life by Cecelia Ahern







Fiction (historical, inc. alternate history):

The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Birdie by Nuala O’Connor
Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld





Fiction (crime/thriller/suspense):

Ask No Questions by Claire Allan
Hidden Lies/The Woman Outside My Door by Rachel Ryan
The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
Silent Kill by Jane Casey
After The Silence by Louise O’Neill
His & Hers by Alice Feeney
The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley





Non-fiction (self-help, mental health, etc):

Sabotage by Emma Gannon
The Art of Creativity by Susie Pearl
What Have I Done? by Laura Dockrill
Tribe of Mentors by Timothy Ferriss
In My Room by Jim Lucey
It’s All Absolutely Fine by Ruby Elliot
Elena Vanishing by Elena & Clare B Dunkle
Craftfulness by Rosemary Davidson & Arzu Tahsin
Sane by Emma Young
On Being Human by Jennifer Pastiloff
Untamed by Glennon Doyle





Non-fiction (essays):

OK, Let’s Do Your Stupid Idea by Patrick Freyne
A Ghost In The Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa
The Problem With Everything by Meghan Daum