Book Club Titles 2026

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Titles Beginning with: A to K

 

A calamity of souls Baldacci, David

A mother's story

Batty, Rosie

A single thread

Chevalier, Tracy

A world of curiosities  Penny, Louise

After Story

Behrendt, Larissa

After that night Slaughter, Karin
Alternatives, The  Hughes, Caoilinn 
Another day in the colony Watego, Chelsea 

Any ordinary day

Sales, Leigh

Anything is possible

Strout, Elizabeth

Apples never fall

Moriarty, Lianne

Australia Day

Cheng, Melanie

Becoming

Obama, Michelle

Benevolence

Jansen, Julie

Betrayal  Pearse, Lesley 
Big Swiss Beagin, Jen

Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray

Heiss, Anita

Blue Sisters  Mellors, Coco 

Boat runner: A novel, The

Murphy, Devin

Bookbinder of Jericho, The  Williams, Pip 
 

Bookshop of the broken hearted, The

Hillman, Robert

Boy swallows universe

Dalton, Trent

Bridge, The

Gandolfo, Enza

Bridge of clay

Zusak, Marcus

Brotherless night Ganeshananthan, V.V. 

Burning island, The

Serong, Jock

By any other name  Picoult, Jodi

Cane, The

Cuskelly, Maryrose

Chairman’s lounge, The  Aston, Joe 
City and its uncertain walls, The  Murakami, Haruki 

City of girls

Gilbert, Elizabeth

City of trees: essays on life, death and the need for a forest

Cunningham, Sophie

Clarke Throsby, Holly

Clockmaker’s wife, The

Wood, Daisy

Collector, The  Silva, Daniel 
Cross down  Patterson, James 
Crows nest  Mottram, Nikki 

D-day girls: the spies who armed the resistance

Rose, Sarah

Dark wives, The  Cleves, Ann
Darling girls Hepworth, Sally
Dead tide  McIntosh, Fiona 

Devotion

Kent, Hannah

Dinner with the Schnabels

Jordan, Toni

Dirt town

Scrivener, Hayley

Doppelganger: a trip into the mirror world Klein, Naomi

Dressmaker, The

Ham, Rosalie

Dusk Arnott, Robbie 
Echoes, The  Wyld, Evie

Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine

Honeyman, Gail

Elements, The  Boyne, John 
Exiles, The 

Jane Harper

Fallen Woman, The  McIntosh, Fiona 

Force of nature

Harper, Jane

Foster  Keegan, Claire 

German wife, The

Rimmer, Kelly

Girl, forgotten

Slaughter, Karin

Good material  Alderton, Dolly

 

Grey wolf, The  Penny, Louise

 

Grey wolf, The  Penny, Louise 
Gunnawah  Salt, Ronni 
Happiness  Steel, Danielle
High wire  Fox, Candice
Homecoming  Morton, Kate
Honeyeater, The  Tu, Jessie
Horse  Brooks, Geraldine

House mate, The

Bailey, Sarah

How the West was one

Howie, Karyn

I am Malala

Yousafzai, Malala

Identity  Roberts, Nora 

In Moonland

Allinson, Miles

Intermezzo  Rooney, Sally 

Island home

Winton, Tim

James  Everett, Percival 
Joy Moody is out of time  Mayne, Kerryn 
Juice  Winton, Tim
Kairos  Erpenbeck, Jenny 
Kind of, sort of, maybe, but probably not  Neeme, Imbi

 

 

Titles Beginning with: L to S

Last victim, The  Hall, Tracy 
Lasting harm, The  Osborne-Crowley, Lucia 
Lessons in chemistry  Garmus, Bonnie 

Lincoln Highway, The

Towles, Amos

Little fires everywhere

Ng, Celeste

Little Paris bookshop, The

George, Nina

Lola in the mirror  Dalton, Trent 

Love objects

McGuire, Emily

Love with a chance of drowning De Roche, Torre 
Mad honey 

Jodi Picoult

Malibu rising

Reid, Taylor Jenkins

Manifesto on never giving up

Evaristo, Bernadine

Memorial days  Brooks, Geraldine 
Memory trap Goldsmith, Andrea 
Milliner of Bendigo, The  Fraser, Darry 
Mind games  Roberts, Nora 
More or less Maddy  Genova, Lisa 

Murder rule, The

McTiernan, Dervla

Museum of modern love

Rose, Heather

My friends Hisham, Matar 

Nancys, The

Mc Donald, R.W.

Nightwork

Roberts, Nora

No friend but the mountain

Boochani, Behrouz

Normal people

Rooney, Sally

Normal rules don’t apply  Atkinson, Kate 

Nowhere child, The

White, Christian

Orbital  Harvey, Samantha 

Oh William!

Strout, Elizabeth

One hundred days

Pung, Alice

Our souls at night

Haruf, Kent

Over the other side: from Williamstown to the world

Warner, Peggy

Paris apartment, The

Foley, Lucy

Paris library, The

Skelien, Janet Charles

Past tense

Child, Lee

People of the book

Brooks, Geraldine

Perfumer's secret, The

McIntosh, Fiona

Playground  Powers, Richard

Preservation

Serong, Jock

Prophet song  Paul Lynch
Raging storm, The  Cleves, Ann 
Restless Dolly Maunder  Grenville, Kate

Rising Tide

Cleeves, Ann

Rewilding the urban soul

Dunn, Claire

Safe haven  Chandran, Shankari 
Sanctuary  Disher, Garry 

Scary monsters

de Krester, Michelle

Scrublands

Hammer, Chris

Search party, The  Richell, Hannah 
Season, The  Garner, Helen
Seven, The  Hammer, Chris

Seven and a half (7 1/2)

Tsiolkas, Christos

Seven skins of Esther Wilding, The 

Ringland, Holly

Shadow of the wind, The  Ruiz Zafón, Carlos 

Shepherd's hut, The

Winton, Tim

Shrines of gaiety

Atkinson, Kate

Sisters under the rising sun  Morris, Heather 
Small things like these  Keegan, Claire
Small worlds  Nelson, Caleb Azumah
Someone else’s shoes  Moyes, Jojo 

Song of the crocodile

Simpson, Nardi

St Kilda blues  McGeachin, Geoffrey 

Still life

Winman, Sarah

Strangers in time  Baldacci, David 
Sugar palace, The  McIntosh, Fiona 

Survivors, The

Harper, Jane

Titles Beginning with: T to Z

Tattooist of Auschwitz, The

Morris, Heather

Theory & practice  De Kretser, Michelle 
Think twice  Coben, Harlan
This is why we lied  Slaughter, Karin
Three days in June  Tyler, Anne
Three wild dogs and the truth  Zusak, Markus
To die for  Baldacci, David 

Too much lip

Lucashenko, Melissa

Trauma cleaner, The

Krasnostein, Sarah

Treasure and dirt

Hammer, Chris

Trust

Hammer, Chris

Unbelieved

Petrakis, Vicki

Unsettled  Grenville, Kate
Valley, The  Hammer, Chris

Wake

Burr, Shelley

Wakes, The  Yarwood, Dianne 
We all live here  Moyes, Jojo 
We are all completely beside ourselves  Fowler, Karen Joy 
Weekends with the Sunshine Gardening Society  Green, Sophie 

We were not men

Mattinson, Campbell

We solve murders  Osman, Richard
What happened to Nina?  McTiernan, Dervla 
Whole life sentence  La Plante, Lynda 
Wifedom  Funder, Anna 
Wild dark shore McConaghy, Charlotte
Willowman 

Simpson, Inga

Wimmera

Brandi, Mark

Wind knows my name, The  Allende, Isabel 
Women, The  Hannah, Kristin 
Words without music  Glass, Philip
Would you rather  Alderson, Maggie 

Year of living Danishly, The

Russell, Helen

Yellowface  Kuang, R. F.

Yield, The

Winch, Tara June

You are here  Nicholls, David 

 

Last updated: 23 February, 2026