Fiction

With its incredibly timely portrayal of race relations, it’s not surprising people are looking for more books like The Hate U Give. Angie Thomas’s critically acclaimed debut novel, The Hate U Give, was written initially as a short story in reaction to the senseless police shooting of Oscar Grant in 2009, by expanding it into… Read More

Since its publication in 2012 and its film adaptation in 2014, eager readers have been on the hunt for more exhilarating books like Gone Girl to keep them on their toes. Gone Girl is one of those unique novels that are full of characters that are all deeply flawed, most of which are utterly unlikable… Read More

It is easy to get so lost in a book that you become saddened when you finish it, wishing it could just carry on going, this is what makes a series of books like Outlander so appealing. Diana Gabaldon’s dramatic, time travelling, historical romance, Outlander follows the life of Claire Randall, a former combat nurse… Read More

Published in 2011, John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars instantly became a bestseller and thrusted the author from relative obscurity into a household name. Because of the popularity of the novel, many people are on the hunt for more books like The Fault in Our Stars. John Green is an author and video blogger;… Read More

Sally Rooney’s Normal People was the highly anticipated novel that followed her award-winning Conversations with Friends. It was longlisted for the 2018 Booker Prize and is even in the process of being turned into a television series. Because of its acclaim, it left many readers eagerly searching for more books like Normal People. The novel… Read More

Books like All The Light We Cannot See have an astounding ability to touch your heart even if historical fiction isn’t a genre you are normally fond of. Set during the heart-rending devastation of World War II the novel centres around a blind French girl called Marie-Laure and a German boy called Werner. The lives… Read More

I wonder if Lee Child (real name Jim Grant) ever realised how many books he would write when he first created the character Jack Reacher. Two of the books One Shot and No Way Back have been adapted for film where there was much controversy over the 5’8” Tom Cruise playing the role. Personally, I… Read More

Are you on the hunt for more books like The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides? The Virgin Suicides is a peculiar novel that explores the lives of the conservative Lisbon family, from the perspective of a group of boys who live nearby. Over the period of a year the boys become increasingly obsessed with the… Read More