44 recommendations from our readers for best lockdown books
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We asked our social media followers what books they’d been reading in lockdown – and the list is overflowing with recommendations!
Here are some of your favourites from our social media pages:
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Hide AdThe Keeper of Lost Things – Ruth Hogan (suggested by Verity Eggleston)
Doll – Adam Bushnell (suggested by Verity Eggleston)
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes – Caitlin Doughty (suggested by Verity Eggleston)
This Is Going To Hurt – Adam Kay (suggested by Verity Eggleston)
The Raj Quartet – Paul Scott (suggested by Paula Horsfall)
Tunnel Vision – Keith Lowe (suggested by Bryony Jade Fucile)
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Hide AdThe Book Thief – Markus Zusak (suggested by Stewart Francis)
The Tattooist of Auschwitz – Heather Morris (suggested by Deborah Clarke)
Cilka’s Journey – Heather Morris (suggested by Deborah Clarke)
Poor Banished Children of Eve – EJ Stewart (suggested by Joe and Pam Stewart)
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Hide AdThe Shipyard Girls series – Nancy Revell (suggested by Janice Leach)
A Reliable Wife – Robert Goolrick (suggested by Juan Jose Aguilera Rubio)
Three Little Lies – Laura Marshall (suggested by Juan Jose Aguilera Rubio)
The Death of Mrs Westaway – Ruth Ware (suggested by Annemarie Chisholm)
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Hide AdFaking Friends – Jane Fallon (suggested by Annemarie Chisholm)
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver (suggested by Linda Jay)
A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry (suggested by Linda Jay)
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides (suggested by Linda Jay)
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë (suggested by Ian Thompson)
DCI Ryan murder mystery series – LJ Ross (suggested by Irene Green and Jackie Sallabank)
Outlander series – Diana Gabaldon (suggested by Sarah Jubb)
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman (suggested by Leigh Graham)
I Am Pilgrim – Terry Hayes (suggested by Jean Jamieson)
No Mercy – Martina Cole (suggested by Karin Craig)
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Hide AdA Thousand Ships – Natalie Haynes (suggested by Julia Duffy)
Sleeping Beauties – Stephen King and Owen King (suggested by Jan Ies Delmey)
Falling Creatures – Katherine Stansfield (suggested by Rachel Nevin)
Loyalty – Martina Cole (suggested by Barbara Lampasiak)
The Last Kingdom – Bernard Cornwell (suggested by Andrew Lackenby)
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Hide AdPigs in Clover – Simon Dawson (suggested by Beverley Yeoman Glover)
A Game of Thrones – George R. R. Martin (suggested by Carole Wright)
The Mirror and the Light – Hilary Mantel (suggested by Jan Hamilton)
The Secret Rooms – Catherine Bailey (suggested by Lily Ann Dawes)
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Hide AdThe Curious Case of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon (suggested by Jon Freyne)
The Battle of Britain – James Holland (suggested by Dave Strother)
Bravo Two Zero – Andy McNab (suggested by Paul Davis)
Rocket Boys – Homer Hickam (suggested by Catherine Dowlen)
Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood (suggested by Judith Williams)
My House in Northumberland: A Memoir – Sally Gordon (suggested by the author)
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Hide AdThe Silk Merchant’s Daughter – Dinah Jefferies (suggested by Roger Maynard)
Swallowdale – Arthur Ransome (suggested by Sarah Watkins)
Pigeon Post – Arthur Ransome (suggested by Sarah Watkins)
The Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett (suggested by Ken Bailey)
The Salt Path – Raynor Winn (suggested by Rachel Griffiths)