Fiction

Hollywood, Charles Bukowski

From iconic tortured artist/everyman Charles Bukowski, Hollywood is the fictionalization of his experience adapting his novel Barfly into a movie by the same name.

Publisher: Vintage

Hocus Pocus, Kurt Vonnegut

Master of post-modern satire, Kurt Vonnegut patterns trajectories of sex, spite, crime and power in this kaleidoscopic novel

Publisher: Vintage

Mother Night, Kurt Vonnegut

Is Howard guilty? Can a black or white verdict ever be reached in a world that’s a gazillion shades of grey?

Publisher: Arrow Books

The Family, Mario Puzo

Enter the Borgias. Headed by Rodrigo Borgia, better known as Pope Alexander VI, this tight-knit family is fighting to keep its iron grip on Italy – but theirs is a lethal game, and the cost of failure is surely death.

Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

Their arrangement could be surprisingly seamless, as long as Tate can stick to the only two rules Miles has for her.

Publisher: Penguin Books

Nothing More to Tell, Karen M. McManus

Four years ago someone got away with murder. Now it's time to uncover the truth . . .

Publisher: Penguin Books

One Of Us Is Lying, Karen M. McManus

Five students go to detention. Only four leave alive.Yale hopeful Bronwyn has never publicly broken a rule.

It Starts with Us, Colleen Hoover

But her excitement is quickly hampered by the knowledge that, though they are no longer married, Ryle is still very much a part of her life—and Atlas Corrigan is the one man he will hate being in his ex-wife and daughter’s life.

Publisher: Faber and faber

Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom, Sylvia Plath

Lips the color of blood, the sun an unprecedented orange, train wheels that sound like “guilt, and guilt, and guilt”: these are just some of the things Mary Ventura begins to notice on her journey to the ninth kingdom.

Publisher: Penguin Books

One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A microcosm of Columbian life, its secrets lie hidden, encoded in a book, and only Aureliano Buendía can fathom its mysteries and reveal its shrouded destiny.

Publisher: Harper Collins

Sharpe's Eagle, Bernard Cornwell

The story is set in July 1809, in the midst of the Talavera Campaign during the Peninsular War. It was the first Sharpe novel published, but eighth in the series' chronological order.

Publisher: Penguin Books

Exile and the Kingdom, Albert Camus

This story features D'Arrast, who can be seen as a positive hero as opposed to Meursault in The Stranger.[4] He actively shapes his life and sacrifices himself in order to help a friend, instead of remaining passive.