Book Group Readers' Recommendations 2025

At the end of each year, members of the Book Group meet together to share their favourite titles and offer ideas for gifts for friends and family, and for new authors to try ourselves. These are the titles that were mentioned.

Also available: recommendations at the end of 2024

On the calculation of volume
by Solvej Balle translated by Barbara J. Haveland
Recommended by Graham K
The Echo Chamber
by John Boyne
Recommended by Ann
The Story of a Heart
by Rachel Clarke
Recommended by Sarah
The Wedding People
by Alison Espach
Recommended by Maria
Billy
by Albert French
Recommended by Jill

First published in 1994. I probably read it not long after this. It's his first novel and in my opinion was brilliant. It's a story of racial injustice set in 1930s Mississippi, as unsentimental as it is heartbreaking. The sequel 'Cinder' was published in 2008, telling the story of Billy's mother.

The Dream Hotel
by Laila Lalami
Recommended by Sarah
Hello Beautiful
by Ann Napolitano
Recommended by Maria
There are rivers in the sky
by Elif Shafak
Recommended by John
The Art of Uncertainty
by David Spiegelhalter
Recommended by Neil