We love hearing about your latest reads – it’s our favourite part of the Mid Sussex Reading Challenge! We can’t believe we’re already past the halfway point and thinking about our July reads. We’ve got a list of suggestions for you if you’re struggling for inspiration, and we’ve tried to include lots of titles available for free through the West Sussex eLibrary. Head over to our current offer page to find out how to access our eBook and eAudiobook collection at home.
The theme for July is to read a debut novel. This is any first book written by any author – so it doesn’t matter if they published more books afterwards!
Need inspiration? Why not try…
Angie Thomas – The Hate U Give (eBook & eAudiobook available)
Gail Honeyman – Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (eBook & eAudiobook available)
Kathryn Stockett – The Help (eBook & eAudiobook available)
Andy Weir – The Martian (eBook available)
Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird (eBook & eAudiobook available)
Paula Hawkins – The Girl on the Train (eBook available)
Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart (eBook available)
George Saunders – Lincoln in the Bardo
Diane Setterfield – The Thirteenth Tale
Celeste Ng – Everything I Never Told You
Arundhati Roy – The God of Small Things (eBook & eAudiobook available)
Emma Cline – The Girls (eBook available)
Veronica Roth – Divergent (eBook available)
Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre (eBook available)
Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner (eBook available)
Amor Towles – Rules of Civility
Fredrik Backman – A Man Called Ove
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Purple Hisbiscus (eBook available)
Stephen King – Carrie
Ernest Cline – Ready Player One (eBook available)
Mark Dunn – Ella Minnow Pea
Dodie Smith – I Capture the Castle (eBook & eAudiobook available)
Jane Austen – Sense & Sensibility (eBook available)
Donna Tartt – The Secret History
Irvine Welsh – Trainspotting (eBook available)
Stephen Chbosky – The Perks of Being a Wallflower (eBook available)
Oyinkan Braithwaite – My Sister, the Serial Killer (eBook available)
Isabel Allende – The House of the Spirits
Mark Haddon – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (eBook available)
L.M. Montgomery – Anne of Green Gables (eBook available)
Toni Morrison – The Bluest Eye
Graeme Simsion – The Rosie Project (eBook & eAudiobook available)
David Mitchell – Ghostwritten
R.J. Palacio – Wonder (eBook available)
Gillian Flynn – Sharp Objects
Zadie Smith – White Teeth (eBook available)
Sue Monk Kidd – The Secret Life of Bees
Joseph Heller – Catch-22 (eBook available)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude
Erin Morgenstern – The Night Circus (eBook & eAudiobook available)
Ken Kesey – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (eBook available)
J.R.R. Tolkien – The Hobbit (eBook available)
Audrey Niffenegger – The Time Traveler’s Wife
Ransom Riggs – Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Stieg Larsson – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (eAudiobook available)
Let us know what you’ll be reading next by posting in our Facebook group or tweeting us @WSCCLibraries using the hashtag #MidSussexReadingChallenge!
Find out how West Sussex Libraries can support you at home, including how to access our free eLibrary, by visiting our current offer page.
Mid Sussex Reading Challenge 2020 