Recommended Reads for November

We’re into the penultimate month of the Mid Sussex Reading Challenge! We’ve taken on lots of fantastic themes so far, including to read a banned book, a children’s classic and a book that has been adapted into a film.

The theme for November is:

If you’re stuck for inspiration, why not try:

Anna Burns – Milkman
Jessie Burton – The Miniaturist
John Banville – The Sea
Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird
Julian Barnes – The Sense of an Ending
John Barry – The Secret Scipture
Paul Beatty – The Sellout
Andrea Levy – Small Island
Ian McEwan – Amsterdam or Atonement
Louisa May Alcott – Little Women
George Saunders – Lincoln in the Bardo
Marlon James – A Brief History of Seven Killings
Aravind Adiga – The White Tiger
Kate Atkinson – Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Margaret Atwood – The Blind Assassin, The Handmaid’s Tale or The Testaments
Kamila Shamsie – Home Fire
Kazuo Ishiguro – The Remains of the Day or Never Let Me Go
Lionel Shriver – We Need to Talk About Kevin
Jane Austen – Pride & Prejudice
Alice Walker – The Color Purple
Toni Morrison – Beloved
Michael Ondaatje – The English Patient
Yann Martel – Life of Pi
Arundhati Roy – The God of Small Things
J.M. Coetzee – Disgrace
Nina Stibbe – Reasons to Be Cheerful
Bernardine Evaristo – Girl, Woman, Other
Mark Haddon – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Further to the Government announcement on Saturday about the new national restrictions, we are waiting to receive guidance on libraries from Central Government, including what services we will be able to offer from Thursday 5 November. However, most of our libraries are still open tomorrow (Wednesday 4 November) for you to pop in and grab your reading challenge books. Find the current opening hours for all our libraries here.

There are also thousands of eBooks and eAudiobooks available for free in the West Sussex eLibrary. All you need to access the eLibrary is your library card and pin number – if you need help finding either of these, contact your local library.

If you’re not registered with West Sussex Libraries and live, work or study in West Sussex, you can register for free online.

What will you be reading this month? Let us know by posting in our Facebook group, tweeting us @WSCCLibraries or sending in your own review.