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The books

Find out more about the Reading Well titles. Leaflets containing the booklist and other promotional material are available from our resources bank.

If you want to access these books on a digital device, you can download ebooks via your library’s e-lending service. For support with this email [email protected].

Reading Well booklists

Reading Well helps you to understand and manage your health and wellbeing using helpful reading.

The books are chosen by health experts and people living with the conditions covered. People can be recommended a title by a health professional, or they can visit their local library and take a book out for free.

Many of the Reading Well titles are available to borrow as e-books and audiobooks. Visit your local library website to find out how to join the library and access books electronically.

View Reading Well booklists

Uplifting resources: for the NHS, from the NHS

Health Education England and The Reading Agency have created a crowd-sourced uplifting book collection and a supporting list of digital resources, all recommended by NHS staff, for NHS staff.

The collection will launch on Wednesday 7 July as part of Health Information Week.

The collection of ten books have been recommended via a survey circulated by the NHS and the final list was selected by a panel of NHS staff.

The book collection contains fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, and a supporting collection of uplifting digital resources, including poems, websites, videos and apps, is available here and can be accessed at your leisure via any computer or mobile device.

View Uplifting resources: for the NHS, from the NHS

Mood-boosting Books

Reading Well Mood-boosting Books is a national promotion of uplifting titles, including novels, poetry and non-fiction. The books are all recommended by readers and reading groups.

Many of the books are available to borrow free from your local library. Selected titles are also available to borrow as e-books and audiobooks. Visit your local library website to find out how to join the library and access books electronically.

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Your Health Collection

Health Education England and The Reading Agency have worked in partnership to bring together a new list entitled ‘Your Health Collection’, to support users of health and prison libraries to understand and manage their health.

Your Health Collection will launch on 6 July 2022 as part of Health Information Week.

The collection of 10 books and 30 digital resources were chosen by those working in healthcare, health information and knowledge and library specialists working in the NHS, in prisons, in public health and in Higher Education. The resources chosen are accessible, inclusive and reflect the diversity of society.

View Your Health Collection

Reading Well is available bilingually in Wales. Darganfyddwch fwy am y teitlau sydd ar restrau llyfrau Darllen yn Well Llyfrau ar Bresgripsiwn a fydd ar gael yng Nghymru: dementia ac iechyd meddwl.

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