Chosen by reading groups (2012)

The Big Over Easy

Jasper Fforde

Big Stone Gap: A Novel

Adriana Trigiani

Couch Fiction: A Graphic Tale of Psychotherapy

Philippa Perry, Junko Graat

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Salman Rushdie, Paul Birkbeck

Hector and the Search for Happiness

Francois Lelord, Lorenza Garcia

Life According to Lubka

Laurie Graham

Life with the Lid Off

Nicola Hodgkinson

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

Helen Simonson

Being Human: The Companion Anthology to Staying Alive and Being Alive

Neil Astley

A Little History of the World

Ernst H. Gombrich

Men at Work

Mike Gayle

Notes from a Small Island

Bill Bryson

Prodigal Summer

Barbara Kingsolver

The Pursuit of Love

Nancy Mitford, Zoe Heller

Smoke and Mirrors

Neil Gaiman

A Spot of Bother

Mark Haddon

Tackling Life

Charlie Oatway

That Awkward Age

Roger McGough

To the Moon and Back

Jill Mansell

A Winter Book: Selected Stories

Tove Jansson

Tales of the City

Armistead Maupin

Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain

Roger Deakin

The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett, Peter Hunt

The Beach Cafe

Lucy Diamond

Cider with Rosie

Laurie Lee

Trouble on the Heath

Terry Jones

Stop What You're Doing and Read This!

Mark Haddon, Michael Rosen, Zadie Smith, Carmen Callil, Jeanette Winterson, Tim Parks, Blake Morrison, Maryanne Wolf, Nicholas Carr, Jane Davis