5 books ...
We enjoy collecting books for different times and readers. 5 seems a good number.
Here are some suggestions for adults – for every month of the year.
january 5 books ... to keep you thinking
On the Beach, Nevil Shute
Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
We Need to Talk about Kevin, Lionel Shriver
february 5 books ... that evoke the 80s
Money: A Suicide Note, Martin Amis
Bright Lights Big City, Jay McInerney
American Psycho, Brett Easton Ellis
High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst
march 5 books ... about difference
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
Small Island, Andrea Levy
Noughts and Crosses, Malorie Blackman
The Post Office Girl, Stefan Zweig
april 5 books ... for chocaholics
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
The Chocolate Connoisseur, Doutre-Roussell
Like Water for Chocolat , Laura Esquivel
Chocolat , Joanne Harris
The Discovery of Chocolate, James Runcie
may 5 books ... for garden-lovers
Earthly Joys, Phillippa Gregory
The Morville Hours: The story of a garden, Katherine Swift
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
Sissinghurst: An unfinished history, Adam Nicholson
The Enchanted April, Elizabeth Von Arnim
june 5 books ... about growing up
The Catcher in the Rye, J D Salinger
The Greengage Summer, Rumer Godden
I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith
Just in Case, Meg Rosoff
My Side of the Mountain, Jean Craighead George
july 5 books ... for peaceful contemplation
A Book of Silence, Sarah Maitland
Life of Pi, Yann Martel
Sophie's World: a novel about the history of philosophy, Jostein Gaarder
Remarkable Creatures, Tracey Chevalier
The Sea, The Sea, Iris Murdoch
august 5 books ... to read on a beach
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
The Beach, Alex Garland
Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
Tender is the Night, F Scott Fitzgerald
september 5 books ... to make you smile
Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Kate Atkinson
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Winifred Watson
Three Men in a Boat: to say nothing of the dog, Jerome K Jerome
My Family and Other Animals, Gerald Durrell
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
october 5 books ... for incurable romantics
Dr Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
The Complete Works of W B Yeats
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
november 5 books ... for a good cry
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
Anna Karenina, L N Tolstoy
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
december 5 books ... about giving
Christmas in Exeter Street, Diana Hendry and John Laurence
The Soul of Kindness, Elizabeth Taylor
A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
A Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett
