August 8, 2022
by Team Riverside
Kazuo Ishiguro – Klara and The Sun
Meg Mason – Sorrow and Bliss
Elif Shafak – The Island of The Missing Trees
John Spurling – Arcadian Nights
Julia Donaldson – Counting Creatures
Kaouther Adimi – A Bookshop in Algiers
Cecily Gayford – Murder By The Seaside
Bella Mackie – How To Kill Your Family
Alice Oseman – Heartstopper Volume 2
Charlotte Higgins – Greek Myths
Tom Chivers – London Clay
Oliver Burkeman – Four Thousand Weeks
Riku Onda – The Aosawa Murders
Selby Wynn Schwartz – After Sappho
Michael Bond – A Bear Called Paddington
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July 31, 2022
by Team Riverside
Delia Owens – Where The Crawdads Sing
Taylor Jenkins Reid – The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Jessie Burton – The House of Fortune
Sayaka Murata – Life Ceremony
Kaouther Adimi – A Bookshop in Algiers
Bella Mackie – How To Kill Your Family
Pat Barker – The Women of Troy
Kazuo Ishiguro – Klara and The Sun
Mieko Kawakami – All The Lovers In The Night
Kotaro Isaka – Bullet Train
Malcolm Gladwell – The Bomber Mafia
Yaa Gyasi – Transcendent Kingdom
Elif Shafak – The Island of The Missing Trees
Colleen Hoover – It Ends With Us
Marion Billet – There Are 101 Things To Find In London
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July 30, 2022
by Team Riverside
Sceptre, Hardback, £16.99, Out Now
Milk Teeth is the stunning new novel from Jessica Andrews, the author of the Portico Prizewinning Saltwater. On the surface it might seem like Milk Teeth is a straightforward love story, half the novel is addressed to ‘you’ the object of the narrators’ affections, but this is just one of the strands of story that is braided into this novel. There are also vivid reflections on childhood and the oppressive demands made on young women, to look, talk, and act a certain way. The narrators’ awareness of her class background and her financial precarity haunt the story, food also plays a crucial role, the meals that the central couple eat together are lovingly described in perfect detail. Food is partially used as a metaphor for embracing desire, allowing oneself to have what you want the most without guilt, without starving yourself in penance. In a way the love story is between the narrator and her own self, Milk Teeth asks what does it mean to embrace love, change, to put yourself and your own desires first?
This is a beautifully written feminist read for the Summer. In a time when cool, spare prose is the dominant mode, Milk Teeth is hot, physical and sensory. I highly recommend this in particular for fans of Elena Ferrante and Sally Rooney.
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July 17, 2022
by Team Riverside
Pat Barker – The Women of Troy
Oliver Burkeman – Four Thousand Weeks
Malcolm Gladwell – The Bomber Mafia
Miranda Cowley Heller – The Paper Palace
Sally Rooney – Beautiful World, Where Are You?
Meg Mason – Sorrow and Bliss
Keith Ridgway – A Shock
Charlotte Higgins – Greek Myths
Tom Chivers – London Clay
Kaouther Adimi – A Bookshop in Algiers
Cecily Gayford – Murder By The Seaside
Ruth Ozeki – The Book of Form and Emptiness
Riku Onda – The Aosawa Murders
Bella Mackie – How To Kill Your Family
Elizabeth Day – Magpie
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July 10, 2022
by Team Riverside
Kazuo Ishiguro – Klara and The Sun
Sally Rooney – Beautiful World, Where Are You?
Tom Chivers – London Clay
Riku Onda – The Aosawa Murders
Adam Hargreaves – Mr Men in London
Kaouther Adimi – A Bookshop in Algiers
Bella Mackie – How To Kill Your Family
Malcolm Gladwell – Blink
Elizabeth Day – Magpie
Lea Ypi – Free
Elif Shafak – The Island of The Missing Trees
Miranda Cowley Heller – The Paper Palace
John Le Carre – Silverview
Sylvia Plath – The Bell Jar
Kotaro Isaka – Bullet Train
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July 3, 2022
by Team Riverside
Ruth Ozeki – The Book of Form and Emptiness
Bella Mackie – How To Kill Your Family
Eliot Higgins – We Are Bellingcat
Kotaro Isaka – Bullet Train
Cecily Gayford – Murder By The Seaside
Malcolm Gladwell – The Bomber Mafia
Lea Ypi – Free
Elizabeth Day – Magpie
Daniel Kahneman – Noise
Kazuo Ishiguro – Klara and The Sun
Katherine Rundell – The Explorer
Lauren Groff – Matrix
Maggie Shipstead – Great Circle
Gwendoline Riley – My Phantoms
Agatha Christie – And Then There Were None
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June 19, 2022
by Team Riverside
Kazuo Ishiguro – Klara and The Sun
Bella Mackie – How To Kill Your Family
Ruth Ozeki – The Book of Form and Emptiness
Riku Onda – The Aosawa Murders
Tee Dobinson – The Tower Bridge Cat
Richard Osman – The Man Who Died Twice
Pat Barker – The Women of Troy
Elif Shafak – The Island of The Missing Trees
Sally Rooney – Normal People
The Secret Barrister – Nothing But The Truth
Kotaro Isaka – Bullet Train
Tom Chivers – London Clay
Tom Burgis – Kleptopia
Bernadine Evaristo – Girl, Woman, Other
John le Carre – Silverview
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June 12, 2022
by Team Riverside
Pat Barker – The Women of Troy
Jonathon Lee – The Great Mistake
Riku Onda – The Aosawa Murders
Richard Osman – The Thursday Murder Club
Sally Rooney – Beautiful World, Where Are You?
Oliver Burkeman – Four Thousand Weeks
Malcolm Gladwell – The Bomber Mafia
Richard Osman – The Man Who Died Twice
Elif Shafak – The Isand of The Missing Trees
Miranda Cowley Heller – The Paper Palace
Kazuo Ishiguro – Klara and The Sun
Alice Oseman – Heartstopper: Volume One
Phil Knight – Shoe Dog
Marion Billet – Busy London
Elizabeth Mcneal – Circus of Wonders
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June 5, 2022
by Team Riverside
Bob Mortimer – And Away…
Elif Shafak – The Island of The Missing Trees
Akwaeke Emezi – You Made A Fool of Death With Your Beauty
Mieko Kawakami – All The Lovers In The Night
Douglas Stuart – Young Mungo
Lea Ypi – Free
Elizabeth Day – Magpie
Brit Bennett – The Vanishing Half
Kazuo Ishiguro – The Remains of The Day
Meg Mason – Sorrow and Bliss
Kotaro Isaka – Bullet Train
Alice Oseman – Loveless
Tom Burgis – Kleptopia
Mary Wollstonecraft – A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Bella Mackie – How to Kill Your Family
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May 29, 2022
by Team Riverside
Meg Mason – Sorrow and Bliss
Richard Osman – The Man Who Died Twice
Sally Rooney – Normal People
Kotaro Isaka – Bullet Train
Tom Burgis – Kleptopia
Douglas Stuart – Young Mungo
Riku Onda – The Aosawa Murders
Richard Osman – The Thursday Murder Club
Natasha Brown – Assembly
Akwaeke Emezi – You made a Fool of Death with your Beauty
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May 22, 2022
by Team Riverside
Elizabeth Strout – Oh William!
Elizabeth Day – Magpie
Elif Shafak – The Island of The Missing Trees
Meg Mason – Sorrow and Bliss
Marion Billet – Busy London
Riku Onda – The Aosawa Murders
Tom Burgis – Kleptopia
Richard Osman – The Thursday Murder Club
Natasha Brown – Assembly
Kazuo Ishiguro – Klara and The Sun
Maggie O’Farrell – Hamnet
Mieko Kawakami – All The Lovers In The Night
Douglas Stuart – Young Mungo
Kotaro Isaka – Bullet Train
Flann O’Brien – The Third Policeman
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May 13, 2022
by Team Riverside
Elizabeth Strout – Oh William!
John Le Carre – Silverview
Elif Shafak – The Island of The Missing Trees
Kazuo Ishiguro – Klara and The Sun
Cecily Gayford – Murder by The Seaside
Elizabeth Day – Magpie
Sally Rooney – Conversations With Friends
Daisy Buchanan – Insatiable
Rutger Bregman – Humankind
Meg Mason – Sorrow and Bliss
Marion Billet – Busy London
bell hooks – All About Love
Colm Toibin – The Magician
Bernadine Evaristo – Girl, Woman, Other
Chris Power – A Lonely Man
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May 8, 2022
by Team Riverside
Elizabeth Strout – Oh William!
John Le Carre – Silverview
Emily St. John Mandel – Sea of Tranquility
Riku Onda – The Aosawa Murders
bell hooks – All About Love
Kazuo Ishiguro – Klara and The Sun
Meg Mason – Sorrow and Bliss
Kotaro Isaka – Bullet Train
Oliver Burkeman – Four Thousand Weeks
Caroline Criado Perez – Invisible Women
M.H. Eccleston – The Trust
Min Jin Lee – Pachinko
Clara Vulliamy – Marshmallow Pie: The Cat Superstar
Oliver Jeffers – Here We Are
Elizabeth Day – Magpie
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May 1, 2022
by Team Riverside
Meg Mason – Sorrow and Bliss
Riku Onda – The Aosawa Murders
Daisy Buchanan – Insatiable
Marion Billet – Busy London
Caleb Azumah Nelson – Open Water
Kazuo Ishiguro – Klara and The Sun
Taylor Jenkins Reid – The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Alice Oseman – Heartstopper Volume 2
Douglas Stuart – Young Mungo
Joseph Hone – The Paper Chase
Nicholas Nassim Taleb – Antifragile
Shirley Jackson – The Missing Girl
Catherine Belton – Putin’s People
Tom Burgis – Kleptopia
Emily Danforth – Plain Bad Heroines
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April 24, 2022
by Team Riverside
Kotaro Isaka – Bullet Train
Kazuo Ishiguro – Klara and The Sun
Eliot Higgins – We Are Bellingcat
Jeremy Atherton Lin – Gay Bar
Tim Marshall – Prisoners of Geography
Julian Barnes – Elizabeth Finch
Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451
Catherine Belton – Putin’s People
Sarah Winman – Still Life
Bella Mackie – How to Kill Your Family
Emily Danforth – Plain Bad Heroines
Tom Burgis – Kleptopia
Luke Kennard – The Answer to Everything
Albert Camus – The Plague
Sathnam Sanghera – Empireland
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April 18, 2022
by Team Riverside
Elif Shafak – The Island of The Missing Trees
Taylor Jenkins Reid – The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Stanley Tucci – Taste
Ali Smith – Companion Piece
Douglas Stuart – Young Mungo
Bella Mackie – How To Kill Your Family
Patrick Radden Keefe – Empire of Pain
Michael Lewis – The Premonition
Sathnam Sanghera – Empireland
Caleb Azumah Nelson – Open Water
Frank Tallis – The Act of Living
Adam Hargreaves – Mr. Men in London
Eliot Higgins – We Are Bellingcat
Kotaro Isaka – Bullet Train
Mary Lawson – A Town Solace
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April 10, 2022
by Team Riverside
Elif Shafak – Island of The Missing Trees
Michael Lewis – The Premonition
Riku Onda – The Aosawa Murders
Bella Mackie – How To Kill Your Family
Tom Burgis – Kleptopia
Eckhart Tolle – The Power of Now
Taylor Jenkins Reid – The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Eliot Higgins – We Are Bellingcat
Kotaro Isaka – Bullet Train
Damon Galgut – The Promise
Michael Bond – Paddington
Stanley Tucci – Taste
Colm Toibin – The Magician
Dave Eggers – The Every
David Baddiel – Jews Don’t Count
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April 2, 2022
by Team Riverside
Kazuo Ishiguro – Klara and The Sun
Kae Tempest – On Connection
Taylor Jenkins Reid – The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Marion Billet – Busy London
Tom Burgis – Kleptopia
Colm Toibin – The Magician
Richard Osman – The Thursday Murder Club
Brit Bennett – The Vanishing Half
Matthew Green – Shadowlands
Daisy Buchanan – Careering
Tom Chivers – London Clay
Susanna Clarke – Piranesi
Kotaro Isaka – Bullet Train
Agatha Christie – Miss Marple and Mystery
Michael Lewis – The Premonition
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March 27, 2022
by Team Riverside
Tom Burgis – Kleptopia
Chitra Soundar – Sona Sharma Looking After Planet Earth
Kazuo Ishiguro – Klara and the Sun
Catherine Belton – Putin’s People
Colm Tóibín- The Magician
Caroline Barron – A Map of Medieval London
Naomi Ishiguro – Common Ground
Madeline Miller – Galatea
Kes Gray – Daisy and the Trouble With London
Caroline Criado Perez – Invisible Women
Janice Hallett – The Twyford Code
George Orwell – 1984
Stanley Tucci – Taste
David Baddiel – Jews Don’t Count
Peppa Pig Emergency Heroes Sticker Book
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March 20, 2022
by Team Riverside
Kazuo Ishiguro – Klara and The Sun
Catherine Belton – Putin’s People
Riku Onda – The Aosawa Murders
Rutger Bregman – Humankind
Marion Billet – Busy London
Caroline Criado Perez – Invisible Women
Tom Burgis – Kleptopia
John Preston – Fall
Eliot Higgins – We Are Bellingcat
Charlotte Mendelson – The Exhibitionist
Kotaro Isaka – Bullet Train
Tim Marshal – The Power of Geography
Rebecca F. John – Fannie
David Baddiel – Jews Don’t Count
Siobhan Dowd – The London Eye Mystery
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March 11, 2022
by Team Riverside
Kazuo Ishiguro – Klara and The Sun
Damon Galgut – The Promise
Colm Toibin – The Magician
Margaret Atwood – Burning Questions
Rutger Bregman – Humankind
Patrick Radden Keefe – Empire of Pain
Natasha Lunn – Conversations on Love
Caleb Azumah Nelson – Open Water
Frank Tallis – The Act of Living
Georgia Pritchett – My Mess is a Bit of a Life
Taylor Jenkins Reid – The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Adam Rutherford – Control
Michelle Zauner – Crying in H Mart
Victoria Mas – The Mad Woman’s Ball
Coco Mellors – Cleopatra and Frankenstein
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March 4, 2022
by Team Riverside
Tim Marshall – The Power of Geography
Caleb Azumah Nelson – Open Water
Frank Tallis – The Act of Living
Riku Onda – The Aosawa Murders
Maggie O’Farrell – Hamnet
Patrick Radden Keefe – Empire of Pain
Karen McManus – One Of Us is Lying
David Baddiel – Jews Don’t Count
Gertrude Stein – Food
bell hooks – All About Love
John Preston – Fall
Sathnam Sanghera – Empireland
Natasha Lunn – Conversations On Love
Marian Keyes – Rachel’s Holiday
Richard Osman – The Thursday Murder Club
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February 25, 2022
by Team Riverside
Natasha Lunn – Conversations On Love
Rutger Bregman – Humankind
Taylor Jenkins Reid – The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Susanna Clarke – Piranesi
F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
John Preston – Fall
Caleb Azumah Nelson – Open Water
Sathnam Sanghera – Empireland
Marian Keyes – Again, Rachel
Bernadine Evaristo – Girl, Woman, Other
Kazuo Ishiguro – Klara and The Sun
Hanya Yanigahara – A Little Life
Cho Nam-Joo – Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
Marion Billet – Busy London
Adam Kay – This Is Going To Hurt
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February 17, 2022
by Team Riverside
Frank Herbert – Dune
Tim Marshall – The Power of Geography
Riku Onda – The Aosawa Murders
Stanley Tucci – Taste
Richard Osman – The Thursday Murder Club
They – Kay Dick
Delia Owens – Where The Crawdads Sing
Hafsa Zayyan – We Are All Birds of Uganda
Mariana Enriquez – The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
Lorraine Mariner eds. – Ten Poems About Love
Bella Mackie – How To Kill Your Family
James Baldwin – Giovanni’s Room
Gertrude Stein – Food
Anna Malaika Tubbs – Three Mothers
Luke Kennard – The Answer To Everything
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February 13, 2022
by Team Riverside
Tim Marshall – The Power of Geography
Patricia Lockwood – No One Is Talking About This
Hafsa Zayyan – We Are All Birds of Uganda
Natasha Lunn – Conversations on Love
Virginia Woolf – Flush
Sathnam Sanghera – Empireland
Stanley Tucci – Taste
Frank Herbert – Dune
Sally Rooney – Conversations With Friends
Abdulrazak Gurnah – Afterlives
Mo Willems – Don’t Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus
Lorraine Mariner – Ten Poems on Love
Anna Malaika Tubbs – Three Mothers
Karen McManus – One of Us Is Lying
Peppa Pig – Peppa’s Magical Unicorn
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February 5, 2022
by Team Riverside
Natasha Lunn – Conversations on Love
Frank Tallis – The Act of Living
Susanna Clarke – Piranesi
Tim Marshall – The Power of Geography
Damon Galgut – The Promise
Maurice Sendak – Where The Wild Things Are
Charles Dickens – The Great Winglebury Duel
John Preston – Fall
Caleb Azumah Nelson – Open Water
Claire Fuller – Unsettled Ground
Bernadine Evaristo – Girl, Woman, Other
Richard Osman – The Thursday Murder Club
Brit Bennett – The Vanishing Half
Francis Spufford – Light Perpetual
Tom Chivers – London Clay
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January 21, 2022
by Team Riverside
Richard Osman – The Thursday Murder Club
John Preston – Fall
Hanya Yanagihara – To Paradise
Stephen Millar – Londons Hidden Walks
Sasha Dugdale – Ten Poems About Walking
Stanley Tucci – Taste
Frank Tallis – The Act of Living
Nan Shepherd – The Living Mountain
Taylor Jenkins Reid – The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Khaled Hosseini – A Thousand Splendid Suns
Caroline Criado Perez – Invisible Women
Donna Tartt – The Secret History
Joan Aiken – Arabel and Mortimer Stories
Claire Fuller – Unsettled Ground
Kazuo Ishiguro – Never Let Me Go
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January 14, 2022
by Team Riverside
Hanya Yanagihara – To Paradise
John Preston – Fall
Rutger Bregman – Humankind
Claire Fuller – Unsettled Ground
Sathnam Sanghera – Empireland
Richard Osman – The Thursday Murder Club
Lucy Caldwell – Intimacies
Claire Keegan – Small Things Like These
Nan Shepherd – The Living Mountain
Maggie O’Farrell – Hamnet
Douglas Stuart – Shuggie Bain
Raven Leilani – Luster
Matt Haig – The Midnight Library
Riku Onda – The Aosawa Murders
Wendy Kendall – My Little Garden
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January 8, 2022
by Team Riverside
Richard Osman – The Thursday Murder Club
Riku Onda – The Aosawa Murders
Sathnam Sanghera – Empireland
John Le Carre – Silverview
Frank Herbert – Dune
Qian Julie Wang – Beautiful Country
Marit Kapla – Osebol
Bernadine Evaristo – Manifesto
Brit Bennett – The Vanishing Half
Marion Billett – Busy London
Roma Agrawal and Katie Hickey – How Was That Built?
Katherine Mansfield – Prelude & Other Stories
Tim Marshall – The Power of Geography
Damon Galgut – The Promise
Isabel Waidner – Sterling Karat Gold
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December 31, 2021
by Team Riverside
Rutger Bregman – Humankind
Yotam Ottolenghi and Noor Murad – Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love
Michaela Coel – Misfits
Frank Herbert – Dune
Bernadine Evaristo – Girl, Woman, Other
Caroline Criado Perez – Invisible Women
Kate Ellis eds. – Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize Longlist
Richard Osman – The Man Who Died Twice
Jessica Harrison eds. – The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories
Sally Rooney – Conversations With Friends
Richard Osman – The Thursday Murder Club
Maggie Shipstead – Great Circle
Tom Chivers – London Clay
Clare Chambers – Small Pleasures
Roma Agrawal and Katie Hickey – How Was That Built?
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