Whether you're after fly-through-them page-turners or immersive long-reads, or perhaps you're after a challenge, or the perfect discussion book, we've got the list for you. Find out our expert picks from indie-bookshop Bookbar's Chrissy Ryan, a woman at the centre of a hub of reading recommendations from authors, customers and booksellers alike. Kate is swapping notes and sharing her own summer reading pile. Plus just to pack in even more book tips we've got a few extra recommendations from Chrissy's Bookbar team. And so sit back and let us give you books to inspire, inform, amuse and entertain as we see out the summer and anticipate our Autumn reads.BooklistThe Guest by Emma ClineYellowface by Rebecca F. KuangThe Centre, by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqui,Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle ZevinSmall Worlds by Caleb Azumah Nelson,Time's Shelter by Gyorgi Gospodinov,Whale by Cheon Myeong-kwanHow to Read Now and America is not the Heart by Elaine CastilloCahokia Jazz by Francis SpuffordThe Maniac by Benjamin LabatutBirnam Wood by Eleanor CattonThe Secret History by Donna TarttDemon Copperhead by Barbara KingsolverTom Lake, and These Precious Days by Ann PatchettRead This: Handpicked Favourites from America's Indie Bookstores, compiled by Hans Weyandt (Coffee House Press)Roman Stories and Whereabouts by Jhumpa LahiriGood Material by Dolly AldertonNotesVisit Bookbar online The indie publishing mavericks shaking up the UK book world (The Guardian)The Book Club Review's Fitzcarraldo episodeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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