Here is a selection of books I highly recommend!
Classics:
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Contemporary and literary fiction:
Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
XX by Angela Chadwick
The Light Keeper by Cole Moreton
Thrillers:
The Girl Next Door by Phoebe Morgan
The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
The Sick Rose by Erin Kelly
Who Did You Tell? by Lesley Kara
Science fiction:
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
The Other Side of the Sky by Arthur C Clarke
Fantasy:
Pan’s Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro and Cornelia Funke
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay by J K Rowling
The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander
Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
YA and children’s:
Me Mam. Me Dad. Me. by Malcolm Duffy
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
The Speed of the Dark by Alex Shearer
Memoir and biographies:
I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O’Farrell
Falling Leaves by Adeline Yen Mah
Step by Step by Simon Reeve
Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley
Me by Elton John
Other non-fiction:
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham
Critical by Matt Morgan
In Miniature by Simon Garfield
Unnatural Causes by Richard Shepherd
Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down by Nicey and Wifey