Love and romance

The Light and the Dark

Mikhail Shishkin

Translated by Andrew Bromfield

The Little Paris Bookshop

Nina George

Translated by Simon Pare

The Little Red Chairs

Edna O’Brien

The Nightingale

Kristin Hannah

Sophia, or the Beginning of All Tales

Rafik Schami

Translated by Monique Arav and John Hannon

Spill Simmer Falter Wither

Sara Baume

Story of a Marriage

Geir Gulliksen

Translated by Deborah Dawkin

Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water

António Lobo Antunes

Translated by Jeff Love

Uprooted

Naomi Novik

Waiting for Tomorrow

Nathacha Appanah

Translated by Geoffrey Strachan

Woman at Sea

Catherine Poulain

Translated by Adriana Hunter

The Eighth Life

Nino Haratischvili

Translated by Charlotte Collins and Ruth Martin

The End of Loneliness

Benedict Wells

Translated by Charlotte Collins

Fallout

Sadie Jones

How to Be Both

Ali Smith

I Loved You More

Tom Spanbauer

The Lobster Kings

Alexi Zentner

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

Becky Chambers

Of Fangs and Talons

Nicolas Mathieu

Translated by Sam Taylor

The Railwayman’s Wife

Ashley Hay

The Remedy for Love

Bill Roorbach

Ruby

Cynthia Bond

Sonka

Ignacy Karpowicz

Translated by Maya Zakrzewska-Pim

Still Life with Bread Crumbs

Anna Quindlen

Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Rosie Project

Graeme Simsion

The Signature of All Things

Elizabeth Gilbert

After You

Jo Jo Moyes

The Apartment

Greg Baxter

An Available Man

Hilma Wolitzer

The Bellwether Revivals

Benjamin Wood

The Chemistry of Tears

Peter Carey

The Cove

Ron Rash

Decompression

Juli Zeh

Translated by John Cullen

The Fault in Our Stars

John Green

The Illicit Happiness of Other People

Manu Joseph

The Light of Amsterdam

David Park

Limbo

Melania G. Mazzucco

Translated by Virginia Jewiss

Lost Memory of Skin

Russell Banks

A Possible Life

Sebastian Faulks