Series - only the first book is included shown + 5 or more copies in Lewisham Libraries Our e-book collection can be found following the link below: https://llc.overdrive.com/
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Lewisham Libraries are participating in BBCs – 100 Novels that Shaped Our World throughout 2020. A year-long celebration of literature.
We have the books available in print and as e-books and our reading groups will be choosing some of them to delve into throughout the year. Look out for the events and film showings also happening in our libraries.
This is the first blog of 10. As we go through the year the monthly theme will be explored by each of our libraries. Library users, volunteers and staff will reveal which books shaped their world. Find them all here
Do join in by commenting or tweeting and letting us know which novels made a difference to you and your world.
At the end of the year we will have compiled a list of novels that shaped the world of Lewisham people.
Follow the link to Lewisham Reading Groups
https://lewisham.gov.uk/myservices/libraries/reading/reading-groups
The list of themes and the books chosen by the BBC are in the link below.
We have the books available in print and as e-books and our reading groups will be choosing some of them to delve into throughout the year. Look out for the events and film showings also happening in our libraries.
This is the first blog of 10. As we go through the year the monthly theme will be explored by each of our libraries. Library users, volunteers and staff will reveal which books shaped their world. Find them all here
Do join in by commenting or tweeting and letting us know which novels made a difference to you and your world.
At the end of the year we will have compiled a list of novels that shaped the world of Lewisham people.
Follow the link to Lewisham Reading Groups
https://lewisham.gov.uk/myservices/libraries/reading/reading-groups
The list of themes and the books chosen by the BBC are in the link below.
Identity - January
Blog by Library Staff at Deptford
Blog by Library Staff at Deptford
- + Days Without End – Sebastian Barry
- + White Teeth – Zadie Smith
- + Beloved – Toni Morrison
- Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
- Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
- The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
- The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
- Small Island – Andrea Levy
- Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi
Love, Sex & Romance - February
Blog by Library Staff at
Blog by Library Staff at
- The Forty Rules of Love – Elif Shafak
- The Far Pavilions – M. M. Kaye
- + Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
- Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
- The Slaves of Solitude – Patrick Hamilton
- + Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
- Forever – Judy Blume
- The Passion – Jeanette Winterson
- + Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
- Riders – Jilly Cooper
Adventure - March
Blog by Library Staff at Downham and Grove Park
Blog by Library Staff at Downham and Grove Park
- City of Bohane – Kevin Barry
- Mr Standfast – John Buchan
- + His Dark Materials Trilogy – Phillip Pullman *
- Lord of the Rings Trilogy – J.R.R. Tolkein *
- Eye of the Needle – Ken Follett
- The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
- + For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
- Jack Aubrey Novels – Patrick O’Brian *
- The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins *
- Ivanhoe – Walter Scott
Life, Death & Other Worlds - April
Blog by Library Staff at Downham
Blog by Library Staff at Downham
- Gilead – Marilynne Robinson
- + Chronicles of Narnia – C. S. Lewis *
- Earthsea Trilogy – Ursula K. Le Guin *
- + Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
- Discworld Series – Terry Pratchett *
- The Sandman Series – Neil Gaiman *
- Astonishing the Gods – Ben Okri
- The Road – Cormac McCarthy
- A Game of Thrones – George Martin
- Dune – Frank Herbert
Politics, Power & Protest - May
Blog by Library Staff at Catford
Blog by Library Staff at Catford
- Noughts & Crosses – Malorie Blackman
- A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
- + Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
- Strumpet City – James Plunkett
- V for Vendetta – Alan Moore
- Unless – Carol Shields
- The Color Purple – Alice Walker
- + Lord of the Flies – William Golding
- + To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
- + Home Fire – Kamila Shamsie
Class & Society - June
Blog by Library Staff at New Cross Learning
Blog by Library Staff at New Cross Learning
- + The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark >
+ Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys Poor Cow - Nell Dun
- The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
- Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
- + Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe
- The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne – Brian Moore
- Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
- Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
- A House for Mr Biswas – V. S. Naipaul
Coming of Age - July
Blog by Library Staff at
Blog by Library Staff at
- The Outsiders – S. E. Hinton
- The Country Girls - Edna O’Brien
- Emily of New Moon – L. M. Montgomery
- So Long, See You Tomorrow – William Maxwell
- The Twilight Saga – Stephanie Meyer *
- The Harry Potter series - J. K. Rowling *
- Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood
- The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 ¾ - Sue Townsend
- Golden Child - Claire Adam
- Swami and Friends – R. K. Narayan
Family & Friendship – August
Blog by Library Staff at Sydenham
Blog by Library Staff at Sydenham
- Cloudstreet – Tim Winton
- Ballet Shoes – Noel Streatfeild
- Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
- + Middlemarch – George Eliot
- The Witches – Roald Dahl
- A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
- The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Bronte
- Tales of the City – Armistead Maupin
- I Capture the Castle – Dodie Smith
Conflict & Crime – September
Blog by Library Staff at Crofton
+ The Hound of the Baskervilles – Arthur Conan Doyle
The Children of Men – P.D. James
American Tabloid – James Ellroy
The Talented Mr Ripley -Patricia Highsmith
+ Rebecca -Daphne du Maurier
Regeneration – Pat Barker
The Quiet American – Graham Greene
Ice Candy Man – Bapsi Sidhwa
American War – Omar El Akkad
The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Mohsin Hamid
Blog by Library Staff at Crofton
Rule Breakers - October
Blog by Library Staff at Lewisham
Blog by Library Staff at Lewisham
- + Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
- Bartleby, the Scrivener – Herman Melville
- A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
- Orlando – Virginia Woolf
- Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
- + Zami: A New Spelling of My Name – Audre Lorde
- Habibi – Craig Thompson
- The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie
- Psmith, Journalist – P. G. Wodehouse
- + How to be Both – Ali Smith
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