Recommended Reads

If you are interested in books on a particular subject or theme, or just want to try something different, booklists can help.

• Prize Winners
  Orange Prize for Fiction, Man Booker Prize, William Hill Sports Book of the Year, Thomas Cook Travel Book Awards, Prize Winning Children's books, Costa Book Awards

• General Fiction
  A write laugh, Hot Scots; Sea Stories, Partners in Crime, First Fiction, Black and Write, Art in Fiction, Gay and lesbian fiction, authors of gay and lesbian fiction

• Around the World
  The Arab World, Tales of Afghanistan, Africa, Spanish Settings, What's in your suitcase?

• Sports Fans
  A Sporting Life, Footballers Lives, William Hill Sports Book of the Year, Cycling

• Books made into film and television
  Watching the detectives, Oscar Winners

• Teen Reads
  Full throttle, Girl talk, Get real, Out of this world

• Non-Fiction
  D-day; Conspiracies, SeaBritain,Beneath the Waves, The Anglo Saxon World, Give a bird a home, Poems and Poets, A taste of Britain, Books on Prescription, Now how about those resolutions…;

• Hampshire Heritage
  Alfred the Great, Jane Austen

Prize Winners
Greenaway Medal winners, Carnegie Medal, Nestle Children’s Book Prize (9-11) Nestle Children’s Book Prize (6-8); Nestle Children’s Book Prize (5 and under)

Picture Books
Dinosaur Roar!; Food Glorious Food!

Fiction
Spy stories; Animals stories; If you like Harry Potter

Summer Reading Challenge - themed lists
Big Wild Reads, More Big Wild Reads

When a book might help
Ready for School, Starting School, Moving On

• Teen Reads
  Full throttle, Girl talk, Get real, Out of this world