01

It

By Stephen King

It is the children who see - and feel - what makes the small town of Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers, IT lurks, taking on the shape of every nightmare, each one's deepest dread. Sometimes IT reaches up, seizing, tearing, killing . . . Time passes and the children grow up, move away and forget. Until they are called back, once more to confront IT as IT stirs and coils in the sullen depths of their memories, reaching up again to make their past nightmares a terrible present reality.

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02

The Catcher of the Rye

By J. D. Salinger

The Catcher of the Rye is set around the 1950s and is narrated by a young man by the name Holden Caulfield. Holden is not specific about his location while he's telling the story, but he makes it clear that he is undergoing treatment in amental hospital or sanatorium.

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03

This Song Will Save Your Life

By Leila Sales

Elise Dembowski has gone throughout her life being the butt of every joke and the outsider of every conversation. Just when she's about to give up, she stumbles upon a secret warehouse party. What happens when she's accepted by a mysterious jockey, a carefree spirit from England and most importantly, a love for DJing.

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04

The Cuckoo's Calling

By J. K. Rowling

A brilliant debut mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's suicide. You may think you know detectives, but you've never met one quite like Strike. You may think you know about the wealthy and famous, but you've never seen them under an investigation like this.

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05

The Hate U Give

By Angie Thomas

Sixteen-year-old, Starr, lives in two worlds. The poor neighbourhood she was born and raised and the her posh high school in the suburbs. The uneasy balance between them is crashed when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her unarmed best friend by a police officer. Now she can destroy her community. But it could also get her killed.

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06

Murder On The Orient Express

By Agatha Christie

Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Isolated and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must identify the murderer – in case he or she decides to strike again.

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07

American Gods

By Neil Gaiman

After three years in prison, Shadow has served his time. But as the days and hours until his release tick away, he can feel a storm brewing. Two days before his release date, his wife Laura dies in a mysterious car crash. After traveling home, only to encounter the bizarre Mr Wednesday, who claims to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and the king of America. Together they embark on a very strange journey across the States, along the way solving the murders which have occurred every winter in one small American town.

But the storm is about to break . . .

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08

Exit West

By Mohsin Hamid

Nadia and Saeed are two ordinary young people, attempting to do an extraordinary thing - to fall in love - in a world turned upside down. Theirs will be a love story but also a story about how we live now in a world in crisis. Soon civil war has come to the city which Nadia and Saeed call home. Before long they will need to leave, when the streets are no longer useable and the unknown is safer than the known. They will join the great outpouring of people fleeing a collapsing city, hoping against hope, looking for their place in the world . . .

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09

To Kill the President

By Sam Bourne

The United States has elected a volatile demagogue as president, backed by his ruthless chief strategist, Crawford ‘Mac’ McNamara. When a war of words with the North Korean regime spirals out of control and the President comes perilously close to launching a nuclear attack, it's clear someone has to act, or the world will be reduced to ashes. Soon Maggie Costello, a seasoned Washington operator and stubbornly principled, discovers an inside plot to kill the President. Should she save the President and leave the free world at the mercy of an increasingly crazed would-be tyrant – or commit treason against her Commander in Chief and risk plunging the country into a civil war?

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10

To Kill a Mockingbird

By Harper Lee

The novel is about the lives of Scout and her brother, Jem, children growing up in Alabama during the 1930s. Meanwhile, their father , Atticus Finch, has decided to defend Tom Robinson, a black man falsely accused of raping a local white woman.