The book I always recommend. . .
Which books are our team most likely to suggest you read and why?
The best book recommendations are usually tailored to the person asking, but some books are so good, with so much to recommend them, that we can't help but propose them to anyone who asks.
Here are our personal Most Recommended.
‘I always recommend Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers Guide, because it's nothing like anything that person will have read before and also by the time they find out there are five books in the 'trilogy' they'll be too hooked to stop.’
Will, Digital Marketing Manager
Already a fan? Find more of what you love: take a look at our favourite science fiction books and funny reads.
‘At 624 pages, I initially worried it might be a little pretentious to recommend Wellness, but pretentious is exactly what this book isn’t. I think it gets to the heart of what makes us human and dissects the strange world we live in, in a truly affecting and relatable way. I’m not sure it’s fair to say I’ve always recommended this book as it only came out five months ago, but ask most of my friends, family and colleagues and I think they would agree that I’ve more than made up for the first twenty-six Wellness-recommendation-less years of my life in that time. ’
Stella, SEO Content Executive
If this sounds like your thing, you'll probably want to look at our other brilliant literary fiction too.
‘Whether you’re a romance fan or not, the Lovelight Farms books are the perfect series to get into. This first book has everything anyone would want: the friends to lovers trope, an idyllic Christmas tree farm, the found family friend group, the light mystery storyline, and, of course, the romantic comedy. I’ve read Lovelight Farms about three times, fallen in love with the world of Inglewild every time and I want to share that with as many people as possible.’
Carol-Anne, Content Marketing Executive (star of Pan Macmillan's TikTok channel)
Further reading: take a look at our list of some of the best romance novels and discover Lovelight Farms author B. K. Borison's favourite romance tropes.
‘I recommend Everything's Fine all the time as the writing is great, it's often hilarious, and it's also doing a lot of things simultaneously (in a good way), which means it has appeal for lots of different types of readers. As author Cecilia Rabess says herself, this is a love story that asks not will they, but should they? It's not a romance novel, but she brilliantly uses the template of a romance to provoke questions, with no offer of neat resolutions. Also the dialogue is incredible, and the ending is really well done.’
Ellen, Website Editor
‘I always recommend Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi (and the rest of the series) as it's so heartwarming and quirky that nobody can resist it! I'm a big time travel fan, so I was drawn to it because of the unusual time travel angle in it, but I actually recommend it to such a huge range of readers, even if that's not their usual genre. It's all about emotional connections to the people we meet, about grief, about love, about acceptance, about memory . . . things that everyone can relate to.’
Emma, Video and Influencer Marketing Manager (our resident YouTuber: find her on Book Break)
Read our guide to the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series or take a look at some more books about time travel.