Books that made us cry in 2017

Anne of Green Gables

L. M. Montgomery

‘It’s a million times nicer to be Anne of Green Gables than Anne of nowhere in particular, isn’t it?’ My dislikes: Being an orphan, having red hair, being called ‘carrots’…

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Words in Deep Blue

Cath Crowley

This is a love story. It’s the story of Henry Jones and Rachel Sweetie. It’s the story of how we leave our histories in the things we love - like…

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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Mary Ann Shaffer,Annie Barrows

Gloriously honest, enchanting and funny, this is a moving tale of post-war friendship, love and books, a captivating and completely irresistible novel of enormous depth and heart.

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They Cannot Take the Sky: Stories from detention

Angelica Neville,André Dao,Dana Affleck,Sienna Merope

Revealing, moving and confronting accounts of the reality of life in mandatory detention by those who’ve experienced it.

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The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir

Thi Bui

An intimate and moving portrait of one family’s journey from their war-torn home in Vietnam to new lives in America

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Imagine Me Gone

Adam Haslett

Michael is John and Margaret’s eldest son. He’s a precocious kid, smart and funny, obsessed with books and music. His sister Celia is the sensible one in the family: tougher…

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The Museum of Words

Georgia Blain

In late 2015, Georgia Blain was diagnosed with a tumour sitting right in the language centre of her brain. Prior to this, Georgia’s only warning had been a niggling sense…

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