44 recommendations from our readers for best lockdown books

We asked our social media followers what books they’d been reading in lockdown – and the list is overflowing with recommendations!

Here are some of your favourites from our social media pages:

The Keeper of Lost Things – Ruth Hogan (suggested by Verity Eggleston)

Doll – Adam Bushnell (suggested by Verity Eggleston)

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes – Caitlin Doughty (suggested by Verity Eggleston)

This Is Going To Hurt – Adam Kay (suggested by Verity Eggleston)

The Raj Quartet – Paul Scott (suggested by Paula Horsfall)

Tunnel Vision – Keith Lowe (suggested by Bryony Jade Fucile)

The Book Thief – Markus Zusak (suggested by Stewart Francis)

The Tattooist of Auschwitz – Heather Morris (suggested by Deborah Clarke)

Cilka’s Journey – Heather Morris (suggested by Deborah Clarke)

Poor Banished Children of Eve – EJ Stewart (suggested by Joe and Pam Stewart)

The Shipyard Girls series – Nancy Revell (suggested by Janice Leach)

A Reliable Wife – Robert Goolrick (suggested by Juan Jose Aguilera Rubio)

Three Little Lies – Laura Marshall (suggested by Juan Jose Aguilera Rubio)

The Death of Mrs Westaway – Ruth Ware (suggested by Annemarie Chisholm)

Faking Friends – Jane Fallon (suggested by Annemarie Chisholm)

The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver (suggested by Linda Jay)

A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry (suggested by Linda Jay)

Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides (suggested by Linda Jay)

Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë (suggested by Ian Thompson)

DCI Ryan murder mystery series – LJ Ross (suggested by Irene Green and Jackie Sallabank)

Outlander series – Diana Gabaldon (suggested by Sarah Jubb)

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman (suggested by Leigh Graham)

I Am Pilgrim – Terry Hayes (suggested by Jean Jamieson)

No Mercy – Martina Cole (suggested by Karin Craig)

A Thousand Ships – Natalie Haynes (suggested by Julia Duffy)

Sleeping Beauties – Stephen King and Owen King (suggested by Jan Ies Delmey)

Falling Creatures – Katherine Stansfield (suggested by Rachel Nevin)

Loyalty – Martina Cole (suggested by Barbara Lampasiak)

The Last Kingdom – Bernard Cornwell (suggested by Andrew Lackenby)

Pigs in Clover – Simon Dawson (suggested by Beverley Yeoman Glover)

A Game of Thrones – George R. R. Martin (suggested by Carole Wright)

The Mirror and the Light – Hilary Mantel (suggested by Jan Hamilton)

The Secret Rooms – Catherine Bailey (suggested by Lily Ann Dawes)

The Curious Case of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon (suggested by Jon Freyne)

The Battle of Britain – James Holland (suggested by Dave Strother)

Bravo Two Zero – Andy McNab (suggested by Paul Davis)

Rocket Boys – Homer Hickam (suggested by Catherine Dowlen)

Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood (suggested by Judith Williams)

My House in Northumberland: A Memoir – Sally Gordon (suggested by the author)

The Silk Merchant’s Daughter – Dinah Jefferies (suggested by Roger Maynard)

Swallowdale – Arthur Ransome (suggested by Sarah Watkins)

Pigeon Post – Arthur Ransome (suggested by Sarah Watkins)

The Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett (suggested by Ken Bailey)

The Salt Path – Raynor Winn (suggested by Rachel Griffiths)

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