One year of MTG Recommends

Today marks World Book Day 2023, and the first anniversary of MTG Recommends. After 182 recommendations from MTG staff and friends, we have started to spot some favourites emerging from our ranks. Read on for MTG’s top recommended books from the last 12 months…

A Gentleman in Moscow

Amor Towles

Recommended by Sophie Mazzier, Clare Maurice, Claire Weeks and James Jarvis.

Any Human Heart

William Boyd

Recommended by Paul Whitehead, Nicola Boulter and Clare Maurice. Also recommended by the same author: Trio, The Romantic and Sweet Caress.

Lessons in Chemistry

Bonnie Garmus

Recommended by Sophie Mazzier and Laura Gordon.

Half of a Yellow Sun

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Recommended by Emma-Jane Weider and Anna Tragotsi.

Shantaram

Gregory David Roberts

Recommended by Jennifer Emms and Paul Whitehead.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

JK Rowling

Recommended by Claire Weeks and Fiona Poole.

A Prayer for Owen Meany

John Irving

Recommended by Sophie Mazzier and Clare Stirzaker.

Becoming

Michelle Obama

Recommended by Anna Tragotsi and Stella Mitchell-Voisin.

Other authors we loved….

Bill Bryson – recommended for The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid and A Short History of Nearly Everything Charles Dickens – recommended for A Christmas Carol and Bleak House George Orwell – recommended for Nineteen Eighty-Four and Burmese Days Ian McEwan – recommended for Atonement and Lessons: A Novel Malcolm Gladwell – recommended for Talking to Strangers and Outliers Margaret Atwood – recommended for The Handmaid’s Tale and The Blind Assassin Oscar Wilde – recommended for The Importance of Being Earnest and Collected Works Thomas Hardy – recommended for Tess of the d’Urbervilles and The Return of the Native