Recommended reads

Book Club members have been sharing recommended reads during our "noisy" meetings and on the MET Book Club group on LinkedIn. We've compiled a non-exhaustive list of these recommendations to inspire our future picks and keep you happily and bookishly engaged.

New recommended reads will occasionally be added to the list, so check back every now and then for the latest.

Enjoy!
 
Updated after Book Club session on 2 September 2025, in no particular order:

Clear, Carys Davis
Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written out of It, Janina Ramirez
Moral Disorder, Margaret Atwood
Orbital, Samantha Harvey
Passion Simple, Annie Ernaux
There Are Rivers in the Sky, Elif Shafak
A Different Kind of Power, Jacinda Ardern
Little Eyes, Samanta Schweblin
The Secret History of Costaguana, Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan
The Bee Sting, Paul Murray
The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent, Judi Dench
Vanessa and Her Sister, Priya Parmar
Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China, Yyan Yang
The Marriage Portrait, Maggie O'Farrell
Playground, Richard Powers
Everything I Know About Love, Dolly Alderton
Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling, Sarah Breen
Les Enfants du Large, Virginia Tangvald
Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
The Saint of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandrasekera
The Sentence, Louise Erdrich
The End We Start From, Megan Hunter
Ultra Processed People, Chris van Tulleken
Atlas of AI, Kate Crawford
James, Percival Everett
Horse, Geraldine Brooks
Going Zero, Anthony McCarten
The Happy Marriage, Tahar Ben Jelloun
Who Owns This Sentence? Alexandre Montagu and David Bellos
Still Life, Sarah Winman
Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann