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Lazar by Nelio Biedermann Price £16.99 Jess's Pick Helen Of Nowhere Price £12.99 The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell Price £10.99 Strange Girls by Sarvat Hasi Price £20.00 Chandler's Pick My Lover, the Rabbi by Wayne Koestenbaum Price £14.99 Signed What Am I, a Deer? by Polly Barton (Author Edition) Price £16.99 Having Spent Life Seeking by Kae Tempest Price £18.99 Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker Price £10.99 The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro Price £9.99 Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys Price £9.99 Chandler's Pick My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein by Deborah Levy Price £18.99 Mare by Emily Haworth-Booth Price £16.99 Enough Said by Alan Bennett Price £25.00 The Wreck by Lizzy Stewart Price £25.00 Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke Price £16.99 The Beginning Comes After the End by Rebecca Solnit Price £14.99 Chandler's Pick Exit Party by Emily St John Mandel Price £18.99 The Daffodil Days by Helen Bain Price £18.99 Sisters in Yellow by Mieko Kawakami Price £16.99 On the Calculation of Volume IV by Solvej Balle Pre-Order Now Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs Price £30.00 Minor Black Figures by Brandon Taylor Price £18.99 Trespasses by Louise Kennedy Price £9.99 Hagstone by Sinéad Gleeson Price £9.99 Browse our full list of recommendations Books we can't wait to recommend in 2026 Chandler's Pick My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein by Deborah Levy Price £18.99 Chandler's Pick Exit Party by Emily St John Mandel Price £18.99 Partita by Barbara Kingsolver Price £20.00 Polly's Pick Wimmy Road Boyz by Sufiyaan Salam Price £16.99 Land by Maggie O'Farrell Price £25.00 Chrissy's Pick Stations by Louise Kennedy Price £20.00 Chrissy's Pick John of John by Douglas Stuart Price £20.00 Chrissy's Pick I Want You To Be Happy by Jem Calder Price £14.99 Chrissy's Pick Frida Slattery as Herself by Ana Kinsella Price £16.99 Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead Price £22.00 Chrissy's Pick American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee Price £22.00 The Traveller's Library by Chandler Bray Price £16.99 Browse our full list of recommendations Signed Copies Signed London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe Price £22.00 Signed What Am I, a Deer? by Polly Barton (Author Edition) Price £16.99 Signed Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy Price £16.99 Signed Jesus Christ Kinski by Benjamin Myers Price £18.99 Signed Night People : How to Be a DJ in ‘90s New York City by Mark Ronson Price £25.00 Signed Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors Price £9.99 Signed You Are Here by David Nicholls Price £9.99 Amy's Pick A Language of Limbs by Dylin Hardcastle Price £10.99 Signed A Long Winter by Colm Toibin Price £12.99 Signed New Cemetery Price £14.99 Signed No Friend to This House by Natalie Haynes Price £20.00 Signed Ferment : The Life-Changing Power of Microbes by Tim Spector Price £25.00 Signed We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad Price £16.99 Signed Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood Price £16.99 BookBar Favourite! Ungone by Hannah Patterson Price £10.99 Signed Indignity: A Life Reimagined by Lea Ypi Price £22.00 Amy's Pick Dusk by Robbie Arnott Price £16.99 Signed Tart by Slutty Cheff Price £16.99 Signed Picture Imperfect by Jacqueline Wilson Price £22.00 Browse our full list of recommendations bookbar bookbags Our iconic canvas BookBags are the perfect size for your daily essentials. Buy my BookBar BookBag now The BookBar loyalty card In partnership with Ambler Primary School. Buy a book and get a stamp. When you get ten stamps we'll donate a book to a child from Ambler. Visit our bookshop, wine bar, events and social space at 166 Blackstock Road to get started. Follow us on Instagram for our latest recommendations and news @bookbaruk Load More Check out our famous BookBar playlists, courtesy of BookBar's resident DJ

The Booklist The Booklist is BookBar's way of telling you all about the books we love. With hand-picked recommendations tailored around interesting themes, current topics and the latest trends, you're guaranteed to find something for you. Each book listed here is personally recommended by BookBar's team of bookish experts with you in mind. When your order a book for delivery, we'll wrap it in our iconic wrapping, so every book you order is a gift to treasure. Please bear in mind that this is not our full stock listing; if you'd like to order something you can't see here, we may have it in stock at our bookshop and wine bar or we can order most books to arrive the next day. To order get in touch with us and we'd love to help. Hot Off the Press A selection of the best and most recent fiction releases Lazar by Nelio Biedermann Price £16.99 What Am I, A Deer? by Polly Barton Price £14.99 Chandler's Pick My Lover, the Rabbi by Wayne Koestenbaum Price £14.99 Python's Kiss: Stories by Louise Erdrich Price £20.00 Polly's Pick The Renovation by Kenan Orhan Price £16.99 Strange Girls by Sarvat Hasi Price £20.00 Kin by Tayari Jones Price £18.99 Sisters in Yellow by Mieko Kawakami Price £16.99 Hooked by Asako Yuzuki Price £14.99 Minor Black Figures by Brandon Taylor Price £18.99 Amy's Pick Almost Life by Kiran Millwood Hargrave Price £16.99 Brawler by Lauren Groff Price £18.99 Look What You Made Me Do by John Lanchester Price £20.00 Celestial Lights by Cecile Pin Price £16.99 California Gold by Jodie Chapman Price £16.99 The News from Dublin by Colm Toibin Price £14.99 Amy's Pick A Far-Flung Life by M.L. Stedman Price £20.00 A Private Man by Stephanie Sy-Quia Price £16.99 Good People by Patmeena Sabit Price £16.99 Amy's Pick Chosen Family by Madeleine Gray Price £20.00 Women's Prize for Fiction 2026 Browse this year's longlist for the Women's Prize for Fiction The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine Price £18.99 Kingfisher by Rozie Kelly Price £10.99 The Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson Price £16.99 The Others by Sheena Kalayil Price £12.99 Paradiso 17 by Hannah Lillith Assadi Price £16.99 Gloria Don't Speak by Lucy Apps Price £12.99 Dominion by Addie E. Citchens Price £12.99 The Best of Everything by Kit de Waal Price £10.99 Booker Shortlist Flashlight by Susan Choi Price £10.99 A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing by Alice Evelyn Yang Price £11.99 Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy Price £9.99 Moderation by Elaine Castillo Price £17.99 The Correspondent by Virginia Evan Price £16.99 Audition by Katie Kitamura Price £18.99 Book of the Year 2025 Heart the Lover by Lily King Price £18.99 New in Non-Fiction The very latest insightful and thought-provoking non-fiction reads Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs Price £30.00 A Hymn to Life: Shame has to Change Sides by Gisele Pelicot Price £22.00 How to End a Story by Helen Garner Price £20.00 Love Machines by James Muldoon Price £12.99 The Fire by Cecilia Sala Price £14.99 Dear England : Lessons in Leadership by Gareth Southgate Price £25.00 Book of Lives : A Memoir of Sorts by Margaret Atwood Price £30.00 How To Live An Artful Life by Katy Hessel Price £16.99 A Mind of My Own by Kathy Burke Price £22.00 The Anthony Bourdain Reader by Anthony Bourdain Price £25.00 Bread of Angels by Patti Smith Price £25.00 Dead and Alive by Zadie Smith Price £22.00 I Shop, Therefore I Am by Mary Portas Price £20.00 Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China by Jung Chang Price £25.00 Great Art Explained by James Payne Price £30.00 The Traitors Circle by Jonathan Freedland Price £25.00 Love’s Labour by Stephen Grosz Price £18.99 Clearing the Air: A Hopeful Guide to Solving Climate Change by Hannah Ritchie Price £20.00 The Finest Hotel in Kabul : A People’s History of Afghanistan by Lyse Doucet Price £25.00 A Short History of Japan by Christopher Harding Price £20.00 New in Paperback The best books, recently released in their portable paperback format Booker Winner Flesh by David Szalay Price £9.99 Polly's Pick Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata Price £9.99 The Names by Florence Knapp Price £9.99 Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros Price £10.99 We Do Not Part by Han Kang Price £9.99 Consider Yourself Kissed by Jessica Stanley Price £9.99 Booker Shortlist Flashlight by Susan Choi Price £10.99 Hannan's Pick Muckle Flugga by Michael Pedersen Price £9.99 Show Don't Tell by Curtis Sittenfeld Price £9.99 Booker Longlist The South by Tash Aw Price £9.99 Chrissy's Pick This Immaculate Body by Emma van Straaten Price £9.99 A Family Matter by Claire Lynch Price £9.99 Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis Price £9.99 My Friends by Fredrik Backman Price £9.99 Three Days in June by Anne Tyler INDIE EXCLUSIVE EDITION Price £9.99 Slags by Emma Jane Unsworth Price £9.99 Deviants by Santanu Bhattacharya Price £9.99 How to End a Story by Helen Garner Price £20.00 The Book of George by Kate Greathead Price £9.99 Mere by Danielle Giles Price £9.99 Can't find the book you'd like to buy listed here? Tell us what you'd like and we'll get it for you. Order here Coming Soon Pre-order the books everyone will be talking about The Traveller's Library by Chandler Bray Price £16.99 On the Calculation of Volume IV by Solvej Balle Out of stock Signed London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe Price £22.00 Wifehouse by Sonya Walger Price £16.99 Transcription by Ben Lerner Price £14.99 Go Gentle by Maria Semple Price £20.00 Having Spent Life Seeking by Kae Tempest Price £18.99 The Wreck by Lizzy Stewart Price £25.00 Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke Price £16.99 Partita by Barbara Kingsolver Price £20.00 Polly's Pick Wimmy Road Boyz by Sufiyaan Salam Price £16.99 Chrissy's Pick American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee Price £22.00 Land by Maggie O'Farrell Price £25.00 Chrissy's Pick Stations by Louise Kennedy Price £20.00 Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead Price £22.00 Chrissy's Pick John of John by Douglas Stuart Price £20.00 Chrissy's Pick Frida Slattery as Herself by Ana Kinsella Price £16.99 Chrissy's Pick I Want You To Be Happy by Jem Calder Price £14.99 Ghost Stories by Siri Hustvedt Price £22.00 Royal Court Reading List A birthday reading list inspired by the Royal Court's 70th season The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell Price £10.99 Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker Price £10.99 The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro Price £9.99 Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys Price £9.99 Chandler's Pick My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein by Deborah Levy Price £18.99 Lazar by Nelio Biedermann Price £16.99 Jess's Pick Helen Of Nowhere Price £12.99 Chandler's Pick My Lover, the Rabbi by Wayne Koestenbaum Price £14.99 Strange Girls by Sarvat Hasi Price £20.00 Signed What Am I, a Deer? by Polly Barton (Author Edition) Price £16.99 Mare by Emily Haworth-Booth Price £16.99 Enough Said by Alan Bennett Price £25.00 Having Spent Life Seeking by Kae Tempest Price £18.99 The Wreck by Lizzy Stewart Price £25.00 Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke Price £16.99 The Beginning Comes After the End by Rebecca Solnit Price £14.99 Chandler's Pick Exit Party by Emily St John Mandel Price £18.99 The Daffodil Days by Helen Bain Price £18.99 Sisters in Yellow by Mieko Kawakami Price £16.99 On the Calculation of Volume IV by Solvej Balle Out of stock International Booker Prize 2026 Read and support the best works of long-form fiction or collections of short stories translated into English Intl. Booker Longlist On Earth As It Is Beneath by Ana Paula Maia Price £11.99 Intl. Booker Longlist She Who Remains by Rene Karabash Price £12.99 Intl. Booker Longlist The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje Price £20.00 Intl. Booker Longlist We Are Green and Trembling by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara Price £18.99 Intl. Booker Longlist The Duke by Matteo Melchiorre Price £14.99 Intl. Booker Shortlist The Director by Daniel Kehlmann Price £22.00 Intl. Booker Longlist The Wax Child by Olga Ravn Price £14.99 Intl. Booker Longlist Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shuang-zi Price £14.99 Intl. Booker Longlist Women Without Men by Shahrnush Parsipur Price £12.99 Intl. Booker Longlist The Witch by Marie NDiaye Price £12.99 Intl. Booker Longlist Small Comfort by Ia Genberg Price £12.99 Intl. Booker Longlist The Deserters by Mathias Énard Price £14.99 Intl. Booker Longlist The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran by Shida Bazyar Price £10.99 Read with Pride Our favourite fiction celebrating queer writers and stories Amy's Pick A Language of Limbs by Dylin Hardcastle Price £10.99 Deviants by Santanu Bhattacharya Price £9.99 Bellies by Nicola Dinan Price £9.99 Experienced by Kate Young Price £9.99 Rosewater by Liv Little Price £9.99 Chrissy's Pick Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield Price £9.99 Mrs S by K Patrick Price £9.99 Green Dot by Madeleine Gray Price £9.99 Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters Price £8.99 Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly Price £9.99 Radical Love by Neil Blackmore Price £9.99 Wild Things by Laura Kay Price £9.99 The Happy Couple by Naoise Dolan Price £9.99 The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden Price £9.99 Memorial by Bryan Washington Price £8.99 The Pairing by Casey McQuiston Price £18.99 In Memoriam by Alice Winn Price £9.99 Rainbow Milk by Mendez Price £9.99 Sexual Politics and Relationships A selection of books from our Sexual Politics and Relationships Shelves Disobedient Bodies by Emma Dabiri Price £7.99 Three Women by Lisa Tadeo Price £10.99 Tomorrow S Will Be Good Again by Katherine Angel Price £8.99 Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel Price £10.99 The Sex Lives of African Women by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah Price £9.99 The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan Price £9.99 Arrangements in Blue by Amy Key Price £10.99 Porn : An Oral History by Polly Barton Price £13.99 Conversations On Love by Natasha Lunn Price £10.99 All About Love by Bel Hooks Price £11.99 Black Box by Shiori Ito Price £9.99 Notes on Heartbreak by Annie Lord Price £9.99 Staff Picks Check out what our team are currently recommending Jess's Pick Helen Of Nowhere Price £12.99 Chandler's Pick My Lover, the Rabbi by Wayne Koestenbaum Price £14.99 We all love! Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash Price £16.99 Flo's Pick Calypso by David Sedaris Price £12.99 Amy's Pick Woo Woo by Ella Baxter Price £10.99 Chandler's Pick The Dance and the Fire by Daniel Saldaña París Price £11.99 Chandler's Pick Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones Price £12.99 Amy's Pick The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow Price £22.00 Elisa's Pick Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin Price £9.99 Jess's Pick Kick the Latch by Kathryn Scanlan Price £9.99 Hannan's Pick The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi Price £9.99 Flo's Pick The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji Price £9.99 Esme's Pick The Compound by Aisling Rawle Price £16.99 Jess's Pick Vaim by Jon Fosse Price £12.99 Elisa's Pick Just Kids by Patti Smith Price £12.99 Hannan's Pick Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix Price £12.99 Polly's Pick Old Soul by Susan Barker Price £9.99 BookBar Favourite! Ungone by Hannah Patterson Price £10.99 Amy's Pick Hot Wax by M.L. Rio Price £20.00 Polly's Pick The Debutante and Other Stories by Leonora Carrington Price £12.99 The Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2026 The longlist spans politics, memoir, science, history, biography, and art, in an extraordinary celebration of women’s writing Signed Indignity: A Life Reimagined by Lea Ypi Price £22.00 Nation of Strangers : Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century by Ece Temelkuran Price £18.99 To Exist As I Am by Grace Spence Green Price £16.99 Finding Albion by Zakia Sewell Price £25.00 Mother Mary Comes To Me by Arundhati Roy Price £20.00 Hotel Exile : Paris in the Shadow of War by Jane Rogoyska Price £25.00 The Genius of Trees by Harriet Rix Price £25.00 Death of an Ordinary Man by Sarah Perry Price £18.99 Ask Me How It Works: Love in an Open Marriage by Deepa Paul Price £18.99 To Be Young, Gifted and Black by Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason Price £16.99 With the Law on Our Side by Lady Hale Price £25.00 Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Transform Our Health by Daisy Fancourt Price £22.00 Don't Let it Break You by Jenny Evans Price £22.00 The Finest Hotel in Kabul : A People’s History of Afghanistan by Lyse Doucet Price £25.00 Daughters of the Bamboo Grove by Barbara Demick Price £10.99 Food and Drink The most delectable reads of the moment La Mesa Mexicana by Rosa Cienfuegos Price £39.95 FUSÃO : Untraditional recipes inspired by Brasil by Ixta Belfrage Price £28.00 Good Things : Recipes to Share with People You Love by Samin Nosrat Price £30.00 Padella by Tim Siadatan Price £25.00 Long Day? Cook This. : Easy East Asian Recipes with a Twist by Justin Tsang Price £26.00 OPA! : Recipes inspired by Greek tavernas Price £30.00 How I Cook: A Chef’s Guide to Really Good Home Cooking by Ben Lippett Price £26.00 Boustany by Sami Tamimi Price £30.00 Sama Sama by Julie Lin Price £28.00 In For Dinner by Rosie Kellett Price £27.00 Sweet : the secret to the best desserts by Alexina Anatole Price £27.00 Crunch : An Ode to Crisps by Natalie Whittle Price £10.99 Dinner by Meera Sodha Price £27.00 Amy's Pick The Condiment Book by Claire Dinhut Price £14.99 Nights Out At Home by Jay Rayner Price £22.00 Ottolenghi COMFORT by Yotam Ottolenghi Price £30.00 A Thousand Feasts : Small Moments of Joy … a Memoir of Sorts by Nigel Slater Price £12.99 SIFT : The Elements of Great Baking by Nicola Lamb Price £30.00 London Feeds Itself ed. Jonathan Nunn Price £25.00 Easy Wins by Anna Jones Price £28.00 The Best of BookBar A selection of standout Book of the Month and Book Club picks that never fail to hit the mark Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri Price £9.99 Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah Nelson Price £9.99 The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden Price £9.99 Signed You Are Here by David Nicholls Price £9.99 Chrysalis by Anna Metcalfe Price £9.99 Chrissy's Pick Clear by Carys Davies Price £9.99 Polly's Pick Butter by Asako Yuzuki Price £9.99 All The Colours of the Dark by Chris Whitaker Price £9.99 Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart Price £9.99 I Will Greet The Sun Again by Khashayar J. Khabushani Price £9.99 Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan Price £9.99 Come and Get It by Kiley Reid Price £9.99 Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis Price £9.99 Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly Price £9.99 Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang Price £9.99 Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus Price £9.99 The Crane Wife by C.J. Hauser Price £10.99 Good Material by Dolly Alderton Price £9.99 The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi Price £9.99 I'm a Fan by Sheena Patel Price £9.99 Can't find the book you'd like to buy listed here? Tell us what you'd like and we'll get it for you. Order here Or search for a title at Bookshop.org Search here When you buy from bookshop.org we receive profit on any book you buy, so long as you enter through our shop front, via the link above (BookBar will show up in the top left corner). This profit is less than the profit we receive when you order from us directly, but you will still be supporting what we do by ordering via bookshop.org above any online retailer. As the books you order will not be sent directly from us, they will not be wrapped in BookBar branding.