Why Join?

  • Add New Books

  • Write a Review

  • Backpack Reading Lists

  • Newsletter Updates

Join Now

Filter:

Sweet Caress

Sweet Caress
  • Author(s): William Boyd
  • Location(s): Berlin, France, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s-1950s

Long listed for the Walter Scott Prize 2016 Amory’s first memory is of her father doing a handstand. She has memories of him returning on leave during the First World War. But his absences, both actual and emotional, are...

Sweet Little Lies

Sweet Little Lies
  • Author(s): Karin Nordin
  • Location(s): Ohio
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sisters Lexie and Amber used to share everything, including their dream of getting out of their small town. Born only ten months apart, they once thought they couldn’t be closer. They were wrong. Fifteen years ago, Amber was brutally...

Sweet Waters

Sweet Waters
  • Author(s): Julie Carobini
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Tara Sweet is a sensible young woman whose life is turned upside when her mother marries a younger man, and Tara’s boyfriend ends their relationship. Finding herself at Otter Bay, on the Californian coast she falls for a young...

Sylvia

Sylvia
  • Author(s): Leonard Michaels
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Manhattan 1960s –  Leonard, a young writer drifting through the city, meets Sylvia by chance at a friend’s shabby Greenwich Village apartment. He’s instantly besotted with her striking beauty and quiet disdain, and the question of what to do...

Tales of the City

Tales of the City
  • Author(s): Armistead Maupin
  • Location(s): San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

San Francisco, 1976. A naïve young secretary, fresh out of Cleveland, tumbles headlong into a brave new world of laundromat Lotharios, pot-growing landladies, cut throat debutantes, and Jockey Shorts dance contests. The saga that ensues is manic, romantic, tawdry,...

Tall Oaks

Tall Oaks
  • Author(s): Chris Whitaker
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Tall Oaks is an idyllic small town, until the disappearance of a young child throws the tight-knit community into crisis. Jess Monroe, the boy’s distraught mother, is simultaneously leading the search and battling her own grief and self-destructive behaviour....

Tar Beach

Tar Beach
  • Author(s): Faith Ringgold
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1930s

Illustrations in full color. “Ringgold recounts the dream adventure of eight-year-old Cassie Louise Lightfoot, who flies above her apartment-building rooftop, the ‘tar beach’ of the title, looking down on 1939 Harlem. Part autobiographical, part fictional, this allegorical tale sparkles...

Tatiana and Alexander

Tatiana and Alexander
  • Author(s): Paullina Simons
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Russia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

The world at war … two people in love. Tatiana is eighteen years old and pregnant when she miraculously escapes war-torn Leningrad to the West, believing herself to be a widow. Her husband, Major Alexander Belov, a decorated hero...

Ten Beach Road

Ten Beach Road
  • Author(s): Wendy Wax
  • Location(s): St Petersburg (Florida)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A Ponzi scheme, initiated by Malcom Dyer leaves Maddie, Avery, and Nikki penniless: but they each a third share in the beach house Bella Flora, a once majestic mansion overlooking the sea, but now pretty derelict. This is the...

Tequila Sunset

Tequila Sunset
  • Author(s): Sam Hawken
  • Location(s): El Paso, Juarez
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

El Paso and Ciudad Juárez sit across the Texas / Mexico border from each other. They share streets, share industry, share crime. One gang claims territory in both: Los Aztecas. This single criminal organisation is responsible for most of...

Would you like to add a book or a review or create a reading list? Join Today – It's FREE

Register Now