And here’s the final list with the essential outstanding ones in bold.

1. Are we having fun yet?- Lucy Mangan

2. The Man Who Died Twice- Richard Osman

3. Beautiful World, Where Are You – Sally Rooney

4. Platform 7 – Louise Doughty

5. Ways to be me- Libby Scott/Rebecca Westcott

6. The Best Things- Mel Giedroyc

7. I am an Island- Tamsin Calidas

8. 4000 Weeks – Oliver Burkeman

9. Gilead- Marilynne Robinson. 

10. The Storyteller – Dave Grohl

11. Girl A – Abigail Dean 

12. The Road Trip- Beth O’Leary 

13. Apples never fall- Liane Moriarty

14. Changing our minds- Naomi Fisher

15. Upstream- Mary Oliver

16. The Walkers Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs- Tristan Gooley

17. Sensible Shoes, Two Steps Forward, Barefoot, An Extra Mile- Sharon Garlough Brown

18. The Book of Form and Emptiness- Ruth Ozeki

19. A Line Above the Sky (a story of mountains and motherhood) – Helen Mort

20. Minecraft The Island – Max Brooks

21. Everything is Beautiful- Eleanor Ray

22. The Raptures- Jan Carson

23. A Terrible Kindness- Jo Browning Wroe

24. How to Belong- Sarah Franklin

25. Learning to Walk in the Dark- Barbara Brown Taylor

26. I guess I haven’t learnt that yet- Shauna Niequist

27. The funny thing about Norman Foreman- Julietta Henderson

28. I may be wrong- Björn Natthiko Lindeblad

29. Bittersweet- Susan Cain

30. The Island Home- Libby Page

31. Birdcage- Eve Chase

32. Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing- Matthew Perry