October 2026
Love Your Bookshop Day is this month and so a Bookshop themed book recommendations is too easy! Bookshops are special places of conversation, community and connection!
I loved The Bookshop of Buried Pasts, Sarah Clutton’s second novel. There are secrets and lies and mystery wrapped up in this feel-good novel. It’s just a treat from start to finish. It’s set in Bowral and that was nice as well!
I laughed and cried and felt so seen as a bookseller and once small business owner through The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell. It is what the title promises; the day to day running of a big second-hand bookshop. Its hilarious and wry. I don’t think you’ll see customer service the same way ever again.
I adored The Midnight Train. Have you read The Midnight Library? It doesn’t matter, but it is the same universe and a nice companion novel. Matt Haig has written a lovely love letter to books and bookshops, as well as love and second chances in this novel!
Every Bookshop Needs a Cat is Japanese fiction that you have to read slowly and is just so whimsical. It’s about connection and community, grief and love. Takuya Asakura has written something really gorgeous here.
I read The Invisible Life of Addie Larue a few years ago and gosh I loved it. It is about Addie Larue surprisingly enough and her invisible life. She has made a deal with the devil and is cursed to live forever being forgotten by everyone.