We are often asked to make book recommendations, usually by people we don't know as most of our acquaintances don't like to get us started otherwise we tend not to stop. The penny has only just dropped that we don't actually have a simple list of recommended titles... so, Amazon Listmania! stylie, we have a round up of our favourite books.

Select the genre you prefer, buy one of the recommended books and we can pretty much guarantee you will enjoy it.*

Titles are in no particular order so the first one is not necessarily the best. Linked titles have a BookLore Review. Linked Authors have an Author Page with further details and titles.

Some titles will cross genres but we have done the best we can to place them in the most appropriate grouping.

See notes about the BookLore Buy Links. You can also use these links to go to the relevant book on Amazon.co.uk and see the opinions of other readers... don't just take our word for it. :)

Star Books are titles that are highly recommended by the BookLore team. See Star Books for more information.

*This is obviously a glib statement as we cannot possibly guarantee to please all the people all the time. Remember, these are simply the opinions of BookLore's Reviewers . However, if you don't enjoy a Recommended Read we suggest you seek professional help... or better still send in your own review and tell us why not.

† Not all titles are suitable for younger children, please check your requirements.

And finally, to counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor, we have a list of books so bad it feels like a medieval demon has sapped the life from you - The Suckibooks (or the books that suck).