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Slow reads in 2026:
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (all year)
Wolf Crawl: The Cromwell trilogy by Hilary Mantel (all year)
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (Jan–Mar)
Regeneration by Pat Barker (Apr–May)
The Inheritors by William Golding (June)
Treacle Walker by Alan Garner (July)
The Children’s Book by AS Byatt (Sept–Dec)
Slow reads in 2025:
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (all year)
The Cromwell trilogy by Hilary Mantel (all year)
The Siege of Krishnapur by JG Farrell (starts 13 Jan)
A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel (starts 5 May)
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (starts 29 Sept)
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald (starts 3 Nov)



