ASOS Books
(Literature)
The Novels That Made The Cut
Calm
By Micheal Acton Smith
There has never been a more important time to rediscover your pause button. Calm is the book that will show how to sit back and breathe -important calm.
How to See the World
By Nicholas Mirzoeff
From Google Images to Instagram, video games to installation art, this transformation is confusing, liberating and worrying all at once, since observing the new visuality of culture is not the same as understanding it.
Boo
By Neil Smith
When wakes up in heaven, the eighth-grade science geek thinks he died of a heart defect at his school. But soon after arriving in this reserved for dead 13 year olds, Boo discovers he’s a kid who was murdered.
The Faults in our Stars
By John Green
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.
Ugly
By Constance Briscose
Constance's mother systematically abused her daughter, both physically and emotionally, throughout her childhood. Regularly beaten and starved, the girl was so desperate she took herself off to Social Services and tried to get taken into care.
The Girl On the Train
By Paula Hawkins
Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. ‘Jess and Jason’, she calls them. Their life – perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy.