Today booksellers Olivia, Rachel and Laura discuss the ones that got away. Prepare to be shocked when we reveal the books we know we should have read, the books our customers assume we have read, the books we really really want to read one day. These are the books we have on our metaphorical (and literal) retirement shelves waiting for the day they can be savoured and enjoyed. Or maybe we'll have to get to them earlier...

Books mentioned in this episode:

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

All the Light we Cannot See and Clou Cuckoo Land by Antony Doerr

Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Cutting for Stone and A Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

The Seven Sister series by Lucinda Riley

The Overstory and Bewilderment by Richard Powers

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

I am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes

Harry Potter series by JK Rowling

I am, I am, I am by Maggie O'Farrell

The Disposed and Earth Sea trilogy by Ursula Le Guin

Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

Road Ends by Mary Lawson

The Searcher and The Hunter by Tana French

The Secret History and The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Tom Lake, Bel Canto and The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

All books by JP Pomare

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Anna Karenina and War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Middlemarch by George Elliot

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Phew!