Order Quick Reads for 2026 - 25% off!
Prices from £0.75
The Reading Agency is delighted to announce the launch of the 2026 Quick Reads titles, now available for sale to organisations at discounted prices.
Six new Quick Reads were published on 11 April 2026. The books retail at £1 and are available to order from library suppliers, bookshops and The Reading Agency’s shop. The books are also being showcased for this year's World Book Night celebration.
This year's titles are:
Hunger Pains by Derek Owusu
The Last Bench by Carmel Harrington
The Girl in the Picture by Rachel Hore
The Woman Next Door by Louise Jensen
Sweet Charity by Rosie Goodwin
Cell One by Leye Adenle
All Around the World: Stories by Booker Prize Writers – is the first book in a new partnership between Quick Reads and The Booker Prize Foundation. The collection of short stories from Booker Prize and International Booker Prize nominated authors is curated and introduced by Roddy Doyle and published by Penguin Random House. The collection features stories from Anne Enright (winner of the Booker Prize 2007 with The Gathering and longlisted for the 2015 prize with The Green Road), Andrey Kurkov (longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2023 with Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv and in 2024 with The Silver Bone), Nadifa Mohamed (shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021 with The Fortune Men), Yoko Ogawa (shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020 with The Memory Police), David Szalay (winner of the Booker Prize 2025 with Flesh and shortlisted for the 2016 prize with All That Man Is), Yael van der Wouden (shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024 with The Safekeep), as well as a story from Doyle (who won the Booker Prize in 1993 with Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and was Chair of judges in 2025). This will be published and orders fulfilled on 11 June.
We are delighted to offer Quick Reads bundles at a 25% discounted price.
As a Reading Agency customer you can order mixed titles and mixed quantities in a singular order and benefit from a fixed shipping fee of £5.00 for up to 99 books (£5.00 fee applied to each quantity of up to 99 books).
For individual customers wishing to place a total order of 1-10 books, please consider ordering Quick Reads via Bookshop.org as a more cost-effective solution.
Quick Reads are short books and great stories by bestselling authors. They’re specifically written to engage emergent, reluctant and lapsed readers to help spread the joy of reading and the many benefits it brings.
Quick Reads are perfect for using as a whole group college, workplace, prison or community read as they have wide appeal and are accessible to a broad range of reading abilities. We also recommend for anyone who struggles with reading, for a variety of reasons including dementia, brain injury recovery, attention deficit, dyslexia and other reasons.
Learning resources, social media assets, toolkits and discussion guides will soon be available on the Quick Reads resources database in 2026.
**Order details including contact information will be used for delivery purposes only via our 3rd party supplier. This offer is available in the UK only.
