Support your self-care with Reading Well, recommended by health experts.
What is Reading Well?
Reading Well supports you to understand and manage your health and wellbeing using helpful reading.
Reading Well books are all recommended by health experts, as well as people with lived experience of the conditions and topics covered and their relatives and carers. Watch our short video!
Get Started
First things first, you’ll need to join the Library (if you haven’t already)
Using your brand new card number and pin, borrow one of the recommended books in our very own Virtual Library.
Do you prefer a real book?
Visit the Reading Well website’s books page for recommended booklists.
Reading Well is part of the Universal Public Library Health Offer.
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) has funded a universal roll-out of the reading lists to support mental health to every library service across England. Welsh Government have funded every library authority in Wales to deliver the scheme bilingually in Welsh and English.