What’s trending in the library this month!
Checkout some of the great titles that were popular with our library members in April.
Includes, titles held by the library, on order & arriving soon!
Category Archives: Memoirs & Biographies
Booksellers’ Choice Book of the Year
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the shortlists for the 2022 Booksellers’ Choice Book of the Year Awards. The Booksellers’ Choice Book of the Year Awards recognise the Australian books that booksellers most enjoyed reading and hand-selling during the previous year. The winners will be announced on Sunday, 12 June at the ABA conference gala dinner and awards night in Sydney.
Can you predict the winner(s) before then?
NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Shortlist
UPDATE – Winners have been announced!
Book of the Year & Multicultural NSW award – Still alive – Safdar Ahmed with other winners below.
People’s Choice winner –The shut ins – Katherine Brabon.
The NSW Premier’s Literary Awards are held annually. They are the richest and longest running state-based literary awards in Australia and cover all genres of writing. The shortlisted titles for the 2022 Awards have been released with the winners being announced on 16 May during the Sydney Writers’ Festival.
People’s Choice Award – Select your favourite from the books shortlisted for the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction to enter the draw to win one of two prize packs of all six books. Click on the image above or here to enter the competition. Voting closes Sunday 1st May.
Christina Stead Prize for Fiction – Shortlist
The award may be made for a novel or a collection of stories. Works of creative non-fiction, including fictionalised memoirs, are eligible for consideration under this category. The award commemorates Christina Ellen Stead (1902–1983), Australian novelist and short story writer.
- Dark as last night – Tony Birch – WINNER
- The kindness of birds – Merlinda Bobis
- The shut ins – Katherine Brabon
- The dogs – John Hughes
- Pushing back – John Kinsella
- The performance – Claire Thomas
Stella Prize 2022 Longlist
The Stella Prize is a major literary award celebrating Australian women’s writing. The $50,000 prize is awarded annually to one outstanding book deemed to be original, excellent, and engaging. Announcing the 12 exceptional books by Australian women and non-binary writers in the running for the tenth annual Stella Prize. The 2022 Stella Prize longlist includes novels, short fiction, memoir, social history, a book-length essay, a graphic novel, and – eligible for the first time in 2022 – poetry collections. Why not reserve one or more now and see if you can pick the winner before is announced Thursday 28 April.
- Coming of Age in the War on Terror by Randa Abdel-Fattah (NewSouth Books)
- Take Care by Eunice Andrada (Giramondo Publishing)
- Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen (University of Queensland Press)
- She Is Haunted by Paige Clark (Allen & Unwin)
- No Document by Anwen Crawford (Giramondo Publishing)
- Bodies of Light by Jennifer Down (Text Publishing)
- Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray by Anita Heiss (Simon & Schuster)
- Stone Fruit by Lee Lai (Fantagraphics)
- Permafrost by SJ Norman (University of Queensland Press)
- Homecoming by Elfie Shiosaki (Magabala Books)
- The Open by Lucy Van (Cordite Books)
- Another Day in the Colony by Chelsea Watego (University of Queensland Press).
Top Loans of 2021
Are you looking for some new reading material? Check out our most borrowed titles of 2021!
Adult Fiction
- The sentinel (Jack Reacher book 25) by Lee Child
- Daylight (An Atlee Ping book 3) by David Baldacci
- Force of nature by Jane Harper
- The survivors by Jane Harper
- Hidden in plan sight by Jeffrey Archer
Adult Non-Fiction
- A promised land by Barack Obama
- Atomic habits by James Clear
- The subtle art of not giving a f*ck by Mark Manson
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
- The happiest man on earth by Eddie Jaku
Young Adult
- Magnus Chase and the ship of the dead by Rick Riordan
- Dragon Ball super. 1, Warriors from Universe 6! by Akira Toriyama
- Dragon Ball super. 2. The winning universe is decided! by Akira Toriyama
- They both die at the end by Adam Silvera
- To kill a mockingbird a graphic novel by Fred Fordham
Childrens
- The getaway (Diary of a wimpy kid 12) by Jeff Kinney
- Crazy Weird! (Weirdo, book 6) by Anh Do
- The bad guys. Episode 8, Superbad by Aaron Blabey
- Everything’s amazing (sort of) by Liz Pichon
- Totally weird (Weirdo, book 5) by Anh Do
Top eAudiobooks (Borrow Box)
Adult
- A promised land by Barack Obama
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
- The survivors by Jane Harper
- Where the crawdads sing by Delia Owens
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Young Adult
- Shadow and bone (Shadow and bone, book 1) by Leigh Bardugo
- The book thief by Markus Zusak
- Midnight sun (Twilight, book 5) by Stephenie Meyer
- Six of crows (Six of crows, book 1) by Leigh Bardugo
- The ballad of songbirds and snakes by Suzanne Collins
Children
- Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
- 130 storey treehouse by Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton
- Diary of a wimpy kid by Jeff Kinney
- Spooky weird! By Anh Do
- The BFG by Roald Dahl
Top eBooks (ePlatform)
Adult
- The happiest refugee by Anh Do
- The dry by Jane Harper
- Animal farm by George Orwell
- 61 hours (Jack Reacher) by Lee Child
- The missing sister (Seven sisters, book 7) by Lucinda Riley
Young Adult
- Coraline by Neil Gaiman
- Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy
- The boy in the striped pyjamas by John Boyne
- Stormbreaker (Alex Rider, book 1) by Anthony Horowitz
- The hunger games by Suzanne Collins
Children
- The meltdown (Diary of a wimpy kid, book 13) by Jeff Kinney
- The pocket money blues (Billie B Brown series) by Sally Rippin
- The witches by Roald Dahl
- This is a ball by Matt Stanton
- The playground problem (Hey Jack series) by Sally Rippin
Top Streamed Movie/Series (Beamfilm)