The new Autumn 2017 edition of our reading guide, All About Books is now available. For your FREE copy ask a Library Staff member at any of our branches.
It is filled with lots of reading ideas to inspire you over the season and has a little something for everyone…check out our special Books to Screen section, so many wonderful titles are being made into a movie or tv series this year.
Can’t get to the Library and don’t want to wait until your next visit? Click on the cover to download your copy.
Category Archives: Memoirs & Biographies
Top Book Reads of 2016!
If you were wondering what books had the most loans for 2016, wonder no more! Here are the top ten of the year.
Adult Fiction
- The girl on the train – Paula Hawkins
- 15th affair – James Patterson
- Cometh the hour – Jeffrey Archer
- Make me – Lee Child
- Big little lies – Liane Moriarty
- Rogue lawyer – John Grisham
- The crossing -Michael Connelly
- The steel kiss – Jeffrey Deaver
- The guilty – David Baldacci
- Private Paris – James Patterson and Personal – Lee Child
Adult Non Fiction
- The life-changing magic of tidying up – Marie Kondo
- Road users’ handbook – Roads and Traffic Authority of NSW
- Driver qualification handbook – Roads and Traffic Authority of NSW and A guide to the driving test – Roads and Traffic Authority of NSW
- Reckoning: a memoir – Magda Szubanski and Hazard perception handbook – Roads and Traffic Authority of NSW
- The secret – Rhonda Byrne
- Tax for Australians for dummies – Jimmy B. Prince
- The happiest refugee – Ahn Do
- I quit sugar – Sarah Wilson
- The 8-week blood sugar diet – Michael Mosley
- Flesh wounds – Richard Glover
For Young Adults
- Harry Potter and the cursed child. Parts one and two – Jack Thorne
- The fault in our stars – John Green and Paper towns – John Green
- The scorch trials – James Dashner
- Allegiant – Veronica Roth
- Catching fire – Suzanne Collins
- Divergent – Veronica Roth
- The book thief – Marcus Zusak
- The hunger games – Suzanne Collins
- The city of heavenly fire – Cassandra Clare
- If I stay – Gayle Forman
For Children
- Diary of a wimpy kid: the long haul – Jeff Kinney
- Diary of a wimpy kid: the third wheel – Jeff Kinney
- The 52-storey treehouse – Andy Griffiths
- Thea Stilton and the mystery on the Orient Express – Thea Stilton
- The only me – Meredith Harvey
- The 65-storey treehouse – Andy Griffiths
- Diary of a wimpy kid: old school – Jeff Kinney
- The wimpy kid movie diary – Jeff Kinney
- The perilous plants – Geronimo Stilton
- Totally weird! – Ahn Do
Good Reads – Best Books of 2016 Winners!
The winners of the Good Reads Best Books of 2016 have been announced – did your favourite win?
Categories included: Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction, Horror, Humour, Non Fiction, Memoir & Autobiography, History & Biography, Science & Technology, Food & Cookbooks, Graphic Novels & Comics, Poetry, Debut Goodreads Author, Young Adult Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction, Middle Grade & Children’s, and Picturebook.
HINT – Click on the category below to see the winner and shortlisted books and click on the title to reserve your copy of the winner now. The Library has all of the winning books and many of the shortlisted ones. Continue reading
ABC National Radio Presenters – Best Reads of 2016
Ever wondered what the ABC National Radio presenters love to read? Why not check out their favourite reads of the year.
For the full review of the book from each presenter click here.
Click on the title below to reserve your copy to read over Summer.
- Cassie McCullagh: Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
- Richard Fidler: The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan
- Scott Stephens: Anger and Forgiveness by Martha Nussbaum
- Paul Barclay: Talking to My Country by Stan Grant
- Natasha Mitchell: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeannette Winterson and My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem
- Andrew Ford: Keeping On Keeping On byAlan Bennett
- Sarah Kanowski: Everywhere I Look by Helen Garner
- Annabelle Quince: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- Kate Evans: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
- Ann Jones: Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
- Amanda Smith: Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
- Michael Cathcart: The Return by Hisham Matar
- Antony Funnell: A World on Fire by Amanda Foreman
- Robyn Williams: The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
- Patricia Karvelas: Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
- Lynne Malcolm: Nutshell by Ian McEwan
- Tom Switzer: The Populist Explosion by John B. Judis
NEW Good Reading Resource Hub is launched!
The Good Reading Magazine has launched a new Resource Hub for book lovers to make reading the ‘Good Reading’ magazine easier and includes exciting interactive features. Access to the new resource is free to Library members, click here to access the Hub. When you click you will be taken to the homepage of the Resource Hub instead of the digital version of the magazine, you then sign up for a free membership with your email and chosen password. Once you sign up you will have access to:
- Set up your own profile
- Create a list of books you want to read
- Create a list of books in your personal library that you’ve read
- Recommend books to other readers
- Write your own reviews and share them with other readers
- Have access to the articles and reviews in all the magazines in a website format. You will also have access to bonus exclusive interviews and stories just for online subscribers.
- View the print magazine in a digital format. This is the same format as you have been viewing before.
- Purchase books. For the convenience of readers they have connected their website with Booktopia, so you can purchase books.