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Category Archives: Reading Lists
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
Better Reading Top 100 Books 2016
Better Reading has released the 2016 Top 100 Book as voted by the Australian public – number 1 is Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird! Is your favourite in the list?
The Top 50 Kids Books for 2016 list has also been announced – number 1, to no surprise is the classic The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle.
Why not reserve your favourite now via the Library Catalogue?
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.