Reading Suggestions

Reading Suggestions
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May Reading Suggestions

In celebration of Sydney Writers' Festival happening this month, we've pulled together a few of the Australian authors featured this year. Scroll down to find something for children, youth and adults, fiction and non-fiction. 

Click on the links below each book cover to reserve via the Library Catalogue, or find eBooks and eAudio on BorrowBox, Indyreads or Libby.


Junior Fiction Authors


Cristy Burne
e.g. Beneath the trees
Library Catalogue
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Indyreads
Guy Edmonds
e.g. Zombie diaries
Library Catalogue
Libby
​Kate Foster
e.g. The Bravest word
Library Catalogue
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​Jane Godwin
e.g. As happy as here
Library Catalogue
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​Jeremy Lachlan
e.g. Jane Doe and the Cradle of worlds
Library Catalogue
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Libby
​Maryam Master
e.g. Exit through the gift shop
Library Catalogue
BorrowBox
Indyreads
Libby
Amelia Mellor
e.g. The grandest bookshop in the world
​Library Catalogue
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Indyreads
Jasmin McGaughey
e.g. Little Ash series
​​Library Catalogue
BorrowBox
Indyreads



Young Adult Fiction Authors


​Randa Abdel Fattah
e.g. Does my head look big in this
Library Catalogue
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Indyreads
Felicity Castagna
e.g. Girls in boys' cars
Library Catalogue
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Indyreads
Libby
Andrew Daddo
e.g. Just breathe
Library Catalogue
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Indyreads
Libby
Lauren Draper
e.g. Museum of broken things
Library Catalogue
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​Mette Jakobsen
e.g. The snow laundry
Library Catalogue
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Amie Kaufman
e.g. Aurora rising
Library Catalogue
BorrowBox
Indyreads
Nina Kenwood
e.g. Unnecessary drama
Library Catalogue
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Libby
Will Kostakis
e.g. Monuments
Library Catalogue
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Indyreads
Ellie Marney
e.g. The killing code
Library Catalogue
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Indyreads
Libby
Lynette Noni
e.g. The prison healer
Library Catalogue
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Indyreads
Libby
Lili Wilkinson 
e.g. The Erasure Initiative
Library Catalogue
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Markus Zusak
e.g. The book thief
Library Catalogue
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Indyreads



Adult authors - Memoirs and Biographies


Caroline Baum
Only
Library Catalogue
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Libby
Tabitha Carvan
This book is not about
Benedict Cumberbatch
Library Catalogue
BorrowBox
Indyreads
Mawunyo Gbogbo
​Hip hop and hymns

Library Catalogue
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Indyreads
Amani Haydar
Mother wound
Library Catalogue
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Indyreads
​Shane Jenek
aka Courtney Act
Caught in the act
Library Catalogue
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Indyreads
​Ronni Kahn
A repurposed life
Library Catalogue
Indyreads
Libby
Sarah Krasnostein
The trauma cleaner
Library Catalogue
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Libby
​Sarah Malik
Desi girl
Library Catalogue
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Indyreads
Mark Mordue
Boy on fire
Library Catalogue
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Indyreads
Rick Morton
My year of living vulnerably
Library Catalogue
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Indyreads
Libby
Sam Neill
Did I ever tell you this
Library Catalogue
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Libby
​Grace Tame
Ninth life of a diamond miner
Library Catalogue
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Indyreads
Amy Thunig
Tell me again
Library Catalogue
Indyreads



Adult authors - Fiction


Grace Chan
e.g. Every version of you
Library Catalogue
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​Shankari Chandran
e.g. Song of the sun god
Library Catalogue
Libby
Sally Colin-James
e.g. One illuminated thread
Library Catalogue
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​George Haddad
e.g. Losing face
Library Catalogue
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Indyreads
Jane Harper
e.g. The dry
Library Catalogue
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Indyreads
Libby
​Gail Jones
e.g. Salonika burning
Library Catalogue
Indyreads
Libby
Fiona Kelly McGregor
e.g. Iris
Library Catalogue
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Indyreads
​Shirley Le
e.g. Funny Ethnics
Library Catalogue
Libby
Diana Reid
e.g. Seeing other people
Library Catalogue
Indyreads
Libby
Holly Ringland
e.g. Lost flowers of Alice Hart
Library Catalogue
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Indyreads
Libby
Omar Sakr
e.g. Son of sin
Library Catalogue
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Indyreads
Saman Shad
e.g. The matchmaker
Library Catalogue
Indyreads
Benjamin Stevenson
e.g. Everyone in my family 
has killed someone
Library Catalogue
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Indyreads
Yvonne Weldon
e.g. Sixty seven days
Library Catalogue
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Indyreads



Adult authors - Non Fiction Indigenous and environment


Paul Callaghan
e.g. The dreaming path
Library Catalogue
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Indyreads
Tim Flannery
e.g. The climate cure
Library Catalogue
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Indyreads
Libby
Joelle Gergis
e.g. Humanity's moment
Library Catalogue
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Libby
Stan Grant
e.g. Australia Day
Library Catalogue
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Indyreads
Libby
Rebecca Huntley
e.g. How to talk about cimate change in
way that makes a difference
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Indyreads
Libby
Paddy Manning
e.g. Body count
Library Catalogue
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Indyreads
Libby
Thomas Mayo
e.g. Finding the heart of the nation
Library Catalogue
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Libby



Adult authors - Non Fiction


​Annabel Crabb
e.g. Well hello
Library Catalogue
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Libby
Brigid Delaney
e.g. Reasons not to worry
Library Catalogue
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Indyreads
Libby
Richard Fidler
e.g. The golden maze
Library Catalogue
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Indyreads
Libby
Clementine Ford
e.g. How we love
Library Catalogue
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Libby
​Julia Gillard
e.g. Not now, not ever
Library Catalogue
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Indyreads
Libby
Benjamin Law
e.g. The family Law
Library Catalogue
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Indyreads
Libby
Bri Lee
e.g. Who gets to be smart
Library Catalogue
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Indyreads
Libby
Kate Legge
e.g. Infidelity and other affairs
Library Catalogue
Indyreads
​Lawrence Mooney
e.g. Embracing your limitations
Library Catalogue
Libby
​Alison Pennington
e.g. Gen F'd?
Library Catalogue
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Libby
Jess Scully
e.g. Glimpses of Utopia
Library Catalogue
Indyreads
Libby
Yumi Stynes
e.g. Ladies, we need to talk
Library Catalogue
BorrowBox
Indyreads
Libby