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Toni Morrison
Discover Toni Morrison's most iconic work in this Pulitzer-prize winning novel that exemplifies her powerful and important place in contemporary American literature.
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Max Porter
Everyday lives conjure a tapestry of fabulism and domesticity. This village belongs to the people who live in it and to the people who lived in it hundreds of years…
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Chloe Hooper
A powerful real-life thriller written with Hooper’s trademark lyric detail and nuance, The Arsonist is a reminder that in an age of fire, all of us are gatekeepers.
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Philippe Besson, Molly Ringwald (trans.)
A gorgeous coming-of-age love story about two teenage boys in 1980s France.
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Peter Brown
A gloriously illustrated story of a robot’s adventures in the wild
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Rebecca Makkai
The Carnegie Medal-winning novel of hope and heartbreak amidst the AIDs crisis, for fans of A Little Life and The Lacuna.
Nova Weetman
Two very different Grade 6 girls meet in their school sick bay.
Sigrid Nunez
Elegiac and searching, The Friend is both a meditation on loss and a celebration of human-canine devotion.
Genki Kawamura
A million-copy bestseller, a poignant and thought-provoking Japanese tale that asks what it really is that makes life worth living.
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Elizabeth Acevedo
Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do…
John Boyne
‘By turns savvy, witty and achingly sad, this is a novelist at the top of his game.’ Mail on SundayForced to flee the scandal brewing in her hometown, Catherine Goggin…
Clare Atkins
Winner of the CBCA Book of the Year Award for Older Readers 2019. Ana’s in a detention centre and Jono’s life is spiralling out of control. Can their growing romance…
Ambelin Kwaymullina,Ezekiel Kwaymullina
Winner of the Prize for Young Adult Writing at the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. Told in two unforgettable voices, this gripping novel interweaves themes of grief, colonial history, violence…
Claudia Rankine
Examines the experience of race and racism in Western society through sharp vignettes of everyday discrimination and prejudice. This book includes essays, images and poetry together to form a testament…
Wendy Mass,Rebecca Stead
A charming middle-grade novel about friendship and the power of imagination, told in alternating chapters by Rebecca Stead, the Newbery Medal winning author of When You Reach Me, and Wendy…
Angelica Neville,André Dao,Dana Affleck,Sienna Merope
Revealing, moving and confronting accounts of the reality of life in mandatory detention by those who’ve experienced it.
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Thi Bui
An intimate and moving portrait of one family’s journey from their war-torn home in Vietnam to new lives in America
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Adam Haslett
Michael is John and Margaret’s eldest son. He’s a precocious kid, smart and funny, obsessed with books and music. His sister Celia is the sensible one in the family: tougher…
Mary Ann Shaffer,Annie Barrows
Gloriously honest, enchanting and funny, this is a moving tale of post-war friendship, love and books, a captivating and completely irresistible novel of enormous depth and heart.
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Cath Crowley
This is a love story. It’s the story of Henry Jones and Rachel Sweetie. It’s the story of how we leave our histories in the things we love - like…
Nicola Yoon
The dazzling new novel from Nicola Yoon, the New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything.
Naomi Klein
This Changes Everything is a must-read on our future, one of the defining and most hopeful books of this era.
Celeste Ng
A haunting debut novel about a mixed-race family living in 1970s Ohio and the tragedy that will either be their undoing or their salvation
Cheryl Strayed (Author)
The official tie-in edition to the stunning film adaptation of the bestselling memoir, starring Reese Witherspoon.
Andrew Solomon
Drawing on interviews with over three hundred families, covering subjects including deafness, dwarfs, Down’s Syndrome, Autism, Schizophrenia, disability, prodigies, children born of rape, children convicted of crime and transgender people…
Scot Gardner
Aaron Rowe walks in his sleep. He has dreams he can’t explain, and memories he can’t recover. Death doesn’t scare him - his new job with a funeral director may…
Ta-Nehisi Coates
In a work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a new…
Anna Quindlen
Ellen Gulden is a successful, young New York journalist. But when her mother, Kate, is diagnosed with cancer, she leaves her life in the city to return home and care…
Leslie Jamison
A powerful yet refreshing essay collection centred around themes of confession, illness, violence and sentimentality from an exciting new American talent
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Ben Fountain
To be adapted into a major motion picture directed by Oscar-winning director Ang Lee
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Joyce Carol Oates
From one of America’s best loved and most prolific novelists: the story of a woman coming to terms with the violent death of her mother, and uncovering all the hidden…
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Bonnie Jo Campbell
A girl with a gun fights for survival in the American wilderness, in a tale that will enthral fans of The Hunger Games and True Grit.
