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What our Teen Advisory Board have been reading over summer
The summer holidays are a perfect time for bookworms and over the last few weeks, the teenagers on our Teen Advisory Board have been very busy reading through some new and forthcoming young adult novels. Find out what they’ve been reading below.
Everless by Sara Holland
‘In the futuristic Kingdom of Sempera, time is extracted from people and bound to blood iron coins as money. As time is taken from a person, their months and years left alive is sucked…
What to read if you loved Wonder
Published to acclaim in 2012 and boosted by a recent movie adaptation, R.J. Palacio’s middle fiction novel, Wonder, has been much-loved by readers for several years now.
I’ve lost count of the numbers of parents or kids who’ve told me they love Palacio’s multi-perspective story of Auggie March’s first year at a mainstream school. Born with a crano-facial difference, Auggie is stoic and good-humoured about the surgery he’s had to endure and the effect his appearance has on people…
Our top 10 bestsellers of the week
Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff
The Barefoot Investor by Scott Pape
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman
Force of Nature by Jane Harper
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
Mythos by Stephen Fry
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
The Dry by Jane Harper
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Fire and Fury is our bestselling book of last…
Our children's and YA top 10 bestsellers of the week
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust Book 1) by Philip Pullman
Good Night Stories For Rebel Girls: Volume 2 by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo
Dog Man and Cat Kid (The Adventures of Dog Man Book 4) by Dav Pilkey
No One Likes a Fart by Zoë Foster Blake and Adam Nickel
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Indie Book Awards shortlist 2018
This year’s shortlist for the Indie Book Awards has been announced.
Each year, independent booksellers from around the nation get together and vote for their favourite titles in six different categories, as well as their favourite book overall. Here are the shortlisted titles in each category.
Fiction
Force of Nature by Jane Harper
The Choke by Sofie Laguna
On the Java Ridge by Jock Serong
City of Crows by Chris Womersley
Non-fiction
Working Class Man by Jimmy Barnes
Join our Doncaster book club
You’re invited to join our first-ever Doncaster book club! Enjoy lively discussions, wine and nibbles, and a 20% discount on any full-priced fiction.
When and where do the meetings take place?
The Readings Doncaster Book Club will meet in the Readings bookshop on the Ground Floor of Westfield Doncaster at 619 Doncaster Rd, Victoria. Meetings take place on the last Thursday of every month at 7pm. Our first bookclub sessions will commence in February 2018.
How does the book club…
Books coming to the screen in 2018
There are a stack of amazing books being adapted for the screen this year. Here are 10 of our favourites, and you can find plenty more picks by browsing our collections below.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
Mary Ann Shaffer’s The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society received a rave response from readers when it was first published in 2008. Set in the immediate aftermath of WWII, this epistolary…
What we're reading: Celeste Ng, Stephen Fry & Ann Patchett
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Lian Hingee is reading Mythos by Stephen Fry
I dove headfirst into Stephen Fry’s Mythos over my Christmas holidays. This engrossing book offers an in-depth but entertaining look at Greek mythology, from the creation myth of Gaia and Ouranos, to the legends of Olympus, Pandora, Hades and Persephone, and more. It’s a dense read, but…
More children's classics paired with their modern counterparts
Some children’s books never get old, and there’s a lot of joy in giving a modern kid a tried and tested read from your own youth. Once more, we’ve paired some of our favourite children’s classics with newer books that share the same spirit.
Read the classic! Read the new! Or best of all, read both!
You can read our original post about children’s classics and modern counterparts here.
If you loved Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren…
…try The…
The 10 bestselling CDs at Readings in 2017
Here are our 10 bestselling CDs from the past year.
(We’ve also compiled our 100 bestselling books of 2017 and our 10 bestselling DVDs of 2017.)
We’re delighted to see some amazing Aussie talent included in our list of bestselling CDs of last year. This includes local guitar virtuosos Slava and Leonard Grigoryan with Songs Without Words, iconic folk band The Waifs with Ironbark, and staff favourite Paul Kelly with Life is Fine.
The legacy of…
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