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Kids
15 Jan 2026

The 100 bestselling kids and YA books of 2025

Featuring Silverborn: The Mystery of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend, You & Me and the Peanut Butter Beast by Andy Griffiths, Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins and many more!

Australian fiction
15 Jan 2026

The 100 bestselling books of 2025

Featuring Last One Out by Jane Harper, Earthquake by Niki Savva, The Mushroom Tapes by Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper & Sarah Krasnostein, and many more!

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Young adult
26 Nov 2025

Q&A with Readings Prize winners, Ian X. Cho and Emma Clancey

Read an extract of our conversations with Ian X. Cho and Emma Clancey, two of the 2025 winners of the Readings Prize!

Kids
21 Nov 2025

Q&A with Readings Prize winner, Raidah Shah Idil

Read an extract of our conversation with Raidah Shah Idil, the winner of The Readings Children’s Prize 2025!

Australian fiction
19 Nov 2025

Q&A with Readings Prize winner, Dominic Amerena

Read an extract of our conversation with Dominic Amerena, the winner of The Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction 2025!

Australian fiction
6 Nov 2025

Mark Rubbo and Andrew Pippos on The Transformations

Readings chairman Mark Rubbo and Andrew Pippos discuss Pippos's brilliant second novel, The Transformations.

First Nations
9 Jul 2025

The Teen Advisory Board’s Q&A with the authors of Desert Tracks

Read the TAB's interview with the authors of Desert Tracks, Marly & Linda Wells.

Australian fiction
10 Apr 2025

Q&A with award-winning writer Hannah Kent

Hear from prize-winner Hannah Kent about her upcoming memoir, Always Home, Always Homesick.

Crime
24 Feb 2025

Q&A with Melbourne author Fiona Hardy

Fiona Hardy answers questions about her debut crime novel, Unbury the Dead.

Young adult
25 Oct 2024

Q&A with Gary Lonesborough, winner of The Readings Young Adult Prize 2024

We are proud and excited to announce Gary Lonesborough as the winner of The Readings Young Adult Prize 2024 for his coming-of-age novel, We Didn't Think It Through, about a sixteen-year-old boy finding his future and navigating the challenges…

Kids
24 Oct 2024

Q&A with Tylissa Elisara winner of The Readings Children’s Prize 2024

We are proud and excited to announce author Tylissa Elisara as this year's winner of The Readings Children's Prize for Wurrtoo, a unique middle-grade novel about friendship, adventure and facing your fears, illustrated by Dylan Finney. We've asked Tylissa…

Australian fiction
4 Oct 2024

Q&A with award-winning author Robbie Arnott

Aurelia Orr, one of our most prolific and insightful Readings staff reviewers, chats with Robbie Arnott about his tense and lyrical latest novel, Dusk, and the titular character’s surprising connection to Jaws. Join us on October 8th to…

Australian fiction
1 Oct 2024

Q&A with award-winning author Melanie Cheng

Our extraordinary community engagement and programming manager Chris Gordon asks beloved local author Melanie Cheng about her beautiful, heartbreaking new novel, The Burrow. CG: The Burrow is set during Covid times in Melbourne. How important to you was recording…

Kids
25 Aug 2024

Q&A with the authors of the Readings Children’s Prize shortlist

To help you work out where to start with the Children's Prize shortlist, and figure out which book is the right fit for the young reader in your life, we asked the shortlisted authors: Who is the ideal reader for…

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