Our booksellers share their 2021 Autumn reading stacks
March has arrived and with it, the mists and mellow fruitfulness of Autumn. The turn of the seasons is the perfect time to share what’s on your TBR piles – here is what’s on ours…
Jackie Tang, Readings Monthly editor
- Gideon The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
- Milk Fed by Melissa Broder
- Network Effect by Martha Wells
- Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
- The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
- Friends & Dark Shapes by Kevita Bedford
- Revenge by S. L. Lim
Leanne Hall, children’s and YA specialist for Readings online
- Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri, translated by Morgan Giles
- Tiger Daughter by Rebecca Lim
- Earthlings by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori
- Stone Sky Gold Mountain by Miranda Riwoe
Kim Gruschow, bookseller at Readings St Kilda
- The Velvet Rope by Ayanna Dozier
- The Gaps by Leanne Hall
- Moms by Yeong-shin Ma, translated by Janet Hong
- A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit
- Gunk Baby by Jamie Marina Lau
- Xi'an Famous Foods by Jason Wang, with Jessica Chou
Mark Rubbo, managing director
- On Thomas Keneally: Writers on Writers by Stan Grant
- China Room by Sunjeev Sahota
- Plunder by Menachem Kaiser
- The Performance by Claire Thomas
- A Promised Land by Barack Obama
Lucie Dess, marketing assistant
- How it All Blew Up by Arvin Ahmadi
- Game Changer by Neal Shusterman
- The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed
- Camp by L. C. Rosen
- I Was Born for This by Alice Oseman
Joanna Di Mattia, bookseller at Readings Carlton
- Unquiet Landscape by Christopher Neve
- A Man’s Place by Annie Ernaux
- The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
- The Faces by Tove Ditlevsen
- Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf
- Black Vodka by Deborah Levy
- The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark
- A Bright Ray of Darkness by Ethan Hawk
- Love by Roddy Doyle
- Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark
Claire Millar, bookseller at Readings Hawthorn
- The Death of Francis Bacon by Max Porter
- A Thousand Crimson Blooms by Eileen Chong
- Oscar & Lucinda by Peter Carey
- Where the Fruit Falls by Karen Wyld
- The Loudness of Unsaid Things by Hilde Hinton
Tye Cattanach, bookseller at Readings Carlton
- House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland
- The Cutting Room by Welsh Louise
- Memorial by Bryan Washington
- Emotional Female by Yumiko Kadota
- The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.
Megan Wood, human resources manager
- Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi
- Hex by Rebecca Dinerstein Knight
- There’s No Such Thing As An Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura, translated by Polly Barton
- The Mother Fault by Kate Mildenhall
- Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
Lian Hingee, digital marketing manager
- The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling by Wai Chim
- Devil’s Ballast by Meg Caddy
- Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld
- Smart Ovens for Lonely People by Elizabeth Tan
- Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
- The Aosawa Murders by Riku Onda, translated by Alison Watts
- Weather by Jenny Offill
- Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson