It looks like June is announcing itself with icy winds and driving rain, so when could it possibly be better to curl up indoors with a big stack of books? Our booksellers share what’s in their TBR piles this winter.

Kim Gruschow, book buyer and children’s book buyer, St Kilda

• Why Karen Carpenter Matters by Karen Tongson
• Piglettes by Clementine Beauvais
• This Brutal House by Niven Govinden (June)
• The Breakaways by Cathy G. Johnson
• Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights by Molly Smith
• The Falconer: A Novel by Dana Czapnik
• The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth by Ken Krimstein
• Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations by Toni Morrison

Chris Gordon, events and programming manager

• The Warlow Experiment by Alix Nathan
• The Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
• Three Women by Lisa Taddeo (July)
• The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory by Corey White (July)

Ellen Cregan, marketing & events coordinator

• Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
• The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
• Spring by Ali Smith
• The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone by Felicity McLean
• Little Stones by Elizabeth Kuiper (June)

Georgia Brough, digital content coordinator

• Ariel by Sylvia Plath
• Public Library and Other Stories by Ali Smith
• The New Me by Halle Butler
• The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
• Exploded View by Carrie Tiffany
• The White Girl by Tony Birch (June)
• Losing the Plot by Elizabeth Coleman

Leanne Hall, children’s and YA specialist

• Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
• Apple and Knife by Intan Paramaditha
• Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
• Crossings by Alex Landragin