Our staff share their Summer Reading Stacks
It’s summer time which means it’s time for some serious reading. Here, we share what’s on our own TBR piles…
Ellen Cregan, bookseller at Readings Doncaster
- Girl Through Glass by Sari Wilson
- Made for Love by Alissa Nutting
- The Best Australian Stories 2017 edited by Maxine Beneba Clarke
- The Stranger by Melanie Raabe (translated by Imogen Taylor)
- Suburbia by Jeremy Chambers
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
- The Best of The Lifted Brow: Volume Two
- Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang
Sharon Peterson, assistant manager at Readings Carlton
- Mrs. M by Luke Slattery
- Chasing the Dram by Rachel McCormack
- The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
- A New England Affair by Steven Carroll
- The Passage of Love by Alex Miller
- Glasgow by Michael Fry
Kara Nicholson, bookseller at Readings Carlton
- Winter by Karl Ove Knausgaard (translated by Ingvild Burkey, illustrations by Lars Lerin)
- Autumn by Karl Ove Knausgaard (translated by Ingvild Burkey, illustrations by Vanessa Baird)
- Autumn by Ali Smith
- Winter by Ali Smith
- Insomniac City by Bill Hayes
- The City Always Wins by Omar Robert Hamilton
- Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
Chris Gordon, events manager
- Idaho by Emily Ruskovich
- In the Garden of Fugitives by Ceridwen Dovey
- Every Word is a Bird We Teach to Sing by Daniel Tammet
- Being Here by Marie Darrieussecq
- I am, I am, I am by Maggie O'Farrell
- The Accident on the A35 by Graeme Macrae Burnet
Claire Atherfold, online customer service officer
- Picnic At Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
- My Place by Sally Morgan
- Lanark by Alasdair Gray
- All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
- Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami (translated by Allison Markin Powell)
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- Angela Carter’s Book Of Fairy Tales by Angela Carter
- A Monster Calls words by Patrick Ness, illustrated by Jim Kay, story by Siobhan Dowd
- The Bear and The Nightingale by Katherine Arden
Lian Hingee, digital marketing manager
- I am, I am, I am by Maggie O'Farrell
- The Witches of New York by Ami McKay
- The Woman Who Fooled the World by Beau Donelly & Nick Toscano
- Provenance by Ann Leckie
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Frogkisser! by Garth Nix
- Magic Bites (Kate Daniels Book 1) by Ilona Andrews
Judi Mitchell, editorial assistant for Readings Monthly
- The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa (translated by Philip Gabriel)
- Glasgow edited by Alan Taylor
- The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson (translated by Thomas Teal)
- The Footy Lady by Stephanie Asher
- The Accident on the A35 by Graeme Macrae Burnet
- La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust Book 1) by Philip Pullman
- Mr & Mrs Wilkinson’s: How it is at Home by Matt Wilkinson & Sharlee Gibb
- Poh Bakes 100 Greats by Poh Ling Yeow
Kim Gruschow, children’s buyer at Readings St Kilda
- They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
- Wishtree by Katherine Applegate
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
- Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
- The Night Garden by Polly Horvath
- Spinning by Tillie Walden
Stella Charls, marketing & events coordinator
- Monkey Grip by Helen Garner
- Finn Family Moomintroll (Special Collectors’ Edition) by Tove Jansson
- Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman
- Pull Me Under by Kelly Luce
- The Best Australian Stories 2017 edited by Maxine Beneba Clarke
- Talking to My Daughter About the Economy by Yanis Varoufakis
- Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
- True Stories by Helen Garner