Sharon Peterson, assistant manager at Readings Carlton

• Barkskins by Annie Proulx
• Scotland by Lonely Planet
• Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
• Understory by Inga Simpson
• Ache by Eliza Henry-Jone

Stella Charls, marketing and events coordinator

• Too Much and Not the Mood by Durga Chew-Bose
• Losing it by Moira Burke
• Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag
• All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg
• A Separation by Katie Kitamura
• Sunshine State by Sarah Gerard
• Both Ways is the Only Way I Want it by Maile Meloy
• Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny
• Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
• I’m Supposed to Protect You from All This by Nadja Spiegelman

Nina Kenwood, marketing manager

• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
• Gravity Well by Melanie Joosten
• Australia Day by Melanie Cheng
• Ballad for a Mad Girl by Vikki Wakefield
• No Way! Okay, Fine by Brodie Lancaster
• Wellmania by Brigid Delaney
• Woman of Substances by Jenny Valentish

Leanne Hall, bookseller at Readings Kids

• When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
• Truth or Dare by Non Pratt
• Every Falling Star by Sungju Lee and Susan Elizabeth McClelland
• The Fighting Stingrays by Simon Mitchell
• Gap Year in Ghost Town by Michael Pryor
• The Safest Lies by Megan Miranda

Lian Hingee, digital marketing manager

• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• The Changeover by Margaret Mahy
• Frogkisser! by Garth Nix
• Get Well Soon by Jennifer Wright
• Goldenhand by Garth Nix
• Defender by G. X. Todd
• Spectacles by Sue Perkins
• The Witches of New York by Ami McKay
• Dietland by Sarai Walker

Annie Condon, bookseller at Readings Hawthorn

• Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong
• All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg
• The Idiot by Elif Batuman
• Sorry to Disrupt the Peace by Patty Yumi Cottrell
• Sycamore by Bryn Chancellor
• Sad Girls by Lang Leav
• The Starlings by Vivienne Kelly

Ellen Cregan, bookseller at Readings Doncaster

• Desperate Characters by Paula Fox
• My Life as a Hashtag by Gabrielle Williams
• My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
• The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye by A.S. Byatt
• Angels and Insects by A.S. Byatt
• The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
• Some Tests by Wayne Macauley
• Australia Day by Melanie Cheng

Chris Somerville, online team

• A Collapse of Horses by Brian Evenson
• Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
• Don’t Let Me be Lonely by Claudia Rankine
• Down the Hume by Peter Polites
• Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson
• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
• The Folded Clock by Heidi Julavits
• Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann