Today is the first day of winter, making it the perfect time to compile an ambitious TBR pile and then snuggle under the doona. Our booksellers share what books are sitting on their own bedside stacks in preparation for the coming chill.

Bel Monypenny, bookseller at Readings Doncaster

• On Quiet by Nikki Gemmell
• On Mother by Sarah Ferguson
• The Lonely City by Olivia Laing
• Things I Don’t Want to Know by Deborah Levy
• The Folded Clock by Heidi Julavits
• On Kate Jennings (Writers on Writers series) by Erik Jensen
• Snake by Kate Jennings
• Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
• Flames by Robbie Arnott
• The Death of Noah Glass by Gail Jones
• Woman of Substances by Jenny Valentish

Nina Kenwood, marketing manager

• I Was Born for This by Alice Oseman
• Starry Eyes by Jenn Bennett
• The Peacock Detectives by Carly Nugent
• Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott
• Clock Dance by Anne Tyler
• I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara

Ann Le Lievre, School and Libraries Liaison

• Paris: City Map by Lonely Planet
• The Learning Curves of Vanessa Partridge by Clare Strahan
• A Wood of One’s Own by Ruth Pavey
• Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively
• The Debatable Land by Graham Robb
• A Walk Through Paris by Eric Hazan
• In Montmartre by Sue Roe
• Deep Time Dreaming by Billy Griffiths

Ellen Cregan, marketing & events coordinator

• Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee
• LaRose by Louise Erdrich
• I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
• One Last Spin by Drew Rooke
• The Bridge by Enza Gandolfo
• Flames by Robbie Arnott
• Voiceworks Issue #111: Riff

Lian Hingee, digital marketing manager

• A People’s History of the Vampire Uprising by Raymond A. Villareal
• Dietland by Sarai Walker
• The Merry Spinster by Daniel Mallory Ortberg
• Circe by Madeline Miller
• Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith
• Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao
• Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
• In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan

Marie Matteson, buyer at Readings Carlton

• Berlitz Finnish: Phrase Book & Dictionary
• Love Among the Haystacks by D.H. Lawrence
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
• Cold Earth by Sarah Moss
• W. H. Auden: Selected Poems (Expanded edition) by W.H. Auden, selected and edited by Edward Mendelson
• False Colours by Georgette Heyer
• A Farewell to Ice by Peter Wadhams
• Snare by Lilja Sigurdardóttir (translated by Quentin Bates)
• Motherhood by Sheila Heti
• Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin
• Places Women Make by Jane Jose
• Lapland by James Proctor
• You Think It, I’ll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld

Chris Gordon, events manager

• On Mother by Sarah Ferguson
• The Trick Is To Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway
• Man Out of Time by Stephanie Bishop
• Amelia Westlake by Erin Gough
• Between Us by Clare Atkins
• Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver