What I Like About Me is one of the six books shortlisted for this year’s Readings Young Adult Book Prize.

‘You’re probably wondering if Anna’s plan to talk me up and draw me into conversation with Sebastian Lee was more successful than her plan to get me into a hot new bikini. Well, I hope you don’t mind spoilers (personally, I’m torn on them: sometimes they can enhance my enjoyment, and other…

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Lately, we’ve seen plenty of new releases celebrating the successes and influences of women artists throughout modern times and history. We’ve put together a collection of some of our favourites. Read on for some remarkable and inspiring artistic successes.

Del Kathryn Barton by Del Kathryn Barton and Natalie King

Containing 96 pages of the Archibald Prize-winning artist’s favourite works,…

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Young Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe Wilam: A Birrarung Story by Aunty Joy Murphy, Andrew Kelly and Lisa Kennedy Land of Fences by Mark Smith The Good Son by Pierre-Jacques Ober, Jules Ober and Felicity Coonan The Search for the Silver Witch (Polly and Buster, Book 3) by Sally Rippin The Peacock Detectives by Carly Nugent Hotdog! #6: Movie Time! by Anh Do Sick Bay by Nova Weetman Aurora Rising by Amie…

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The White Girl by Tony Birch Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe The Nancys by R.W.R. McDonald Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert Dare to Lead by Brené Brown The Overstory by Richard Powers Normal People by Sally Rooney Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope by Mark Manson No One is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg

In the top spot for last week’s bes…

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3 for 2 Penguin Modern Classics

Throughout June, we have a special offer on a select range of Penguin Modern Classics. Buy two books, and choose a third book in the range (of equal or lesser value) for free! The range includes books by Virginia Woolf, Shirley Jackson, James Baldwin, George Orwell, and many more.

This offer is exclusively available in all Readings shops except Readings Kids u…

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FICTION

For book clubs who like short stories… This Taste for Silence by Amanda O'Callaghan

Subtle, compelling and unsettling, Amanda O'Callaghan’s stories work at the edges of the sayable, through secrets, erasures and glimpsed moments of disclosure. They shimmer with unspoken histories and characters who have a ‘taste for silence'. Our reviewer Ellen says, ‘Whether it’s a dark secret co…

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Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to. Ellen Cregan is reading Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

For the past five years, various, trusted sources have recommended Station Eleven to me. Last weekend, I finally got around to reading it and absolutely loved it. This book is the intersection of …

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There is an exciting array of YA books coming out this month: a smart psychological thriller, a chilling look at VR technology, dystopian fiction with an ecological bent, heartfelt contemporary stories and a young adult edition of the bestselling The Tattooist of Auschwitz. Find our June picks for kids' books here. YA BOOK OF THE MONTH

The Girl Who Came Out of the Woods by Emily Barr

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Tayari Jones has won the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction for her heartbreaking novel An American Marriage.

An American Marriage is a stunning love story about family, injustice and marriage, and three people at once bound and separated by forces beyond their control. The lives of newlyweds Celestial and Roy are torn apart when Roy is arrested and sent to prison for 12 years for a crime he did not…

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CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH The Nancys by R.W.R. McDonald

Eleven-year-old Tippy Chan lives in the poky New Zealand town of Riverstone with her mother, her best friends, a suitably acerbic teen neighbour, and too many memories of her father. This is all very normal and fine, but this little town is about to get quite a shake-up. Tippy’s spectacularly colourful hairdresser uncle, Pike, and his ne…

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