July 2021
Once, at the edge of the sea
Sue Saliba
(young adult verse novel)
Are you there, Buddha?
Pip Harry
(middle-grade verse novel)
Story genius
How to use brain science to go beyond outlining and writing a riveting novel
Lisa Cron
(adult non-fiction)
The summer I learned to fly
Dana Reinhardt
(young adult fiction)
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
(adult fiction)
The golden tower
Belinda Murrell
(children’s fiction)
Peta Lyre’s rating normal
Anna Whateley
(young adult fiction)
Rebound
Kwame Alexander
(children’s fiction)
Hamnet
Maggie o’Farrell
(adult fiction)
June
How to do the work
Dr Nicole LePera
(adult non-fiction)
The boy from the Mish
Gary Lonesborough
(young adult fiction)
Henry Hamlet’s heart
Rhiannon Wilde
(young adult fiction)
The monster of her age
Danielle Binks
(young adult fiction)
The way of integrity
Martha Beck
(adult non-fiction)
This one wild and precious life
Sarah Wilson
(adult non-fiction)
The silent patient
Alex Michaelides
(adult fiction)
May 2021
The wishbird
Gabrielle Wang
(children’s fiction)
Jinx
Margaret Wild
(young adult fiction)
Long way down
Jason Reynolds
(young adult fiction)
Blood moon
Lucy Cuthew
(young adult fiction)
Love objects
Emily Maguire
(adult fiction)
Ghost Bird
Lisa Fuller
(young adult fiction)
The edge of thirteen
Nova Weetman
(young adult fiction)
Hormone repair manual
Lara Briden
(non-fiction)
April
The Outsiders
S. E. Hinton
(young adult fiction)
Fleishman is in trouble
Taffy Brodesser-Akner
(adult fiction)
The heart song of Wonder Quinn
Kate Gordon
(junior fiction)
How to grow a family tree
Eliza Henry Jones
(young adult fiction)
P is for Pearl
Eliza Henry Jones
(young adult fiction)
The gaps
Leanne Hall
(young adult fiction)
I’m so effing tired
A proven plan to beat burnout, boost your energy and reclaim your life
Dr Amy Shah
(adult fiction)
Tiger daughter
Rebecca Lim
(young adult fiction)
Hollowpox
The hunt for Morrigan Crow
Jessica Townsend
(children’s fiction)
The creative doer
Anna Lovind
(adult non-fiction)
Rone
Thames and Hudson
(adult non-fiction)
March
Mean mothers
Overcoming the legacy of hurt
Peg Streep
(adult non-fiction)
Metal fish, falling snow
Cath Moore
(young adult fiction)
Write your novel from the middle
James Scott Bell
(adult non-fiction)
The fire star
A Maven and Reeve mystery
A. L. Tait
(children’s fiction)
The little wave
Pip Harry
(children’s fiction)
Subway art
Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant
(adult non-fiction)
The end of the world is bigger than love
Davina Bell
(young adult fiction)
Cassandra speaks
When women are the storytellers, the human story changes
Elizabeth Lesser
(adult non-fiction)
Burnout
The secret to unlocking the stress cycle
Emily Nagoski, Amelia Nagoski
(adult non-fiction)
Good little liars
Sarah Clutton
(adult fiction)
The daughter’s promise
Sarah Clutton
(adult fiction)
I feel bad about my neck
Nora Ephron
(adult non-fiction)
Redhead by the side of the road
Anne Tyler
(adult fiction)
The power of showing up
Daniel Siegel
(adult non-fiction)
February 2021
The forty rules of love
Elif Shafak
(adult fiction)
A kinder sea
Felicity Plunkett
(adult poetry)
The practice
Shipping creative work
Seth Godin
(adult non-fiction)
The girl who became a tree
A story told in poems
Joseph Coelho
(young adult verse novel)
The book of chance
Sue Whiting
(children’s fiction)
Missing
Sue Whiting
(children’s fiction)
Creativity Inc
Overcoming the unseen forces that stand in the way of true inspiration
Ed Catmull
(adult non-fiction)
The taste of river water
Cate Kennedy
(adult poetry)
Like a house on fire
Cate Kennedy
(adult short stories)
January 2021
Searching for Charlotte
The fascinating story of Australia’s first children’s author
Kate Forsyth and Belinda Murrell
(adult non-fiction)
Happenstance
Carol Shields
(adult fiction)
The gift of presence
A mindfulness guide for women
Caroline Welch
(adult fiction)
Chris-in-the-morning
Love, life, and the whole karmic enchilada
Louis Chunovic
(adult non-fiction)
The Northern Exposure book
Louis Chunovic
(adult non-diction)
Living life beautifully
Cabbages and Roses
Christina Strutt
(adult non-fiction)