April 2018
Writing down the bones
Natalie Goldberg
(adult non-fiction)
The impossible quest, Book 5
Battle of the heroes
Kate Forsyth
(children’s fiction)
The impossible quest, Book 4
The drowned kingdom
Kate Forsyth
(children’s fiction)
The impossible quest, Book 3
The beast of Blackmoor Bog
Kate Forsyth
(children’s fiction)
The impossible quest, Book 2
Wolves of the Witchwood
Kate Forsyth
(children’s fiction)
The impossible quest, Book 1
Escape from Wolfhaven Castle
Kate Forsyth
(children’s fiction)
The barefoot investor
Scott Pape
(adult non-fiction)
March
The book of dust
Phillip Pullman
(children’s fiction)
The amber spyglass
Phillip Pullman
(children’s fiction)
The subtle knife
Phillip Pullman
(children’s fiction)
Layering your novel
C. S. Lakin
(adult non-fiction)
Northern lights
Phillip Pullman
(children’s fiction)
A wrinkle in time
Madeleine L’engle
(children’s fiction)
February
White night
Ellie Marney
(young adult fiction)
Pip and Houdini
J. C. Jones
(children’s fiction)
Plot and structure
James Scott Bell
(adult non-fiction)
If you knew her
Emily Elgar
(adult fiction)
The fire in fiction
Donald Maas
(adult non-fiction)
A boy in winter
Rachel Seiffert
(adult fiction)
Hooked
Les Edgerton
(adult non-fiction)
Bird and sugar boy
Sofie Laguna
(children’s fiction)
What I know for sure
Oprah Winfrey
(adult non-fiction)
Harry Potter and the deathly hallows
J. K. Rowling
(children’s fiction)
The passage of love
Alex Miller
(adult fiction)
Harry Potter and the half-blood prince
J. K. Rowling
(children’s fiction)
January 2018
The dressmaker
Rosalie Ham
(adult fiction)
Overwhelmed
Brigid Schulte
(adult non-fiction)
Soulful simplicity
Courtney Carver
(adult non-fiction)
Mindfulness for creativity
Dr Danny Penman
(adult non-fiction)
Planning your novel
Janice Hardy
(adult non-fiction)
Diary of a wimpy kid
The getaway
Jeff Kinney
(children’s fiction)
The extremely inconvenient adventures of Bronte Mettlestone
Jaclyn Moriarty
(children’s fiction)
The life to come
Michelle De Kretser
(adult fiction)
Melbourne street art guide
Edited by Din Heagney, Allison Fogarty and Ewan McEoin
(adult non-fiction)
December 2017
Braving the wilderness
Brene Brown
(adult non-fiction)
A man called Ove
Fredrik Backman
(adult fiction)
Jean Harley was here
Heather Taylor Johnson
(adult fiction)
The choke
Sofie Laguna
(adult fiction)
The museum of modern love
Heather Rose
(adult fiction)
November 2017
Turtles all the way down
John Green
(young adult fiction)
I’ll eat when I’m dead
Barbara Bouland
(adult fiction)
The gathering
Isobelle Carmody
(young adult fiction)
Take three girls
Cath Crowley, Simmone Howell, Fiona Wood
(young adult fiction)
Nevermoor
Jessica Townsend
(children’s fiction)
How to tame a dragon
Cressida Cowell
(children’s fiction)
Tiny Timmy
Tim Cahil
(children’s fiction)
Diary of a sixth-grade ninja
Marcus Emerson
(children’s fiction)
Weir Do, even weirder!
Anh Do
(children’s fiction)
The fall
Tristan Bancks
(children’s fiction)
A boy called Christmas
Matt Haig
(children’s fiction)
The graveyard book
Neil Gaiman
(children’s fiction)
Beyond the bright sea
Lauren Wolk
(children’s fiction)
October 2017
The turnkey
Allison Rushby
(children’s fiction)
The land of stories
The wishing spell
Chris Colfer
(children’s fiction)
This is Shyness
Leanne Hall
(young adult)
The girl who drank the moon
Kelly Barnhill
(children’s fiction)
In the dark
Carole Poustie
(children’s fiction)
The emotional craft of writing
Donald Maas
(adult non-fiction)
Force of nature
Jane Harper
(adult fiction)
Goodbye stranger
Rebecca Stead
(children’s fiction)
September 2017
Harry Potter and the order of the Phoenix
J. K. Rowling
(children’s fiction)
The little white horse
Elizabeth Goudge
(children’s fiction)
The time traveler’s wife
Audrey Niffenegger
(adult fiction)
Layer your novel
C. S. Lakin
(adult non-fiction)
When you reach me
Rebecca Stead
(children’s fiction)
Destination simple
Brooke McAlary
(adult non-fiction)
Harry Potter and the goblet of fire
J. K. Rowling
(children’s fiction)
Shoot your novel
C. S. Lakin
(adult non-fiction)
The book of secrets
An Ateban cipher novel
A. L. Tait
(children’s fiction)
Ache
Eliza Henry Jones
(adult fiction)
Understanding show, don’t tell
Janice Hardy
(adult non-fiction)
August 2017
A decent proposal
Rhonda Whiten and Sheila Hollingworth
(adult non-fiction)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
J. K. Rowling
(children’s fiction)
No limits
Ellie Marney
(young adult fiction)
Vinegar Girl
Anne Tyler
(adult fiction)
The Burgess boys
Elizabeth Strout
(adult fiction)
My name is Lucy Barton
Elizabeth Strout
(adult fiction)
The girl from everywhere
Heidi Heilig
(young adult fiction)
Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets
J. K. Rowling
(children’s fiction)
July 2017
Beauty in thorns
Kate Forsyth
(adult fiction)
168 hours – you have more time than you think
Laura Vanderkam
(adult non-fiction)
Money, a love story
Kate Northrup
(adult non-fiction)
Anything is possible
Elizabeth Strout
(adult fiction)
Flow
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
(adult non-fiction)
The emotional craft of writing
Donald Maas
(adult non-fiction)
The mother’s promise
Sally Hepworth
(adult fiction)
June 2017
Harry Potter and the philosopher’s stone
J. K. Rowling
(children’s fiction)
How to bee
Bren MacDibble
(children’s fiction)
The blue cat
Ursula Dubosarsky
(children’s fiction)
Dancing on knives
Kate Forsyth
(adult fiction)
My life as a hashtag
Gabrielle Williams
(young adult fiction)
Cool
Michael Morpurgo
(children’s fiction)
Singing my sister down and other stories
Margo Lanagan
(young adult fiction)
Raymie Nightingale
Kate diCamillo
(children’s fiction)
The guy, the girl, the artist and his ex
Gabrielle Williams
(young adult fiction)
May 2017
Elizabeth and Zenobia
Jessica Miller
(children’s fiction)
Guilt trip
Kasey Edwards
(adult non-fiction)
Liar and spy
Rebecca Stead
(children’s fiction)
Because of Winn-Dixie
Kate DiCamillo
(children’s fiction)
The tale of Despereaux
Kate DiCamillo
(children’s fiction)
To capture what we cannot keep
Beatrice Colin
(adult fiction)
Ten
Shamini Flint
(children’s fiction)
The light on the water
Olga Lorenzo
(adult fiction)
April 2017
The hate u give
Angie Thomas
(young adult fiction)
Mindfulness for women
Vidyamala Burch and Claire Irvin
(adult non-fiction)
First, we make the beast beautiful
Sarah Wilson
(adult non-fiction)
Beyond the edge of the map
The Mapmaker Chronicles, Book 4
A. L. Tait
(children’s fiction)
Strictly parenting
Michael Carr-Gregg
(adult non-fiction)
March 2017
Truly madly guilty
Liane Moriarty
(adult fiction)
A few days in the country and other stories
Elizabeth Harrower
(adult fiction)
Between a wolf and a dog
Georgia Blain
(adult fiction)
Courage for beginners
Karen Harrington
(children’s fiction)
When the lyrebird calls
Kim Kane
(children’s fiction)
February 2017
Tigers on the beach
Doug MacLeod
(children’s fiction)
First light
Rebecca Stead
(children’s fiction)
The last painting of Sara de Vos
Dominic Smith
(adult fiction)
Goodbye stranger
Rebecca Stead
(children’s fiction)
Fabric pictures
A workshop with Janet Bolton
Janet Bolton
(adult non-fiction)
When you reach me
Rebecca Stead
(children’s fiction)
Becoming a writer
Dorothea Brande
(adult non-fiction)
The secret scriptures
Sebastian Barry
(adult fiction)
The best of Adam Sharp
Graeme Simsion
(adult fiction)
Plot and structure
James Scott Bell
(adult non-fiction)
January 2017
Zen habits
Leo Barbuto
(adult non-fiction)
Blueback
Tim Winton
(children’s fiction)
Nora Webster
Colm Tobin
(adult fiction)
Music and freedom
Zoe Morrison
(adult fiction)
December 2016
The things we keep
Sally Hepworth
(adult fiction)
The desire map
Danielle LaPorte
(adult non-fiction)
The birdman’s wife
Melissa Ashley
(adult fiction)
The good people
Hannah Kent
(adult fiction)
November 2016
The Giver
Lois Lowry
(children’s fiction)
The dragonfly song
Wendy Orr
(children’s fiction)
One
Sarah Crossan
(children’s fiction)
The magician’s elephant
Kate DiCamillo
(children’s fiction)
Archie and the Grime wave
Richard Roxburgh
(children’s fiction)
Olive of Groves
Katrina Nannestad
(children’s fiction)
The worry tree
Marianne Musgrove
(children’s fiction)
I believe in unicorns
Michael Morpurgo
(children’s fiction)
Goblin at the zoo
Victor Kelleher
(children’s fiction)
The witch wars, Book 1
Sibeal Pounder
(children’s fiction)
Operation Bunny, Wings and Co
Sally Gardner
(children’s fiction)
The Florentine bridge
Vanessa Carnevale
(adult fiction)
October 2016
Holding the man
Timothy Conigrave
(adult fiction)
The writer’s room
Charlotte Wood
(adult non-fiction)
The bad guys, episode 1
Aaron Blabey
(children’s fiction)
Miss Peregrine’s home for peculiar children
Ransom Riggs
(children’s fiction)
Smile
Raina Telgemeier
(children’s fiction)
The ordinary princess
M. M. Kaye
(children’s fiction)
Run, Pip, run
J. C. Jones
(children’s fiction)
Pip: the story of Olive
Kim Kane
(children’s fiction)
An isolated incident
Emily Macguire
(adult fiction)
When friendship followed me home
Paul Griffin
(young adult fiction)
September 2016
Words in deep blue
Cath Crowley
(young adult fiction)
About Grace
Anthony Doerr
(adult fiction)
The hunt
(Andrew Fukuda
(young adult)
The ultimate book of influence
Chris Helder
(adult non-fiction)
August 2016
How to be happy
David Burton
(young adult fiction)
Useful belief
Chris Helder
(adult non-fiction)
Pax
Sara Pennypacker
(children’s fiction)
Money, a love story
Kate Northrup
(adult non-fiction)
Steelheart
Brandon Sanderson
(children’s fiction)
Decorate
Holly Becker
(adult non-fiction)
Decorate workshop
Holly Becker
(adult non-fiction)
The life of elves
Muriel Barbery
(adult fiction)
July 2016
The dry
Jane Harper
(adult fiction)
The course of love
Alain de Botton
(adult fiction)
Standing by
Anthology edited by David Vernon
(adult fiction)
June 2016
Our tiny, useless hearts
Toni Jordan
(adult fiction)
The paper house
Anna Spargo-Ryan
(adult fiction)
Anchor point
Alice Robinson
(adult fiction)
May 2016
From the outer
Footy like you’ve never heard it
Edited by Alicia Sometimes and Nicole Hayes
(adult non-fiction)
Anatomy of the spirit
Caroline Myss
(adult non-fiction)
Frankie
Shivaun Plozza
(young adult fiction)
A kiss from Mr Fitzgerald
Natasha Lester
(adult fiction)
Bel canto
Ann Patchett
(adult fiction)
April 2016
All that is lost between us
Sara Foster
(adult fiction)
Two wolves
Tristan Bancks
(children’s fiction)
The radiant road
Katherine Catmull
(children’s fiction)
The sunlit night
Rebecca Dinerstein
(adult fiction)
The war bride
Pamela Hart
(adult fiction)
March 2016
Hope Farm
Peggy Frew
(adult fiction)
Be mindful and simplify your life
Kate James
(adult non-fiction)
Louder than words
Harness the power of your authentic voice
Todd Henry
(adult non-fiction)
Half the sky
Turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide
Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
(adult non-fiction)
Iris and the tiger
Leanne Hall
(children’s fiction)
Be Frank with me
Julia Claiborne Johnson
(adult fiction)
168 hours
You have more time than you think
Laura Vanderkam
(adult non-fiction)
February 2016
From where you dream
The process of writing fiction
Robert Olen Butler
(adult non-fiction)
Sure signs of crazy
Karen Harrington
(children’s fiction)
All the light we cannot see
Anthony Doerr
(adult fiction)
The stars at Oktober Bend
Glenda Millard
(young adult fiction)
My brilliant friend
Elena Ferrante
(adult fiction)
The alchemist
Paulo Coelho
(adult fiction)
January 2016
Spark joy
An illustrated guide to the Japanese art of tidying
Marie Kondo
(adult non-fiction)
The life-changing magic of tidying up
The Japanese art of decluttering and organizing
Marie Kondo
(adult non-fiction)
The dragonkeeper – book 1
Carole Wilkinson
(children’s fiction)
The diver’s clothes lie empty
Vendela Vida
(adult fiction)
Zen habits
Leo Barbuto
(adult non-fiction)
State of wonder
Ann Patchett
(adult fiction)
Light is the new black
Rebecca Campbell
(adult non-fiction)
The coffeeholic and the cafe
Elizabeth Martin
(adult fiction)
January 2015
The fairy doll and other tales from the dolls’ house
Rumer Godden
(children’s fiction)
Thrive
Arianna Huffington
(adult non-fiction)
Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
(adult fiction)
February
The art of slow writing
Louise de Salvo
(adult non-fiction)
Lost and found
Brooke Davis
(adult fiction)
Crafting unforgettable characters
M. Weiland
(adult non-fiction)
The writer’s manifesto
Jeff Goins
(adult non-fiction)
The impossible quest – book 1 – Escape from Wolfhaven Castle
Kate Forsythe
(children’s fiction)
The impossible quest – book 2 – Wolves of Witchwood
Kate Forsythe
(children’s fiction)
Withering by sea
Judith Rossell
(children’s fiction)
The tao of writing
Ralph L. Wahlstrom
(adult non-fiction)
Bitter wash road
Gary Disher
(adult fiction)
March
The creative habit – learn it and use it for life
Twyla Tharp
(adult non-fiction)
Writing the heart of your story
C. S. Lakin
(adult non-fiction)
The fire in fiction
Donald Maass
(adult non-fiction)
New icons of fashion illustration
Tony Glenville
(adult non-fiction)
Holes
Louis Sacher
(children’s fiction)
The life-changing magic of tidying up
Marie Kondo
(adult non-fiction)
The impossible quest – book 3 – The beast of Blackmoor Bog
Kate Forsythe
(children’s fiction)
North star
Martha Beck
(adult non-fiction)
April
Believe in yourself and do what you love
Kate James
(adult non-fiction)
To kill a mockingbird
Harper Lee
(adult fiction)
The fictional woman
Tara Moss
(adult non-fiction)
The impossible quest – book 4 – The drowned kingdom
Kate Forsythe
(children’s fiction)
Craft for the soul
Pip Lincolne
(adult non-fiction)
The invention of wings
Sue Monk Kidd
(adult fiction)
May
The 12 pillars of novel construction
C. S. Lakin
(adult non-fiction)
Big little lies
Liane Moriarty
(adult fiction)
It’s not me, it’s you
Thalia Kalkipsakis
(children’s fiction)
Raw beauty
Kemi Nekvapil
(adult non-fiction)
June
Things I don’t know
Meredith Badger
(children’s fiction)
Mr Lemoncello’s library
Chris Grabernstein
(children’s fiction)
Everyday blessings, mindfulness for parents
Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn
(adult non-fiction)
Money, a love story
Kate Northrup
(adult non-fiction)
Creating characters kids will love
Elaine Marie Alphin
(adult non-fiction)
Arrival
Chris Morphew
(children’s fiction)
Stay well soon
Penny Tangey
(children’s fiction)
Millie and the night heron
Catherine Bateson
(children’s fiction)
A decent proposal
Rhonda Whitton and Sheila Hollingworth
(adult non-fiction)
The Mapmaker Chronicles – book 1 – Race to the end of the world
A. L. Tait
(children’s fiction)
My life as an alphabet
Barry Jonsberg
(children’s fiction)
July
The Mapmaker Chronicles – book 2 – Prisoner of the Black Hawk
A. L. Tait
(children’s fiction)
Better than before, mastering the habits of our everyday lives
Gretchen Rubin
(adult non-fiction)
The children’s act
Ian McEwan
(adult fiction)
The eye of the sheep
Sofie Laguna
(adult fiction)
We are all completely beside ourselves
Karen Joy Fowler
(adult fiction)
Cinnamon rain
Emma Cameron
(YA fiction)
Footy dreaming
Michael Hyde
(children’s fiction)
The true green of hope
N. A. Bourke
(adult fiction)
Conscious parenting
Shefali Tsabary
(adult non-fiction)
Disaster chef
Meredith Costain
(children’s fiction)
August
Molly and Pim and the millions of stars
Martine Murray
(children’s fiction)
Monkey grip
Helen Garner
(adult fiction)
Motherhood and creativity, the divided heart
Rachel Power
(adult non-fiction)
One true thing
Nicole Hayes
(adult fiction)
Song for a scarlet runner
Julie Hunt
(children’s fiction)
Go set a watchman
Harper Lee
(adult fiction)
The other side of the world
Stephanie Bishop
(adult fiction)
A single stone
Meg McKinley
(young adult fiction)
Planning your novel, ideas and structure
Janice Hardy
(adult non-fiction)
In the quiet
Eliza Henry Jones
(adult fiction)
September
The impossible quest – book 5 – Battle of the heroes
Kate Forsythe
(children’s fiction)
The golden age
Joan London
(adult fiction)
The happiness trap
Dr. Russ Harris
(adult fiction)
Burial rites
Hannah Kent
(adult fiction)
The beast’s garden
Kate Forsythe
(adult fiction)
Mothers Grimm
Danielle Wood
(adult fiction)
Cloudwish
Fiona Wood
(young adult fiction)
October
Rising strong
Brene Brown
(adult non-fiction)
The Mapmaker Chronicles– book 3 – Breath of the dragon
A. L. Tait
(children’s fiction)
Big magic
Elizabeth Gilbert
(adult non-fiction)
Bella and the wandering house
Meg McKinley
(children’s fiction)
The singing bones
Shaun Tan
(children’s fiction)
The wife drought
Annabel Crabb
(adult non-fiction)
Rush oh!
Shirley Barrett
(adult fiction)
The outliers
Malcolm Gladwell
(adult non-fiction)
The fourteenth summer of Angus Jack
Jen Storer
(children’s fiction)
Graffiti moon
Cath Crowley
(young adult fiction)
November
Finding Serendipity
Angelica Banks
(children’s fiction)
The women’s pages
Debra Adelaide
(adult fiction)
Ranger’s apprentice, book 1
The ruins of Gorlan
John Flanagan
(children’s fiction)
Ranger’s apprentice, book 2
The burning bridge
John Flanagan
(children’s fiction)
Ranger’s apprentice, book 3
The icebound land
John Flanagan
(children’s fiction)
Ranger’s apprentice, book 4
Oakleaf bearers
John Flanagan
(children’s fiction)
Ranger’s apprentice, book 5
The sorcerer in the north
John Flanagan
(children’s fiction)
Ranger’s apprentice, book 6
The seige of Macindaw
John Flanagan
(children’s fiction)
Ranger’s apprentice, book 7
Erak’s ransom
John Flanagan
(children’s fiction)
Ranger’s apprentice, book 8
The Kings of Clonmel
John Flanagan
(children’s fiction)
Ranger’s apprentice, book 9
Halt’s peril
John Flanagan
(children’s fiction)
Ranger’s apprentice, book 10
The emperor of Nihon-Ja
John Flanagan
(children’s fiction)
Ranger’s apprentice, book 11
The lost stories
John Flanagan
(children’s fiction)
Ranger’s apprentice, book 12
The royal ranger
John Flanagan
(children’s fiction)
December
Wild
Cheryl Strayed
(adult non-fiction)
Mary’s little donkey and the escape to Egypt
Gunhild Sehlin
(children’s fiction)
The natural way of things
Charlotte Wood
(adult fiction)
A week without Tuesday
Angelica Banks
(children’s fiction)
Dear Writer … revisited
Carmel Bird
(adult non-fiction)
The thoughtful home
Tahn Scoon
(adult non-fiction)
Outline
Rachel Cusk
(adult fiction)
Purple prose
Liz Byrski and Rachel Robertson (with others)
(adult fiction – short stories)