Relaxing Summer Reads Take advantage of long summer days by getting lost in thrilling, fantastic, true, exciting, suspenseful and romantic stories. DVDs The library has lots of DVDs to choose from. Television series, films both old and new, documentaries, instructional and music DVDs. You can have the DVDs for two weeks! How to choose great books
Ask your library staff to help! Fill in a What Will I read Next? form for personalised suggestions rrl.nsw.gov.au/adults/what-will-i-read-next/ See what others have borrowed on the Recent Returns shelf. Browse the face out shelves to see which covers appeal to you. Look up your favourite author in the Who Else Writes Like….? book.
Summertime
Invincible summer by Alice Adams
Summerlong by Dean Bakapoulos
Once upon a dream by Mary Balough and Grace Burrowes
The summer of me by Angela Benson
At the edge of summer by Jessica Brockmole
The memory stones by Caroline Brothers
The light of Paris by Eleanor Brown
The girl from Summer Hill by Jude Deveraux
A summer at sea by Katie Fforde
Sunshine over Wildflower Cottage by Milly Johnson
Summers with Juliette by Emily Madden
A lowcountry wedding by Alice Mary Monroe
The house on Sunset Lake by Tasmina Perry
The summer before the war by Helen Simonson
Magic by Danielle Steel
Songbird by Marcia Willett
The secret son by Jenny Ackland
War
The last Legionnaire by Fraser Paul Collard
The fighting season by Bram Connolly
The flame bearer by Bernard Cornwell
A hero of France by Alan Furst
Young Digger by Anthony Hill
When the sky fell apart by Caroline Lea
Bad soldier by Chris Ryan
Fire & sword by Harry Sidebottom
The Maharajah’s general by Paul Collard
War hawk by James Rollins
Red earth by Tony Park
The girl in green by Derek Miller
The wheel of Osheim by Mark Lawrence
Barbed wire and cherry blossoms by Anita Heiss
A dying breed by Peter Hanington
The one man by Andrew Gross
Exposure by Helen Dunmore
The art of war Stephen Coonts
Around the World
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (Ghana, USA)
The end of days by Jenny Erpenbeck (Germany, Austria, Russia)
The miniaturist by Jessie Burton (The Netherlands)
A suitable boy by Vikram Seth (India)
My brilliant friend (Neapolitan novels #1) by Elena Ferrante (Italy)
Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum (Switzerland)
A man called Ove by Fredrik Backman (Sweden)
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria, USA)
Girl at war by Sara Nović (Croatia)
Radiance of tomorrow by Ishmael Beah (Sierra Leone)
The wind-up bird chronicle by Haruki Murakami (Japan)
The vagrants by Yiyun Li (China)
The shadow of the wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Spain)
It’s Criminal
The last mile by David Baldacci
Die of shame by Mark Billingham
Home by Harlan Coben
Streets of darkness by A.A. Dhand
Guilty minds by Joseph Finder
Hellfire by Karin Fossum
Find her by Lisa Gardner
Breakdown by Jonathan Kellerman
The end game by Raymond Khoury
First response by Stephen Leather
Wilde Lake by Laura Lippman
In the cold dark ground by Stuart MacBride
When the music’s over by Peter Robinson
Most wanted by Lisa Scottoline
A rising man by Abir Mukherjee
Dark fires shall burn Anna Westbrook
The second girl by David Swinson
Extreme prey by John Sandford
Watch it!
The wonder of Britain
Ghostbusters
Brock
Florence Foster Jenkins
Howard on Menzies
The lady in the van
NCIS
Queen of the desert
90 minutes of heaven
The Bourne supremacy
The dressmaker
My kinda country
Our zoo
David Attenborough’s Great Barrier Reef
The Martian
The legend of Tarzan
Game of thrones
In the heart of the sea
Doctor Blake
The Truth
Reckoning by Magda Szubanski
Island home by Tim Winton
The 8 week blood sugar diet by Michael Mosley
The story of Australia’s people: the rise and fall of ancient Australia by Geoffrey Blainey
Joe Cinque’s consolation by Helen Garner
Fair game: the incredible untold story of Scientology in Australia by Steve Cannane
Born to run by Bruce Springsteen
The hidden life of trees: what they feel, how they communicate - discoveries from a secret world by Peter Wohlleben
The shepherd’s life: a tale of the lake district by James Rebanks
Bush heritage Australia: restoring nature step by step by Sarah Martin
Spark joy: an illustrated guide to the Japanese art of tidying by Marie Kondo
Lonely planet (to wherever you’d like to go!)
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie
Southern ruby by Nicole Alexander
Promise by Sarah Armstrong
Cyanide games by Richard Beasley
The woman next door by Liz Byrski
All these perfect strangers by Aoife Clifford
The river house by Janita Cunnington
Blue dog by Louis de Bernières
The Peppercorn Project by Nicki Edwards
A woman of courage by J.H. Fletcher
The grazier’s wife by Barbara Hannay
The dry by Jane Harper
The war bride by Pamela Hart
The wrong hand by Jane Jago
Our tiny, useless hearts by Toni Jordan
The light on the water by Olga Lorenzo
Bluegrass Bend by Mandy Magro
The horseman by Charlotte Nash
Sunset shadows by Bronwyn Parry
Award Winners
The sellout by Paul Beatty (Man Booker 2016)
Black rock white city by A.S. Patric (Miles Franklin 2016)
The natural way of things by Charlotte Wood (The Stella Prize & PM’s Literary Award 2016)
The sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Pulitzer 2016)
Before it breaks by Dave Warner (Ned Kelly Award, best novel 2016)
Resurrection Bay by Emma Viskic (Ned Kelly Award, best first fiction {crime} 2016)
Children of time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Arthur C. Clarke award {sci-fi} 2016
The glorious heresies by Lisa McInerney (Baileys Women’s Prize for fiction 2016)
The killing kind by Chris Holm (Anthony Award—best mystery 2016)
The life of houses by Lisa Gorton (Prime Minister’s Literary Award for fiction 2016)
On Stalin’s team by Sheila Fitzpatrick (Prime Minister’s
Plot Twisty
The boy in the striped pyjamas by John Boyne
The shadow of the wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The dinner by Herman Koch
The girl on the train by Paula Hawkins
The girl with all the gifts by M. R. Carey
Where’d you go, Bernadette? By Maria Semple
We were liars by E. Lockhart
Big little lies by Liane Moriarty
Fool me once by Harlen Coben
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
I let you go by Clare Mackintosh
The murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
The good girl by Mary Kubica
The secret keeper by Kate Morton
The gone-away world by Nick Harkaway
Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Fight club by Chuck Palahniuk
Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Fannie Flagg
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