The Boroondara Library Service invites you to binge this Autumn.
Binging doesn’t have to be bad for you. Research findings show that reading for pleasure plays a significant role in a person’s happiness and success, and that reading and literacy is good for your health.
With that in mind, please join us, along with the State Library Victoria and other public libraries, as we celebrate the joy of reading with the Autumn Book Binge 2020.
It's easy to play –if you didn’t pick up a game card from the library before we closed, just print one out from the State Library of Victoria website and read the book of your choice from each of the nine categories:
- Set in Victoria
- Recent releases
- Other lives
- In translation
- Fact to fiction
- Book to screen
- Beastly titles
- Alternate worlds
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers
How to enter
Once you’ve completed a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line on the game card, fill out the entry slip attached to the card and keep hold of it until your local library reopens. Then just return it to the library to enter the draw to win a Readings book voucher.
Reading recommendations
We’ve put together a list of top titles from our eBook and audiobook collections, for inspiration in each category.
Download the Libby and Borrow Box apps and login with your library card and PIN to get started, or visit our eBook and audiobook page for more information. Not a library member yet? You can now join online, anytime to get a digital membership.
Set in Victoria
Stories set locally
The art of the engine driver by Steven Carroll
Cafe Scheherazade by Arnold Zable
The dark lake by Sarah Bailey
Dead in the water by Tania Chandler
Hope farm by Peggy Frew
Into the fire by Sonia Orchard
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
The portrait of Molly Dean by Katherine Kovacic
The slap by Christos Tsolkias
The strays by Emily Bitto
Recent releases
Books published in the last 12 months
10 minutes 38 seconds in this strange world by Elif Shafak
The accusation by Wendy James
Adults by Emma Jane Unsworth
Big lies in a small town by Diane Chamberlain
A constant hum by Alice Bishop
Death in the Ladies’ Goddess Club by Julian Leatherdale
Missing William Tyrell by Caroline Overington
Nothing to lose by Lee Child
Such a fun age by Kiley Reid ##
A testament of character by Sulari Gentill
Other lives
Biography about someone who inspires you
Able by Dylan Alcott
About a girl by Rebekah Robertson
Always unreliable by Clive James
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Beneath the surface by Libby Trickett
Born-again blakfella by Jack Charles
Just mercy by Bryan Stevenson
One hundred years of dirt by Rick Morton
Speaking up by Gillian Triggs
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
In translation
Books from around the world
Faceless killers by Henning Mankell
I am behind you by John Ajvide Lindqvist
The ice princess by Camilla Lackberg
The Japanese lover by Isabel Allende
The memory police by Yoko Ogawa
My brilliant friend by Elena Ferrante
Night by Elie Wiesel
The savage detectives by Roberto Bolano
The shadow of the wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The strange library by Harukai Murukami
Fact to fiction
Works of fiction based on true stories
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
Boy swallows universe by Trent Dalton
Burial rites by Hannah Kent
The girls by Emma Cline
The one and only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
The Revenant by Michael Punke
Room by Emma Donoghue
The tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
Year of wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Book to screen
Books that have been made into movies or TV series
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Big little lies by Liane Moriarty
Black tide by Peter Temple
Crazy rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
My cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
A town like Alice by Nevil Shute
Twelve years a slave by Solomon Northup
Beastly titles
Books with an animal in the title
All the birds, singing by Evie Wyld
Beware of the dog by Peter Corris
The bird tribunal by Agnes Ravatn
The Dalai Lama’s cat by David Michie
Lion in the valley by Elizabeth Peters
Lone wolf by Jodi Picoult
The lost dog by Michelle de Kretser
Matthew Flinders’ cat by Bryce Courtenay
The tiger catcher by Paullina Simons
The Wyatt butterfly by Garry Disher
Alternate worlds
Books set in a world different to your own
Domes of fire by David Eddings
Embassy town by China Mieville
A game of thrones by George R R Martin
The handmaid's tale by Margaret Atwood
Harry Potter and the philosopher’s stone by JK Rowling
Jackaby by William Ritter
The Martian chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Practical magic by Alice Hoffman
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers
Books by Australian indigenous writers
Australia Day by Stan Grant
Catching Teller Crow by Ambelin and Ezekial Kwaymullina
Growing up Aboriginal in Australia by Anita Heiss
My place by Sally Morgan
That deadman dance by Kim Scott
Too much lip by Melissa Lucashenko
Tracker by Alexis Wright
The white girl by Tony Birch
The yield by Tara June Winch
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