The Warm Winter Read has begun! It’s time to choose that perfect book you can’t wait to curl up with every day. Still searching for that special story that makes you look forward to your daily reading time? Why not start with one of these fantastic books from our Warm Winter Read ambassadors? Select from the titles below or pick up a bookmark in the library.
Visit our Warm Winter Read page to participate, or find out more information.
Warm Winter Read recommendations
Warm Winter Read Ambassadors are high profile Victorian authors, try one of their favourite reads this winter.
To reserve a book, click the title and use your membership number and PIN to place a reservation. You can find out more about reserving books on our Reserve and request page. Titles with an asterisk (*) are also available from our eBook collection, which you can find out how to use on our eBooks and audiobooks page.
Toni Jordan recommends
No hard feelings: hungover, underpaid and overwhelmed* by Genevieve Novak
A million things* by Emily Spurr
The Nancys* by R.W.R. McDonald
Other houses* by Paddy O'Reilly
Dinner with the Schnabels* by Toni Jordan
Jock Serong recommends
Those who perish* by Emma Viskic
The orchard murders* by Robert Gott
The islands* by Emily Brugman
Grimmish by Michael Winkler
The burning island* by Jock Serong
Claire G. Coleman recommends
Son of sin* by Omar Sakr
How decent folk behave* by Maxine Beneba Clarke
Unlimited futures: speculative, visionary Blak and Black fiction* ed. Rafeif Ismail and Ellen Van Neerven
Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen
Lies, damned lies: a personal exploration of the impact of colonisation* by Claire G. Coleman
Maxine Beneba Clarke recommends
Lies, damned lies: a personal exploration of the impact of colonisation* by Claire G. Coleman
Trigger warning by Maria Takolander
One hundred days* by Alice Pung
Sadvertising* by Ennis Ćehić
How decent folk behave* by Maxine Beneba Clarke
Rebecca Lim recommends
The mother wound by Amani Haydar
Resurrection Bay* by Emma Viskic
Day Boy* by Trent Jamieson
The three-body problem* by Cixin Liu
Mercy* by Rebecca Lim
Jane Harper recommends
The younger wife* by Sally Hepworth
Where the truth lies by Karina Kilmore
The mother fault* by Kate Mildenhall
Everyone in my family has killed someone* by Benjamin Stevenson
The survivors* by Jane Harper
Helen Garner recommends
A couple of things before the end* by Sean O'Beirne
After story* by Larissa Behrendt
Teacher: one woman's struggle to keep the heart in teaching* by Gabbie Stroud
How to end a story* by Helen Garner
More recommended reading
Want more reading suggestions? You can always speak to our library staff, who will help you find new authors based on your preferences. Come into the library or call us to find your next favourite read.
You can also visit our Booklists page for more reading recommendations, or our Book Groups page for everything you need for book groups.