Get Reading! is Australia’s largest annual celebration of books and reading.
Each year Get Reading! compiles a list of 50 books of 'broad appeal' to encourage and promote reading to all Australians.
We have divided these books into categories, which you will find listed below.
Now it's over to you, pick up a book, put up your feet and get reading!
For more information visit the Get Reading! site or download the reading guide.
Categories
Be inspired
Pure escape
Something to get your teeth into
Different time, different place
Page turners
For kids
For teens
Be inspired
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Life Without Limits
Nick Vujicic
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Listening to Country
Ros Moriarty
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True Spirit
Jessica Watson
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Treasure Yourself
Miranda Kerr
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Blood on My Hands
Craig Jurisevic with Robert Hillman
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In the Best Interests of the Game
Darrell Hair
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A Little Bird Told Me . . .
Kasey Chambers with Jeff Apter
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Me of the Never Never
Fiona O’Loughlin
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Pure escape
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The Siren’s Sting
Miranda Darling
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The Painted Man
Peter V Brett
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African Dawn
Tony Park
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The Plantation
Di Morrissey
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The Left Hand of God
Paul Hoffman
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The Briny Café
Susan Duncan
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Something to get your teeth into
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When God Was a Rabbit
Sarah Winman
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Past the Shallows
Favel Parrett
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Freedom
Jonathan Franzen
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That Deadman Dance
Kim Scott
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How It Feels
Brendan Cowell
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All That I Am
Anna Funder
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Five Bells
Gail Jones
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I Came to Say Goodbye
Caroline Overington
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Different time, different place
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Caleb's Crossing
Geraldine Brooks
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Korean War
Cameron Forbes
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The Gold Rush
David Hill
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Sarah Thornhill
Kate Grenville
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Without Warning
John Birmingham
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Tamil Tigress
Niromi de Soyza
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Talking about Jane Austen in Baghdad Bee Rowlatt and May Witwit
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For kids
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Trouble Twisters
Garth Nix and Sean Williams
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Mr Badger and the big surprise
Leigh Hobbs
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The Keepers: Museum of thieves
Lian Tanner
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Billie B Brown: the secret message
Sally Rippin
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Baby Wombat's week (board book)
Jackie French
and Bruce Whatley
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Heroes of Olympus: the lost hero
Rick Riordan
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The Golden Door (Three Doors Series)
Emily Rodda
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The flying orchestra
Bill Bryson
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Write a review
We invite you to write a review of one or more of the titles you have borrowed from Melbourne Library Service.
All you have to do is log in to the library catalogue using your library barcode or alias and your PIN, search for the title, click Write a review, write your comments and it is done.
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