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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.

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.

 Check out the great websites and databases such as


NoveList Plus, Fantastic Fiction and Gnooks on the
library website’s Reading Suggestions page.
Summertime

 The last romantics by Tara Conklin


 Sweet salt air by Barbara Delinsky
 Something to tell you by Lucy Diamond
 The path to the sea by Liz Fenwick
 White sands of summer by John Fletcher
 Promises to keep by Jane Green
 Sixty summers by Amanda Hampson
 Lawson’s bend by Nicole Hurley-Moore
 Swallowtail summer by Erica James
 The dead season Christobel Kent
 The summer of Sunshine and Margot by Susan
Mallery
 A fatal mistake by Faith Martin
 The summer guests by Mary Alice Monroe
 A dream of Italy by Nicky Pellegrino
 Peacock summer by Hannah Richell
 Greek escape by Karen Swan
 Surfside sisters by Nancy Thayer
 Stella and Margie by Glenna Thomson
 The man that got away by Lynne Truss
 The summer wives by Beatriz Williams
War
 Fortune by Lenny Bartulin
 Sword of kings by Bernard Cornwell
 The daughter’s tale by Lucas Armando Correa
 Australia’s Vietnam by Mark Dapin
 Black spire by S Delilah Dawson
 Bodies of men by Nigel Featherstone
 The fifth column by Andrew Gross
 Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman
 A thousand ships by Natalie Haynes
 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
 Ungentlemanly war by Howard Linskey
 The tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
 Ghosts of the past by Tony Park
 The land girls by Victoria Purman
 A woman of war by Mandy Robotham
 Ghost fire by Wilbur Smith
 Blood child by Anna Stephens
 The last days of the Romanov dancers by Kerri
Turner
 Turning point by Michael Veitch
 The rage of dragons by Evan Winter
Around the World

 This poison will remain by Fred Vargas (France)


 The memory police by Yoko Ogawa (Japan)
 Intrigo by Hakan Nesser (Sweden)
 Village of the lost girls by Agustín Martínez (Spain)
 The heart of the circle by Keren Landsman (Israel)
 The book of dreams by Nina George (Germany)
 A change in altitude by Anita Shreve (Kenya)
 The neighbourhood by Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru)
 The secrets between us by Thrity Umrigar (India)
 My sister, the serial killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
(Nigeria)
 Tears of the dragon by Jean Moran (China)
 The fire blossom by Sarah Lark (New Zealand)
 The tree of the Toraja by Philippe Claudel (Indonesia)
 The Transatlantic Book Club by Felicity Hayes-McCoy
(Ireland)
 The river by Peter Heller (Canada)
 Butterfly skin by Sergey Kuznetsov (Russia)
 Island on the edge of the world by Deborah Rodriguez
(Haiti)
It’s Criminal

 Double trouble by Geoff Wilkinson


 The body in the castle well by Martin Walker
 Vendetta in death by J.D. Robb
 Killer instinct by James Patterson
 Beautiful death by Fiona McIntosh
 Willing to die by Lisa Jackson
 Hunter by Jack Heath
 Guilty not guilty by Felix Francis
 Dead man’s lane by Kate Ellis
 55 by James Delargy
 No Mercy by Martina Cole
 The bodies in the library by Marty Wingate
 The stranger inside by Lisa Unger
 Murder on Easy Street by Helen Thomas
 Blood in the dust by Bill Swigs
 A better man by Louise Penny
 Dead man switch by Tara Moss
 She lies in wait by Gytha Lodge
 The wedding guest by Jonathan Kellerman
 Dead at first sight by Peter James
 The shape of night by Tess Gerritsen
Watch it!
 The cry
 Captain Marvel
 Doctor Who. Resolution
 Rocketman
 Magical land of Oz
 Boy erased
 This is us. Season 3
 The mule
 Backtrace
 Tolkien
 The good doctor. Season 2
 The favourite
 A star is born
 The growing pains of Adrian Mole
 Five feet apart
 Child’s play
 A place to call home. Season 6
 Annihilation
 MIB International
 The public
 Cry freedom
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie

 Love and other battles by Tess Woods


 The yield by June Tara Winch
 The wife and the widow by Christian White
 White horses by Rachael Treasure
 The model wife by Tricia Stringer
 The cinema at Starlight Creek by Alli Sinclair
 Under the midnight sky by Anna Romer
 The burnt country by Joy Rhoades
 Khaki town by Judy Nunn
 Heart of the grass tree by Molly Murn
 Six minutes by Petronella McGovern
 Lawson’s Bend by Nicole Hurley Moore
 Snake Island by Ben Hobson
 Silver by Chris Hammer
 Islands by Peggy Frew
 Trails in the dust by Joy Dettman
 The cottage at Rosella Cove by Sandie Docker
 Allegra in three parts by Suzanne Daniel
 The round yard by Alissa Cullen
 The rip by Mark Brandi
 The white girl by Tony Birch
The Truth

 Barefoot in the bindis by Angela Wales


 Beneath the surface by Libby Trickett
 Stranger country by Monica Tan
 Angel of death by Leigh Straw
 Operation babylift by Ian Shaw
 Hollywood godfather by Gianni Russo
 The Wooleen way by David Pollock
 Esther by Jessica North
 The accidental tour guide by Mary Moody
 Alice to Prague by Tanya Heaslip
 Outback songman by Ted Egan
 A lot with a little by Tim Costello
 Born again Blackfella by Jack Charles
 Hell of a time by Philip Ayton
 Australia Day by Stan Grant
 Waste not everyday by Erin Rhoads
 We are displaced by Malala Yousafzai
 The path made clear by Oprah Winfrey
 Diary of a crap housewife by Jessica Rowe
 The oarsmen by Scott Patterson
Award Winners 2019

 The testaments by Margret Atwood (Man Booker)


 Too much lip by Melissa Lucashenko (Miles
Franklin)
 The erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie (The Stella
Prize)
 The overstory by Richard Powers (Pulitzer)
 The lost man by Jane Harper (Ned Kelly Award,
best fiction)
 An American marriage by Tayari Jones (Baileys
Women’s Prize for fiction)
 No friend but the mountains by Behrouz (National
Biography Award)
 The lost flowers of Alice Hart by Holly Ringland
(General fiction Australia Book Industry Award)
 Boy swallows universe by Trent Dalton (ABIA New
Writer of the Year)
 The life to come by Michelle de Kretser (Christina
Stead Prize for Fiction)
 Normal people by Sally Rooney (British Fiction
Book of the Year)
 Girl woman other by Bernadine Evaristo (Man
Booker)
 The death of Noah Glass by Gail Jones (Prime
Minister’s Fiction Award)
Plot Twisty

 The suspect by Fiona Barton


 Before the fall by Noah Hawley
 The dinner by Herman Koch
 Looker by Laura Sims
 Tangerine by Christine Mangan
 Bluebird, bluebird by Attica Locke
 A separation by Katie Kitamura
 Just what kind of mother are you? by Paula Daly
 Paper ghosts by Julia Heaberlin
 Last time I lied by Riley Sager
 A dangerous man by Robert Crais
 Nottingham by Nathan Makaryk
 Sister of mine by Laurie Petrou
 A lovely and terrible thing by Chris Womersley
 Sleep by C.J. Taylor
 Behind her eyes by Sarah Pinborough
 I’m thinking od ending things by Ian Reid
 The stranger inside by Lisa Unger
 The perfect girlfriend by Karen Hamilton
 The wife by Alafair Burke
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