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
Adelong Howlong
Batlow Jindera
Bland Shire Junee
Coolamon
Cootamundra Mobile Library
Corowa Mulwala
Culcairn Talbingo
Gundagai Temora
Henty
Holbrook Tumbarumba
Tumut
Wagga Wagga
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