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Dymocks Top 101 books 2022 poll
4 January 2022
Voting is open in the Dymocks Top 101 books poll for 2022, across categories including fiction, young adult, fantasy, crime, and non-fiction. I can’t see a closing date for voting, so if you wish to participate, do so now.
Update: results of the poll have been posted.
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Goodreads most anticipated books of 2022
31 December 2021
Books may be the only constant in an unpredictable world. The good news: there’s no shortage of them, and this list of Goodreads members most anticipated books of 2022, is another place to seek out reading suggestions.
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New fiction novels for the new year, 2022
29 December 2021
There’s only days left to finish the titles on our 2021 to-be-read lists, before 2022 is upon us, bringing with it a huge line up of brand new fiction novels.
You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi, Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart, some historical fiction and fantasy in the form of Moon Witch, Spider King by Marlon James, and Love Marriage by Monica Ali, are among titles due for publication.
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The redemptive power of reading books
23 December 2021
Ally Colquitt, writing for The Guardian, on the part reading books played in her rehabilitation, while serving a prison sentence a few years ago.
This was the mindset I was in when I was alone in my cell at Silverwater Mulawa centre, awaiting “classo” (classification) – with a broken TV, no pen and paper, nothing to do except think. I noticed that the previous inmate had left a couple of library books on the table. I picked up an abandoned copy of Oscar Wilde’s The Ballad of Reading Gaol and began to read. I didn’t know the impact that poem would have on me, and how it would play a part in changing my world view and my life direction.
Colquitt argues those incarcerated should have greater access to books, and why not? Especially considering some of the publications sitting on the shelves in bookstores stand to be destroyed if not sold, wouldn’t it better if they could be of help to others?
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Martha Wells wins best novel prize in 2021 Hugo Awards
22 December 2021
Network Effect, by American speculative fiction author Martha Wells, won the best novel in the Hugo Awards for 2021. Established in 1953, the Hugos celebrate the best science fiction and fantasy written works – across a number of categories – of the past twelve months.
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Melbourne Writers Festival summer reading guide
21 December 2021
Wild Abandon by Emily Bitto, Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser, Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead, and Seven and a Half by Christos Tsiolkas, are among inclusions on my to-be-read list, and the Melbourne Writers Festival summer reading guide.
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Scrublands, by Chris Hammer, most read Libby ebook in 2021
16 December 2021
Canberra based Australian crime writer Chris Hammer’s 2018 novel Scrublands was the most read ebook on the Libby reading app this year in Australia. Unsurprisingly, Overdrive, the developers of the app, said 2021 saw record issues of digital titles, with the pandemic resulting in fewer than usual physical book loans, given many libraries were closed because of COVID lockdowns.
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Vale Anne Rice, author of Interview with the Vampire
14 December 2021
American author Anne Rice, best known for her 1976 book Interview with the Vampire, and the subsequent series of sequels called The Vampire Chronicles, died on Saturday, 11 December 2021, aged 80. Other of Rice’s notable works include The Feast of All Saints, and Servant of the Bones.
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The books your favourite authors recommend
13 December 2021
Apart from literary award long and short lists, book recommendations from the world’s best authors are a sure fire way to find novels to add to your to-be-read list. Along with American writer Min Jin Lee, and British author Kazuo Ishiguro, Australian novelists Anna Funder, Helen Garner, Hannah Kent, Sofie Laguna, Alexis Wright, and Craig Silvey, talk about their favourite reads of the past twelve months.
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Sally Rooney voted top fiction writer in the 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards
11 December 2021
Beautiful World, Where Are You, by Sally Rooney, has been voted the best fiction title for 2021 by Goodreads members, who voted for books across seventeen categories in the annual Goodreads Choice Awards. Congratulations to all authors whose works were nominated this year.
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