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The Friend (National Book Award Winner)
Friendfluence: The Surprising Ways Friends Make Us Who We Are
Olive Kitteridge
Books for People Rebuilding After a Friendship Breakup
Romantic breakups have a script; losing a close friend has nothing — no language for the grief, no rituals, no one who quite understands why you're devastated by something people treat as minor. These books take friendship dissolution seriously, exploring the particular wound of losing someone who knew you at your most unguarded. For readers who are surprised by how much it still hurts.
7 books
Featured
Eurogames: The Design, Culture and Play of Modern European Board Games
Characteristics of Games (The MIT Press)
GameTek
Board Game Strategy Books
Level up your game night skills. These strategy guides cover popular board games, teaching tactics, probability, and psychological insights to help you dominate the table.
4 books
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Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
The Stress-Proof Brain: Master Your Emotional Response to Stress Using Mindfulness and Neuroplasticity
Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success
Stress Management Books for High-Pressure Careers
Thrive under pressure with these essential stress management guides. Learn evidence-based techniques for managing workplace stress, preventing burnout, and maintaining peak performance.
6 books
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The Dry
Force of nature
The Lost Man
Australian Crime Fiction Set Outside Sydney and Melbourne
The Australian crime genre has a geography problem — two cities dominate — but some of the most distinctive noir and thriller writing is happening in Darwin, Broome, regional Queensland, and the island state. This collection maps a different Australia through its darkest stories.
4 books
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Cloudstreet
The Dry
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Australian Rural Fiction That Isn't Just About the Land
The Australian rural novel has a rich tradition that sometimes gets flattened into landscape and hardship, but this collection finds the books that use those settings to explore class, family, gender, and belonging in genuinely complex ways. These novels happen in the country but they're about so much more.
7 books
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The priory of the orange tree
A Memory Called Empire
She Who Became the Sun
Sapphic Fantasy That Centres the Romance Without Apology
The demand for fantasy with queer women at the centre — not as side characters or tragic figures but as the full emotional and narrative heart — has never been higher, and this collection answers it. These are books where the sapphic romance is integral to the world-building, not incidental to it.
5 books
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Cerulean Chronicles Series Collection Set of 2 Books. The House in the Cerulean Sea and Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune
Legends & lattes
A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking
Cozy Fantasy That Actually Delivers on the Cozy
The cozy fantasy genre promises warmth, low stakes, and comfort, but not every title earns that promise — this collection does the filtering for you. From enchanted bakeries to small-town magic systems, these books prioritise atmosphere, charm, and characters you'd genuinely want to spend time with.
7 books
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The Rosie Project
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Books Like Lessons in Chemistry If You Loved the Voice
Bonnie Garmus's sharp, funny, quietly furious novel found millions of readers who'd never quite seen that voice before — witty but substantive, feminist but never preachy. This collection finds novels with that same confident, original narration where the character's perspective is itself the pleasure.
8 books
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A Court of Thorns and Roses Series Paperback Box Set by Sarah J. Maas – Complete Fantasy Romance Collection
From Blood and Ash
The Folk of the Air Series Books 1 - 3 Collection Box Set by Holly Black (The Cruel Prince, The Wicked King & The Queen of Nothing)
Books Like Fourth Wing for Romantasy Readers
Rebecca Yarros's dragon-riding epic created a new wave of romantasy obsessives, and this collection captures that same blend of high-stakes magic, slow-burn romance, and propulsive plotting. Each title delivers the escapist intensity that made Fourth Wing a global phenomenon, curated for readers ready for their next fix.
8 books
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The dinner
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: A Novel
Books in Translation Winning Prizes Nobody's Talking About
The International Booker gets attention but a constellation of smaller prizes are surfacing extraordinary translated fiction that most readers never encounter. This collection follows those lesser-known awards to find the translated novels that deserve a much wider Australian audience.
7 books
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The Complete Works of Jane Austen (In One Volume) Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady ... Sandition, and the Complete Juvenilia
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Olive Kitteridge
Spring Reading for When You're Ready to Come Back to Yourself
Spring has a particular energy for readers who spent winter retreating inward and are now cautiously re-emerging, and certain books meet that moment exactly. This October collection finds fiction and memoir for the tentative return: lighter without being light, open without being naive.
7 books
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Conversations with friends: a novel
Normal People
Dept. of Speculation
Reading Your Twenties: Fiction That Captures the Decade Honestly
The twenties are so routinely mythologised that fiction which renders them accurately, in their confusion and boredom and accidental joy, comes as a genuine relief. This collection is for readers in or past their twenties who want the decade without the gloss.
7 books