Your Summer Stories 2025/26

Your Summer Stories - Carry Summer with You Wherever You Are

Our Summer reading campaign is back with a curated selection of reads that mixes things up: debut voices alongside beloved favourites, stories that reflect the diversity of our community, and books that will stay with you long after the season ends.

We invite you to get excited and talking about these ten curated Australian titles that have wide range appeal with something for everyone. Whether you borrow them in print, as an eBook, or listen along as an eAudiobook, you can take your summer reading anywhere.

The ten must-read titles of the summer are:

• Chosen Family by Madeline Gray
• Guts by Melissa Leong
• The Hidden by Bryan Brown
• The Tangled Web by Tea Cooper 
• The Mushroom Tapes by Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein
• Dark Desert Road by Tim Ayliffe (release date February 2026)
• Eros: Queer Myths for Lovers by Zoe Terakas
• The Farm by Jessica Mansour-Nahra
• Gravity Let Me Go by Trent Dalton
• Learned Behaviours by Zenyab Gamieldien

Don't just read the books - come along and be part of the conversation with these author events:

• Tea Cooper - 6 November 2025 - Book your tickets
• Zoe Terakas and Jessica Mansour-Nahra - 11 November 2025 - Book your tickets
• Tim Ayliffe - 30 January 2026

Stay tuned and check back on this page for more updates about the Your Summer Stories events!

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