Our thanks to those who were able to join us for our SLAV online Book Club on Thursday October 14th, 2024, to discuss the topic: Desert Island Reads.

We asked our members to share their favorite Desert Island Reads. Contributed titles are split into Picture Books, Middle Grade Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, and Adult Fiction.

Many thanks to Deb at The Younger Sun  who is an invaluable resource, providing many recommendations. The staff at The Younger Sun are incredibly knowledgeable, and would be happy to help you with any book-buying needs!

Disclaimer: The lists generated as a result of Book Club discussions are not, by any means, an exhaustive list of all titles or authors for each genre/category discussed. Nor will all titles be suitable for all libraries. We advise staff discretion when referencing these lists, to properly confirm individual title suitability for individual libraries, school and student’s needs. These are suggested titles only, shared by our members and inclusion on, or exclusion from, a list does not suggest SLAV endorsement or rejection of a title.

Picture Books

• Animalia – Graeme Base

Middle Grade Books

   

• The Midwatch – Judith Rossell
• Landovel series – Emily Rodda
• The 113th Assistant Librarian – Stuart Wilson
• When we were very young –  A A Milne 

 

Young Adult Books

• Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy – Laini Taylor
• Any book by Terri Terry

Adult Books

      

Juice – Tim Winton The Season – Helen Garner The Burrow – Melanie Cheng Spark of the Everflame – Penn Cole The Girl With All The Gifts by M.R. Carey I Am Scrooge : A Zombie Story for Christmas – Adam Roberts Playground – Richard Powers

The Red Tent – Anita Diamant Bleak House by Charles Dickens The Dune series – Frank Herbet The Lord of the Rings Series – J R R Tolkien Remembrance of things past – Marcel Proust Les Miserables – Victor Hugo Books by Edward Rutherfurd

 

Non-Fiction Books

      

• The Australia Survival Guide – George Ivanoff
• Strife – Mia Freeman (previously published a Work Strife Balance)
• Australian Gospel – Lech Blaine
• Car Crash – Lech Blaine
• A Place For Everything : The Curious History of Alphabetic Order – Judith Flanders
• An Atlas
• The Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A. J Jacobs
• The Dreaming Path: Indigenous Thinking to Change Your Life – Paul Callaghan