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Race, apocalypse and robots
The Book Club No 2: Joan London’s The Golden Age & Shirley Hazzard’s The Transit of Venus
A bird made of rain, a girl made of plantain, a family made of loss
What If, said the writer, What If?
Hello Kitty with unshaved armpits (and other bookish insights)
A fossilised penguin walked into a bar (and other stories)
The Book Club No 1: Come on, join our Book Club
What did that dingo just say to me? And other adventures in fiction
What lives from books? What drama?
How to read Shakespeare's family
These books are edged with gold
Reading in isolation? We’ve got you covered
Novels from Poland, Norway and Crescent City
Fiction that takes on the world
'The dice is shaken in a bone cup,' in Hilary Mantel's The Mirror and the Light
In the wings, on the reservation, inside a woman's rage
In which we give Tyson Yunkaporta a book that's too good
Novels by Anne Enright, Aravind Adiga and Kiley Reid
New books by Carmen Maria Machado, Evie Wyld and Emma Forrest
Novels by Eimear McBride, Romesh Gunesekera and Benjamin Myers
New books by Garth Greenwell, Isabel Allende and Jeanine Cummins
Summer reads from India, Russia, Japan and the Amazon
When reading is gothic, digital or just plain hard
Begin your reading year with Peter Goldsworthy, Sarah Bailey and Anna Krien
Fantasy with Samantha Shannon, Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman
Book recommendations from Kate Forsyth, Heather Rose and Alex McClintock
The Bookshelf's best books of 2019
New fiction from Ben Lerner, Marcy Dermansky and Curdella Forbes
Pod Extra: Poet Lemn Sissay and the many foster children of literature
Pod Extra: Charlotte Wood's The Weekend
Leah Purcell's novel The Drover's Wife and crime with Garry Disher, Emma Viskic and Jessica Chapnik Kahn
New books from Julian Barnes, Petina Gappah and Niall Williams
André Aciman's Find Me, Inez Baranay's Turn Left at Venus and Zimbabwean literature
Reading Los Angeles with Michael Connelly plus new Australian fiction
New books by Paul Lynch, Erin Morgenstern and Mary Costello
On Christos Tsiolkas' Damascus, Helen Phillips' The Need and the books on Chris Hammer's bookshelf
The Bookshelf at the State Library of NSW
Books from Tishani Doshi, Katherine Rundell, Roger Pulvers and David Nicholls
Political satire, historical fiction and short stories
The bookshelves of Jessie Burton, Corey White and Dominic Smith
New novels from Philip Pullman, Favel Parrett and Nino Haratischvili
New books by Edna O'Brien, Etgar Keret and Benjamin Myers
On Ann Patchett's The Dutch House, Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other and Emma Donoghue's Akin
On Margaret Atwood's The Testaments, Elizabeth Strout's Olive, Again, Peter Goldsworthy's Minotaur and Alvydas Šlepikas's In the Shadow of Wolves
New fiction from Deborah Levy, Andrew McGahan and Claire G Coleman
On Salman Rushdie's Quichotte, Lucy Treloar's Wolfe Island, Lisa Taddeo's Three Women and the state of Oz crime
New fiction from Ben Hobson, Carolina Setterwall and Kate Forsyth plus an exhortation re reading
Novels by Téa Obreht, Wai Chim and Vasily Grossman (and a booklist from Julia Phillips)
On Alix Nathan's The Warlow Experiment, David Nicholls' Sweet Sorrow and Lisa See's The Island of Sea Women
Reading the Counterculture
Kathryn Hind's Hitch, Herman Koch's The Ditch and Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
On Joyce Carol Oates' My Life As a Rat, Peter Polites' The Pillars and Me Myshelf and I with Sulari Gentill
Monsters in fiction with Sarah Perry
New fiction from Ocean Vuong, Colson Whitehead and Sarah Hopkins
On Tara June Winch's The Yield, Tony Birch's The White Girl and Julia Phillips' Disappearing Earth
On Dominic Smith's The Electric Hotel, Roque Larraquy's Comemadre, Amitav Ghosh's Gun Island and the reading habits of Robert Forster and Fiona McGregor
Bookshelf Podcast Extra with Damian Barr, Andrea Goldsmith, Nguyen Phan Que Mai, Simon Cleary and Emma Ashmere
On Damian Barr's You Will Be Safe Here, Chip Cheek's Cape May and Alex Landrigan's Crossings
On James Ellroy's This Storm, Tishani Doshi's Small Days and Nights and Elizabeth Cook's Lux
On Susan Choi's Trust Exercise, Elizabeth Gilbert's City of Girls and Richard Anderson's Boxed
On Jeanette Winterson's Frankissstein, Guzel Yakhina's Zuleikha and Annaleese Jochems, Baby
Podcast Extra on traumatic reading, Chris Womersley's bookshelf and Julianne Schultz's digital futures
On Ali Smith's Spring, Mark Haddon's The Porpoise, Laila Lalami's The Other Americans & how digital is disrupting reading
Podcast extra on Samantha Shannon's The Priory of the Orange Tree and Jay Kristoff and Amie Kauffman's Aurora Rising
On Rohan Wilson's Daughter of Bad Times, Hallie Rubenhold's The Five and Kauffman & Kristoff's YA SF Aurora Rising
The Bookshelf Live from the Sydney Writers Festival
Podcast extra on NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Les Murray, translation in China and Holly Throsby's bookshelf
On T C Boyle's Outside Looking In, Don Winslow's The Border and Simon Cleary's The War Artist
On Ian McEwan's Machines Like Me and Joanne Harris's The Strawberry Thief, and the bookshelves of Caro Llewellyn and Dervla McTiernan
On Siri Hustvedt's Memories of the Future, Valeria Luiselli's Lost Children Archive, the Stella Prize and the reading habits of Jenny Brockie and Sam Twyford-Moore
On Max Porter's Lanny, Alexander Chee's Edinburgh, Dave Eggers' The Parade and Katherine Kovacic's Bookshelf
Novels by Andrea Goldsmith, Sarah Moss, Niviaq Korneliussen, Felicity McLean and José Luís Peixoto
On Leah Kaminsky's The Hollow Bones, Ben Marcus's Notes from the Fog, Julie Keys, The Artist’s Portrait, Katherine Kovacic, Painting in the Shadows and Andrea Goldsmith on books
On Mark Brandi's The Rip, Dervla McTiernan's The Scholar, Leïla Slimani's Adèle and Mohammed Hanif's Red Birds
On Carrie Tiffany's Exploded View, Peggy Frew's Islands, Taylor Jenkins Reid's Daisy Jones and the Six and the bookshelf that made Karen Viggers
On Melissa Harrison's All Among the Barley, Nana Kwama Adjei-Brenyah's Friday Black and Emiliano Monge's Among the Lost
On Sigrid Nunez's The Friend, Will Dean’s Red Snow and Karen Thompson Walker's The Dreamers
Reading Roberto Bolaño's The Spirit of Science Fiction and Delphine de Vigan's Loyalties plus the bookshelves of Lynda La Plante and Ferenc Barnás
On Marlon James' Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Debra Adelaide's Zebra, Tessa Hadley's Late in the Day and what's on David Stratton's bookshelf
On Caoilinn Hughes' Orchid & the Wasp, Steven Carroll's The Year of the Beast, John Lanchester's The Wall and Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Result
On Summer reading and Ben Okri's The Freedom Artist, Chigozie Obioma's An Orchestra of Minorities and Søren Sveistrup's The Chestnut Man
What Morris Gleitzman read on the factory floor, being amanuensis to Will Self, talking to Sofie Laguna, and a bit of Finnish Weird
Are you a rereader? And other thoughts for a Summer Bookshelf
Do you have book-shaped New Year's reading resolutions?
If you dog-ear your books, you're part of a long tradition
Summer reading with Tayari Jones' An American Marriage, Peter Cochrane's The Making of Martin Sparrow and talking to Tara Westover about her memoir Educated
Podcast extra edition: with Viv Albertine, Jessie Burton and Jorge Carrion
Best reads of the year from Stuart Coupe, Nicole Abadee, Trent Jamieson and Cassie & Kate
What are the best books Trent Dalton, Shaun Prescott and Amelia Lush have read this year?
Reading Sydney Noir, finding plague pits in the backyard with Minette Walters, Anne Summers on fiction and new journalism and Sally Rippin's bookshelf
On Graham Norton's A Keeper, R.O. Kwon's The Incendiaries and Georgina Harding's Land of the Living with David Hunt, Aoife Clifford and Anne Summers
New fiction from Patrick Gale, Minette Walters, Rick Gekoski and Amitava Kumar
Podcast Extra edition: with Fiona Wright, Kimberley Knight, Stephanie Bishop and Moreno Giovannoni
On Anna Burns' Milkman, Esi Edugyan's Washington Black and Philip Teir's The Summer House
RN Armistice 100 The Bookshelf podcast extra: On Robert Graves' Good-Bye to All That and a coda for Vera Brittain
RN Armistice 100: Australian WWI fiction, Indian writing & Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth
New fiction from Andrew Miller, Anne Tyler and Victor LaValle
On Krissy Kneen's Wintering, Les Zig's August Falling, Margaret Morgan's The Second Cure, Ilka Tampke's Songwoman and more
On Haruki Murakami's Killing Commendatore, Sarah Perry's Melmoth and Kristina Olsson's own bookshelf
On Kristina Olsson's Shell, Markus Zusak's Bridge of Clay and Prayaag Akbar's Leila