Readers' Lounge

Randwick City Library has books, magazines, CDs and DVDs as well as eBooks, eAudiobooks, eMagazines and spoken word books.

Special Collections

Red Hot Reads - a changing collection of the latest, recently reviewed books. Three-week loan, no renewals, no reserves.

Bestsellers - a selection of current popular books, updated regularly to reflect retail book sales. Three-week loan, no renewals, no reserves.  If you have a popular book on reserve and you're super keen to read it, see if it's also a bestseller!

Hidden Gems - specially selected by library staff; including great reads and old favourites. Available at all three branches.

Winner's circle - a collection of literary prize winners. Only available at Lionel Bowen Library.

All three branches feature new books – just ask our staff to show you where they are.

2024 Stella Longlist

The Stella Prize celebrates the best book by an Australian woman, whether fiction or nonfiction, in the previous calendar year.

This year's longlist are:

The 2024 Stella Prize shortlist will be announced on Thursday 4 April. 

The winner will be announced on Thursday 2 May at State Library Victoria.

2024 Booker Prizes

The Booker International Prize

The longlist for 2024 is:

  • Not a River by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott
  • Simpatía by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón, translated by Noel Hernández González and Daniel Hahn
  • Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Michael Hofmann
  • The Details by Ia Genberg, translated by Kira Josefsson
  • White Nights by Urszula Honek, translated by Kate Webster
  • Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-yong, translated by Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae
  • A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare, translated by John Hodgson
  • The Silver Bone by Andrey Kurkov, translated by Boris Dralyuk
  • What I’d Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma, translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey
  • Lost on Me by Veronica Raimo, translated by Leah Janeczko
  • The House on Via Gemito by Domenico Starnone, translated by Oonagh Stransky
  • Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior, translated by Johnny Lorenz
  • Undiscovered by Gabriela Wiener, translated by Julia Sanches

The Booker Prize

The "Booker Dozen" will be announced in July 2024.

See the details for 2023 winners and nominees here.

2024 Miles Franklin Award

The Miles Franklin Award was established in 1957 by Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, author of My Brilliant Career. Books nominated are those of a high literary merit, and present  stories about Australian life.

The longlist for the 2024 Miles Franklin Award will be announced in May.

Find the details for 2023 winners and nominees here.

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