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 Prize
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 Swift Dark Tide by Katia Ariel
- Body Friend by Katherine Brabon
- Feast by Emily O’Grady
- Hospital by Sanya Rushdi, translated by Arunava Sinha
- Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead by Hayley Singer
- Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright
See the details for the 2024 Stella Prize shortlist here.
The winner will be announced on Thursday 2 May at State Library Victoria.
2024 Booker Prizes
The Booker International Prize
The shortlist for 2024 is:
- Not a River by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott
- Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Michael Hofmann
- The Details by Ia Genberg, translated by Kira Josefsson
- Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-yong, translated by Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae
- What I’d Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma, translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey
- Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior, translated by Johnny Lorenz
See the 2024 Booker International Longlist here
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 2024.
Find the details for 2023 winners and nominees here.