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.
2026 Stella Prize
The Stella Prize celebrates the best book by an Australian woman, whether fiction or nonfiction, in the previous calendar year.
The winner for 2026 has been announced!
- Cannon by Lee Lai (Graphic Novel)
This is Lee Lai's second book, and the first graphic novel to be awarded the Stella Prize.
The other shortlisted titles are:
- The Rot by Evelyn Araluen (Poetry)
- Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks (Non-Fiction/Memoir)
- Fireweather by Miranda Darling (Fiction)
- 58 Facets: On violence and the law by Marika Sosnowski (Non-Fiction)
- I Am Nannertgarrook by Tasma Walton (Fiction)
See the details for the 2026 Stella longslist here.
2026 Booker Prizes
The Booker International Prize
The Booker International prize celebrates the best works of long-form fiction or collections of short stories translated into English and published in the UK and/or Ireland
The winner for 2026 has been announced!
- Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated by Lin King
Taiwan Travelogue is the first book translated from Mandarin Chinese to win the International Booker Prize.
The other shortlisted titles are:
- The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran by Shida Bazyar, translated from German by Ruth Martin
- She Who Remains by Rene Karabash, translated from Bulgarian by Izidora Angel
- The Director by Daniel Kehlmann, translated from German by Ross Benjamin
- On Earth As It Is Beneath by Ana Paula Maia, translated from Portuguese by Padma Viswanathan
- The Witch by Marie NDiaye, translated from French by Jordan Stump
See the details for the 2026 Booker International longlist here.
The Booker Prize
The Booker Prize is awarded to the best sustained work of fiction written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.
The shortlist for 2026 is:
- The End of Everything by M. John Harrison
- The Disappearers by Marlon James
- Black Bag by Luke Kennard
- May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry
- The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
- John of John by Douglas Stuart
See the details for the 2026 longlist here.
2026 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 winner for 2026 is:
- Fierceland by Omar Musa
The other shortlisted titles are:
- Discipline by Randa Abel-Fattah
- First Name Second Name by Steve Minon
- My Heart at Evening by Konrad Muller
- Little World by Josephine Rowe
- You Must Remember This by Sean Wilson
See the 2026 Miles Franklin Longlist here.