Literary Links

Beanstack is a free online service that offers an innovative new way to connect readers of all ages with books, engaging reading activities and reading recommendations. It includes book and activity logging, badges and registration for all members of the family under one account.

Beanstack

Better Reading aims to be a source of independent book recommendations for Australian readers and their families. Subscribe to their mailing list, search book lists, or browse by subject.Better Reading is all about sharing great stories and helping people discover new books and authors. They offer author events, podcasts and more.

Better Reading

Answer the age-old question, 'What do I read next?' Search and match reading interests to books, authors, genres, or topics.

Books and Authors

Cereal Readers is a book resource website where you can find books published in series for children and young adults. Cereal Readers recognise that books in series are vitally important to both avid and reluctant readers alike.

Cereal Readers

The ultimate fiction book list with over 40,000 authors listed! Each author page includes a wealth of information, including books by the author, series they’ve written listed in order, similar authors based on the activity of other users, and relevant genre pages.

Fantastic Fiction

Access to all areas of the Good Reading Hub for Book Lovers. Access Good Reading magazine online (note that hard copies are available in the library). Read independent reviews, listen to podcasts, keep up with the latest book news and find the best books for kids. All in one place. You can set up a profile where you can build your own wish list of books you want to read and recommend books to other readers.

Good Reading Hub

Good reads is the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations. Its mission is to help people find and share books they love.

Good Reads

The tourist map of Literature. Enter the name of an author you like and Literature Map will provide similar authors. The cool thing about Literature-Map is that it visually indicates how similar the options are to the author you started with. Click on another name on the map and that author will be brought to the centre and a new set of similar authors will appear.

Literature Map

The Newtown Review of Books (NRB) is an online review of books produced entirely by volunteers. NRB reviews fiction, memoir, biography, history, politics and true crime. They do not review poetry or children’s books. Reviews are posted twice a week.

Newtown Review of Books

Reading regularly helps prepare students—academically and emotionally—to be global citizens. Listen in as Jordan Lloyd Bookey speaks with diverse authors about their own journeys as readers and storytellers, their perspectives on the cultural climate in children’s and young adult literature, and the experiences that motivated them to read more. Each episode features a themed reading list challenge of titles handpicked by the author to inspire students and readers of all ages.

The Reading Culture Podcast - Listen Now

The Sydney Review of Books (SRB) publishes critical, creative, ambitious, and engaging writing on contemporary literature and culture. Each week the SRB presents new review essays, feature essays, and interviews, as well as curating a lively series of public programs throughout the year

The Sydney Review of Books

A new way to choose where the reader is in control. Using a sliding scale, you can choose how much of one way or another a book should be. For example, on a scale from optimistic to bleak, how do you like your books? Short to long? Expected to unpredictable? In addition of choosing books by mood and emotion, you can also choose from a world map and by character and plot.

Which Book