In 2025 Pageturners read:
- Holiday Reads discussion – the groups talked about their holiday reading.
- Dirrayawadha (Rise Up) by Anita Heiss
- The Belburd by Nardi Simpson
- Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth
- Lyrebird by Jane Caro
- Miles Franklin Literary Award Longlist
- Miles Franklin Undercover by Kerrie Davies
- Oribital by Samantha Harvey
- This Kingdom of Dust by David Dyer
In 2024 Pageturners read:
- Discussed Holiday Reads
- Yellowface by Rebecca Kuang
- Anam by Andre Dao – Winner 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Award
- Beware of Dogs by Elizabeth Flann
- Burn by Melanie Saward
- 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award Longlist – Winner Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright
- The Fraud by Zadie Smith
- The Prophet Song by Paul Lynch – 2023 Booker Prize winner
- Genre read – Health and Wellbeing (your choice)
- Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver and here is a great interview with the author published in The Guardian. 2023 Pulitzer Prize co-recipient and 2023 Women’s Prize for Fiction.
- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (Classic read)
During 2023 Pageturners read:
- The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
- The Seven Moons of Maalia Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka (2022 Booker Prize winner)
- Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- Cold Enough For Snow by Jessica Au (2023 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction winner)
- 2023 Miles Franklin Longlist – Winner Shankari Chandran for Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens
- Genre read – Biography (your choice)
- Wifedom by Anna Funder (New York Times Notable Book of 2023)
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- All The Broken Places by John Boyne
- The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams