The Australian Council for the Arts have just released their annual Books Alive list of 50 books you can’t put down. Books Alive is an initiative to encourage people to read. On their website they have a list of where you can purchase the books, but they haven’t included a list of which libraries stock the books. If you are trying to encourage people to read then there should be no barriers for anyone – especially financial barriers. So for all of those that wish to read, but don’t want to pay for the privilege, here is a list of all the libraries in Australia that have the 50 books you can’t put down.
- The Household Guide to Dying by Debra Adelaide
- Breath by Tim Winton
- People of the book by Geraldine Brooks
- The Spare Room by Helen Garner
- Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis
- The Six Sacred Stones by Matthew Reilly
- Exit Music by Ian Rankin
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
- Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
- God’s Callgirl by Carla van Raay
- Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult
- Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Those Faraday Girls by Monica McInerney
- Skin and Bone by Kathryn Fox
- 7th Heaven by James Patterson with Maxine Paetro
- Secrets of the Red Lantern by Pauline Nguyen with Luke Nguyen and Mark Jensen
- The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
- Somme Mud by E.P.F. Lynch
- Vietnam: The Australian War by Paul Ham
- Les Norton and the Case of the Talking Pie Crust by Robert G. Barrett
- Turn Turn Turn . . . Please by Kerry O’Keeffe
- Over the Top with Jim by Hugh Lunn
- That’d Be Right by William McInnes
- The Day After Tomorrow by Allan Folsom
- Nothing to Lose by Lee Child
- The Memory Room by Christopher Koch
- Addition by Toni Jordan
- Voodoo Doll by Leah Giarratano
- The Rouseabout by Rachael Treasure
- Avoiding Mr Right by Anita Heiss
- This Charming Man by Marian Keyes
- Back from the Brink by Peter Andrews
- True Green by Kim McKay & Jenny Bonnin
- He’ll Be OK by Celia Lashlie
- Girl Stuff by Kaz Cooke
- Lucky for Me by Frank Robson
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
- Obernewtyn Book 1 in The Obernewtyn Chronicles by Isobelle Carmody
- The Gift Book 1 in the Pellinor series by Alison Croggon
- Superior Saturday Book 6 in The Keys to the Kingdom series by Garth Nix
- Twilight: Special Edition by Stephenie Meyer
- George’s Secret Key to the Universe by Lucy & Stephen Hawking
- Treasure Fever! Book 1 in the Schooling Around series Andy Griffiths
- Water Witcher by Jan Ormerod
- The Waterhole by Graeme Base
- Parsley Rabbit’s Book about Books by Frances Watts & David Legge
- Quest for the Crown Book 1 in The Faraway Fairies series by Eleanor Coombe
- Go Girl! Angels: Anniversary Edition by Chrissie Perry & Meredith Badger
- Nim’s Island by Wendy Orr