Reading Ideas

Wollongong City Libraries is committed to providing a welcoming, supportive and inclusive environment for everyone. To celebrate our lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer community, our staff have curated a list of favourite and lesser-known LGBTIQ texts. Each is available for borrowing in our catalogue.

• Alice Oseman, Heartstopper
• Andre Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
• Carmen Maria Mochado, In the Dream House
• Casey McQuiston, Red, White and Royal Blue
• Daniel Lavery, Something That May Shock and Discredit You
• David Levithan, Every Day
• Dean Atta, The Black Flamingo
• Emma Donoghue (ed), What Sappho Would Have Said: Four Centuries of Love Poems Between Women
• Gaby Dunn, Bury the Lede
• Hugh Ryan, When Brooklyn Was Queer
• Jeanette Winterson, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit
• Jeanette Winterson, Why be Happy When You Could be Normal
• Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
• Mariko Tamaki, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me
• Ocean Vuong, On Earth We are Briefly Gorgeous
• Rainbow Rowell, Carry On
• Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted
• Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet
• Timothy Conigrave, Holding the Man

If there's a LGBTIQ work you think should be in our catalogue, suggest an item. 🏳️‍🌈

Peak behind the curtain and discover amazing things about the world we inhabit and beyond. Each text can be accessed via our catalogue.

• Karl Kruszelnicki, Dr Karl's Random Road Trip Through Science
• Luke A.J. O'Neill, Humanology: A Scientist's Guide to Our Amazing Existence
• Marcus Chown, Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You
• Charles Darwin, On the origin of species

If there's a scintillating piece of science fact (or fiction) that you think should be in our catalogue, suggest an item. 🔬

In celebration of the annual Indigenous Literacy Day, we have compiled a list featuring prize-winning and otherwise revered works by First Australians. You can find each text and more by searching the catalogue.

• Alexis Wright, The Swan Book
• Anita Heiss, Am I Black Enough for You?
• Anita Heiss, Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
• Ali Cobby Eckermann, Ruby Moonlight
• Boori Monty Pryor and Jan Ormerod, Shake a Leg
• Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu
• Bruce Pascoe, Fog a Dox
• Clare Atkins, Nona & Me
• Doris Pilkington Garimara, Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence
• Henry Reynolds, Forgotten War
• Jane Harrison, Becoming Kirrali Lewis
• Jared Thomas, Calypso Summer
• Kevin Gilbert, Because a White Man'll Never Do It
• Kim Scott, Taboo
• Marcia Langton, Welcome to Country
• Melissa Lucaschenko, Mullumbimby
• Ruby Langford Ginibi, Don't Take Your Love to Town
• Stan Grant, Talking to My Country
• Sally Morgan, My Place
• Tara June Winch, The Yield
• Tony Birch, The White Girl
• Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk

If you would like to see more literature written by Aboriginal Australians, we encourage you to suggest an item.