Autumn Book Binge

Published on 24 March 2020

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Join us for the 2020 Autumn Book Binge!

How to play

Read or listen to a book of your choice from any of the nine book categories:

  • Set in Victoria: books set in Victoria
  • Recent releases: books published in the last 12 months
  • Other lives: biography about someone who inspires you
  • In translation: books that have been translated
  • Fact to fiction: works of fiction based on true stories
  • Book to screen: books that have been made into movies or TV series
  • Beastly titles: books with an animal in the title
  • Other worlds: books set in a world different to your own
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers: books by Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander writers

When the library branches re-open, you can pick up a game card (download a digital copy here). Once you’ve completed a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line on the game card, you can fill out the entry slips attached to the game card.

Even though the library branches are closed, you can still borrow a wide variety of eBooks and eAudiobooks on BorrowBox and Libby by Overdrive.

Recommended titles

Here are some recommended titles, to get you started.

Set in Victoria

  • Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay - on Libby eBook and BorrowBox eAudiobook
  • The Broken Shore by Peter Temple - available on Libby eBook and BorrowBox eBook and eAudiobook
  • Monkey Grip by Helen Garner - on BorrowBox eAudiobook
  • The Bridge by Enza Gandolfo - on BorrowBox eAudiobook
  • The Arsonist by Chloe Hooper - on BorrowBox eBook and eAudiobook
  • My Brother Jack by George Johnston - on BorrowBox eBook
  • The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson - on BorrowBox eBook
  • True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey - on BorrowBox eAudiobook
  • Live and Let Fry by Sue Williams - on BorrowBox eBook
  • Darkness for Light by Emma Viskic - on Libby eBook

Recent releases

  • Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid - on Libby eBook and BorrowBox eBook
  • Mother of Pearl by Angela Savage - on BorrowBox eBook
  • Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas - on BorrowBox eBook and eAudiobook
  • Losing You by Nicci French - on Libby eBook
  • The Lost Man by Jane Harper - on Libby eBook and BorrowBox eBook
  • City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert - on Libby eBook and BorrowBox eBook & eAudiobook
  • A Constant Hum by Alice Bishop - on BorrowBox

Other lives

  • Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly - on BorrowBox eBook
  • Just Kids by Patti Smith - on Libby eBook
  • Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed - on Libby eBook and BorrowBox eBook & eAudiobook
  • Becoming by Michelle Obama - on Libby eBook & eAudiobook and BorrowBox eBook & eAudiobook
  • Optimism by Bob Brown - on BorrowBox eBook
  • The Enigmatic Mr Deakin by Judith Brett - on BorrowBox eBook
  • One Hundred Years of Dirt by Rick Morton - on BorrowBox eBook & eAudiobook
  • Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume 1, 1978-1987 by Helen Garner - on BorrowBox eBook
  • Able by Dylan Alcott - on BorrowBox eBook
  • Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music by Archie Roach - on BorrowBox eBook & eAudiobook

In translation

  • My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante - on Libby eBook and BorrowBox eBook & eAudiobook
  • The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano - on Libby eBook
  • Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata - on Libby eBook
  • Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami - on BorrowBox eBook
  • The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa - on Libby eBook and BorrowBox eBook
  • The Girl in the Woods by Camilla Lackberg - on Libby eBook and BorrowBox eBook
  • I Am Behind You by John Ajvide Lindqvist - on Libby eBook

Fact to fiction

  • The Portrait of Molly Dean by Katherine Kovacic - on BorrowBox eBook
  • Burial Rites by Hannah Kent - on BorrowBox eBook & eAudiobook
  • The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris - on BorrowBox eBook & eAudiobook
  • All the Light We Cannot See by Anothony Doerr - on Libby eBook and BorrowBox eBook
  • Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel - on BorrowBox eBook
  • The Girls by Emma Cline - on Libby eBook

Book to screen

  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - on Libby eBook and BorrowBox eAudiobook
  • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - on Libby eBook and BorrowBox eBook & eAudiobook
  • Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan - on BorrowBox eBook & eAudiobook
  • Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx - on Libby eBook
  • The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas - on Libby eBook
  • The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood - on Libby eBook and BorrowBox eBook & eAudiobook
  • No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy - on Libby eBook
  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick - on Libby eBook
  • Bird Box by Josh Malerman - on Libby eBook

Beastly titles

  • The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser - on Libby eBook and BorrowBox eBook
  • Barracuda by Christos Tsiolkas - on BorrowBox eBook & eAudiobook
  • Mateship with Birds by Carrie Tiffany - on BorrowBox eBook
  • The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga - on BorrowBox eBook
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon - on Libby eBook
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - on BorrowBox eBook
  • Here Come the Dogs by Omar Musa - on BorrowBox eBook
  • Animal Farm by George Orwell - on Libby eBook & eAudiobook
  • The Eye of the Sheep by Sofie Laguna - on BorrowBox eBook

Other worlds

  • A Few Right Thinking Men by Sulari Gentill - on Libby eBook
  • Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon - on Libby eBook and BorrowBox eBook
  • Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien - on BorrowBox eBook
  • Discworld series by Terry Pratchett - on Libby eBook
  • Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood - on BorrowBox eAudiobook
  • Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo - on BorrowBox eAudiobook
  • A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles - on BorrowBox eBook & eAudiobook
  • The Book Thief by Markus Zusak - on Libby eBook and BorrowBox eBook & eAudiobook
  • Exhalation by Ted Chiang - on Libby eBook
  • Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James - on BorrowBox eBook

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers

  • Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe - on Libby eBook and BorrowBox eBook & eAudiobook
  • Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko - on Libby eBook and BorrowBox eBook
  • Tracker by Alexis Wright - on BorrowBox eBook
  • The White Girl by Tony Birch - on BorrowBox eBook
  • My Place by Sally Morgan - on BorrowBox eBook & eAudiobook
  • Growing up Aboriginal in Australia by Anita Heiss (ed) - on Libby eBook and BorrowBox eBook
  • Talking to My Country by Stan Grant - on BorrowBox eBook
  • The Yield by Tara June Winch - on BorrowBox eBook & eAudiobook
  • Black is the New White by Nakkiah Lui - on Libby eBook and BorrowBox eBook

How to enter

When the library branches re-open, you can pick up a game card. Once you’ve completed a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line on the game card, you can fill out the entry slips attached to the game card.

To be in the draw, drop your entry into your local library once the branches reopen.

Prizes

Three Readings book vouchers are up for grabs at Maribyrnong Library Service for one lucky reader for each month of the competition.

This page was last updated: April 27

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