Top 10 Fiction January to March 2014

Ever wondered what other people in Hurstville are reading? Well here's our Top 10 titles for January to March this year. What does it say about the reading habits of the people of Hurstville? Action and adventure currently seems to be the order of the day, along with a walk on the dark side. But I'll leave that for you to decide.

1. Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
2. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
3. The Affair by Lee Child
4. Infero by Dan Brown
5. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
6. I, Alex Cross by James Patterson
7. The Five Greatest Warriors by Matthew Reilly
8. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
9. A Wanted Man by Lee Child
10. The Reversal by Michel Connelly

Just like Jodi Picoult

I love reading Jodi Picoult. I have read and reread all her novels. Unfortunately Jodi cannot write a novel as quick as I can read them, so in the end I run out. Impatient for more novels, I discovered some authors that write in a similar vein to Jodi Picoult.

Hurstville City Library currently has this on display.

Don't delay come in and check it out.You may be pleasantly surprised!

From Sweden with Love

First we had Abba

Then came Stieg

Why not come and see all our New Swedish Authors

Who else writes like Nora Roberts

Ever felt sad whilst reading a book? Don't want it to end but can't wait to get there to see what happens? Can't wait to read another book by the same author only to discover you've read the lot?

Yes it's frustrating but there is light at the end of the tunnel! Often there will be other authors who write just like your favourite.

Our featured author this month is Nora Roberts so if you are a fan why not pop along to Hurstville Library to see the range of books currently on display and available for loan by authors who write like her. Just click onto any of the following names to see what the library holds.

Sally Beauman

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Janet Dailey

Jude Deveraux

Julie Ellis

Linda Gillard

Kristen Hannah

Iris Johansen

Jayne Ann Krentz

Debbie Macomber

Judith McNaught

Kasey Michaels

Linda Lael Miller

Diana Palmer

Luanne Rice

Lavyrle Spencer

Danielle Steel

Rachael Treasure

Prime Minister's Literary Awards Shortlisted Books at Hurstville Library, Museum & Gallery

The Prime Minister's Literary Awards are held annually to celebrate the contribution of literature to Australia's cultural and intellectual life. Recently those fiction and non-fiction titles in contention were narrowed down to a short list. Most are available from Hurstville City Library, or are on order - try one, see if you agree with the judges!


Non-fiction shortlist
The Water Dreamers: The Remarkable History of Our Dry Continent by Michael Cathcart
Strange Places: A Memoir of Mental Illness by Will Elliott
The Colony: A History of Early Sydney by Grace Karskens
The Life and Death of Democracy by John Keane
The Blue Plateau: A Landscape Memoir by Mark Tredinnick
The Ghost at the Wedding by Shirley Walker

Fiction shortlist
Summertime by J.M. Coetzee
The Book of Emmett by Deborah Forster
The Lakewoman by Alan Gould
Dog Boy by Eva Hornung
Ransom by David Malouf
Lovesong by Alex Miller
As the Earth Turns Silver by Alison Wong

Prime Minister's Literary Awards website for more information