Good Book Catalogue is a catalogue of books deemed to be good by one eager reader.

For anyone who reads, there is a warmth in having books around, especially those worn editions crowded with sticky notes. Reading elevates our spirits, each book providing a new perspective on our diverse, perverse and fascinating world. Good Book Catalogue is an ode to the love of reading and is one small step to repaying friends, strangers and serendipity alike for their recommendations over the years.

Emma Hursey (she/they) is a creative director, designer and illustrator based in Australia. She runs her own creative practice, working internationally from the rural town of Rainbow Beach. In 2018, she set a book target for the course of the year, sparking a yearly habit of reading a lot of books. Since then, Emma has finished 106 books and counting. In 2020 Good Book Catalogue was born, to share the books she believes everyone should get to delving into. There are a handful of design books, a few fantasy and sci-fi tales, some classic fiction reads and a whole lot of non-fiction ranging in subject from history and sociology, to philosophy and physics.

Top Ten –
1. The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
2. Teaching Community by bell hooks
3. Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke
4. Too Much and Not The Mood by Durga Chew-Bose
5. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
6. To Throw Away Unopened by Viv Albertine
7. Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala
8. Hunger by Roxane Gay
9. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
10. The Odyssey by Homer