Index



Use Cmd-F on desktops to search for Fiction, Poetry, Graphic Novels or Non-fiction catergories: Art & Design, Biography, Environmental, Essays, Grief, History, Music, Philosophy, Physics, Politics, Psychology, Queer, Society & Travel



︎ = Great Books



Crying in H Mart ︎
Michelle Zauner
Non-fiction: Memoir



Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life ︎
William Finnegan
Non-fiction: Memoir, Surfing



Minor Detail
Adania Shibli
Fiction



Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black
Cookie Mueller
Non-fiction: Memoir



I Will Write to Avenge my People
Annie Ernaux
Non-fiction: Memoir, History & Society



The Sitter
Angela O'Keeffe
Fiction



Among Flowers ︎
Jamaica Kincaid
Non-Fiction: Travel, Memoir, Gardening



The Years ︎
Annie Ernaux
Non-Fiction: Memoir, History & Society, Philosophy



The Life & Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah  ︎
Benjamin Zephaniah
Non-Fiction: Memoir



I'm a Fan
Sheena Patel
Fiction



East of Eden ︎
John Steinbeck
Fiction



Nausea
Jean-Paul Sartre
Fiction



Surf Is Where You Find It
Gerry Lopez
Non-Fiction: Memoir, Surfing



Transit
Rachel Cusk
Fiction



Pure Colour
Sheila Heti
Fiction



All You Need is Ears
George Martin
Non-Fiction: Music, Memoir



Margrave of the Marshes
John Peel
Non-Fiction: Music, Memoir



A Small Place ︎
Jamaica Kincaid
Non-Fiction: Memoir, History & Society



Poor Little Sick Girls ︎
Ione Gamble
Non-Fiction: Memoir, Society



Poor Writing Degree Zero
Roland Barthes
Non-Fiction: Philosophy



The Story of Art Without Men ︎
Katy Hessel
Non-Fiction: Art, History



While We Were Dreaming
Clemens Meyer
Fiction



In Praise of Shadows
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Non-Fiction: Art & Design



A Life's Work
Rachel Cusk
Fiction



A Year With Swollen Appendices ︎
Brian Eno
Non-Fiction: Memoir, Music



George Harrison: Behind the Locked Door
Graeme Thomson
Non-Fiction: Memoir, Music



The Beatles: The Biography ︎
Bob Spitz
Non-Fiction: Memoir, Music



Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency ︎
Olivia Laing
Non-Fiction: Memoir, Art, Society



LaserWriter II ︎
Tamara Shopsin
Fiction



In The End It Was All About Love ︎
Musa Okwonga
Fiction



Summer
Ali Smith
Fiction



Outline
Rachel Cusk
Fiction



Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Joan Didion
Non-Fiction: History & Society



Shame! and Masculinity
Ernst van Alphen (ed.)
Non-Fiction: Art & Design, History & Society



Brief Lessons in Rule Breaking
Frances Ambler
Non-Fiction: Art & Design



The Art of Living ︎
André Maurois
Non-Fiction: Philosophy



Macbeth ︎
William Shakespeare
Play



Capslock  ︎
Ruben Patter
Non-fiction: Art & Design



All About Love  ︎
bell hooks
Non-fiction: History & Society, Philosophy



Another Country
James Baldwin
Fiction



I'll Never Be Young Again
Daphne du Maurier
Fiction



Run Studio Run  ︎
Eli Altman
Non-fiction: Art & Design



Through the Flower: My Struggle as a Woman Artist
Judy Chicago
Non-fiction: Memoir, Art & Design



Coventry
Rachel Cusk
Non-fiction: Essays, History & Society



Collisions: Fictions of the Future
Ed. Leah Jing McIntosh, Cher Tan, Adalya Nash Hussein, Hassan Abul
Fiction



Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom  ︎
bell hooks
Non-fiction: History & Society, Philosophy



Hotel World
Ali Smith
Fiction



Playing the Bass with Three Left Hands  ︎
Will Carruthers
Non-Fiction: Memoir, Music



Braiding Sweet Grass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants  ︎
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Non-Fiction: Science & Environment



Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold
Carolyne Larrington (ed.)
Fiction



Kudos
Rachel Cusk
Fiction



Come: a Memoir  ︎
Rita Therese
Non-Fiction: Memoir



Natural Enemies of Books: A Messy History of Women in Printing and Typograhy
MMS (ed.)
Non-Fiction: Art & Design, History & Society



Wabi-Sabi: Further Thoughts
Leonard Koren
Non-Fiction: Art & Design, History & Society



Killing and Dying  ︎
Adrian Tomine
Fiction: Graphic Novel



Rise High the Roof Beam Carpenters/Seymour an Introduction  ︎
J.D. Salinger
Fiction



The Outsider  ︎
Albert Camus
Fiction



Foreign Soil  ︎
Maxine Beneba Clarke
Fiction



The Whitsun Weddings  ︎
Philip Larkin
Poetry



Ways of Seeing  ︎
John Berger
Non-Fiction: Art & Design, History & Society



On Anarchism  ︎
Noam Chomsky
Non-Fiction: Politics, History & Society



1984  ︎
George Orwell
Fiction



Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope  ︎
bell hooks
Non-Fiction: Philosophy, History & Society



Art, Sex, Music  ︎
Cosey Fanni Tutti
Non-Fiction: Music, Memoir



Shaping Desired Futures
Aria Spinelli (ed.)
Non-Fiction: Art & Desing, History & Society



Cat's Cradle  ︎
Kurt Vonnegut
Fiction



Natives: Race & Class in The Ruins of Empire  ︎
Akala
Non-fiction: Memoir, History & Society



Interaction of Colour
Josef Albers
Non-fiction: Art & Design



Clothes Clothes Clothes Music Music Music Boys Boys Boys  ︎ 
Viv Albertine
Non-fiction: Memoir



To Throw Away Unopened  ︎
Viv Albertine
Non-fiction: Biography & Music



White Girls  ︎
Hilton Als
Non-fiction: Society



I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings  ︎
Maya Angelou
Non-fiction: Biography



It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want To Be
Paul Arden
Non-fiction: Art & Design



The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood
Fiction



Giovanni’s Room  ︎
James Baldwin
Fiction



Image Music Text
Roland Barthes
Non-fiction: Philosophy



Foreign Soil  ︎
Maxine Beneba Clarke
Fiction: Short Stories



Ways of Seeing
John Berger
Non-fiction: Art & Design



The Peace of Wild Things
Wendell Berry
Poetry



Now You See It
Michael Bierut
Non-fiction: Art & Design



Heart of the Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain  ︎
Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie & Suzanne Scafe
Non-fiction: Society and Culture



The Unnatural Art of The Garden
Roberto Burle Marx
Non-fiction: Art & Design



The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus
Non-fiction: Philosophy



The Outsider
Albert Camus
Fiction



Granite Island: A Portrait of Corsica
Dorothy Carrington
Non-fiction: Travel



Too Much and Not the Mood  ︎
Durga Chew-Bose
Non-fiction: Essays



On Anarchism  ︎
Noam Chomsky
Non-fiction: Politics



The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis
Fiction



Adieux
Simone De Beauvoir
Non-fiction: Biography



She Came To Stay
Simone De Beauvoir
Fiction



The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Fiction



Blue Nights
Joan Didion
Non-fiction: Grief



The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion
Non-fiction: Grief



Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race  ︎
Reni Eddo-Lodge
Non-fiction: Society



What is the What
Dave Eggers
Biographical Fiction 



Art Sex Music  ︎
Cosey Fanni Tutti
Non-fiction: Biography & Music



Catch and Kill
Ronan Farrow
Non-fiction: Society



Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Paulo Freire
Non-fiction: Society



The Future We Choose
Christiana Figueres
Non-fiction: Environment



The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fiction



Hunger  ︎
Roxane Gay
Non-fiction: Biography



Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
Malcolm Gladwell
Non-fiction: Psychology



Girl in a Band
Kim Gordon
Non-fiction: Biography & Music



The Shortest History of Germany
James Hawes
Non-fiction: History



The Book of My Lives
Aleksandar Hemon
Non-fiction: Biography



Colouring The Rainbow: Blak Queer and Trans Perspectives – Life Stories and Essays by First Nations People of Australia ︎
Dino Hodge
Non-fiction: Queer



The Odyssey
Homer
Fiction



All About Love ︎
bell hooks
Non-fiction: Culture, Love and Relationships



Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope ︎
bell hooks
Non-fiction: Society and Teaching



Dubliners
James Joyce
Fiction



No One Belongs Here More Than You
Miranda July
Fiction: Short Stories



The First Bad Man
Miranda July
Fiction



She Said
Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey
Non-fiction: Society



Border: A Journey to the Edge Europe
Kapka Kassabova
Non-fiction: History



Failed It!
Erik Kessels
Non-fiction: Art & Design



Wabi-Sabi: Further Thoughts
Leonard Koren
Non-fiction: Art & Design



I Love Dick
Chris Kraus
Non-fiction: Biography & Art



Infinity Net ︎
Yayoi Kusama
Non-fiction: Biography & Art



Women Together/Women Apart
Tirza True Latimer
Non-fiction: Queer History



Decolonizing Solidarity
Clare Land
Non-fiction: Society



The Whitsun Weddings
Phillip Larkin
Poetry



A Wizard of Earthsea  ︎
Ursula K. Le Guin
Fiction: Fantasy



Searoad
Ursula K. Le Guin
Fiction



Tales From Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin
Fiction: Fantasy



Tehanu
Ursuka K. Le Guin
Fiction: Fantasy



The Farthest Shore
Ursuka K. Le Guin
Fiction: Fantasy



The Other Wind
Ursuka K. Le Guin
Fiction: Fantasy



The Tombs of Atuan
Ursuka K. Le Guin
Fiction: Fantasy



A Grief Observed
C.S. Lewis
Non-fiction: Grief



How Democracies Die
Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt
Non-fiction: Politics



So Real it Hurts
Lydia Lunch
Non-fiction: Biography & Music



Revolting Prostitutes  ︎
Juno Mac & Molly Smith
Non-fiction: Society



Prisoners of Geography
Tim Marshall
Non-fiction: Politics



On Chesil Beach
Ian McEwan
Fiction



Poverty Safari
Darren McGarvey
Non-fiction: Society



The Natural Enemies of Books
MMS
Non-fiction: Art & Design



Design as Art  ︎
Bruno Munari
Non-fiction: Art & Design



Norweigen Wood
Haruki Murakami
Fiction



Sputnik Sweetheart
Haruki Murakami
Fiction



Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
Fiction



Animal Farm
George Orwell
Fiction



1984
George Orwell
Fiction



Equal Rites  ︎
Terry Pratchett
Fiction: Fantasy



Guards! Guards!
Terry Pratchett
Fiction: Fantasy



Mort  ︎
Terry Pratchett
Fiction: Fantasy



Pyramids
Terry Pratchett
Fiction: Fantasy



Sourcery
Terry Pratchett
Fiction: Fantasy



The Colour of Magic  ︎
Terry Pratchett
Fiction: Fantasy



The Light Fantastic
Terry Pratchett
Fiction: Fantasy



Wyrd Sisters
Terry Pratchett
Fiction: Fantasy



The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon
Fiction



Letters to a Young Painter
Rainer Maria Rilke
Non-fiction: Art



Conversations with Friends
Sally Rooney
Fiction



Normal People
Sally Rooney
Fiction



Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Carlo Rovelli
Non-fiction: Physics



The Order of Time  ︎
Carlo Rovelli
Non-fiction: Physics



Footnotes in Gaza
Joe Sacco
Non-fiction: Graphic Novel



Palestine
Joe Sacco
Non-fiction: Graphic Novel



Bonjour Tristesse
Françoise Sagan
Fiction



Franny and Zooey
J.D. Salinger
Fiction



Nine Stories
J.D. Salinger
Fiction



Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters
J.D. Salinger
Fiction



Assata: An Autobiography  ︎
Assata Shakur
Non-fiction: Biography



Autumn
Ali Smith
Fiction



Spring  ︎
Ali Smith
Fiction



Winter
Ali Smith
Fiction



Just Kids
Patti Smith
Non-fiction: Biographical



M Train
Patti Smith
Non-fiction: Biography



Swing Time
Zadie Smith
Fiction



Hope in the Dark
Rebecca Solnit
Non-fiction: Society



Men Explain Things to Me
Rebecca Solnit
Non-fiction: Society



The Mother of All Questions
Rebecca Solnit
Non-fiction: Society



Whose Story Is It?
Rebecca Solnit
Non-fiction: Society



On Photography
Susan Sontag
Non-fiction: Art & Design



How to Reform Capitalism
The School of Life
Non-fiction: Society & Art



Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Olga Tokarczuk
Fiction



Killing and Dying  ︎
Adrian Tomine
Fiction: Graphic Novel



The Responsible Object  ︎
Marjanne Van Helvert
Non-fiction: Art & Design



The End of Policing
Alex S. Vitale
Non-fiction: Society



Cat’s Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut
Fiction



Galapagos
Kurt Vonnegut
Fiction



Hocus Pocus
Kurt Vonnegut
Fiction



Slaughterhouse Five
Kurt Vonnegut
Fiction



Cat On a Hot Tin Roof
Tennesse Williams
Fiction: Play



A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
Fiction


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We work and live in Rainbow Beach, Australia, on the traditional lands of the Gubbi Gubbi people. We pay our respects to their ancestors and elders—past, present and future—and value the role of storytelling in their culture, which is amongst the oldest living cultures in the world.

Thank-you for stopping by. New books are added as they’re finished, stay in touch for updates.



We work and live in Rainbow Beach, Australia, on the traditional lands of the Gubbi Gubbi people. We pay our respects to their ancestors and elders—past, present and future—and value the role of storytelling in their culture, which is amongst the oldest living cultures in the world.