Top stories
Top stories over the past seven days
- American Library Association releases 2024’s 10 most challenged books
- Bacon wins Nebula 2025 Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award
- 2025 Calibre Essay Prize shortlist announced
- Aurealis Awards 2024 finalists announced
- Lehman wins 2024 Judith Wright Poetry Prize
- Collins to open Queanbeyan store
- Ang wins Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize
- ‘Small Rain’ named 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
- PRH acquires Carter middle-grade series
- Australian editors, illustrators among Hugo finalists
Top stories over the past month
- ABIA 2025 books shortlists announced
- Vale Kerry Greenwood
- Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2025 winners announced
- Melbourne Books acquires Harris nonfiction
- ABIA 2025 business award shortlists announced
- Stella Prize 2025 shortlist announced
- S&S acquires Holmes debut
- MidnightSun acquires Burge sequel ‘Dirt Trap’
- A&U acquires new Delaney nonfiction
- Affirm acquires new Mupotsa-Russell fiction
Top stories over the past 12 months
- Booktopia in voluntary trading suspension
- Han Kang wins 2024 Nobel Prize for Literature
- Miles Franklin 2024 longlist announced
- NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2024 winners announced
- Booktopia appoints administrators
- Vale Michael Webster
- Wiley, OUP confirm AI partnerships
- Academic authors ‘shocked’ at Microsoft AI agreement
- Booktopia orders not being filled ahead of first meeting with creditors
- Booktopia requests further extension to voluntary trading suspension, previously announced funding terminated
Top stories since 1 January 2025
- Vale Michael Webster
- CBCA 2025 Notable Books announced
- ABIA 2025 books shortlists announced
- Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2025 shortlists announced
- Australian market down 3% in value
- Literary organisations among Copyright Agency Cultural Fund recipients
- Hardie Grant announces restructure, redundancies
- Adelaide Writers’ Week full program announced
- Martin selected for Bologna illustrator exhibition
- Ocean Reeve Publishing declares bankruptcy
- PRH acquires Text Publishing
- Ockham 2025 longlists announced
- Vale Kerry Greenwood
- UQP sells rights to ‘Edenglassie’ to Oneworld
- Penguin Literary Prize 2025 shortlist announced
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- local news
- international news
- library news
- international library news
Top features
Top feature articles over the past month
- ASA, APA, Copyright Agency, NZSA statement on LibGen: What to do next?
- ABDA 2025 shortlists announced
- Booktopia: ‘We need to work together – government and business – to emphasise the importance and joy of reading’
- Clunes Booktown 2025 – books, bands, and breaking records
- BorrowBox: ‘User experience is everything’
- Thorpe-Bowker: ‘Having access to books wherever you might want them increases demand’
- Laura Elvery on ‘Nightingale’
- Laura Elvery recommends
- Thomas Vowles on ‘Our New Gods’
- Thomas Vowles recommends
Top feature articles over the past 12 months
- ASA, APA, Copyright Agency, NZSA statement on LibGen: What to do next?
- Teens and the ‘book slump’: Why we should diagnose a situation rather than an identity
- ‘A service we wish to recommit to and double down on’: Shant Kradjian on Booktopia’s distribution services, staffing, and plans to rebuild trust
- Publishers’ top picks: Australian fiction
- ABIAs 2024: This year’s winners on their books, and the industry that produced them
- Brittany Schulz of ‘Fiction & Friction’ on selling only indie authors
- New year 2025 preview: Fiction
- Australian Book Design Awards 2025 longlists announced
- Michelle de Kretser on ‘Theory & Practice’
- New year 2025 preview: Nonfiction
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Top reviews
Most viewed reviews over the past year
- (younger_readers): Leaf Letters (Lorena Carrington, Christmas Press), stars, reviewed by Erin Wamala
- (nonfiction): Misfit: The Unravelling of Samantha X (Amanda Goff, Echo), stars, reviewed by Michelle Atkins
- (fiction): A Language of Limbs (Dylin Hardcastle, Picador), stars, reviewed by Melissa Mantle
- (fiction): The Honeyeater (Jessie Tu, A&U), stars, reviewed by Danielle Bagnato
- (young_adult): Anomaly (Emma Lord, Affirm), stars, reviewed by Katy Briggs
- (fiction): Lyrebird (Jane Caro, A&U), stars, reviewed by Ilona Urquhart
- (picture_book): Stickboy (Rebecca Young, illus Matt Ottley, Scholastic), stars, reviewed by Anthea Yang
- (fiction): This Kingdom of Dust (David Dyer, Penguin), stars, reviewed by Kate Dunphy
- (nonfiction): Jilya (Tracy Westerman, UQP), stars, reviewed by Melissa Mantle
- (picture_book): My Dad’s Gone Away (Andrew Krakouer & Jacqueline Dinan, illus Paul Seden, Magabala), stars, reviewed by Jess Lomas
- (nonfiction): Protecting Indigenous Art (Colin Golvan, MUP), stars, reviewed by Becca Whitehead
- (fiction): Dirrayawadha (Anita Heiss, S&S), stars, reviewed by Melissa Mantle
- (fiction): Outrider (Mark Wales, Macmillan), stars, reviewed by Fiona Hardy
- (fiction): Double Happiness (Rochelle Siemienowicz, MidnightSun), stars, reviewed by Nadia Heisler
- (nonfiction): Murriyang: Song of Time (Stan Grant, Bundyi), stars, reviewed by Eman Mourad
- (fiction): The Sex Lives of Married Women (Saman Shad, Penguin), stars, reviewed by Marina Sano
- (fiction): Prize Catch (Alan Carter, Fremantle), stars, reviewed by Kate Frawley
- (fiction): Things I Need You to Know (Mark Lamprell, Text), stars, reviewed by Sonia Nair
- (younger_readers): Freddie Spector, Fact Collector: Space Cadet (Ashleigh Barton, illus Peter Cheong, Lothian), stars, reviewed by Charlotte Callander
- (fiction): Cherrywood (Jock Serong, HarperCollins), stars, reviewed by Denise Jarrott