Readers' Cafe  

Forthcoming Books

Award-Winning Titles

New for February in the Readers' Cafe:

Librarian's Choice: The collected works of T.S. Spivet

We Recommend:  

Discussion Guide: 

Wider Reading Lists 
     Year 9
     Year 10

Are you looking for a great book to read? Check out the links on the following pages for reviews, award-winners and bestsellers, as well as our Melbourne High School lists of genres and recommended books.

Remember to ask the library staff for any further assistance with suggestions. Please feel free to email us with titles that you would like to see in the library or go to the tab "You recommend". We always appreciate your recommendations!

Here's a great site to get you started.

Premier's Reading Challenge - Our Year 9 students participate in the Premier's Reading Challenge. Click here to access these lists.

State Library of Victoria - Electronic Resources for Books and Literature - use your State Library barcode to access these. Join the library if you are not already a member.

	Oxford online literature -  is a book discovery and readers' advisory website, with read-alikes and suggestions, award lists, series lists, author information, reviews, and reader rating.  Includes the contents of the What Do I Read Next database.
	Literature Resource Center provides criticism and biographies from journals and reference books.Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
	Times Literary Supplement - Search the complete content of the Times Literary Supplement Archive from 1902, covering reviews of British publications, theatre, cinema, music, and exhibitions.
	Literature Criticism Online - Gale's most extensive compilation of literary commentary available, including Children's Literature Review; Classical & Medieval Literature Criticism; Contemporary Literary Criticism; Drama Criticism; Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800; Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism; Poetry Criticism; Shakespearean Criticism and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism.

Follow these links to find our favorite book websites.

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