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Our librarians’ picks
Our expert librarians suggest their top 10 books and audiobooks.
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- There's No Such Thing As An Easy Job – Kikuko Tsumura
- The Power of Geography – Tim Marshall
- Wild Swimming – Sally Tertini
- My Rock n Roll Friend – Tracey Thorn
- Loud – Tana Douglas
- Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray – Anita Heiss
- Hamnet – Maggie O'Farrell
- The Crossing Places – Elly Griffiths
- Girl A – Abigail Dean
- On Fairness – Sally McManus
- Sixteen ways to defend a walled city – KJ. Parker
- Reckoning – Magda Szubanski
- Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie, read by Kenneth Branagh
- The seven deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle – Stuart Turton, read by Jot Davies
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams, read by Stephen Fry
- Animal farm – George Orwell, read by Simon Callow
- All Our Shimmering Skies – Trent Dalton, read by Ruby Rees
- The Dictionary of Lost Words – Pip Williams, read by Imogen Sage
- Nine Perfect Strangers – Liane Moriarty, read by Caroline Lee
- Phosphorescence: on awe, wonder & things that sustain you when the world goes dark – Julia Baird, read by Julia Baird
- The Midnight Library – Matt Haig, read by Carey Mulligan
- Giraffes can't dance – Giles Andreae
- Each Pear Pear Plum – Janet and Allan Ahlberg
- It's the bear – Jez Alborough
- Nobody owns the moon – Tohby Riddle
- No! Never! – Mel Pearce
- Rodney loses it – Michael Gerard Bauer
- The problem with problems – Rachel Rooney
- Gary – Leila Rudge
- The giving tree – Shel Silverstein
- I want my hat back – Jon Klassen
- Hatchet – Gary Paulsen
- The Book of Australian Trees – Inga Simpson
- The Trials of Morrigan Crow – Jessica Toensend
- My Sweet Orange Tree – José Mauro de Vasconcelos
- The Bugalugs Bum Thief – Tim Winton
- The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, translated by Irene Testot-Ferry
- Ghost – Jason Reynolds
- Watership Down – Richard Adams
- Howls Moving Castle – Diana Wynne Jones
- Sally's Story – Sally Morgan
- The End of the World is Bigger than Love – Davinia Bell
- Lore – Alexandra Bracken
- Concrete Rose – Angie Thomas
- The Shadows Between Us – Tricia Levenseller
- The Prison Healer – Lynette Noni
- The Inheritance Games – Jennifer Lynn Barnes
- Girl, Serpent, Thorn – Melissa Bashardoust
- Avatar, the last airbender: rise of Kyoshi – F C. Yee, with Avata co-creator, Michael Dante DiMartino.
- Honeybee (ebook) – Craig SIlvey
- The Book Thief (ebook) – Markus Zusak
- Grandpa's great escape – David Walliams, read by David Walliams, Nitin Ganatra and Michael Gambon
- Pongwiffy – Kaye Umansky, read by Prunella Scales
- How to train your dragon – Cressida Cowell, read by David Tennant
- Going solo – Roald Dahl, read by Dan Stevens
- The magic faraway tree – Enid Blyton, read by Kate Winslet
- The Beatrix Potter Collection – Beatrix Potter, read by Patricia Routledge, Andrew Scott
- The wind in the willows – Kenneth Grahame, read by Richard Briers
- Help around the house – Morris Gleitzman, read by Morris Gleitzman
- Lion the witch and the wardrobe – CS Lewis
- The Hobbit – J. R. R. Tolkien
