Recommended leisure reading for inter-trimester break
Fiction and creative nonfiction offer us an escape when times in the real world are tough or stressful. Reading a good book allows you to relax and unwind, while still keeping your mind active and your emotions nourished. If you’re looking for a good book to get stuck into over the break, we have a list of recommendations below!
Check them out, and let yourself get lost in someone else’s story.
Top recommendations in fiction
- Legends & lattes by Travis Baldree
- A psalm for the wild-built by Becky Chambers
- A prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
- Space opera by Catherynne M. Valente
- Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang
- The happy couple by Naoise Dolan
- Magic for liars by Sarah Gailey
- An exciting and vivid inner life by Paul Dalla Rosa
- The girl with the red balloon by Katherine Locke
- The island of missing trees by Elif Shafak
- Haifa fragments by Khulud Khamis
- The accidental by Ali Smith
- Miss Treadway & the field of stars by Miranda Emmerson
- The dawnhounds by Sascha Stronach
- Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
- The white girl by Tony Birch
- The flight of birds by Joshua Lobb and Fiona Probyn-Rapsey
- Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray River of Dreams by Anita Heiss
- The stranger by Kathryn Hore
- Devotion by Hannah Kent
Top recommendations in nonfiction
- Saving time: discovering a life beyond the clock by Jenny Odell
- Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s invisible life by Anna Funder
- Look alive out there: essays by Sloane Crosley
- Why do birds do that? by Dr Gráinne Cleary; illustrations by Estee Sarsfield
- You could look it up: the reference shelf from ancient Babylon to Wikipedia by Jack Lynch
- On poetry by Glyn Maxwell
- Muddy people: a memoir by Sara El Sayed
- A real piece of work: a memoir in essays by Erin Riley
- Personal score by Ellen van Neerven
- Imagining the future of climate change: world-making through science fiction and activism by Shelley Streeby
Looking for more?
Simply choose ‘Advanced Search’ from the library homepage, type ‘Fiction’ into the search box and select ‘SU Subject Terms’ in the dropdown. If you want to find e-books only, you can add it as a filter after your initial search. There are thousands of options, so don’t hesitate to make your search terms more specific!