Warm Winter Read 2026

Welcome back to Warm Winter Read! To keep you inspired to read daily this season, this year's author-ambassadors Jaclyn Crupi, John Morrissey, Keshe Chow, Melanie Saward, Jo Dixon, Kate Solly and Shaun Micallef have recommended thirty books across a wide variety of forms and genres, fiction and non-fiction, for you to enjoy.

Stay warm and get reading this winter!

Updated May 12, 2026
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This all come back now : an anthology of First Nations speculative fiction
Saunders, Mykaela
Paper Book
The first-ever anthology of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander speculative fiction - written, curated, edited and designed by blackfellas, for blackfellas and about blackfellas. In these stories, 'this all come back'- all those things that have been taken from us, that we collectively mourn the...
Swordcrossed
Marske, Freya
Paper Book
DELUXE EDITION--featuring gorgeous rich rose sprayed edges! High heat. Low stakes. Sharp steel. The cozy, low stakes of Legends & Lattes meets the scorching bodyguard fantasy of Jennifer L. Armentrout's From Blood and Ash in this...
The Milkwood permaculture living handbook : habits for hope in a changing world
Bradley, Kirsten
Paper Book
What if your habits could create a more meaningful life for you and a better world? The Milkwood Permaculture Living Handbook is your guide to improving your home, health and happiness - and the planet - one simple step at a time. Packed with practical skills...
Black leopard, red wolf
James, Marlon
Paper Book
Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter - and he always works alone. But when he is engaged to find a child who disappeared three years ago, he must break his own rules, joining a group of eight very different mercenaries working together to find the boy. Following the...
Why we garden: on the joy and wonder of growing things, even when we don't have to
Moloney, Hannah.
Paper Book
In a world of well-stocked supermarkets and florists, why do we garden, even though we don't have to? This was the question that fascinated Hannah Moloney. So she went out and asked. She spoke to politicians, artists, community leaders, activists and thousands of ordinary...
Future-steading : live like tomorrow matters : practical skills, recipes + rituals for a simpler life
Miles, Jade
Paper Book
A stunningly illustrated practical guide to growing, preserving and sharing the food that grounds us.
The fifth season
Jemisin, N. K.
Paper Book
At the end of the world, a woman must hide her secret power and find her kidnapped daughter in this "intricate and extraordinary" Hugo Award winning novel of power, oppression, and revolution. (The New York Times) This is the way the world ends. . .for the last time. ...
The stone sky
Jemisin, N. K
Paper Book
Humanity will finally be saved or destroyed in the shattering conclusion to the post-apocalyptic and highly acclaimed NYT bestselling trilogy that won the Hugo Award three years in a row. The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or...
The obelisk gate
Jemisin, N. K.
Paper Book
Essun's missing daughter grows more powerful every day, and her choices may destroy the world in this "magnificent" Hugo Award winner and NYT Notable Book. (NPR) The season of endings grows darker, as civilization fades into the long cold night. Essun -- once...
The compost coach : make compost, build soil and grow a regenerative garden - wherever you live!
Flood, Kate
Paper Book
Spin food waste and household carbon into garden gold, learn about how and why soil matters, and make climate activism an everyday mission, with compost coach Kate Flood.
Vow of eternal night
Crozier, Lily.
Paper Book
Now a top 10 bestseller! Clara Wagner has always known that monsters are real, and that the worst of them is Prince Raleigh of Rostenburg. For years the prince has treated his people as livestock to sate his thirst for blood. But when he decides it's time to marry, Clara...
A forbidden alchemy
McEwan, Stacey
Paper Book
Australian BookTok star Stacey McEwan's stunning slow-burn romantasy series traces a fated pair who stumble upon a world-changing secret and are catapulted into a violent class war, finding each other amidst love, loss, and devasting betrayals. Nina Harrow and Patrick Colson...
An academic affair
McAlister, Jodi
Ebook
Prize catch
Carter, Alan
Paper Book
When Roz Chen's wife, Niamh, is killed in a hit-and-run on a lonely Tasmanian road, the grieving widow begins to wonder if Niamh's death was an accident after all. Meanwhile, SAS veteran Sam Willard is hoping for a fresh start with a job at a salmon farm. But as allegations of old war crimes surface...
The Couples Retreat
Mercier, Mercedes.
Paper Book
There's nothing more dangerous than someone who remembers who you used to be. At a secluded beachfront mansion on Kangaroo Island, three wealthy couples gather for a weekend of partying and luxury indulgence. But beneath the glitter and excess, deep rivalries and explosive...
The wolf tree
McCluskey, Laura
Paper Book
"If you like Tana French, you will love this one. It's fun and suspenseful and it kept me up late." --Jenna Bush Hager Eilean Eadar is a barren, windswept rock best known for the unsolved mystery of the three lighthouse keepers who vanished back in 1919. But when a young man is...
The stranger at the table
Hamer, Cassie
Paper Book
A family gathering, but not everyone who sits down to dinner will survive it. Poisonous lies, family secrets, addiction and revenge - always a dish best served cold - are all on the menu. For readers of Sally Hepworth, Jo Dixon and Ali Lowe, this twisty domestic suspense holds you captive from...
The tea ladies
Hampson, Amanda
Paper Book
A wickedly witty cosy crime novel set in Sydney in the swinging sixties, ideal for fans of Richard Osman and Bonnie Garmus.She keeps everyone's secrets, until there's a murder...Sydney, 1965: After a chance encounter with a stranger, mild-mannered tea lady Hazel Bates becomes an accidental sleuth,...
Miss Caroline Bingley, private detective
Gardiner, Kelly
Paper Book
A missing maid. A murder most foul. A highly imprudent adventure. Only her fine eyes can uncover the truth. ''Pure indulgence! Full of ardent amours, dastardly deeds and rakish rogues'' KATE FORSYTH ''Miss Bingley dismounts her high horse and reinvents herself as a brilliant...
The benevolent society of ill-mannered ladies
Goodman, Alison
Paper Book
A high society amateur detective at the heart of Regency London uses her wits and invisibility as an 'old maid' to protect other women in a new and fiercely feminist historical mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Alison Goodman. Winner of the 2024 Davitt Readers' Choice...
A disappearance in Fiji
Rao, Nilima
Paper Book
A charming debut historical mystery set in 1914 Fiji.
Annihilation
VanderMeer, Jeff
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM ALEX GARLAND, STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN AND OSCAR ISAAC NOW AVAILBLE IN A SPECIAL NEW TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION The Southern Reach Trilogy begins with Annihilation,...
Love is a war song
Nava, Danica
Paper Book
Their love is the song of the summer. 'A sharp, funny, and deliciously slow-burning romance . . . Love is a War Song is the book of the summer!' LYLA SAGE 'A swoony love story . . . It's a must read for all romance book lovers' HANNAH GRACE

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