Books Aliiiive!!!!!

Books Alive is a government initiative to get people reading. Every year a list of 50 contemporary Australian and international
books is compiled, apparently hand-picked by booklovers across Australia, (though I don't know how you can recommend a book for the list) with many different tastes and preferences.

The Book of Rapture
The Slap
The Lieutenant
The Rip
Dead Man Running
The Scarecrow
Shantaram
Too Close to Home
206 Bones
Shatter
How to Break Your Own Heart
Dear Fatty
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Parky: My Autobiography
The Greatest Show on Earth
The Road
Through a Glass Darkly
Heart and Soul
The Young Widow’s Book of Home Improvement
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
The Night My Bum Dropped
To Love, Honour and Betray
The True Story of Butterfish
Occy
True Colours
A Most Wanted Man
A Fraction of the Whole
Australian Tragic
Pacific Fury
1788
My God! It’s a Woman
The People’s Train
The 19th Wife
Dog Boy
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Wanting
Dark Country
A Beautiful Place to Die
It’s All Too Much
The Host
Brisingr
Finnikin of the Rock
Eagle Day
Robot Riot!
Somebody’s Crying
Pearlie in the Park
The Graveyard Book
The Nixie’s Song
From Little Things Big Things Grow
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes

So pick a book (it doesn't even have to be one of these) and get reading