Borrow an award-winning book this mid-semester break

Borrow an award-winning book this mid-semester break

Find your favourite reading chair and enjoy one of these acclaimed books while you take time away from classes.

The Library has recently added the winners of the 2026 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards to our collection. Browse the list of available titles, both in print and e-book formats, to choose your mid-semester break read.

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The Rot by Evelyn Araluen

Awards: Victorian Prize for Literature & Indigenous Writing

A liturgy for girlhood in the dying days of late-stage capitalism, these poems expose fraying nerves and tendons of a speaker refusing to avert their gaze from the death of Country, death on Country, and the bloody violence of settler colonies here and afar. (Source: UQP)

Borrow The Rot
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Fierceland by Omar Musa

Award: Fiction

How do you mourn your father when you know his secrets? A trailblazing journey across the globe, Fierceland weaves the past and the present into an emotionally powerful family saga that plays out at a mythical scale. (Source: Penguin)

Borrow Fierceland
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Find Me at the Jaffa Gate: An encyclopaedia of a Palestinian family by Micaela Sahhar

Award: Nonfiction

Fixing her gaze on moments, places and objects – from the streets of Bethlehem to the Palestinian neighbourhoods of the New Jerusalem – Micaela Sahhar assembles a story of Palestinian diaspora. (Source: UNSW Press)

Borrow Find Me at the Jaffa Gate
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Super by Emilie Collyer

Award: Drama

Hilarious, poignant and strange, Super examines our urge to do good and what happens when this effort comes up against the relentless forces of capitalism. (Source: emiliecollyer.com)

Borrow Super
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Kontra by Eunice Andrada

Award: Poetry

In this collection by the multi-award-winning Filipina-Australian poet Eunice Andrada, characters reckon with the constraints of the past in order to claim a future of their own making. (Source: Giramondo Publishing)

Borrow Kontra
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This Stays Between Us by Margot McGovern

Award: John Marsden Prize for Writing for Young Adult

Margot McGovern’s love letter to 90s horror films will keep you on the edge of your seat. Four girls share a cabin in an abandoned town where the ghost of Smiling Jack haunts isolated campers. But when you call on the darkness, sometimes the darkness replies . . . (Source: Penguin)

Borrow This Stays Between Us
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Once I Was a Giant by Zeno Sworder

Award: Children’s Literature

A multi-award-winning picture book for all ages about hope for the future, the power of small beings and the special friendship of trees. (Source: Thames & Hudson)

Borrow Once I Was a Giant
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Discipline by Randa Abdel-Fattah

Award: People’s Choice

With a focus on two of today’s most contested fields, academia and the media, Discipline tallies the price we all pay when those with privilege choose to remain silent. (Source: UQP)

Borrow Discipline

Other leisure reading

If you are looking for more books to read for enjoyment, check out our Wellbeing Collection guide for other options. Enjoy your break!

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