Ebookshelf archive

Can't decide where to dive into the Library's huge range of free nonfiction ebooks? Take inspiration from our archive of suggested titles on a range of themes, gathered together from Ebookshelfs past and present.

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Arts

• Art of memories: curating at the Hermitage; Vincent Antonin Lépinay; Columbia University Press 2019
• Females in the frame: Women, art, and crime; Penelope Jackson; Palgrave Macmillan, 2019 
• Surrealism at play; Susan Laxton, Duke University Press, 2019
• The Palgrave handbook on art crime; Saskia Hufnagel and Duncan Chappell, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019 

Biography & memoir

• After fire: A biography on Clifton Pugh; Sally Morrison; Hardie Grant Books, 2009
• A passion for space: Adventures of a pioneering female NASA flight controller; Marianne J Dyson; Springer, 2015
• A wife's heart; Kerrie Davies; University of Queensland Press, 2017
• After Cleo: Came Jonah; Helen Brown; Allen & Unwin, 2012
• Ah well, nobody's perfect: The untold stories; Molly Meldrum; Allen & Unwin, 2016
• An activist life; Christine Milne; University of Queensland Press 2017
• An imperial affair: Portrait of an Australian marriage; John Rickard; Monash University Publishing, 2013
• Big blue sky: A memoir; Peter Garrett; Allen & Unwin, 2015
• Bloodhound: Searching for my father; Ramona Koval; Text Publishing, 2015
• Bob Ellis: In his own words; Bob Ellis, Anne Brooksbank; Black Inc, 2016
• Breaking the boundaries: Australian activists tell their stories; Yvonne Allen, Joy Noble; Wakefield Press, 2016
• City girl, country girl: The inspiring true stories of courageous women forging new lives in the Australian bush; Liz Harfull; Allen & Unwin, 2016
• Close to home: Selected writings; Alice Pung; Black Inc, 2018
• Cleo: How a small black cat helped heal a family; Helen Brown; Allen & Unwin, 2014
• Confessions of a coffee group dropout: Navigating new motherhood; Eleanor Black; Allen & Unwin, 2012
• Danger music; Eddie Ayres; Allen & Unwin, 2017
• David Syme: Man of the Age; Elizabeth Morrison; Monash University Publishing, 2014
• DH Lawrence's Australia: Anxiety at the edge of empire; David Game; Taylor and Francis, 2016
• Doctor Hugh: My life with animals; Hugh Wirth and Anne Crawford; Allen & Unwin, 2012
• Drawn from the heart: A memoir; Ron Brooks; Allen & Unwin, 2014
• Elephant dawn: The inspirational story of thirteen years living with elephants in the African wilderness; Sharon Pincott; Allen & Unwin, 2016
• Emergencies only: An Australian nurse's journey through natural disasters, extreme poverty, civil wars and general chaos; Amanda McClelland with Simone Ubaldi; Allen & Unwin, 2016
• Every man in this village is a liar; Megan Stack; Scribe Publications, 2010
• Finding a way; Graeme Innes; University of Queensland Press, 2016
• Four seasons with a grumpy goat; Carol Altmann; Allen & Unwin, 2011
• From Moree to Mabo: The Mary Gaudron story; Pamela Burton; UWA Publishing, 2010
• Game changer: My tennis life; Paul McNamee; Text Publishing, 2013
• Gems of a generation: The beading girls; Sue Trethowan-Jones; Port Campbell Press, 2011
• Good losers die broke: A lifetime of tales from the track; Max Presnell; Allen & Unwin, 2017
• Hegel's owl: The life of Bernard Smith; Sheridan Palmer; Power Publications, 2016
• High season: A memoir of heroin and hospitality; Jim Hearn; Allen & Unwin, 2012
• Ida Leeson – A life: Not a blue-stocking lady; Sylvia Martin; Allen & Unwin, 2006
• Impractical jokes; Charlie Pickering; Allen & Unwin, 2012
• In sickness, in health ... and in jail; Mel Jacob; Allen & Unwin, 2016
• Jane Austen: The banker's sister; EJ Clery; Biteback Publishing, 2017
• John Bell, Shakespeare and the quest for a new Australian theatre; Adrian Kiernander; Brill Publishing, 2015
• Just another hurdle: An autobiography; Jana Pittman; Allen & Unwin, 2017
• Kerry Packer: Tall tales and true stories; Michael Stahl; Hardie Grant Books, 2015
• King of the air: The turbulent life of Charles Kingsford Smith; Ann Blainey; Black Inc, 2018
• Mannix; Brenda Niall; Text Publishing, 2015
• Martin Sharp: His life and times; Joyce Morgan; Allen & Unwin, 2017
• Misfits and me: Collected nonfiction; Mandy Sayer; NewSouth Publishing, 2018
• Norman Lindsay: A personal memoir; Douglas Stewart; Allen & Unwin, 2012
• Old days, old ways: Stories from my radio days in the bush; Alex Nicol, Allen & Unwin, 2019
• One life: My mother's story; Kate Grenville; Text Publishing, 2015
• Oscar Wilde: The unrepentant years; Nicholas Frankel; Harvard University Press, 2017
• Our man elsewhere: In search of Alan Moorehead; Thornton McCamish; Black Inc, 2016
• Outback Penguin: Richard Lane's Barwell diaries; Stuart Kells, Fiona Kells, Elizabeth Lane, Louise Paton; Schwartz Publishing, 2016
• Petals and bullets: Dorothy Morris – New Zealand nurse in the Spanish Civil War; Mark Derby; Sussex Academic Press 2015
• Primary school confidential: Confessions from the classroom; Mrs Woog; Allen & Unwin, 2016
• Shadows of survival: A child's memoir of the Warsaw Ghetto; Kristine Keese; Academic Studies Press, 2016
• The accidental entrepreneur: The juicy bits; Janine Allis; John Wiley & Sons, 2016
• The convict's daughter; Kiera Lindsey; Allen & Unwin, 2016
• The enlightened Mr Parkinson: The pioneering life of a forgotten English surgeon; Cherry Lewis; Icon Books, 2017
• The fabulous flying Mrs Miller; Carol Baxter, Allen & Unwin, 2017
• The Great Houdini: His British tours; Derek Tait; Pen & Sword, 2017
• The last Crocodile Hunter; Bob Irwin; Allen & Unwin, 2016
• The life and times of Ward Kimball: Maverick of Disney animation; Todd James Pierce; University Press of Mississippi, 2019
• The May beetles: My first twenty years; Baba Schwartz; Black Inc, 2016
• The shipwreck hunter; David L Mearns, Allen & Unwin, 2017
• The sound of summer: A memoir; Jim Maxwell; Allen & Unwin, 2016
• The Turing guide; Jack Copeland, Jonathan Bowen, B Mark Sprevak, Robin Wilson; Oxford University Press, 2017
• The wisdom of women; Candida Baker; Allen & Unwin, 2012
• They cannot take the sky: Stories from detention; Michael Green, Angelica Neville, Andrea Dao, Dana Affleck, Sienna Merope; Allen & Unwin, 2017
• Two rings: A story of love and war; Millie Werber; Scribe Publications, 2012
• Under cover: Adventures in the art of editing; Craig Munro; Scribe Publications, 2015
• Up until now: The inspiring story of the founder of Quest for Life; Petrea King; Allen & Unwin, 2017
• War letters of General Monash; John Monash, Tony Macdougall; Black Inc, 2015
• Was it something I said? Misadventures in suburbia; Ros Thomas; UWA Publishing, 2014
• Writers on Writers: on Shirley Hazzard; Michelle de Kretser; Black Inc, 2019
• You'll be sorry when I'm dead; Marieke Hardy; Allen & Unwin, 2011

Fiction

• Beautiful revolutionary; Laura Elizabeth Woollett; Scribe Publications, 2018
• The bridge; Enza Gandolfo; Scribe, 2018
• Hope Farm; Peggy Frew; Scribe, 2015
• Little gods; Jenny Ackland; Allen & Unwin, 2018
• The geography of friendship; Sally Piper; University of Queensland Press, 2018
• The natural way of things; Charlotte Wood; Allen & Unwin, 2016  
• The simplest words: A storyteller's journey; Alex Miller; selected and arranged by Stephanie Miller; Allen & Unwin, 2016
• The sisters' song; Louise Allan; Allen & Unwin, 2018
• The unexpected education of Emily Dean; Mira Robertson; Black Inc, 2018
• We that are left; Lisa Bigelow; Allen & Unwin, 2017

Film

• 100 greatest American and British animated films; Thomas S Hischak; Rowman & Littlefield, 2018
• 1968 and global cinema; Christina Gerhardt and Sara Saljoughi (eds); Wayne State University Press, 2018
• Cinema of the Coen brothers: Hard-boiled entertainments; Jeffrey Adams; Columbia University Press, 2015
• Frightmares: A history of British horror cinema; Ian Cooper; Columbia University Press, 2016
• Independent female filmmakers: A chronicle through interviews, profiles and manifestos; Michele Meek; Routledge 2019
• Screenwriting for neurotics: A beginner's guide to writing a feature-length screenplay from start to finish; Scott Winfield Sublett; University of Iowa Press, 2014
• Slow fade to black: The decline of RKO Radio Pictures; Richard B Jewell; University of California Press, 2016
• Space sirens, scientists and princesses: the portrayal of women in sci-fi cinema; Dean Conrad; McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 2018

Food & drink

• A natural history of beer; Rob Desalle and Ian Tattersall; Yale University Press, 2019
• Can it! The perils and pleasures of preserving foods; Gary Allen; Reaktion Books, 2016
• Hamburger gourmet; David Japy, Elodie Rambaud, Victor Garnier; Allen & Unwin, 2013
• Hamburgers in Paradise: The stories behind the food we eat; Louise O Fresco; Princeton University Press, 2016
• Making a meal of it: Smart ways to buy, store and use up food; Jane Willcox and Rosemary Cadden
• Medieval tastes: Food, cooking and the table; Massimo Montanari, Beth Archer; Columbia University Press, 2015
• Mouthfeel: How texture makes taste; Ole G Mouritsen, Klavs Styrbæk; Mariela Johansen (transl); Columbia University Press, 2017
• Sustainable diets: Linking nutrition and food systems; Barbara Burlingame and Sandro Dernini (eds); CAB International, 2018 

History

• 42: Inside the presidency of Bill Clinton; Michael Nelson, Barbara A Perry, Russell L Riley; Cornell University Press, 2016
• A guide to war publications of the First and Second World War: From training guides to propaganda posters; Arthur Ward; Pen & Sword Military, 2014
• A history of Victoria; Geoffrey Blainey; Cambridge University Press; 2013
• A nation and not a rabble: The Irish Revolution 1913–1923; Diarmaid Ferriter; Profile Books, 2015
• A new history of the Irish in Australia; Elizabeth Malcolm and Dianne Hall; NewSouth Publishing, 2018
• A short history of the Vietnam War: The resistance war against America; Gordon Kerr; Oldcastle Books, 2015
• Across the seas: Australia's response to refugees: A history; Klaus Neumann; Schwartz Publishing, 2015
• Advocating Overlord: The D-Day strategy and the atomic bomb; Philip Padgett; Potomac Books, 2018
• An Australian band of brothers: Don Company, Second 43rd Battalion, 9th Division; Mark Johnston; NewSouth Publishing, 2018
• Australia 1944–45: Victory in the Pacific; Peter Dean (ed); Cambridge University Press, 2016
• Australians: A short history; Thomas Keneally; Allen & Unwin, 2016
• Balloonomania belles: Daredevil divas who first took to the skies; Sharon Wright; Pen & Sword History, 2018
• Beyond Rosie: A documentary history of women and World War II; Julia Brock, Jennifer W Dickey, Richard Harker, Catherine Lewis; University of Arkansas Press, 2015
• Black Saturday at Steels Creek; Peter Stanley; Scribe Publications, 2013
• Breaking out: Memories of Melbourne in the 1970s; Susan Blackburn (ed); Hale & Iremonger, 2015
• Chinese market gardening in Australia and New Zealand: Gardens of prosperity; Joanna Boileau; Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
• Code breakers: Inside the shadow world of signals intelligence in Australia's two Bletchley Parks; Craig Collie; Allen & Unwin, 2017
• Courage in the skies: The untold story of Qantas, its brave men and women and their extraordinary role in World War II; Jim Eames; Allen & Unwin, 2017
• D-Day in history and memory; Michael R Dolski, Sam Edwards, John Buckley (eds); University of North Texas Press, 2014
• Decoding the Bayeux Tapestry; Arthur Colin Wright; Frontline Books, 2019
• Deep time dreaming: Uncovering ancient Australia; Billy Griffiths; Black Inc, 2018
• Edwardian ladies' hat fashions: An illustrated history of Edwardian ladies' hats and the feather industry of the period; Peter Kimpton; Pen & Sword History, 2017
• Eyewitness on the Somme 1916; Matthew Richardson; Pen & Sword Military, 2015
• Eyewitnesses at the Somme: A muddy and bloody campaign 1916–1918; Tim Cook; Pen & Sword Military, 2017
• Fallen astronauts: Heroes who died reaching for the moon; Colin Burgess, Kate Doolan, Eugene A Cernan; University of Nebraska Press, 2016
• Gun Alley: Murder, lies and failure of justice; Kevin Morgan; Hardie Grant Books, 2012
• Have ye no homes to go to: The history of the Irish pub; Kevin Martin; Collins Press, 2015
• In the garden of beasts: Love, terror and an American family in Hitler's Berlin; Erik Larson; Scribe Publications, 2011
• James Cook: The voyages; William Frame and Laura Walker; McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018
• Kiwi: The Australian brand that brought a shine to the world; Keith Dunstan; Allen & Unwin, 2017
• Life along the Silk Road (second edition); Susan Whitfield; University of California Press, 2015
• Megachange: Economic disruption, political upheaval and social strife in the 21st century; Darrell M West; Brookings Institution Press, 2016
• Memoirs of an Anzac: A first-hand account by an AIF officer in the First World War; John Charles Barrie; Scribe Publications, 2015
• No small change: The road to recognition for Indigenous Australia; Frank Brennan; University of Queensland Press, 2015
• Not all dead white men: Classics & misogyny in the digital age; Donna Zuckerberg; Harvard University Press, 2018
• Old days, old ways: Stories from my radio days in the bush; Alex Nicol; Allen & Unwin, 2019
• On the home front: Melbourne in wartime, 1939-1945; Kate Darian-Smith; Melbourne University Publishing, 2009  
• Out-of-style: An illustrated guide to vintage fashions: 19th–21st centuries; Betty Kreisel Shubert; Dover Publications, 2018
• Palaces of pleasure: From music halls to the seaside to football, How the Victorians invented mass entertainment; Lee Jackson; Yale University Press, 2019
• Paper emperors: The rise of Australia's newspaper empires; Sally Ann Young; UNSW Press, 2019
• Places women make: Unearthing the contribution of women to our cities; Jane Jose; Wakefield Press, 2015
• Rule Brittania: Brexit and the end of empire; Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinson; Biteback Publishing, 2019
• Samurai assassins: 'Dark murder' and the Meiji Restoration, 1853–1868; Romulus Hillsborough; McFarland & Company Inc, 2017
• Saving Private Sarbi; Sandra Lee; Allen & Unwin, 2011
• Servants' stories: Life below stairs in their own words 1800–1950; Michelle Higgs; Pen & Sword History, 2015
• Star shell reflections 1914–1916: The illustrated Great War diaries of Jim Maultsaid; Jim Maultsaid, Barbara McClune; Pen & Sword Military, 2015
• The Ashgate research companion to paranormal cultures; Olu Jenzen, Sally R Munt; Taylor and Francis, 2016
• The Australian country girl: History, image, experience; Catherine Driscoll; Taylor and Francis, 2016
• The birth of Melbourne; Tim Flannery; Text Publishing, 2007
• The eighties: The decade that transformed Australia; Frank Bongiorno; Schwartz Publishing, 2015
• The grass roots of English history: Local societies in England before the Industrial Revolution; David Hey; Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016
• The luck of politics: True tales of disaster and outrageous fortune; Andrew Leigh; Schwartz Publishing, 2015
• The Melbourne tram book; Randall Wilson, Dale Budd; University of New South Wales Press, 2014
• The oldest house in London; Fiona Rule; The History Press, 2017
• The railroad photography of Jack Delano; Tony Reevy, Pablo Delano; Indiana University Press, 2015
• The rise and fall of Gunns Ltd; Quentin Beresford; NewSouth Publishing, 2015
• The search for HMAS Sydney: An Australian story; Ted Graham, Bob King, Bob Trotter, Kim Kirsner; New South Wales Press, 2014
• The secret code-breakers of Central Bureau: How Australia's signals-intelligence network helped win the Pacific War; David Dufty; Scribe, 2017
• The seventies: The personal, the political and the making of modern Australia; Michelle Arrow; NewSouth Publishing, 2019
• The spirit of inquiry: How one extraordinary society shaped modern science; Susannah Gibson; Oxford University Press, 2019
• The struggle for Catalonia: Rebel politics in Spain; Raphael Minder; Hurst & Company, 2017
• The torrent: A true story of heroism and survival; Amanda Gearing; University of Queensland Press, 2017
• The Tottenham Outrage and Walthamstow tram chase: The most spectacular hot pursuit in history; Geoffrey Barton; Waterside Press, 2017
• The war within: Diaries from the siege of Leningrad; Alexis Peri; Harvard University Press, 2017
• This house of grief: The story of a murder trial; Helen Garner; Text Publishing, 2014
• Those were the days: Australia in the sixties; Ron and Elizabeth Morrison; Exisle Publishing, 2013
• To the edge of the world; Christian Wolmar; Atlantic Books, 2013
• Tunnel Rats: The larrikin Aussie legends who discovered the Vietcong's secret weapon; Sandy MacGregor, Jimmy Thomson; Allen & Unwin, 2013
• Van Diemen's Land: An Aboriginal history; Murray Johnson, Ian McFarlane; UNSW Press, 2015
• We also served: The forgotten women of the First World War; Vivien Newman; Pen & Sword, 2014

Language & literature

• Archaeopoetics: Word, image, history; Mandy Bloomfield; University of Alabama Press, 2016
• Castaway tales: From Robinson Crusoe to Life of Pi; Christopher Palmer; Wesleyan University Press, 2016
• Claiming space for Australian women's writing; Devaleena Das, Sanjukta Dasgupta (eds); Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
• Making sense: The glamorous story of English grammar; David Crystal; Oxford University Press, 2017
• Melbourne; Sophie Cunningham; University of New South Wales Press, 2012
• Practice: Journalism, essays and criticism; Guy Rundle; Black Inc, 2019
• Reading the landscape: A celebration of Australian writing; University of Queensland Press, 2018
• Serials to graphic novels; Catherine J Golden; Columbia University Press, 2014
• Six square metres: Reflections from a small garden; Margaret Simons; Scribe, 2015
• Summer shorts; Peggy Frew, Melanie Joosten, Cate Kennedy et al; Scribe Publications, 2011
• Taller when prone; Les Murray; Carcanet, 2012
• The meaning of everything: The story of the Oxford English Dictionary; Simon Winchester; Oxford University Press, 2018
• The new digital storytelling: Creating narratives with new media; Bryan Alexander; ABC-CLIO, 2017
• The poet's tale: Chaucer and the year that made the Canterbury Tales; Paul Strohm; Profile Books, 2015
• The story of Australian English; Kel Richards; NewSouth Publishing, 2015
• The writer's room; Charlotte Wood; WH Allen, 2016
• Their brilliant careers: The fantastic lives of 16 extraordinary Australian writers; Ryan O'Neill; Black Inc, 2016
• Track changes: A literary history of word processing; Matthew G Kirschenbaum; Harvard University Press, 2016
• Traditional Australian verse; Richard Walsh (ed); Allen & Unwin, 2009
• Use your words: A myth-busting, no-fear approach to writing; Catherine Deveny; Black Inc, 2016
• Vulgar tongues: An alternative history of English slang; Max Décharné; Profile Books, 2016

Music

• And in the end: The last days of the Beatles; Ken McNab; Polygon, 2019
• Australia rocks! Remembering the music of the 1950s to 1990s; Lucy Desoto; Exisle Publishing, 2016
• Dig: Australian rock and pop music, 1960–85; David Nichols; Verse Chorus Press, 2016
• Heroes: David Bowie and Berlin; Tobias Rüther, Anthony Matthews (transl); Reaktion Books, 2014
• Invisible now: Bob Dylan in the 1960s; John Hughes, Professor Derek B Scott, Professor Stan Hawkins; Taylor and Francis, 2016
• Listening for the secret: The Grateful Dead and the politics of improvisation; Ulf Olsson; University of California Press, 2017
• Litpop: Writing and popular music; Rachel Carroll, Adam Hansen, Professor Derek B Scott, Professor Stan Hawkins; Taylor and Francis, 2016
• Modern records, maverick methods: Technology and process in popular music record production 1978-2000; Samantha Bennett; Bloomsbury, 2019
• Music and the exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart; Ralph P Locke; Cambridge University Press, 2015
• Music in our lives; Jonathan L Friedmann; McFarland & Co, 2015
• Songs from the stations; Myfany Turpin; Sydney University Press, 2019
• We'll have Manhattan: The early work of Rodgers & Hart; Dominic Symonds; Oxford University Press, 2015

Popular culture

• On Aunty; Jonathan Holmes; Melbourne University Press, 2019
• A Dagg at my table: Selected writings; John Clarke; Text Publishing, 2012
• A secret history of brands: The dark and twisted beginnings of the brand names we know and love; Matt MacNabb; Pen & Sword History, 2017
• Adulthood is a myth; Sarah Andersen; Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2016
• DAAS, their part in my downfall: How I survived life on the road with the Doug Anthony All-Stars; Paul Livingston; Allen & Unwin, 2016
• Dissent: The student press in 1960s Australia; Sally Percival Wood; Scribe Publications, 2017
• Fan girls and the media: Creating characters, consuming culture; Adrienne Trier-Bieniek; Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2015
• Fan phenomena: Twin Peaks; Marisa C Hayes, Frank Boulègue; Intellect Books, 2013
• First comes love: Power couples, celebrity kinship and cultural politics; Shelley Cobb, Neil Ewen (eds); Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015
• From goodwill to grunge: A history of secondhand styles and alternative economies; Jennifer Le Zotte; University of North Carolina Press, 2017
• If I tell you I'll have to kill you: Australia's top crime writers reveal their secrets; Michael Robotham (ed); Allen & Unwin, 2013
• Japanese tattoos: History, culture, design; Brian Ashcraft with Hori Benny; Tuttle Publishing, 2106
• Mothers on mothers: Maternal readings of popular television; Rebecca Feasey; Peter Lang AG, International Academic Publishers, 2016
• Netflix and the re-invention of television; Mareike Jenner; Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
• Pink ink: The golden era for gay and lesbian magazines; Bill Calder; Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016
• Street style : An ethnography of fashion blogging; Brent Luvaas; Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
• Superfandom: How our obsessions are changing what we buy and who we are; Zoe Fraade-Blanar, Aaron M Glazer; Profile Books, 2017
• The Coca-Cola art of Jim Harrison; Jim Harrison; University of South Carolina Press, 2017
• The Chamberlain case: The legal saga that transfixed the nation; Ken Crispin; Scribe, 2013
• That's the way it crumbles: The American conquest of English; Matthew Engel; Profile Books, 2017
• Thumbelina: The culture and technology of millennials; Michel Serres, Daniel W Smith (transl); Rowman & Littlefield International, 2014
• Toxic geek masculinity in media: Sexism, trolling and identity policing; Anastasia Salter and Bridget Blodgett; Springer International Publishing, 2017
• Women in Game of Thrones: Power, conformity and resistance; Valerie Estelle Frankel; McFarland & Co, 2014

Science, natural history & technology

• A field guide to spiders of Australia; Robert Whyte and Greg Anderson; CSIRO Publishing, 2017
• A lab of one's own: Science and suffrage in the First World War; Patricia Fara; Oxford University Press, 2018
• A sweet, wild note: What we hear when the birds sing; Richard Smyth; Elliott and Thompson Limited, 2017
• Australian wildlife after dark; Martyn Robinson, Bruce Thomson; CSIRO Publishing, 2016
• Bad advice: or why celebrities, politicians & activists aren't your best source of health information; Paul A Offit; Columbia University Press, 2018
• Beachcomber's guide to marine debris; Michael Stachowitsch; Springer, 2018
• Being digital citizens; Engin Isin, Evelyn Ruppert; Rowman & Littlefield International, 2015
• Beyond infinity: An expedition to the outer limits of the mathematical universe; Eugenia Cheng; Profile Books, 2017
• Blossoms: And the genes that make them; Maxine F Singer; Oxford University Press, 2018
• Breaking and entering: The extraordinary story of a hacker called 'Alien'; Jeremy N Smith; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019
• Common sense, the Turing Test and the quest for real AI; Hector J Levesque; MIT Press, 2017
• Ctrl+Z: The right to be forgotten; Meg Leta Jones; New York University Press 2016
• Defiant earth; Clive Hamilton; Allen & Unwin, 2017
• Discovering Australian flora: An Australian National Botanic Gardens experience; Fanny Karouta-Manasse; CSIRO Publishing, 2017 
• Exploring our dreams: The science and the potential for self-discovery; Paul R. Robbins; Exposit Books, 2018  
• Everyday chaos: Technology, complexity and how we’re thriving in a new world of possibility; David Weinberger; Harvard Business Review Press, 2019
• Forewarned: A sceptic's guide to prediction; Paul Goodwin; Biteback Publishing, 2017
• From point to pixel: A genealogy of digital aesthetics; Meredith Anne Hoy; Dartmouth College Press, 2017
• Gut: The inside story of our body's most underrated organ; Giulia Enders, translated by David Shaw; Greystone Books, 2015
• Honeysuckle Creek: The story of Tom Reid, a little dish and Neil Armstrong's first step; Andrew Tink; NewSouth Publishing, 2018
• How Schrödinger's cat escaped the box; Peter Rowlands; World Scientific, 2015
• How the internet became commercial: Innovation, privatisation and the birth of a new network; Shane Greenstein; Princeton University Press, 2015
• Humility is the new smart: Rethinking human excellence in the smart machine age; Edward D Hess, Katherine Ludwig; Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2017
• I hate the internet: A novel; Jarett Kobek; Profile Books, 2016
• Information doesn't want to be free; Corey Doctorow; McSweeney's, 2015
• Java all-in-one for Dummies; Doug Lowe; John Wiley Sons, 2017
• Life at the edge of sight: A photographic exploration of the microbial world; Scott Chimileski and Roberto Kolter; Harvard University Press, 2017
• Miniature lives: Identifying insects in your home and garden; Michelle Gleeson; CSIRO Publishing, 2016
• More than honey: The survival of bees and the future of our world; Markus Imhoof, Claus-Peter Lieckfeld; Greystone Books, 2015
• Natural curiosity: Unseen art of the First Fleet; Louise Anemaat; NewSouth Publishing, 2014
• Networks of outrage and hope: Social movements in the internet age; Manuel Castells; Wiley, 2015
• Nobody owns the moon: The ethics of space exploitation; Tony Milligan; McFarland & Co, 2015
• Physics curiosities, oddities and novelties; John Kimball; CRC Press, 2015
• Quirky quarks: A cartoon guide to the fascinating realm of physics; Benjamin Bahr, Boris Lemmer, Rina Piccolo; Springer, 2016
• Renewal: How nature awakens our creativity, compassion and joy; Andrés R. Edwards; New Society Publishers, 2019  
• Science for life: A manual for better living; Brian Clegg; Icon Books, 2015
• Socialnomics: How social media transforms the way we live and do business; Erik Qualman, John Wiley & Sons, 2013
• Spending time: the most valuable resource; Daniel S Hamermesh; Oxford University Press, 2019
• Space 2.0: How private spaceflight, a resurgent NASA and international partners are creating a new space age; Rod Pyle; BenBella Books, 2019
• Stargazing basics: Getting started in recreational astronomy (2nd edn); Paul E Kinzer; Cambridge University Press, 2015
• Tamed and untamed: Close encounters of the animal kind; Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas; Chelsea Green Publishing, 2017
• Strange chemistry: The stories your chemistry teacher wouldn’t tell you; Steven Farmer, John Wiley & Sons, 2017
• Terrorism in cyberspace: The next generation; Gabriel Weimann; Columbia University Press, 2015
• The bare bones: An unconventional evolutionary history of the skeleton; Matthew F Bonnan; Indiana University Press, 2016
• The cosmic mystery tour; Nicholas Mee; Oxford University Press, 2019
• The hand book: Surviving in a germ-filled world; Miryam Z Wahrman; University Press of New England, 2016
• The hidden life of trees: What they feel, how they communicate; Peter Wohlleben; Greystone Books, 2016
• The passenger pigeon; Errol Fuller; Princeton University Press, 2015
• The PlayStation dreamworld; Alfie Bown; Polity Press, 2018
• The switch; Chris Goodall; Profile Books, 2016
• There is no planet B: a handbook for the make or break years; Mike Berners-Lee; Cambridge University Press, 2019
• Turtles as hopeful monsters: Origins and evolution; Olivier Rieppel; Indiana University Press, 2017
• We are data: Algorithms and the making of our digital selves; John Cheney-Lippold; NYU Press, 2017
• What a plant knows: A field guide to the senses; Daniel Chamovitz; Scribe, 2017
• Win the game of Googleopoly: Unlocking the secret strategy of search engines; Sean V Bradley Wiley, 2015
• Worlds without end: The many lives of the multiverse; Mary-Jane Rubenstein; Columbia University Press, 2014
• Your backyard birds; Grainne Cleary; Allen & Unwin, 2019

Social sciences

• Aging thoughtfully: Conversations about retirement, romance, wrinkles and regret; Martha C Nussbaum and Saul Levmore; Oxford University Press, 2017
• A rightful place: A road map to recognition; Shireen Morris (ed); Black Inc, 2017
• Class wars: Money, schools & power; Tony Taylor; Monash University Press, 2018
• Growing up Aboriginal in Australia; Anita Heiss (ed); Black Inc, 2018
• All edge: Inside the new workplace networks; Clay Spinuzzi; University of Chicago Press, 2015
• Fight like a girl; Clementine Ford; Allen & Unwin, 2016
• Fractured families: Life on the margins in colonial New South Wales; Tanya Evans; UNSW Press, 2015
• Freegans: Diving into the wealth of food waste in America; Alex Barnard; University of Minnesota Press, 2016
• Generation less: How Australia is cheating the young; Jennifer Rayner; Redback Quarterly 2016
• Happy singlehood: The rising acceptance and celebration of solo living; Elyakim Kislev; University of California Press, 2019
• Humanitarianism and media, 1900 to the present; Johannes Paulmann (ed); Berghahn Books, 2019  
• Not enough: Human rights in an unequal world; Samuel Moyn; Harvard University Press, 2018
• One last spin: the power and peril of the pokies; Drew Rooke; Scribe Publications, 2019 
• On violence; Natasha Stott Despoja; Melbourne University Press, 2019
• Out-of-style: An illustrated guide to vintage fashions: 19th–21st centuries; Betty Kreisel Shubert; Dover, 2018
  
• Pardon me for mentioning...; Alex Kaplan, Julie Lewis, Catharine Munro; Allen & Unwin, 2013
• People with disability; Justin Healey (ed); Spinney Press, 2017
• Selfie citizenship; Adi Kuntsman (ed); Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
• Strange material: Storytelling through textiles; Leanne Prain; Arsenal Pulp Press, 2014
• Table talk: Building democracy one meal at a time; Janet A Flammang; University of Illinois Press, 2016
• Testosterone rex: Myths of sex, science and society; Cordelia Fine; WW Norton, 2017
• To be at home: House, work and self in the modern world; Felicitas Hentschke and James Williams (eds); Walter de Gruyter, 2018
• What your mother should've told you and nobody else will; Natalie Reilly; Allen & Unwin, 2012
• Woman of substances: A journey into addiction and treatment; Jenny Valentish; Schwartz Publishing, 2017
• Young people's understandings of men's violence against women; Nancy Lombard; Taylor and Francis, 2016

Sport

• Australian Rules football during the First World War; Dale Blair and Rob Hess; Springer Nature, 2017
• Bradman's war: How the 1948 Invincibles turned the cricket pitch into a battle field; Malcolm Knox; Robson Press, 2013
• Fair go, sport: Inspiring and uplifting tales of the good folks, great sportsmanship and fair play; Peter FitzSimons; Allen & Unwin, 2018  
• Gentlemen and sledgers: A history of the Ashes in 100 quotations and confrontations; Rob Smyth; Head of Zeus, 2015
• Golden boy: Kim Hughes and the bad old days of Australian cricket; Christian Ryan; Allen & Unwin, 2014
• How football began: A global history of how the world's football codes were born; Tony Collins; Routledge, 2019 
• Jumping at the chance: From NBA hopefuls to AFL prospects; Gil Griffin; Black Inc, 2016

Travel

• Atlas obscura: An explorer's guide to the world's hidden wonders; Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras, Ella Morton; Workman Publishing, 2016
• Following Burke and Wills across Australia: A touring guide; Dave Phoenix; CSIRO Publishing, 2015
• Great Australian historic hotels; Barry Stone; Allen & Unwin, 2010
• Great Australian journeys: Gripping stories of intrepid explorers, dramatic escapes and foolhardy adventures; Graham Seal; Allen & Unwin, 2016
• Growing old outrageously: A memoir of travel, food and friendship; Hilary Linstead, Elisabeth Davies; Allen & Unwin, 2012
• Here and there; AA Gill; Hardie Grant Books, 2011
• Luggage; Susan Harlan; Bloomsbury Academic, 2018
• The end of airports; Christopher Schaberg; Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015
• The year we seized the day: A true story of friendship and renewal on the Camino; Elizabeth Best, Colin Bowles; Allen & Unwin, 2010
• Things you get for free; Michael McGirr; Scribe Publications, 2012
• Travels with Bertha: Two years exploring Australia in a 1978 Ford station wagon; Paul Martin; Liberties Press, 2014
• Walks in nature: Melbourne; Viola Design; Hardie Grant Books, 2011

Miscellaneous

• Econobabble: How to decode political spin and economic nonsense; Richard Denniss; Redback Quarterly, 2016
• From global to local: The making of things and the end of globalisation; Finbarr Livesey; Profile Books, 2017
• Ghost-haunted land: Contemporary art and post-Troubles Northern Ireland; Declan Long; Manchester University Press, 2017
• Ghostly encounters: The hauntings of everyday life; Dennis Waskul, Michele Waskul; Temple University Press, 2016
• Great Australian scams, cons and rorts: A book of dodgy schemes and crazy dreams from the bush to the city; Jim Haynes; Allen & Unwin, 2017
• Lego and philosophy: Constructing reality brick by brick; Roy T Cook, Sondra Bacharach (eds); Wiley Blackwell, 2017
• Midlife: A philosophical guide; Kieran Setiya; Princeton University Press, 2017
• Negotiating the impossible: How to break deadlocks and resolve ugly conflicts (without money or muscle); Deepak Malhotra; Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2016
• On borrowed time; Robert Manne; Schwartz Publishing, 2018
• One hundred patents that shaped the modern world; David Segal; Oxford University Press, 2019
• Public art encounters: Art, space and identity; Martin Zebracki, Joni M Palmer; Routledge, 2018
• Quitting plastic: Easy and practical ways to cut down the plastic in your life; Clara Williams Roldan with Louise Williams; Allen & Unwin, 2019
• Red: The art and science of a colour; Spike Bucklow; Reaktion Books, 2016
• Sensing the city: An autistic perspective; Sandra Beale-Ellis, Luke Beardon; Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2017
• Skyscraper Gothic: Medieval style and modernist buildings; Kevin D Murphy, Lisa A Reilly (eds); University of Virginia Press, 2017
• Starting out in shares the ASX way; ASX; Wiley, 2015
• The art of natural building; Catherine Wanek, Michael Smith, Joseph F Kennedy; New Society Publishers, 2015
• The barefoot investor; Scott Pape; John Wiley & Sons, 2016
• The evolution of money; David Orrell and Roman Chlupaty; Columbia University Press, 2016
• The happiness fantasy; Carl Cederström; Polity Press, 2019
• The philosopher's dog; Raimond Gaita; Text Publishing, 2011
• The return of curiosity: What museums are good for in the 21st century; Nicholas Thomas; Reaktion Books, 2016
• The waterless sea: A curious history of mirages; Christopher Pinney; Reaktion Books, 2018
• The woman who fooled the world: Belle Gibson's cancer con; Beau Donelly & Nick Toscano; Scribe Publications 2017
• The work of art: Value in creative careers; Alison Gerber; Stanford University Press, 2017
• Total propaganda: Basic Marxist brainwashing for the angry and the young; Helen Razer; Allen & Unwin, 2017
• Zombies, bananas and why there are no economists in heaven: The economics of real life; Jessica Irvine; Allen & Unwin, 2012