Top 10 Books for Spring

From the Sydney Writer's Festival For bookworms the world over, with an improvement in the weather comes a desire to lie on the grass in the shade of a hundred-year-old tree and be transported by a truly good book. To get you on your way, Sydney Writers' Festival Artistic Director Jemma Birrell and Head of Children's Programs Jeanmarie Morosin have listed their top ten books for spring. Here they are in no particular order...

Artistic Director Jemma Birrell's Top 10 Books for Spring

1.      Lucky Us by Amy Bloom 2.     Amnesia by Peter Carey 3.     The Wife Drought by Annabel Crabb 4.     This House of Grief  by Helen Garner 5.     Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay 6.     Women in Clothes: Why We Wear What We Wear by Sheila Heti, Leanne Shapton and Heidi Julavits 7.     1004 by Ben Lerner 8.     The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell 9.     A Bone of Fact by David Walsh 10. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami

Head of Children's Programs Jeanmarie Morosin's Top 10 Children's Picture Books for Spring

1.      Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert 2.     A Forest by Marc Martin 3.     Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen 4.     Where is the Green Sheep? by Mem Fox and Judy Horacek 5.     How To by Julie Morstad 6.     Springtime for Jeanne-marie by Francoise Seignobosc 7.     The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle 8.     All Through the Year by Jane Godwin and Anna Walker 9.     Seasons by Blexbolex 10. Charley Harper ABCs by Charley Harper