Get Reading 2011

The Get Reading campaign starts in a few weeks on the 29th of August.

This is an initiative run by the Australian Government to try and get people to read.

A list of 50 books that you 'can't put down' is selected, and when one of these titles is purchased, the buyer receives a free book. This year's free books are 10 Short Stories You Must Read in 2011, which includes contributions from Larissa Behrendt, John Birmingham, James Bradley, Miranda Darling, Cate Kennedy, Caroline Overington, James Phelen, Jessica Rudd and Charlotte Wood for adult readers and The Land of Dragons by children’s author Emily Rodda.

This year's list is below;

• Life Without Limits (Nick Vujicic, A&U)
• Tamil Tigress (Niromi de Soyza, A&U)
• True Spirit (Jessica Watson, Hachette)
• Wildflower (Kasey Chambers, HaperCollins)
• Trouble Twisters (Garth Nix & Sean Williams, A&U)
• Mr Badger and the Big Surprise (Leigh Hobbs, A&U)
• Museum of Thieves (Lian Tanner, A&U)
• Billie B Brown: The Secret Message (Sally Rippin & Aki Fukuoka, Hardie Grant Egmont)
• The Three Doors #1: The Golden Door (Emily Rodda, Omnibus)
• Heroes of Olympus – The Lost Hero (Rick Riordan, Puffin)
• Prime Cut (Alan Carter, Fremantle Press)
• The Snowman (Jo Nesbo, Vintage)
• Blood Line (Lynda La Plante, S&S)
• The Painted Man (Peter V Brett, Voyager)
• The Left Hand of God (Paul Hoffman, Michael Joseph)
• North Star (Karly Lane, A&U)
• The Siren’s Sting (Miranda Darling, A&U)
• Caleb’s Crossing (Geraldine Brooks, Fourth Estate)
• Freedom (Jonathan Franzen, Fourth Estate)
• All That I Am (Anna Funder, Hamish Hamilton)
• Five Bells (Gail Jones, Vintage)
• I Came to Say Goodbye (Caroline Overington, Bantam)
• The Briny Café (Susan Duncan, Bantam)
• Sarah Thornhill (Kate Grenville, Text)
• Last Chance Café (Liz Byrski, Pan Macmillan)
• African Dawn (Tony Park, Pan Macmillan)
• The Plantation (Di Morrissey, Macmillan)
• That Deadman Dance (Kim Scott, Picador)
• How It Feels (Brendan Cowell, Picador)
• Without Warning (John Birmingham, Pan)
• The Passage (Justin Cronin, Orion)
• When God Was a Rabbit (Sarah Winman, Headline)
• One Day (David Nicholls, Hodder & Stoughton)
• Past the Shallows (Favel Parrett, Hachette)
• Rescue (Anita Shreve, Little Brown)
• The Gold Rush (David Hill, Random House)
• Listening to Country (Ros Moriarty, A&U)
• Blood on My Hands (Craig Jurisevic, Wild Dingo Press)
• Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad (Bee Rowlatt & May Witwit, Penguin)
• Me of the Never Never (Fiona O’Loughlin, Hachette)
• The Korean War (Cameron Forbes, Macmillan)
• In the Best Interest of the Game (Darrell Hair, ABC Books)
• Treasure Yourself (Miranda Kerr, Hay House)
• Baby Wombats Week Board Book (Jackie French & Bruce Whatley, HarperCollins)
• The Flying Orchestra (Clare McFadden, UQP)
• Mice (Gordon Reece, A&U)
• Last Sacrifice: Vampire Academy V6 (Richelle Mead, Penguin)
• Passion (Lauren Kate, Doubleday)
• The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins, Scolastic)
• Lament (Maggie Stiefvater, Flux).

For more information you can visit the official website

http://www.getreading.com.au/