Randwick City Library has books, magazines, CDs and DVDs as well as eBooks, eAudiobooks, eMagazines and spoken word books.

Special Collections

Red Hot Reads - a changing collection of the latest, recently reviewed books. Three-week loan, no renewals, no reserves.

Bestsellers - a selection of current popular books, updated regularly to reflect retail book sales. Three-week loan, no renewals, no reserves.  If you have a popular book on reserve and you're super keen to read it, see if it's also a bestseller!

Hidden Gems - specially selected by library staff; including great reads and old favourites. Available at all three branches.

Winner's circle - a collection of literary prize winners. Only available at Lionel Bowen Library.

All three branches feature new books – just ask our staff to show you where they are.

2024 Stella Prize

The Stella Prize celebrates the best book by an Australian woman, whether fiction or nonfiction, in the previous calendar year.

The winner for 2024 is:

• Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright

Watch Alexis Wright's acceptance speech here.

The other nominations for the 2024 shortlist are:

• The Swift Dark Tide by Katia Ariel
• Body Friend by Katherine Brabon
• Feast by Emily O’Grady
• Hospital by Sanya Rushdi, translated by Arunava Sinha
• Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead by Hayley Singer

See the details for the 2024 Stella Prize shortlist here.