Reading list: Elizabeth Coleman's top titles
On Tuesday 17 June, Elizabeth Coleman joins us for So You Want to Write a Crime Novel?, a writing workshop for budding authors to craft your own gripping crime story scenarios. Elizabeth has curated the following reading list of her personal top recommended titles.
Big Smart: curated reading list by Nicholas Currie
First Nations artist Nicholas Currie (Mulunjali and Kuku Yalanji) has guest curated Incinerator Gallery's current exhibition Big Smart, showing from 12 April–8 June 2025. Nicholas has also curated an exclusive reading list of titles available through Moonee Valley Libraries, which explores the diverse modes of pedagogy within, and from the understandings of, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
Nicholas says his reading list is “curated from a personal love for these pieces of literature. The through line of the texts are that they have been pivotal to my understanding of contemporary Indigenous art and perspective.”

News
Ascot Vale Library Redevelopment
Warm Winter Read
Upcoming Events
- Board Games Club
Pop-up Library
Fri 6th Jun | 4:00pm
Lego ClubNiddrie Library
Tue 10th Jun | 4:00pm
Happy #BookfaceFriday! 🌿
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📣 Please note all Moonee Valley Libraries branches will be closed on Monday 9 June.
Whilst branches are closed:
📚 Return chutes will remain open
📲 Items can be renewed on our app or catalogue
🎧 eBooks, audiobooks, and other digital library items can be found via our website.
We will be back on Tuesday 10 June as usual.Jun 4
Public libraries across Victoria invite adults aged 16+ to participate in the Warm Winter Read!
With amazing prizes up for grabs and loads of fun activities, you can connect with the Victorian reading community and ensure you enjoy plenty of reading time throughout winter.
Our reading ambassadors have suggested some fabulous titles for you to read, and public libraries everywhere are well equipped to help you find exactly what you feel like reading anytime you ask!
Register and participate online, or visit your local library anywhere in Victoria to register in person.
🔗 readbooks.com.au/wwr
👉 Check the collaborator accounts for a clickable link in their bio.
To enter the state-wide prize draw you can either write and submit book reviews or track your reading - or both! The more you participate, the more prize draws you enter. Sound good?!
The Warm Winter Read runs from 1 June until 31 August 2025 and is a statewide reading campaign coordinated by Public Libraries Victoria, and kindly sponsored by Libby, uLibrary and Wilkinson Publishing.
#publiclibraries #librarieschangelives #WWR25 #warmwinterread #warmwinterread2025 #reading @libbyapp_anz @ulibrary @wilkinsonpublishinghouseMay 31
Today is the last day of autumn, which means one thing: we are geared up for a full program of winter library events! ❄️ Grab a copy of our winter What`s On brochure at any branch, or browse our events webpage to secure your bookings (link in bio). 🤩
#MooneeValleyLibraries #LibrariesChangeLives #WhatsOnMVMay 30
#FlashbackFriday ⏳ Salmon Reserve, at the far end of Woodlands Park, in the early years of the 20th century. The reserve was named after William Salmon, who planted these trees. He was an early supporter of re-forestation, claiming around the time this photo was taken that "the timber wantonly destroyed since I came to Australia [the early 1880s] would have paid the national debt of the Commonwealth as it stands today". 🌳🐟
📷 State Library Victoria
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Happy #BookfaceFriday! 😎
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