By WIlliam Shakespeare

The epic, tragic love story reads like your favourite film on the page - as Death stubbornly hovers over the heads of our star-crossed lovers.

By Lynn Painter

Perpetual daydreamer Liz Buxbaum gave her heart to Michael a long time ago. But he never really saw her before he moved away. Now that he's back in town, Liz will do whatever it takes to get on his radar and maybe snag him as a prom date, even befriend Wes Bennett. The annoyingly attractive next-door neighbor might seem like a prime candidate for romantic comedy fantasies, but Wes has only been a pain since they were kids. Pranks involving frogs and decapitated lawn gnomes do not a potential boyfriend make. Yet, somehow, Wes and Michael are hitting it off, which means Wes is Liz's in. But as Liz and Wes scheme to get Liz noticed by Michael so she can have her magical prom moment, she's shocked to discover that she likes being around Wes.

By Lynn Painter

Groundhog day meets Valentine's Day meets rom-com.

After living through a dumpster fire of a Valentine's Day, Emilie Hornby escapes to her grandmother's house for some comfort and a consolation pint of Ben & Jerry's. She passes out on the couch, but when she wakes up, she's back home in her own bed -- and it's Valentine's Day all over again. And the next day? Another nightmare V-Day. Emilie is stuck in some sort of time loop nightmare that she can't wake up from.

By Karen Comer

Grace Dalfinch is a talented violinist who longs to play contemporary music in bars, but her mum forbids her. James Crux is an aspiring street artist who promised his dad he wouldn't paint in public until he's finished school. When Crux witnesses Grace's impromptu performance on a deserted tram, he's inspired to paint her and her violin; and when Grace stumbles across her portrait in a Melbourne alley by an anonymous street artist, she sets out to find its creator.

By Kacen Callender

By Bryony Gordon

By Lucy Jane Bledsoe

By Kate Emery

By Zanni Louise

By A.J. Rushby

By Tobias Madden

By Ann Liang

By Katy Warner

By Neal Shusterman. Arc of a Scythe series.

There are still countless tales of the Scythedom to tell. Centuries passed between the Thunderhead cradling humanity and Scythe Goddard trying to turn it upside down. For years humans lived in a world without hunger, disease, or death with Scythes as the living instruments of population control.

By Leigh Bardugo. Book #2 of Alex Stern series.

Find a gateway to the underworld. Steal a soul out of hell. A simple plan, except people who make this particular journey rarely come back. But Galaxy Alex Stern is determined to break Darlington out of purgatory, even if it costs her a future at Lethe and at Yale. Forbidden from attempting a rescue, Alex and Dawes can't call on the Ninth House for help, so they assemble a team of dubious allies to save the gentleman of Lethe. Together, they will have to navigate a maze of arcane texts and bizarre artifacts to uncover the societies' most closely guarded secrets, and break every rule doing it.

By Dana Schwartz. Book #2 of Anatomy Duology.

Hazel Sinnett is alone. She's half-convinced the events of the year before -- the immortality, Beecham's vial -- were a figment of her imagination. She doesn't even know if Jack is alive or dead. All she can really do is run her free clinic, helping people and maintaining Hawthornden Castle as it starts to decay around her. When saving a life leads to her arrest, Hazel seems doomed to rot in prison until a message intervenes: Hazel has been specifically requested to be the personal physician of Princess Charlotte, the sickly daughter of King George IV.

By Colin Meloy

By Holly Black. Folk of the Air series

By Melanie La'Brooy

By Anita Heiss

Gundagai, 1852. The powerful Murrumbidgee River surges through town leaving death and destruction in its wake. It is a stark reminder that while the river can give life, it can just as easily take it away. Wagadhaany is one of the lucky ones. She survives. But is her life now better than the fate she escaped? Forced to move away from her miyagan, she walks through each day with no trace of dance in her step, her broken heart forever calling her back home to Gundagai. When she meets Wiradyuri stockman Yindyamarra, Wagadhaany's heart slowly begins to heal. But still, she dreams of a better life, away from the degradation of being owned.

By Katrina Nannestad

It's the Second World War and Himmler's Lebensborn Program is in full flight when eight-year-old Zofia Ulinski is kidnapped by the Germans. She has blonde hair and blue eyes, just like the other Polish children taken from their families and robbed of their names, their language, their heritage. But when Zofia is adopted into a wealthy and loving German family, it is easier, it is safer to bury her past, deep down, so everything is forgotten. Until the Polish boy arrives. And the past comes back to haunt her.

By Waka T. Brown

When twelve-year-old Waka's parents suspect she can't understand basic Japanese they speak to her, they make the drastic decision to send her to Tokyo to live for several months with her strict grandmother. Forced to say goodbye to her friends and what would have been her summer vacation, Waka is plucked from her straight-A-student life in rural Kansas and flown across the globe, where she faces the culture shock of a lifetime.

By Chloe Gong

In 1931 Shanghai, two Nationalist spies pose as a married couple to investigate a series of brutal murders causing unrest in the city.

By Mike Lucas

Witches only exist in stories. Everyone knows that. But what if the stories are real? Four friends. Four truths. One nightmare. If you wander into the wood. If you hear scratching sounds from the Old Quarry. If you go too close to the edge. Watch. Out.

By Holly Jackson

Red Kenny is on a road trip for spring break with five friends: Her best friend, the older brother, his perfect girlfriend, a secret crush, a classmate and a killer. When their RV breaks down in the middle of nowhere with no cell service, they soon realise this is no accident. They have been trapped by someone out there in the dark, someone who clearly wants one of them dead. With eight hours until dawn, the six friends must escape, or figure out which of them is the target. But is there a liar among them?

By Chloe Hayden

Growing up, Chloe Hayden felt like she'd crash-landed on an alien planet where nothing made sense. Eye contact? Small talk? And why are you people so touch-oriented? She moved between 10 schools in 8 years, struggling to become a person she believed society would accept, and was eventually diagnosed with autism and ADHD. When a life-changing group of allies showed her that different did not mean less, she learned to celebrate her true voice and find her happily ever after. Whether you're neurodivergent or supporting those who are, Different, Not Less will inspire you to create a more inclusive world where everyone feels like they belong.

By Ellen van Neerven

This wide-ranging and captivating anthology showcases both the power of First Nations writing and the satisfaction of a good short story. Curated by award-winning author Ellen van Neerven, Flock roams the landscape of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander storytelling, bringing together voices from across the generations. Featuring established authors such as Tony Birch and Melissa Lucashenko, and rising stars such as Adam Thompson and Mykaela Saunders, Flock confirms the ongoing resonance and originality of First Nations stories.

By Lowey Bundy Sichol

Shares the stories of 15 women who changed the world through their entrepreneurship. Presents five industries that women are leading in recent years: food, fashion and clothing, health and beauty, science and technology, and education. Readers learn about how the women featured risked their early careers, gave up their salaries, and sometimes even went against the approval of their families to follow their passions. Today, these women are modern leaders, worth billions of dollars and employing tens of thousands of individuals. The women profiled in Idea Makers will show readers how business can change the world.

Graham Wallace has been in love with the girl next door for a decade. Unfortunately, she's been dating his best friend for the past two years. Out of sheer desperation, Graham makes a wish on a shooting star - all he wants for Christmas is Sarah Clarke.

When Graham wakes up the next morning, everything has changed...

Isla Riddle has been obsessed with True Love for as long as she can remember. Books, TV, movies - if it's a story about star-crossed lovers, ill-fated lover, or love conquering all, Isla has read it, seen it, and talked nonstop about it. She's also dedicated her life to it by helping her mom build up Riddle's Bridal Boutique and Wedding Planning, a business they started together after her dad left town... and they've just received their biggest break yet: a high society bride with a million-dollar budget.

Evelyn Waverley, Christmas High's Senior Class President, volunteer at every Christmas charity drive, and basic overachiever, has a problem - she's co-directing and starring in her dream role as Elizabeth Bennet in her high school's production of 'A Pride and Prejudice Christmas', but Greg Bailey, the boy who was supposed to play Darcy broke his leg.

Enter Beckett Hawthorne, Aunt Bee's nephew, former child prodigy, and recent juvenile delinquent.

College freshman Savannah Mason doesn't believe in magic or true love. She believes in science, and science tells her that love is nothing more than a biological impulse. Which is a good thing because no woman in her family has ever been lucky in love. But Savannah is determined to rewrite her story, and as far as she's concerned, she's never going to fall in love.

"I've been locked up for 264 days"

- Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

"I stood in front of today's schedule still holding my skateboard, still drenched from the ride over, and still desperately wishing I hadn't dropped out of college"

- Hold Me Closer, Necromancer by Lish McBride

"Joost had two problems: the moon and his mustache"

- Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

"My mother was raised on fairy tales, but I was raised on highways".

- The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert

"Of the first few hauntings I investigated with Lockwood and Co. I intent to say little, in part to protect the identity of the victims, in part because of the gruesome nature of the incidents, but mainly because, in a variety of ingenious ways, we succeeded in messing them all up".

- The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud

"On the second Sabbat of Twelfthmoon, in the city of Weep, a girl fell from the sky".

- Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor

"If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and a very few happy things in the middle."

- The Bad Beginning; A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket

"The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precedes it, no paper notices on downtown posts and billboards, no mentions or advertisements in local newspapers. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not."

- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

"It has been sixty-four years since the president and the Consortium identified love as a disease, and forty-three since the scientists perfected a cure."

- Delirium by Lauren Oliver

"I wake up. Immediately I have to figure out who I am. It's not just the body - opening my eyes and discovering whether the skin on my arm is light or dark, whether my hair is long or short, whether I'm fat or thin, boy or girl, scarred or smooth. The body is the easiest thing to adjust to, if you're used to waking up in a new one each morning. It's the life, the context of the body, that can be hard to grasp".

- Every Day by David Levithan

"I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen".

- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

"One summer night I fell asleep, hoping the world would be different when I woke".

- Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz

"This morning you had poison for breakfast."

- Poison for Breakfast by Lemony Snicket

"This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it."

- The Princess Bride by William Goldman

"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show."

- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."

- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

"When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home."

- The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

"The year 1866 was signalized by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten."

- 20,000 Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

- 1984 by George Orwell

"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded yellow sun."

- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

"My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973."

- The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold