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Our Fiction Collection

Our fiction collection provides great recreational reading and supports the College curriculum too.

Where is it?

Fiction books are in a corner of the library outside Seminar Room 1. Books are ordered according to the first three letters of the author’s surname.
There is a computer library catalogue in this area if you want to see if we have a certain author or book.

Genres

Some fiction follows a particular style or genre. The major genres are: action adventure, crime, detective, fantasy, horror, humour, mystery, realistic fiction, romance (and chick lit), science fiction and western.
You can search our catalogue for a particular genre by typing the name of the genre and the word fiction and choosing a subject search. (NB. Humour is spelt the American way – humor)

Our dotty spines

We have a dot system to help you find two types of books:
Short stories are marked on the spine of the book with a green dot.
Books that are fairly short and written for teenagers are marked with a red dot.

Request service

If you can’t find a book (or author) please ask at the library desk, if we don’t have it (or them) - we’ll get it!

Australian authors

Here is a list of Australian authors. These authors are good writers and any book by them would be good.

Graphic novels and picture books

There are other places in the library that you can find fiction to read.
We have graphic novels and picture books outside Seminar Room 2. The books have been chosen because the stories are written for mature readers and they often have unusual design elements that would be of interest to visual arts students.
The ESL collection and the Aboriginal Education Resource Centre (both in the EC library) also have fiction books that can be borrowed by college students.
Need any more help? Just ask at the library desk!