Our Story : the Winning Titles

 

As part of the National Year of Reading, the Our Story competition was run to select a book to represent each state and territory of Australia.

 we set out to identify a set of eight books, which together describe what it’s like to live in, be from, visit or in some other way connect with the eight different states and territories. We wanted to create a collection of books which, if read together, articulates the Australian experience – remote, regional, suburban and metropolitan

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Thousands of Australians voted on the ABC website and in local libraries. On 14 February the winning titles were revealed, as part of the National Year of Reading official launch.

Now that the winners have been announced, you can join Australia’s biggest book club, based on the Our Story collection. For more information, see the NYOR website.

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