LIBRARY

VICTORIAN PREMIERS' READING CHALLENGE

Congratulations to our avid readers who participated in the Victorian Premiers' Reading Challenge for 2025. They were part of the Challenge’s 20th birthday and joined generations of young Victorians in sharing their love for reading.

Across Victoria, more than 76,237 children and students completed the Challenge, and together, 3,092,257 books were read.

CONGRATULATIONS

Year 7

Siddharth Narayanan

Jashan Penumuchu

Harvey Evans

Raphael Goldman

Evelina Long

Arielle Rees

Mitali Pardeshi

Rebecca Xie

Arhan Angadi

Maia Norgate-Burke

Maisie Lai

Bani Sandhu

Yash Nijjar

Ishin Garg

Jamie Jahya

Year 8

Jaydon Prakash

Yijun Zhou

Jana Bryant

Anna Chiu

Eloise Lai

Year 9

Yael Ben Yosef

Dhruvi Mittal

Lara Sumer

Lachlan Cravino

Year 10

Shreya Panwar

BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS

Our reading challenge participants were asked to share their favourite book of the year and here are their recommendations: 

• A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
• Spark by M.G Leonard
• Percy Jackson: The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
• The Beast of Buckingham Palace by David Walliams
• Once by Morris Gleitzman
• The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare
• History is all you left me by Adam Silvera
• Powerless by Lauren Roberts
• The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
• A Night Divided by Jennifer A. Nielsen
• The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien
• Powerless by Lauren Roberts
• Visual History World War 2
• Ranger's Apprentice by John Flanagan
• Think Again by Adam Grant
• The Hate you Give by Angie Thomas
• Keeper of Lost Cities by Shannon Messenger
• I Hope this doesn't find you by Ann Liang
• Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
• Divergent by Veronica Roth

These recommendations now form part of a library display we will leave up well into 2026.

Happy holidays!

Janene Watson

Resource Centre Manager