On Saturday 10 October 2026, bookshops across Australia will celebrate Love Your Bookshop Day, the annual national campaign from the Australian Booksellers Association celebrating local bookshops, booksellers and the conversations that connect readers with great books.

This year’s theme, Ask a bookseller. Shake up your shelf, is an invitation to step away from the algorithm, talk to someone who knows books, and discover the author, language, story or unexpected favourite you might never have found on your own.

We love that idea. Because at LOST IN BOOKS, discovery can also mean finding a story in the language you speak at home. Encountering a First Nations story. Reading across languages and cultures. Giving a child a book in which they recognise something of themselves. Or simply picking up something you would never normally choose.

So, for Love Your Bookshop Day, we’ve come up with 10 reasons to love LOST IN BOOKS and a collection of books that show you what we mean.

Start exploring. And if you’re not sure what to read next? Ask us. We’d love to shake up your shelf.

01

Books in more than 80 languages

Your language belongs on the bookshelf. LOST IN BOOKS brings together stories from across languages, cultures and countries — because finding a book in the language you speak at home shouldn't feel extraordinary.

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Stories for every age and stage

Little readers. Growing readers. Grown-up readers. From the books that begin a reading life to the ones we discover decades later, there should always be another story waiting.

Musical Tickles: Box Set / مجموعة دغدغات موسيقي

Gustavo y Rita 2 / Gustav & Henri: Volume 2

03

First Nations, Bilingual, and translated stories

More than one way to tell a story. More than one language in which to find it. Bilingual books, literature in translation and First Nations storytelling aren't specialist corners of our bookshop. They're fundamental to it.

Shirin and Amir and the Dragon Smoke (Farsi/English)

04

A more connected world through reading

Sometimes understanding begins with someone else's story. Books let us cross a border without flattening what makes another place, culture or experience different. That's a kind of connection worth making.

Las Crepes de Mama Panya / Mama Panya's Pancakes

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Curated for schools, libraries + early learning

A multilingual bookshelf is something you can build deliberately. Tell us who your readers are, the languages they use and what is already on the shelf. We can help turn the gaps into a collection.

Pequeña Historia de un Desacuerdo/A Small Disagreement

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Books that reflect our communities

There's a difference between being invited to read and seeing that the bookshelf already includes you. We love books that carry familiar languages, experiences, families and ways of seeing the world.

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Independent + purpose-led

We're a bookshop, but books are only the beginning. LOST IN BOOKS exists within a much bigger practice of language, creativity, cultural exchange and community. Every purchase helps keep that work moving.

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Recommendations beyond the obvious

Tell us three things. We'll find you a book. A language. An age. Something you love. A subject you can't stop thinking about. Or just tell us you're stuck. Discovering the unexpected is part of what a bookshop is for.

09

Local stories + stories from everywhere

Read here. Read elsewhere. Read between worlds. Our shelves can move from Western Sydney to another continent, from contemporary Australia to Country, memory and home. That's exactly how we like them.

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Because every story belongs

This might be the reason behind all the others. More languages. More perspectives. More ways for readers to recognise themselves — and encounter someone else. Every story belongs.