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Looking for a Christmas gift that is smart, innovative, and fun?
We've hand-picked essential reading from the recent SXSW Sydney Conference speakers and the most engaging recent releases from this year’s SXSW Sydney Games Festival, all guaranteed to inspire and entertain.
From books offering leadership wisdom and life hacks to award-winning indie games featuring psychic babies and turnip mail carriers, give the gift of inspiration and entertainment this season.
Unstressable: A Practical Guide to Stress-Free Living by Mo Gawdat (2025 keynote speaker) & Alice Law
Unstressable breaks stress into inputs and effects, classifying human stressors as: stress to the mind, stress to emotions, stress to the body, and stress to the soul. Once classified, Gawdat and co-author Alice Law show readers how stress can be predicted—and once predicted, prevented.
What's Next Is Now: How to Live Future Ready by Frederik G. Pferdt (2025 speaker)
Google’s first Chief Innovation Evangelist inspires you to shape your own future, navigate ambiguity and uncertainty with intention, and transform problems and challenges into profound opportunities.
AI First, Human Always by Sandy Carter (2024 and 2025 speaker)
Leadership wisdom to ride the wave of the seven hottest trends in our new AI-first world of business.
The Future Loves You: How and Why We Should Abolish Death by Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston (2025 speaker)
A brilliant young neuroscientist explains how to preserve our minds indefinitely, enabling future generations to choose to revive us.
Blindspotting by Kirstin Ferguson (2023 and 2025 speaker)
By embracing the mindsets of honesty, curiosity, and flexibility, Blindspotting enables you to see what others overlook, empowering you to make smarter decisions and inspire those around you to do the same.
Make it Make Sense by Lucy Blakiston (2025 speaker)
A collage of cultural analysis, anecdotes, personal essays, poems, and lists, interplayed like a conversation between friends.
Zero Risk Start Up by Paulo Andrez (2025 speaker)
Paulo Andrez, a serial entrepreneur and angel investor, gives you a masterclass in understanding, navigating, and practically eliminating the inherent risks of your entrepreneurial journey.
Guts by Melissa Leong (2025 speaker)
A memoir by food and style icon Melissa Leong, detailing her life's journey, including her struggles with racism and identity, and experiences in the hospitality industry.
How to Lose Friends and Influence White People by Antoinette Lattouf (2024 and 2025 speaker)
A guide through the balancing act of activist, advocate, and ally, remembering that just because others are learning you don't need to be the teacher, from the dynamic and sharp co-founder of Media Diversity Australia and Ette Media.
Main Character Energy by Bianca Hunt (2025 speaker)
Bianca Hunt has hosted TV shows, rocked runways, given multiple TEDx talks, and founded a talent agency – all before her mid-twenties. Not content with the narrative other people had written for her, Bianca embarked on a journey to write her own. Main Character Energy is that story.
The Correspondent by Peter Greste (2025 speaker)
The Correspondent spotlights journalist Peter Greste’s ongoing fight for press freedom since his imprisonment in Egypt, with an extended new chapter on conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza.
Uncertain: The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Unsure by Maggie Jackson (2025 speaker)
In an age of uncertainty, this book is a study in being okay with the unknown and how you can apply it to your life.
Zoe and Zak’s Pain Hacks Book Series 1-5 by Joshua Pate (2025 speaker)
Zoe and Zak's Pain Hacks is a series of five books to help children learn and talk about pain with their family, friends, teachers, and health professionals. Featured in 2025.
Roar: Into The Second Half of Your Life (Before It's Too Late) by Michael Clinton (2025 speaker)
ROAR is for everyone who is thinking about where they are in life—and those who want more out of life.
Letters to Arralla (winner of the 2025 SXSW Sydney Games Festival Discovery Award)
Play as a turnip with a big juicy bum delivering mail to a cast of colourful characters on an Australian island. Get the mail where it needs to go by reading residents’ letters, solving puzzles, and exploring the island’s sun-soaked beaches.
Goodnight Universe (winner of the 2025 SXSW Sydney Games Festival Best International Game Award)
From the creators of Before Your Eyes — You are Isaac, a 6-month-old baby, developing mysterious psychic powers. What you want most is to be loved and accepted by your family, but a secretive tech corporation wants you for their own.
Zoom and dodge your way about the quadrant, solving intertwining objectives however you can. Hit an asteroid and the mission resets - but whatever you learn you can exploit in the next loop! Use your wits and precise piloting together to prevent the asteroid crisis!
Explore an interconnected world full of platforming challenges in this short metroidvania. Reach new areas by swinging from ceilings, throwing bombs, bouncing off spikes, and more. Examine dozens of artifacts, commune with forgotten gods, and piece together what happened to Auridia.
What if you lost all your memories? An emotional family drama seen through the eyes of a woman with Alzheimer's disease. As Annie's life slowly unravels, uncover memories of her deceased brother as her past bleeds into the present.
Forge powerful builds with endless loot in this relentless combination of Roguelike and ARPG. Blast through dungeons and unleash inhuman powers in a dark fantasy twist on Brazil's War of Canudos.
EmBARK on a therapeutic adventure alone or with a friend. Collect Corgi Butt Power to climb, soar, and prove stubby legs can't stop you! Relax and savor this bite-sized, open world while 10% of your purchase is donated to animal shelters.
Transform your childhood home as you build brilliant factories and forge lifelong friendships, then reach for the skies and finally finish your family's dream - your mother's precious rocket ship. Roll up your sleeves, it turns out that saving this town really IS rocket science!
Expose, endure and expel evil from innocents on your hunt through a corrupted city. As Noah, former priest turned demon-hunter, you'll perform exorcisms, forge precarious alliances and strengthen your deck of arcane tricks in this unholy roguelite deckbuilder.
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