Australian


The Book Thief
The Dry (Aaron Falk, #1)
Cloudstreet
Boy Swallows Universe
The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1)
Jasper Jones
Big Little Lies
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Hanging Rock, #1)
Tomorrow, When the War Began (Tomorrow, #1)
Looking for Alibrandi
Force of Nature (Aaron Falk, #2)
The Light Between Oceans
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Breath
The Secret River
Unforgettable You by Georgina PenneyIrrepressible You by Georgina PenneyFairway to Heaven by Lily MaloneHindsight by Sarah BelleA Basic Renovation by Sandra Antonelli
Best Australian Chick Lit Authors
50 books — 10 voters
The Flywheel by Erin GoughPoints of Departure by Emily O’BeirneThe Sidekicks by Will KostakisTwo Weeks with the Queen by Morris GleitzmanNight Swimming by Steph Bowe
Best Australian LGBTQIA YA
201 books — 51 voters

Possum Magic by Mem FoxAnimalia by Graeme BaseDiary of a Wombat by Jackie FrenchWhere Is the Green Sheep? by Mem FoxWhere the Forest Meets the Sea by Jeannie Baker
Australian Children's Literature
416 books — 200 voters
Goodnight, and Thanks for the Vodka [2002] by HarpiePhenomena by Susan Tarr2004 - Thanks for the Vodka by HarpieGrit by Karl Wiggins2003 - Thanks for the Vodka by Harpie
Aussies and Brits
62 books — 40 voters

A Town Like Alice by Nevil ShuteWings of Fear by Helene Young48 Shades of Brown by Nick EarlsRosemary Boy by Amy CoomerThe Beach House by Helen McKenna
Queensland Fiction
163 books — 91 voters
On the Jellicoe Road by Melina MarchettaThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakSaving Francesca by Melina MarchettaTomorrow, When the War Began by John MarsdenGraffiti Moon by Cath Crowley
Favourite Aussie YA books
576 books — 963 voters

When I returned home soon afterwards, it was with a newly awakened sense of what Australian literature was good for: helping us define ourselves in relation to an Anglo past and American present, for example, or airing the wounds suffered by indigenous Australia, or inhabiting those new frictions that result from our expanding cultural pluralism. Above all, it could teach us to dwell more easily in a landscape that did not accord with the metaphors and myth-kitty that was our northern inheritanc ...more
George Williamson

Bronwyn Birdsall
While she waited for Nedim to say something, Evelyn found an unexpected item in the corner of her coat pocket – a rough, crumbling, dried-up eucalyptus leaf. Her mother had sent it in a letter, along with some articles she’d cut out from an Australian newspaper about mining in north-eastern Bosnia and a drawing by her sister’s younger son. She’d put them all by her bedside and cracked the then-fresh leaf like she used to as a kid, overcome by the rush of familiarity as the scent burst out.
Bronwyn Birdsall, Time and Tide in Sarajevo

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