Oceania

Oceania is a geographic region that includes Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.

The Luminaries
The Bone People
The Book Thief
The Light Between Oceans
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
The Thorn Birds
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Hanging Rock, #1)
The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1)
The Whale Rider
Birnam Wood
Big Little Lies
In a Sunburned Country
The Dry (Aaron Falk, #1)
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
Euphoria
Scoring the Player's Baby by Naima SimoneTelesa by Lani Wendt YoungThin Love by Eden ButlerRock Chick Reckoning by Kristen AshleyThe Chocolate Heart by Laura Florand
Pacific Islanders in Romance Novels
58 books — 17 voters
A Language of Limbs by Dylin HardcastleAbout a Girl by Joanne HornimanGreta & Valdin by Rebecca K. ReillyMedea's Children by Con AnemogiannisCounting Down by Courtney Clark Michaels
Queer Books Set in Oceania
26 books — 2 voters

The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. LeeJahanara by Kathryn LaskyThe Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David  MitchellLove in the Snow by Acton LizLost in Tokyo by Jenny Lynne
YA Asian Historical Fiction
29 books — 6 voters
Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret MeadWhere We Once Belonged by Sia FigielTales of the Tikongs by Epeli HauʻofaPago Pago Tango by John  EnrightFrom Samoa With Love? by Hilke Thode-Arora
Books about Samoa
40 books — 8 voters

Ruth by Marlene S. LewisMister Pip by Lloyd JonesThe Creation of Animal Life / As Bilong Animal by Thomas H. SloneThe Undiscovered Country by Samantha GillisonA Soldier's Story of Expat Living - Cages of Smoke by Markham Turner
Papua New Guinea Fiction
36 books — 13 voters
Russia by Jilly HuntAlgeria by Lori McManusSouth Africa by Claire ThropVietnam by Charlotte GuillainNew Zealand by Mary Colson
Countries Around the World series
18 books — 1 voter

Paul Theroux
Even in Africa, I had never seen such a profusion of stars as I saw on these clear nights on Pacific isles - not only big beaming planets and small single pinpricks... but also glittering clouds of them - the whole dome of the sky crowded with thick shapes formed from stars, overlaid with more shapes, a brilliant density, like a storm of light over a black depthless sea, made brighter still by twisting auroras composed of tiny star grains - points of light so fine and numerous they seemed like l ...more
Paul Theroux, The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific

Epeli Hauʻofa
Oceania is vast, Oceania is expanding, Oceania is hospitable and generous, Oceania is humanity rising from the depths of brine and regions of fire deeper still, Oceania is us. We are the sea, we are the ocean…
Epeli Hau'ofa, We Are the Ocean: Selected Works

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