428 books
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Australian Books
Showing 1-50 of 26,727
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 432 times as australian)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,842,857 ratings — published 2005
The Dry (Aaron Falk, #1)
by (shelved 397 times as australian)
avg rating 4.06 — 264,281 ratings — published 2016
Cloudstreet (Paperback)
by (shelved 349 times as australian)
avg rating 4.01 — 27,883 ratings — published 1991
Boy Swallows Universe (Paperback)
by (shelved 301 times as australian)
avg rating 4.34 — 96,827 ratings — published 2018
The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1)
by (shelved 301 times as australian)
avg rating 4.01 — 590,478 ratings — published 2013
Jasper Jones (Paperback)
by (shelved 298 times as australian)
avg rating 4.09 — 43,046 ratings — published 2009
Big Little Lies (Paperback)
by (shelved 283 times as australian)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,105,198 ratings — published 2014
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Hanging Rock, #1)
by (shelved 277 times as australian)
avg rating 3.66 — 30,191 ratings — published 1967
Tomorrow, When the War Began (Tomorrow, #1)
by (shelved 269 times as australian)
avg rating 4.04 — 60,117 ratings — published 1993
Looking for Alibrandi (Paperback)
by (shelved 250 times as australian)
avg rating 3.90 — 25,406 ratings — published 1992
Force of Nature (Aaron Falk, #2)
by (shelved 245 times as australian)
avg rating 3.83 — 122,862 ratings — published 2017
The Light Between Oceans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 239 times as australian)
avg rating 4.04 — 476,598 ratings — published 2012
The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Paperback)
by (shelved 232 times as australian)
avg rating 4.04 — 62,473 ratings — published 2013
Breath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 227 times as australian)
avg rating 3.91 — 25,376 ratings — published 2008
The Secret River (Paperback)
by (shelved 225 times as australian)
avg rating 3.81 — 24,995 ratings — published 2005
The Lost Man (Hardcover)
by (shelved 223 times as australian)
avg rating 4.16 — 109,424 ratings — published 2018
The Husband's Secret (Hardcover)
by (shelved 219 times as australian)
avg rating 3.95 — 720,679 ratings — published 2013
The Slap (Paperback)
by (shelved 211 times as australian)
avg rating 3.26 — 32,876 ratings — published 2008
My Brilliant Career (Paperback)
by (shelved 197 times as australian)
avg rating 3.80 — 7,609 ratings — published 1901
The Thorn Birds (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 193 times as australian)
avg rating 4.25 — 363,318 ratings — published 1977
Dirt Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as australian)
avg rating 3.87 — 15,428 ratings — published 2001
Dark Emu (Paperback)
by (shelved 187 times as australian)
avg rating 4.27 — 15,792 ratings — published 2014
True History of the Kelly Gang (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as australian)
avg rating 3.83 — 24,071 ratings — published 2000
The Survivors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 180 times as australian)
avg rating 3.76 — 107,916 ratings — published 2020
Exiles (Aaron Falk, #3)
by (shelved 178 times as australian)
avg rating 4.03 — 72,818 ratings — published 2022
Burial Rites (Hardcover)
by (shelved 178 times as australian)
avg rating 4.04 — 123,030 ratings — published 2013
The Yield (Hardcover)
by (shelved 168 times as australian)
avg rating 4.08 — 12,996 ratings — published 2019
The Natural Way of Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as australian)
avg rating 3.50 — 14,838 ratings — published 2015
Saving Francesca (Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as australian)
avg rating 3.99 — 33,348 ratings — published 2003
Oscar and Lucinda (Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as australian)
avg rating 3.73 — 21,768 ratings — published 1988
I Am the Messenger (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as australian)
avg rating 4.03 — 168,918 ratings — published 2002
Scrublands (Martin Scarsden, #1)
by (shelved 156 times as australian)
avg rating 3.97 — 29,856 ratings — published 2018
Honeybee (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as australian)
avg rating 4.40 — 42,050 ratings — published 2020
Nine Perfect Strangers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 152 times as australian)
avg rating 3.56 — 476,249 ratings — published 2018
The Dead of Night (Tomorrow, #2)
by (shelved 151 times as australian)
avg rating 4.12 — 25,147 ratings — published 1994
Too Much Lip (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as australian)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,597 ratings — published 2018
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)
by (shelved 139 times as australian)
avg rating 3.76 — 217,240 ratings — published 2022
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as australian)
avg rating 4.09 — 44,356 ratings — published 2018
On the Jellicoe Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as australian)
avg rating 4.12 — 51,613 ratings — published 2006
A Killing Frost (Tomorrow, #3)
by (shelved 135 times as australian)
avg rating 4.19 — 21,741 ratings — published 1995
A Town Like Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as australian)
avg rating 4.16 — 61,476 ratings — published 1950
Darkness, Be My Friend (Tomorrow, #4)
by (shelved 129 times as australian)
avg rating 4.10 — 20,036 ratings — published 1996
Monkey Grip (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as australian)
avg rating 3.68 — 7,907 ratings — published 1977
All Our Shimmering Skies (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 121 times as australian)
avg rating 3.95 — 24,827 ratings — published 2020
The Night Is for Hunting (Tomorrow, #6)
by (shelved 121 times as australian)
avg rating 4.14 — 17,203 ratings — published 1998
Burning For Revenge (Tomorrow, #5)
by (shelved 121 times as australian)
avg rating 4.18 — 18,360 ratings — published 1997
The Harp in the South (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as australian)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,814 ratings — published 1948
The Other Side of Dawn (Tomorrow, #7)
by (shelved 120 times as australian)
avg rating 4.21 — 16,642 ratings — published 1999
The Rosie Effect (Don Tillman, #2)
by (shelved 119 times as australian)
avg rating 3.64 — 141,142 ratings — published 2014
A Fortunate Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as australian)
avg rating 4.25 — 9,795 ratings — published 1981
“My Flower
A seed it was planted
Inside my heart
And as it started to grow
I was filled with joy
And overwhelmed
By the beauty someday it would show
I watered this seed
With wishes and dreams
And hoped for sun filled days
I watched from afar
As it started to bloom”
― For the Moment: An Anthology of Poems Straight From the Heart
A seed it was planted
Inside my heart
And as it started to grow
I was filled with joy
And overwhelmed
By the beauty someday it would show
I watered this seed
With wishes and dreams
And hoped for sun filled days
I watched from afar
As it started to bloom”
― For the Moment: An Anthology of Poems Straight From the Heart
“Desert oak
Meaning: Resurrection
Allocasuarina decaisneana | Central Australia
Kurkara (Pit.) have deeply furrowed, cork-like bark, which is fire-retardant. Slow-growing but fast to develop a taproot that can reach subsurface water at depths over ten meters. Mature trees form a large, bushy canopy. Many found in the central desert are likely to be more than one thousand years old.”
― The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
Meaning: Resurrection
Allocasuarina decaisneana | Central Australia
Kurkara (Pit.) have deeply furrowed, cork-like bark, which is fire-retardant. Slow-growing but fast to develop a taproot that can reach subsurface water at depths over ten meters. Mature trees form a large, bushy canopy. Many found in the central desert are likely to be more than one thousand years old.”
― The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart












