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Australian History Books
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The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as australian-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 10,251 ratings — published 1986
Dark Emu (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as australian-history)
avg rating 4.28 — 15,672 ratings — published 2014
Girt (The Unauthorised History of Australia #1)
by (shelved 39 times as australian-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 6,368 ratings — published 2013
The Colony: A History of Early Sydney (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as australian-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 170 ratings — published 2009
A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as australian-history)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,476 ratings — published 2005
The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as australian-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 739 ratings — published 2011
True Girt (The Unauthorised History of Australia #2)
by (shelved 18 times as australian-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,768 ratings — published 2016
Forgotten War (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as australian-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 296 ratings — published
The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as australian-history)
avg rating 3.98 — 381 ratings — published 2013
The Tyranny of Distance: How Distance Shaped Australia's History (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as australian-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 226 ratings — published 1966
Eureka: The Unfinished Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as australian-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 657 ratings — published 2012
The Other Side of the Frontier: Aboriginal Resistance to the European Invasion of Australia (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as australian-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 191 ratings — published 1981
Batavia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as australian-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,741 ratings — published 2011
1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as australian-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 308 ratings — published 2011
True History of the Kelly Gang (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as australian-history)
avg rating 3.83 — 23,956 ratings — published 2000
Australians: Origins to Eureka (Australians, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as australian-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 246 ratings — published 2009
Van Diemen's Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as australian-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 320 ratings — published 2008
Kokoda (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as australian-history)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,858 ratings — published 2004
1788: The Brutal Truth of the First Fleet (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as australian-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 820 ratings — published 2008
Dancing with Strangers: Europeans and Australians at First Contact (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as australian-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 262 ratings — published 2005
For the Term of His Natural Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as australian-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,081 ratings — published 1874
A Fortunate Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as australian-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 9,732 ratings — published 1981
Gallipoli (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as australian-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 679 ratings — published 2001
The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ship and Its Cargo of Female Convicts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as australian-history)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,392 ratings — published 2001
Why weren't we told?: A personal search for the truth about our history (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as australian-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 355 ratings — published 1999
Aboriginal Australians (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as australian-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 227 ratings — published 1982
Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as australian-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 4,100 ratings — published 2008
Tobruk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as australian-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,082 ratings — published 2006
Macquarie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as australian-history)
avg rating 4.37 — 324 ratings — published 2019
From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia Got Compulsory Voting (ebook)
by (shelved 9 times as australian-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 616 ratings — published 2019
A Concise History of Australia (Cambridge Concise Histories)
by (shelved 9 times as australian-history)
avg rating 3.69 — 299 ratings — published 2000
The Secret River (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as australian-history)
avg rating 3.81 — 24,830 ratings — published 2005
The Lucky Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as australian-history)
avg rating 3.69 — 684 ratings — published 1964
A Room Made of Leaves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as australian-history)
avg rating 3.85 — 10,230 ratings — published 2020
1787: The Lost Chapters of Australia's Beginnings (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as australian-history)
avg rating 3.69 — 181 ratings — published 2016
Talking to My Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as australian-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 4,163 ratings — published 2016
Fromelles and Pozières: In The Trenches Of Hell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as australian-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 406 ratings — published 2015
1788 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as australian-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 349 ratings — published 1793
The Dig Tree: The Story of Bravery, Insanity, and the Race to Discover Australia's Wild Frontier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as australian-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 872 ratings — published 2002
Gallipoli (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as australian-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 772 ratings — published 2014
Vietnam - the Australian War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as australian-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 303 ratings — published 2008
Australia's Birthstain: The Startling Legacy of the Convict Era (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as australian-history)
avg rating 3.98 — 44 ratings — published 2008
Australians: Eureka to the Diggers (Australians, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as australian-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 75 ratings — published 2011
Ned Kelly: A Short Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as australian-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 202 ratings — published 1995
The Bush (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as australian-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 578 ratings — published 2014
Banks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as australian-history)
avg rating 4.28 — 530 ratings — published
The Sydney Wars (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as australian-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 86 ratings — published 2018
A Secret Country: The Hidden Australia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as australian-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 581 ratings — published 1980
Australians: Flappers to Vietnam (Australians, #3)
by (shelved 7 times as australian-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 41 ratings — published 2014
Australian History in Seven Questions (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as australian-history)
avg rating 3.60 — 204 ratings — published 2014
“The inhospitable environment and the past had predisposed the minds of its European inhabitants to hand over the government of their country to men who were wary of visionaries and all those who held out a promise of better things for mankind. Australians seemed chained for decades to come to the role of being a New Britannia in another world. The young Henry Lawson and all the other prophets of Utopia were doomed to a bitter disenchantment.”
― A History of Australia, V: The People Make Laws, 1888–1915
― A History of Australia, V: The People Make Laws, 1888–1915
“[describing ‘nouvelle cuisine’] …’children’s portions put on a plate by an interior decorator’…”
― A Timeline of Australian Food: From Mutton to Masterchef
― A Timeline of Australian Food: From Mutton to Masterchef
