100 Must-Read Australian Books

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WorkCategoryYear
The good girl of Chinatown by Jenevieve Chang
Nonfiction2017
Breaking the Mould: ; Taking a Hammer to Sexism in Sport by Angela Pippos
Nonfiction2017
The Case Against Fragrance by Kate Grenville
Nonfiction2017
Still Lucky by Rebecca Huntley
Nonfiction2017
Everywhere I Look by Helen Garner
Nonfiction2017
The permanent resident by Roanna Gonsalves
Fiction2016
A Distant Journey by Di Morrissey
Fiction2016
Songs of a War Boy by Deng Thiak Adut
Nonfiction2016
True Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia by David Hunt
Nonfiction2016
Australians: A Short History by Thomas Keneally
Nonfiction2016
The Doctor by Karl Kruszelnicki
Nonfiction2016
Selection Day by Aravind Adiga
Fiction2016
The Hate Race by Maxine Beneba Clarke
Nonfiction2016
Not quite Australian : how temporary migration is changing the nation by Peter Mares
Nonfiction2016
The Secret Recipe for Second Chances by J.D. Barrett
Fiction2016
The Beekeeper's Secret by Josephine Moon
Fiction2016
Yassmin's Story by Yassmin Abdel-Magied
Nonfiction2016
A Treasury of Cartoons by First Dog on the Moon,
Nonfiction2015
Spirits of the Ghan by Judy Nunn
Fiction2015
Shelter : how Australians live by Kara Rosenlund
Nonfiction2015
The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
Fiction2015
The Wife Drought by Annabel Crabb
Nonfiction2015
The forever house : time-honoured Australian homes by Cameron Bruhn
Nonfiction2014
My Story by Julia Gillard
Nonfiction2014
Why Aren't We Dead Yet?: The Survivor's Guide to the Immune System by Idan Ben-Barak
Nonfiction2014
The Rise and Fall of Australia by Nick Bryant
Nonfiction2014
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
Fiction2013
The Swan Book by Alexis Wright
Fiction2013
Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia by David Hunt
Nonfiction2013
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
Fiction2013
Not Quite Nigella by Lorraine Elliott
Nonfiction2013
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
Fiction2013
This Is Me by Ian Thorpe
Nonfiction2012
Questions of Travel by Michelle De Kretser
Fiction2012
QF32 by Richard De Crespigny
Nonfiction2012
Am I Black Enough For You? by Anita Heiss
Nonfiction2012
Bold Palates: Australia's Gastronomic Heritage by Barbara Santich
Nonfiction2012
The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman
Fiction2012
Free-Falling by Nicola Moriarty
Fiction2012
All That I Am by Anna Funder
Fiction2011
Captains by Malcolm Knox
Nonfiction2010
I Came to Say Goodbye by Caroline Overington
Fiction2010
That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott
Fiction2010
The Happiest Refugee by Anh Do
Nonfiction2010
Campaign Ruby by Jessica Rudd
Fiction2010
Hey Mum, What's a Half-Caste? by Lorraine McGee-Sippel
Nonfiction2010
The Men Who Killed Qantas by Matthew Benns
Nonfiction2009
Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
Fiction2009
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
Fiction2008
Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan
YA2008
The Boat by Nam Le
Fiction2008
Macquarie Pen Anthology of Aboriginal Literature by Anita Heiss
2008
A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
Fiction2008
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Fiction2008
Where the Sea Takes Us: A Vietnamese-Australian Story by Kim Huynh
Nonfiction2007
Born to Run by Cathy Freeman
Nonfiction2007
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
YA2005
Does My Head Look Big In This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah
YA2005
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
Fiction2005
Affluenza: When Too Much is Never Enough by Clive Hamilton
Nonfiction2005
Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty
Fiction2004
Home (Black Australian Writing) by Larissa Behrendt
Fiction2004
The Alphabet Sisters by Monica McInerney
Fiction2004
Mao's Last Dancer by Cunxin Li
Nonfiction2003
Love Struck by Melanie La'Brooy
Fiction2003
Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: Paul Keating PM by Don Watson
Nonfiction2002
On Not Speaking Chinese: Living Between Asia and the West by Ien Ang
Nonfiction2001
Rule No. 5: No Sex on the Bus: Confessions of a Tour Leader by Brian Thacker
Nonfiction2001
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
Fiction2000
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
Nonfiction2000
Feeling Sorry for Celia by Jaclyn Moriarty
YA2000
Jessica by Bryce Courtenay
Fiction1998
Sins of the brother: The definitive story of Ivan Milat and the backpacker murders by Mark Whittaker
Nonfiction1998
Ice Station by Matthew Reilly
Fiction1998
Bad Debts by Peter Temple
Fiction1996
45 & 47 Stella Street and Everything That Happened by Elizabeth Honey
Children1995
Someone Else's Daughter: The Life and Death of Anita Cobby by Julia Sheppard
Nonfiction1993
Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta
YA1992
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
Fiction1991
Jodie's Journey by Colin Thiele
Children1990
Two Weeks with the Queen by Morris Gleitzman
Children1990
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
Nonfiction1987
My Place by Sally Morgan
Nonfiction1987
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
Nonfiction1986
Selby's secret by Duncan Ball
Children1985
Hating Alison Ashley by Robin Klein
Children1984
Penny Pollard's Diary by Robin Klein
Children1983
One Continuous Picnic: A History of Australian Eating by Michael Symon
Nonfiction1982
Tracks by Robyn Davidson
Nonfiction1980
Because a White Man'll Never Do It by Kevin Gilbert
Nonfiction1973
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
Fiction1967
The tyranny of distance : how distance shaped Australia's history by Geoffrey Blainey
Nonfiction1966
My Brother Jack by George Johnston
Fiction1964
The Lucky Country by Donald Horne
Nonfiction1964
The Harp in the South by Ruth Park
Fiction1948
My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
Fiction1901
Seven Little Australians by Ethel Turner
Children1894
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