Australia's Greatest Books, as chosen by Geoffrey Dutton (1985)

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From Dutton’s The Australian Collection: Australia's Greatest Books.
1
Picnic at Hanging Rock
by Joan Lindsay
2,264 members
69 reviews
3.8
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2
A Fortunate Life
by A. B. Facey
1,049 members
27 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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3
The Harp in the South
by Ruth Park
601 members
13 reviews
4
3 Members
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4
Seven Little Australians
by Ethel Turner
823 members
22 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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5
My Brilliant Career
by Miles Franklin
1,369 members
34 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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6
The Magic Pudding
by Norman Lindsay
1,103 members
22 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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7
Monkey Grip
by Helen Garner
581 members
19 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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They're a Weird Mob
by Nino Culotta
240 members
6 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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9
Man of Two Tribes (An Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Mystery)
by Arthur William Upfield
250 members
4 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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10
The Timeless Land
by Eleanor Dark
260 members
3 reviews
4.1
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11
The Tyranny of Distance: How Distance Shaped Australia's History
by Geoffrey Blainey
265 members
9 reviews
4.1
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12
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
by Thomas Keneally
476 members
6 reviews
½ 3.7
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13
The Lucky Country
by Donald Horne
288 members
6 reviews
3.2
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14
For the Term of His Natural Life
by Marcus Clarke
1,050 members
13 reviews
½ 3.7
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16
The Man Who Loved Children
by Christina Stead
1,586 members
47 reviews
½ 3.7
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17
Coonardoo
by Katharine Susannah Prichard
225 members
5 reviews
½ 3.6
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18
My Brother Jack
by George Johnston
472 members
12 reviews
4.1
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19
Power Without Glory
by Frank Hardy
314 members
7 reviews
4
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20
The Fortunes of Richard Mahony
by Henry Handel Richardson
280 members
8 reviews
3.8
Member
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21
The Shiralee
by D'Arcy Niland
246 members
7 reviews
4
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22
A Little Bush Maid
by Mary Grant Bruce
269 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
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23
Come in Spinner
by Dymphna Cusack
135 members
1 review
3.9
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24
Careful, He Might Hear You
by Sumner Locke Elliott
140 members
5 reviews
3.8
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25
All the green year
by Don Charlwood
92 members
3.9
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26
On Our Selection
by Steele Rudd
83 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
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27
Jonah
by Louis Stone
61 members
1 review
4
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28
Caddie
by Caddie
74 members
½ 3.6
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29
Alien Son
by Judah Waten
69 members
2 reviews
½ 3.3
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30
The Pea-Pickers
by Eve Langley
66 members
1 review
½ 3.3
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31
Voss
by Patrick White
1,572 members
27 reviews
4
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32
Her Privates We
by Frederic Manning
425 members
13 reviews
4
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33
The Transit of Venus
by Shirley Hazzard
1,695 members
31 reviews
3.8
34
Bliss
by Peter Carey
1,014 members
10 reviews
½ 3.7
35
An Imaginary Life
by David Malouf
820 members
20 reviews
4
36
The Year of Living Dangerously
by C. J. Koch
478 members
10 reviews
3.9
37
Storm Boy
by Colin Thiele
427 members
7 reviews
3.9
38
We of the Never-Never
by Mrs. Aeneas Gunn
396 members
7 reviews
3.8
39
Cooper's Creek
by Alan Moorehead
375 members
5 reviews
3.8
40
Robbery Under Arms
by Rolf Boldrewood
368 members
1 review
½ 3.6
41
Wake In Fright
by Kenneth Cook
357 members
19 reviews
4
42
Capricornia
by Xavier Herbert
313 members
7 reviews
3.8
43
The Nargun and the Stars
by Patricia Wrightson
267 members
7 reviews
4.2
44
Kings in Grass Castles
by Mary Durack
261 members
1 review
3.8
45
Such Is Life
by Joseph Furphy
242 members
3 reviews
4.2
46
Ash Road
by Ivan Southall
233 members
9 reviews
½ 4.3
47
Snugglepot and Cuddlepie
by May Gibbs
212 members
5 reviews
3.9
48
Homesickness
by Murray Bail
175 members
6 reviews
½ 3.4
49
To The Islands
by Randolph Stow
162 members
8 reviews
½ 3.7
50
The Australian Ugliness
by Robin Boyd
161 members
1 review
4
51
Bottersnikes and Gumbles
by S. A. Wakefield
148 members
1 review
½ 4.5
52
Dot and the Kangaroo
by Ethel Pedley
143 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
53
Wild Cat Falling
by Mudrooroo
134 members
3.8
54
The Naked Island
by Russell Braddon
128 members
2 reviews
½ 4.3
55
The Letters of Rachel Henning
by Rachel Henning
116 members
2 reviews
4.2
56
Flynn of the Inland
by Ion L. Idriess
106 members
1 review
3.9
57
Lucinda Brayford
by Martin Boyd
95 members
1 review
4
59
The Adventures of Ralph Rashleigh, A Penal Exile in Australia, 1825-1844
by James Tucker
93 members
1 review
½ 3.4
60
The Unknown Industrial Prisoner
by David Ireland
91 members
5 reviews
3
61
The Australian Legend
by Russel Ward
89 members
1 review
½ 3.7
62
1915
by Roger McDonald
89 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
63
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
by E. J. Banfield
88 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
64
The Eureka Stockade
by Raffaello Carboni
88 members
3 reviews
3.2
65
The fringe dwellers
by Nene Gare
84 members
3 reviews
3.9
66
The Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony: An Australian Autobiography
by Hal Porter
82 members
2 reviews
3.9
67
The Slow Natives
by Thea Astley
80 members
5 reviews
½ 3.4
68
Man-shy
by Frank Dalby Davison
76 members
4.2
69
The Battlers
by Kylie Tennant
69 members
1 review
4
70
A History of Australia, Vol. 4: The Earth Abideth for ever 1851-1888
by Manning Clark
63 members
1 review
½ 3.5
71
The Only Daughter
by Jessica Anderson
58 members
4 reviews
3.1
72
Here's Luck
by Lennie Lower
55 members
3 reviews
4
73
The Americans, baby
by Frank Moorhouse
55 members
1 review
3.1
74
Wild Men of Sydney
by Cyril Pearl
46 members
4
75
A house is built
by M. Barnard Eldershaw
42 members
2 reviews
3.8
76
The ridge and the river
by T. A. G. Hungerford
39 members
3
77
Australia Twice Traversed: The Romance of Exploration
by Ernest Giles
37 members
1 review
4
78
Spinifex and Sand
by David Wynford Carnegie
35 members
3 reviews
3.2
79
Flying fox and drifting sand : the adventures of a biologist in Australia
by Francis Ratcliffe
35 members
2 reviews
½ 1.3
81
My Crowded Solitude
by Jack McLaren
33 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
83
Moonlite
by David Foster
31 members
1 review
3.1
84
They all ran wild : the story of pests on the land in Australia
by Eric C. Rolls
28 members
2 reviews
½ 4.7
86
By Reef and Palm
by Louis Becke
21 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
87
Vision Splendid
by Tom Ronan
19 members
88
Ideas for Australian cities
by Hugh Stretton
18 members
1 review
89
Trap
by Peter Mathers
17 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6
90
Joe Wilson and His Mates
by Henry Lawson
15 members
1 review
½ 3.7
91
Dryandra; the story of an Australian forest
by Vincent Serventy
14 members
5
92
No Roads Go By
by Myrtle Rose White
12 members
94
Naked under Capricorn
by Olaf Ruhen
11 members
2
97
Landtakers: The Story of an Epoch
by Brian Penton
10 members