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Stories set on Australian Continent

Description: including New Zealand and all islands

Rank Title Author Added

1

Picnic at Hanging Rock

by Joan Lindsay

1,922 members

56 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

2

A Town Like Alice

3,747 members

140 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, CharlesSchreiber

3

The Far Country

579 members

15 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, CharlesSchreiber

4

Seven Little Australians

by Ethel Turner

725 members

21 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: elkiedee, ahef1963

5

The Broken Shore

by Peter Temple

1,187 members

53 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, CharlesSchreiber

6

My Brilliant Career

by Miles Franklin

1,201 members

32 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

7

The Secret River

by Kate Grenville

2,801 members

130 reviews

3.8

2 Members: elkiedee, ahef1963

8

Oscar and Lucinda

4,127 members

68 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

9

The Light Between Oceans

by M. L. Stedman

7,317 members

508 reviews

3.9

2 Members: elkiedee, ahef1963

10

Big Little Lies

by Liane Moriarty

7,051 members

405 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

11

4,898 members

177 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, CharlesSchreiber

12

3,826 members

187 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: ahef1963, CharlesSchreiber

13

by Dick Francis

1,179 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, CharlesSchreiber

14

Tigers and Devils

by Sean Kennedy

255 members

21 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

15

by Catherine Gaskin

185 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: CharlesSchreiber

16

The Thorn Birds

by Colleen McCullough

7,563 members

147 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, CharlesSchreiber

17

by K. A. Applegate

345 members

6 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

18

The Idea of Perfection

by Kate Grenville

1,021 members

46 reviews

3.8

Member: elkiedee

19

by James Vance Marshall

782 members

14 reviews

3.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

20

by Hammond Innes

185 members

1 review

½ 3.4

Member: CharlesSchreiber

21

All Day at the Movies

by Fiona Kidman

29 members

4 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: elkiedee

22

by Catherine Gaskin

60 members

½ 3.3

Member: CharlesSchreiber

23

Songs from the Violet Cafe

by Fiona Kidman

24 members

1 review

4.2

Member: elkiedee

24

by Shane Maloney

184 members

11 reviews

3.8

Member: elkiedee

25

Joyday for Jodi

9 members

½ 3.3

Member: CharlesSchreiber

26

My Career Goes Bung

by Miles Franklin

234 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

27

by Shane Maloney

178 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: elkiedee

28

The River Is Down

10 members

4.1

Member: CharlesSchreiber

29

Three Little Maids

by Ethel Turner

22 members

Member: elkiedee

30

Reaching for the Stars

12 members

½ 3.5

Member: CharlesSchreiber

31

An Angel at my Table

374 members

5 reviews

4

Member: elkiedee

32

Kingdom of the Heart

14 members

3.8

Member: CharlesSchreiber

33

True History of the Kelly Gang

4,250 members

79 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

34

315 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: elkiedee

35

9 members

½ 3.7

Member: CharlesSchreiber

36

The Envoy from Mirror City

207 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: elkiedee

37

A Man Called Masters

10 members

½ 3.5

Member: CharlesSchreiber

38

by Fiona Kidman

27 members

2 reviews

4.2

Member: elkiedee

39

The Mountain That Went to the Sea

6 members

4

Member: CharlesSchreiber

40

New Patches for Old

by Christobel Mattingley

24 members

½ 3.5

Member: elkiedee

41

The Distant Hills

10 members

3

Member: CharlesSchreiber

42

5 members

½ 3.5

Member: CharlesSchreiber

43

8 members

½ 3.7

Member: CharlesSchreiber

44

8 members

4

Member: CharlesSchreiber

45

The Rosie Project

by Graeme Simsion

7,629 members

551 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

46

Come Home, Dear

11 members

3

Member: CharlesSchreiber

47

3,786 members

269 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

48

5 members

4

Member: CharlesSchreiber

49

Rabbit-Proof Fence

by Doris Pilkington

784 members

29 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ahef1963

50

The One Who Kisses

6 members

½ 2.5

Member: CharlesSchreiber

51

by Patrick White

1,417 members

22 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

52

Elizabeth Costello

by J. M. Coetzee

2,626 members

48 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ahef1963

53

by Peter Temple

168 members

6 reviews

3.9

Member: CharlesSchreiber

54

by Peter Temple

174 members

12 reviews

3.9

Member: CharlesSchreiber

55

by Peter Temple

362 members

18 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: CharlesSchreiber

56

184 members

9 reviews

3.2

Member: CharlesSchreiber

57

Gallows on the Sand

by Morris L. West

54 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: CharlesSchreiber

58

33 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: CharlesSchreiber

59

A Different Turf

38 members

1 review

2.9

Member: CharlesSchreiber

60

36 members

½ 3.5

Member: CharlesSchreiber

61

54 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: CharlesSchreiber

62

by Bryce Courtenay

677 members

10 reviews

4

Member: CharlesSchreiber

63

by Bryce Courtenay

369 members

7 reviews

3.9

Member: CharlesSchreiber

64

Paperback Hero [1999 film]

by Antony J. Bowman

20 members

3

Member: CharlesSchreiber

65

The Bone People

3,827 members

112 reviews

4.1

Member: CharlesSchreiber

66

by Markus Zusak

6,606 members

335 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda

67

New Patches for Old

by Barbara K. Walker

25 members

1 review

3

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Started: CharlesSchreiber
October 2022
Type: Numbered and unnumbered

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