Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak
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Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS | Reading Level: very good
Let me tell you about our brother. The fourth Dunbar boy named Clay. Everything happened to him. We were all of us changed through him. The Dunbar boys bring each other up in a house run by their own rules. A family of ramshackle tragedy - their mother is dead, their father has fled - they love and figh ...Show more
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
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Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and recognised as one of the greatest works of Australian literature, Cloudstreetis Tim Winton's sprawling, comic epic about luck and love, fortitude and forgiveness, and the magic of the everyday. After two separate catastrophes, two very different families leave th ...Show more
For the Term of His Natural Life: Text Classics by Marcus Clarke
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Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Wrongfully convicted, a young aristocrat is sent to the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land. There he is forced to endure tremendous suffering, from the cruelty of those in power to the harsh untamed country. Dawes remains determined to clear his name, no matter the trials that come his way.
Stone Yard Devotional ( Miles Franklin Longlist 2024) by Charlotte Wood
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Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS
A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winning author of The Natural Way of Things and The Weekend. A woman abandons her city life and marriage to return to the place she grew up, finding solace in a small religious community hidden away on the st ...Show more
The First Stone: Some Questions About Sex and Power by Helen Garner
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Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS
In the autumn of 1992, two young women students at Melbourne University went to the police claiming that they had been indecently assaulted at a party. The man they accused was the head of their co-ed residential college. The shock of these charges split the community and painfully focused the debate ...Show more
A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
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Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS
What if Elizabeth Macarthur-wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in the earliest days of Sydney-had written a shockingly frank secret memoir? And what if novelist Kate Grenville had miraculously found and published it?;;Marriage to a ruthless bully, the impulses of her heart, the search for ...Show more
Questions of Travel: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2013 by Michelle de Kretser
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Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS | Reading Level: very good
"It is not really possible to describe, in a short space, the originality and depth of this long and beautifully crafted book."--A.S. Byatt, Guardian Laura Fraser grows up in Sydney, motherless, with a cold, professional father and an artistic bent. Ravi Mendis lives on the other side of the globe--expl ...Show more
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
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Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS | Reading Level: good
WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH WRITERS' PRIZE 2009 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2010 'A tremendously vital book in every sense.' - Sunday Times At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly boy. The boy is not his son. It is a single act of violence, but the slap reverberates through th ...Show more
Love & Virtue by Diana Reid
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Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS
Whenever I say I was at university with Eve, people ask me what she was like, sceptical perhaps that she could have always been as whole and self-assured as she now appears. To which I say something like: ‘People are infinitely complex.’ But I say it in such a way—so pregnant with misanthropy—that it’s ...Show more
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
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Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS | Series: Don Tillman | Reading Level: very good
Don Tillman is getting married. He just doesn't know who to yet. But he has designed the Wife Project, using a sixteen-page questionnaire to help him find the perfect partner. She will most definitely not be a barmaid, a smoker, a drinker, or a late-arriver. Rosie Jarman is all these things. She is also ...Show more
Benang: From the Heart - Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2000 by Kim Scott
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Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS | Series: Fremantle Press Treasures
Harley, a man of Nyoongar ancestry, finds himself at a difficult point in the history of his country, family and self. As the apparently successful outcome of his white grandfather's enthusiastic attempts to isolate and breed the 'first white man born', he wants to be a failure. But would such failure m ...Show more
Tirra Lirra By the River by Jessica Anderson
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Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS
Liza used to say that she saw her past life as a string of roughly-graded balls, and so did Hilda have a linear conception of hers, thinking of it as a track with detours. But for some years now I have likened mine to a globe suspended in my head, and ever since the shocking realisation that waste is ir ...Show more