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Hannah Kent's first novel, the international bestseller, Burial Rites (2013), was translated into 30 languages and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Guardian First Book Award. It won the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year, the Indie Awards Debut Fiction Book of the Year and the Victorian Premier's People's Choice Award, and was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

Hannah's second novel, The Good People was published in 2016 (ANZ) and 2017 (Feb, UK; Sept, North America). It was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, the Indie Book Award for Fiction and the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year. It has been translated into 10 languages.

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	Burial Rites 4.04 avg rating — 126,186 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Good People 3.82 avg rating — 23,467 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Devotion 3.87 avg rating — 13,225 ratings — published 2021 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Always Home, Always Homesick 4.39 avg rating — 2,981 ratings — published 2025 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hannah Kent 3 Books Collection Set 3.72 avg rating — 18 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kill Your Darlings, April 2016 by Rebecca Starford (Editor), Hannah Kent (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jane Caro (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	SIGHT LINES: 2014 UTS WRITERS’ ANTHOLOGY by UTS Writers Anthology, Hannah Kent (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kill Your Darlings, July 2016 by Rebecca Starford (Editor), Hannah Kent (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Hugh Jones (Contributor) 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kill Your Darlings, October 2011 by Rebecca Starford (Editor), Ben Eltham (Contributor), Ron Rash (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Siempre en casa, siempre lejos de casa by Hannah Kent (Goodreads Author), Laura Vidal (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.”
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“I can turn to that day as though it were a page in a book. It’s written so deeply upon my mind I can almost taste the ink.”
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“It’s not fair. People claim to know you through the things you’ve done, and not by sitting down and listening to you speak for yourself.”
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Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Switzerland)

22 votes 31.0%

The Good People by Hannah Kent (Ireland)

15 votes 21.1%

Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys (East Prussia [covers parts of modern-day Russia/Poland/Lithuania])

13 votes 18.3%

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (England)

6 votes 8.5%

The Heart by Maylis de Kerangal (France)

6 votes 8.5%

Distant Music: A Novel by Lee Langley (Portugal)

5 votes 7.0%

Let Me Tell You About a Man I Knew by Susan Fletcher (France)

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Aussie Readers: Win a copy of Burial Rites (ends 3/6)	15	80	Sep 02, 2013 09:22PM
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