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Cloudstreet (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as australiana)
avg rating 4.01 — 28,194 ratings — published 1991
Dark Emu (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as australiana)
avg rating 4.27 — 16,045 ratings — published 2014
Boy Swallows Universe (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as australiana)
avg rating 4.34 — 98,737 ratings — published 2018
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Hanging Rock, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as australiana)
avg rating 3.66 — 30,885 ratings — published 1967
In a Sunburned Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as australiana)
avg rating 4.07 — 122,228 ratings — published 2000
The Light Between Oceans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as australiana)
avg rating 4.04 — 479,738 ratings — published 2012
Breath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as australiana)
avg rating 3.91 — 25,831 ratings — published 2008
The Thorn Birds (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as australiana)
avg rating 4.25 — 364,964 ratings — published 1977
Tomorrow, When the War Began (Tomorrow, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as australiana)
avg rating 4.04 — 60,610 ratings — published 1993
A Fortunate Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as australiana)
avg rating 4.25 — 9,933 ratings — published 1981
True History of the Kelly Gang (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as australiana)
avg rating 3.83 — 24,265 ratings — published 2000
The Dry (Aaron Falk, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as australiana)
avg rating 4.06 — 267,375 ratings — published 2016
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as australiana)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,882,634 ratings — published 2005
The Secret River (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as australiana)
avg rating 3.81 — 25,261 ratings — published 2005
Jasper Jones (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as australiana)
avg rating 4.08 — 43,552 ratings — published 2009
The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as australiana)
avg rating 4.04 — 63,326 ratings — published 2013
Dirt Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as australiana)
avg rating 3.87 — 15,617 ratings — published 2001
The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as australiana)
avg rating 4.09 — 10,389 ratings — published 1986
Girt (The Unauthorised History of Australia #1)
by (shelved 11 times as australiana)
avg rating 3.94 — 6,452 ratings — published 2013
The Dressmaker (Dressmaker, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as australiana)
avg rating 3.43 — 19,878 ratings — published 2000
The Slap (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as australiana)
avg rating 3.26 — 33,133 ratings — published 2008
We of the Never Never (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as australiana)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,635 ratings — published 1907
The Magic Pudding (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as australiana)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,236 ratings — published 1918
Oscar and Lucinda (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as australiana)
avg rating 3.73 — 21,835 ratings — published 1988
Jessica (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as australiana)
avg rating 4.26 — 11,796 ratings — published 1997
Seven Little Australians (Woolcots, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as australiana)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,865 ratings — published 1894
The Harp in the South (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as australiana)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,849 ratings — published 1948
The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as australiana)
avg rating 4.01 — 594,965 ratings — published 2013
For the Term of His Natural Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as australiana)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,130 ratings — published 1874
Eucalyptus (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as australiana)
avg rating 3.49 — 5,765 ratings — published 1998
The Tree of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as australiana)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,236 ratings — published 1955
The Lost Man (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as australiana)
avg rating 4.16 — 110,745 ratings — published 2018
Force of Nature (Aaron Falk, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as australiana)
avg rating 3.83 — 124,207 ratings — published 2017
Talking to My Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as australiana)
avg rating 4.40 — 4,209 ratings — published 2016
Wake in Fright (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as australiana)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,307 ratings — published 1961
Shantaram (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as australiana)
avg rating 4.28 — 239,847 ratings — published 2003
The Complete Adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as australiana)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,647 ratings — published 1918
A Killing Frost (Tomorrow, #3)
by (shelved 8 times as australiana)
avg rating 4.19 — 21,926 ratings — published 1995
My Brilliant Career (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as australiana)
avg rating 3.80 — 7,700 ratings — published 1901
Voss (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as australiana)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,590 ratings — published 1957
The Bush (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as australiana)
avg rating 4.00 — 588 ratings — published 2014
All Our Shimmering Skies (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as australiana)
avg rating 3.95 — 25,406 ratings — published 2020
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as australiana)
avg rating 4.09 — 45,369 ratings — published 2018
Where Song Began: Australia's Birds and How They Changed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as australiana)
avg rating 4.22 — 683 ratings — published 2014
Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as australiana)
avg rating 3.84 — 29,314 ratings — published 1989
Puberty Blues (Puberty Blues, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as australiana)
avg rating 3.45 — 2,336 ratings — published 1979
The Potato Factory (The Potato Factory, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as australiana)
avg rating 4.15 — 11,321 ratings — published 1995
The Night Is for Hunting (Tomorrow, #6)
by (shelved 7 times as australiana)
avg rating 4.14 — 17,346 ratings — published 1998
Burning For Revenge (Tomorrow, #5)
by (shelved 7 times as australiana)
avg rating 4.18 — 18,509 ratings — published 1997
Looking for Alibrandi (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as australiana)
avg rating 3.90 — 25,558 ratings — published 1992
“...I'd felt dread about how average and suburban Brisbane seemed. The normalcy was stifling and that I yearned for bigger things, that I missed New York.”
― Eggshell Skull
― Eggshell Skull
“Back then the towering gums marched down to the water and the area was sparsely populated with fibro weekenders - simple cottages and boat sheds - mainly owned by coal miners from the nearby Hunter Valley. My grandfather worked in the mines. He'd lend my family the one room boffy attached to his boasted almost every school holiday, and I have such vivid memories of jumping off his jetty and boiling crabs for dinner and fishing with a line wrapped around a piece of cork and playing in the rock pools and parking about in his tin runabout.”
― Why You Are Australian: A Letter to My Children
― Why You Are Australian: A Letter to My Children





