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Your mid-year top 5-10 titles of 2023 - AUSTRALIAN Authors only!
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The Sinister Booksellers of Bath by Garth Nix
Birds in Flight by Anni Taylor
Creative Differences and Other Stories by Graeme Simsion
Missing by Catherine Lee
by Look Closer by Rachel Amphlett
Mystery at the Asylum by Helen Goltz
The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams
Haven't read too many Aussies this year!1. Embrace Yourself by Taryn Brumfitt
2. The Rook by Daniel O'Malley
3. Difficult People by Rebecca Ray
4. After the Forest by Kell Woods
Nothing else has really rated, to be honest!
So many good Aussie books out this year, it's hard to pick just ten, but here goes: (okay, I can't count; it's actually 11 but I can't decide which one to drop!)
The Escapades of Tribulation Johnson by Karen Brooks
Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams
Fire with Fire by Candice Fox
Return to Valetto by Dominic Smith
The Double Bind by Loraine Peck
The House of Now and Then by Jo Dixon
How to Kill a Client by Joanna Jenkins
Lest We Forgive by Phillipa Nefri Clark
After the Smoke Clears by Kylie Kaden
Wake by Shelley Burr
Lots of good ones so far this year!Invented Lives by Andrea Goldsmith
Return to Valetto by Dominic Smith
Headcase by Jack Heath
The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams
The Long Game and Wild Card by Simon Rowell
The House of Now and Then by Jo Dixon
Fed to Red Birds by Rijn Collins
Smokehouse by Melissa Manning
I've had 4 five star Aussie reads so far this yearReturn to Valetto by Dominic Smith
Providence by Max Barry
Cherry Beach by Laura McPhee-Browne
Chai Time At Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran
My top Aussie author titles that I've read this year (so far):
Breath by Tim Winton
All the Broken Soldiers: Private Kennedy's War by Jan McLeod
Wild Card by Simon Rowell
Vanished: True Stories from Families of Australian Missing Persons by Nicole Morris
Mackie and Jack by Jan William Smith
Vinyl Dreams: How the 1970s Changed Music by Tony Wellington
Missing: War, Sacrifice and the Search for Justice by Ian W. Shaw
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Emma Carey
The Death of John Lacey by Ben Hobson
Hitler's Tractor by Jan William Smith
The 10 Aussie author books I've enjoyed most so far this year are
Wild Card by Simon Rowell
The Double Bind by Loraine Peck
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
The Other Side of Her by B.M. Carroll
The Rush by Michelle Prak
Fire with Fire by Candice Fox
Lenny Marks Gets Away With Murder by Kerryn Mayne
Stone Town by Margaret Hickey
Gone to Ground by Bronwyn Hall
Crimson Lake by Candice Fox
the fall between Darcy Tindale
The money club FIONA LOWE
taken
Black lies
White noise
My Best Aussie Reads of 2023 so far:
Mullumbimby by Melissa Lucashenko
Song of the Sun God by Shankari Chandran
The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding by Holly Ringland
Frangipani by Célestine Hitiura Vaite
The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf by Ambelin Kwaymullina
The Untold by Courtney Collins
The Money Club by Fiona Lowe
Homecoming by Kate Morton
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With another year half over here at Aussie Readers, it's that time again to list your top 5 - 10 Aussie author titles. The books don't have to be released this year (2023) but only to be read.
My choices in no particular order: