The Childhood of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
Coming of Age: Growing Up Muslim in Australia
A Common Loss by Kirsten Tranter
Dancing on Coral by Glenda Adams
The Dead I Know by Scot Gardner
Eat the Sky, Drink the Ocean edited by Kirsty Murray
El Dorado by Dorothy Porter
*Everywhere I Look by Helen Garner
Eyrie by Tim Winton
A Few Days in the Country and Other Stories by Elizabeth Harrower
A Few Right Thinking Men: A Rowland Sinclair Mystery by Sulari Gentill
Finding Mr Darcy by Amanda Hooton
Flesh Wounds by Richard Glover
Flock by Lyn Hughes
The Handbook by Jane Rawson and James Whitmore
Happy As Larry by Scot Gardner
The Hate Race; A Memoir by Maxine Beneba Clarke
Marrying Ameera by Rosanne Hawke
The Midnight Watch by David Dyer
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
One Life My Mother’s Story by Kate Grenville
One Thousand Hills by James Roy and Noel Zihabamwe
Only the Animals by Ceridwen Dovey
*Pastures of the Blue Crane by H. F. Brinsmead
Paving the New Road by Sulari Gentill
Philosophy in the Garden by Damon Young
Plain-speaking Jane by Jane Caro
A Pocketful of Eyes by Lili Wilkinson
Stolen by Lucy Christopher
Swords and Crowns and Rings by Ruth Park
Sydney by Delia Falconer
Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty
*Ultima Thule: The Fortunes of Richard Mahony by Henry Handel Richardson
The Watch Tower by Elizabeth Harrower
*The Way Home: The Fortunes of Richard Mahony by Henry Handel Richardson
When We Were Two by Robert Newton
Where the Trees Were by Inga Simpson
Whisky, Charlie, Foxtrot by Annabel Smith
Wildlife by Fiona Wood
*The Women in Black by Madeleine St John
A World of Other People by Steven Carroll
You’re Still Hot to Me: The Joys of Menopause by Jean Kittson
You can also find more Australian books here with Booktopia’s Top 50 Australian books.
And if it’s older classics you’re after try Geoffrey Dutton’s Collection of Greatest Australian Books here.
What’s your favourite Australian book?
Which one are you excited about reading next?
