Read the World: Australia

Books by authors from Australia or set in/about Australia.

Updated February 19, 2024
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True history of the Kelly gang
Carey, Peter, 1943-
Paper Book
Out of nineteenth-century Australia rides a hero of his people and a man for all nations, in this masterpiece by the Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda and Jack Maggs. Exhilarating, hilarious, panoramic, and immediately engrossing, it is also—at a distance of many thousand miles...
One whole and perfect day
Clarke, Judith, 1943-
Paper Book
In this Michael L. Printz Honor Book, Lily wishes she could be like the other girls in her class. But how can she? As the only sensible person in her family, she never has time to hang out with friends.  'Someone ' has to stay home to look after her brother. Maybe she should fall in love...
Possum magic
Fox, Mem, 1946- author.
Paper Book
Grandma Poss uses her best bush magic to make Hush invisible. But when Hush longs to be able to see herself again, the two possums must make their way across Australia to find the magic food that will make Hush visible once more. “Another treat from Mem Fox that is sure to be treasured....
Disquiet
Leigh, Julia, 1970-
Paper Book
Olivia arrives at her mother's chateau in rural France (the first time in more than a decade) with her two young children in tow. Soon the family is joined by Olivia's brother Marcus and his wife Sophie'but this reunion is far from joyful. After years of desperately wanting a baby, Sophie has just...
The touch
McCullough, Colleen 1937-2015
Paper Book
Not since The Thorn Birds has Colleen McCullough written a novel of such broad appeal about a family and the Australian experience as The Touch. At its center is Alexander Kinross, remembered as a young man in his native Scotland only as a shiftless boilermaker's...
What Alice forgot
Moriarty, Liane author.
Paper Book
What would happen if you were visited by your younger self, and got a chance for a do-over? Alice Love is twenty-nine years old, madly in love with her husband, and pregnant with their first child. So imagine her surprise when, after a fall, she comes to on the floor of a gym (a...
Big little lies
Moriarty, Liane
Paper Book
From the author of Here One Moment and The Husband's Secret comes the #1 New York Times bestselling novel about the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive. THE INSPIRATION FOR THE AWARD-WINNING HBO® SERIES STARRING REESE...
The husband's secret
Moriarty, Liane.
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller -- Imagine that your husband wrote you a letter to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his darkest secret -- something with the potential to destroy the life you built together, and the lives of others as well. Imagine, then, that you stumble...
Nine perfect strangers
Moriarty, Liane
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, now a Hulu original series "If three characters were good in Big Little Lies, nine are even better in Nine Perfect Strangers." --Lisa Scottoline, The New York Times Book Review From the #1...
A confusion of princes
NIX,GARTH.
Paper Book
* Author appearance at ALA (June) * Advertising in school and library media * Big Mouth galley mailing * YALSA galley mailing * Discussion Guide * Extensive galley distribution at conferences and librarian previews * Blog post at thepageturn.com (possible...
Mister Monday
Nix, Garth
Paper Book
This is a great time to reprint the spellbinding start to The Keys to the Kingdom!Seven days. Seven keys. Seven virtues. Seven sins. One mysterious house is the doorway to a very mysterious world -- where one boy is about to venture and unlock a number of fantastical secrets.This is another...
The book thief
Zusak, Markus.
Paper Book
The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller that is now a major motion picture, Markus Zusak's unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier...
Bridge of Clay
ZUSAK,MARKUS
Paper Book
The unforgettable, New York Times bestselling family saga from Markus Zusak, the storyteller who gave us the extraordinary bestseller THE BOOK THIEF, lauded by the New York Times as "the kind of book that can be life-changing." NAMED ONE OF THE BEST...

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