NAIDOC Reading List

Updated June 29, 2026
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1

The yield : a novel
Winch, Tara June
Paper Book
Winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award and 2021 Kate Challis RAKA Award!  "A beautifully written novel that puts language at the heart of remembering the past and understanding the present."--Kate Morton "A groundbreaking novel for black and white Australia."--Richard...

2

That deadman dance
Scott, Kim 1957-
Paper Book
Set in Western Australia in the first decades of the nineteenth century, That Deadman Dance is a vast, gorgeous novel about the first contact between the Aboriginal Noongar people and the new European settlers. Bobby Wabalanginy is a young Noongar man, smart, resourceful, and eager...

3

Praiseworthy
Wright, Alexis 1950-
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE 2024 MILES FRANKLIN AWARD WINNER OF THE 2024 STELLA PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2024 JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2023 QUEENSLAND AWARD FOR LITERARY FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD In a small town in the north of Australia, a...

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