Australia's Top 100 Favourite Homegrown Reads
10 Aussie Books to Read Before You Die
And considered The Australian Canon
But here's another Aussie list hot off the Buzzfeeed presses this week! When too much fun is barely enough. Of course. Let's do it.
1. Jessica - Bryce Courtenay
2. Cloudstreet - Tim Winton (I'm perhaps the only person in history to give up halfway on Cloudstreet)
3. Picnic at Hanging Rock - Joan Lindsay (see my review)
4. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
5. My Brilliant Career - Miles Franklin
6. Schindler's Ark - Thomas Keneally
7. The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas (see my review)
8. The Rabbits - John Marsden and Shaun Tan
9. Looking for Alibrandi - Melina Marchetti (see my review)
10. Playing Beattie Bow - Ruth Park (see my review)
11. Snugglepot and Cuddlepie - May Gibbs
12. Tomorrow, When the War Began - John Marsden
13. The White Earth - Andrew McGahan
14. Seven Little Australians - Ethel Turner
15. Possum Magic - Mem Fox & Julie Vivas
16. Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
17. Came Back to Show You I Could Fly - Robin Klein
18. Burial Rites - Hannah Kent
19. Dirt Music - Tim Winton
20. Carpentaria - Alexis Wright
21. Where the Forest Meets the Sea - Jeannie Baker
22. White Gardenia - Belinda Alexandra
23. So Much to Tell You - John Marsden
24. Jasper Jones - Craig Silvey
25. The Secret River - Kate Grenville
26. Puberty Blues - Gabrielle Carey and Kathy Lette
27. The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith - Thomas Keneally
28. An Imaginary Life - David Malouf
29. Two Weeks With the Queen - Morris Gleitzman
30. Eucalyptus - Murray Bail
31. Tender Morsels - Margo Lanagan
32. Unreal! Paul Jennings
33. Mao's Last Dancer - Li Cunxin
34. Candy - Luke Davies
35. Hating Alison Ashley - Robin Klein (see my review)
36. Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence- Doris Pilkington/Nugi Garimara
37. The Getting of Wisdom - Henry Handel Richardson
38. A Fortunate Life - A.B Facey
39. The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay
40. Ransom - David Malouf
41. Storm Boy - Colin Thiele
42. My Place - Sally Morgan
43. Feeling Sorry for Celia - Jaclyn Moriarty (see my review)
44. The Burnt Stick - Anthony Hill and Mark Sofilas (see my review)
45. The Eleventh Hour - Graeme Base
46. On the Jellicoe Road - Melina Marchetta
47. The Harp in the South - Ruth Park
48. Stolen - Lucy Christopher
49. Voss - Patrick White
50. The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough
19.5/50. Guess I'm not ready to die just yet.
I love how any new list can have books you've never even heard of. I must confess to The Burnt Stick, Came Back to Show You I Could Fly and Stolen were completely new for me. As was So Much to Tell You, even though I thought I'd read much of John Marsden. Most of the rest are in my I Should Read That Sometime pile.
I'm most intrigued by The Burnt Stick, and picked up a copy at my library today.
4/4/14 Already at 20.5/50
June 2015 21.5/50
June 2017 23.5/50
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