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Aussie Books For Your TBR Pile 🇦🇺
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items Want to know more about the Land Down Under? Here are some quintessential Aussie books that you should read! From Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives, to multiculturalism, to even fantasy, here are some of the best Aussie books I've re...
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Indigenous Knowledge
Asian diaspora
Fantasy
Ultimate Recommendations
Indigenous Knowledge
Australia has been home to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples for at least 60,000 years and is home to at least 250 different language and cultural groups. Since Australia's colonisation in 1788, Indigenous peoples have been subject to ext...
I learnt so much about Aboriginal agriculture, including that Australia used to have native rice 🍚 and so much more!
Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
Aileen Moreton-Robinson's published PhD can be dense but it is full of knowledge on how second-wave feminism has long excluded black women and Indigenous women.
Talkin' Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism ...
Asian diaspora
Australia is now home to people from many different cultures and ethnicities. These books are all by Asian-Australian authors and what it's like to be Asian in Australia.
This one hit especially close to home for me. Set in the 1980s, a young woman returns home to Cabramatta to find out why her brother was murdered in Australia's heroin capital, a Vietnamese refugee enclave facing violent crime, an indifferent police ...
All That's Left Unsaid by Tracey Lien
How did a white man replace the original Asian male lead of a martial arts blockbuster? Find out - mockumentary-style.
The Whitewash by Siang Lu
A short story collection with different characters but bookmarked with a story on “boat people” and how they came to Australia.
The Boat by Nam Le
Fantasy
If you're craving something otherwordly, these are your must-reads!
“Dear You, The body you are wearing used to be mine” is the FIRST LINE, and it only gets better from there. Although it is set in the UK.
The Rook (The Checquy Files, #1) by Daniel O'Malley
As a kid, this duology into Chinese zodiac animals all being dragons, with a kickass protagonist, consumed my every waking thought!
Eon and Eona by Alison Goodman
Ultimate Recommendations
These hold a sacred place in my heart.
It's messy but tugs on all your heartstrings in the right places! Such a good throwback to Brisbane in the 1980s. And it's semi-autobiographical so you know at least parts of it are true.
Boy Swallows Universe: A Novel by Trent Dalton, Paperback
10 young women are being held prisoner. The thread that connects them: they've all been in very public sex scandals.
The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
You should buy this for the pages alone because they have intricate illustrations of Australia’s flora. The book ties in with domestic violence and is about growing up, the choices we make, and how it impacts the future.
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart by Holly Ringland
A witty and funny short story collection about animals, inanimate objects, and more, including a grizzly bear that gains sentience after eating a teenager, a family of platypuses, and more.
Here Be Leviathans by Chris Flynn