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The Slap (2008)★ 4.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2008A man slaps another couple’s child at a Melbourne neighborhood barbecue. Eight people who were there get a turn to tell the story. Christos Tsiolkas is at his sharpest when someone you were sure you disliked gets the floor and makes the whole gathering look different.0 - 2
Learned Behaviours (2025)Published Jan 1, 2025Zaid is training to be a barrister when an old friend’s sister brings him a diary. It makes him look again at a murder case from his last year of school in western Sydney. Read Zeynab Gamieldien for the mystery and for the awkward return of someone who has learned how to move in a different social…0 - 3
The Coconut ChildrenSonny reads secondhand romance novels and watches Cabramatta from her bedroom window. When her childhood friend Vince comes home from juvenile detention, familiarity makes their reunion more awkward. Vivian Pham catches the bravado and humor of two teenagers who have known each other long enough to…0 - 4
Cloudstreet (1991)★ 8.4/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 1991The Lambs and the Pickles move to Perth after two separate calamities and spend twenty years under the same roof. Try Tim Winton for a family saga where the house has almost as much presence as the people arguing and making up inside it.0 - 5
Boy Swallows Universe (2018)★ 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2018In 1980s Brisbane, Eli Bell has a brother who doesn’t speak and a notorious criminal for a babysitter. Read Trent Dalton for a boy’s extravagant imagination and the speed with which his family life can tip into a crime story.0 - 6
The White Girl (2020)Published Jan 1, 2020Odette Brown has quietly raised her granddaughter Sissy on the edge of a country town. A new sergeant threatens what little freedom they have under laws that allow authorities to remove Aboriginal children. Tony Birch gives a grandmother’s careful reading of other people the speed and tension of a…0 - 7
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens (2022)Published Jan 1, 2022At a Sydney nursing home, the garden and kitchen are part of a shared life its residents have built. When people outside take aim at it, the stories the residents tell each other take on a new weight. Shankari Chandran makes an institution people are often happy to overlook the busiest room in the…0 - 8
And in the MorningIn 1919 Melbourne, a mother rushes through the city with her son to meet a husband returning from war. Decades later, in the same city, a different mother plans her son’s funeral amid protests against the Vietnam War. Read Lenny Robinson for what changes when the city that once welcomed soldiers…0 - 9
Limberlost (2022)Published Jan 1, 2022On a Tasmanian orchard during a summer of World War II, Ned traps rabbits to earn money for a boat while his two older brothers are away at war. Read Robbie Arnott for the work and weather of a growing season, and for how far a boy can get on a plan that seems small to everyone else.0 - 10
Shell (2018)Published Jan 1, 2018Sydney’s unfinished Opera House draws a Swedish glass artist, while a newspaper reporter is trying to find her brothers before they can be drafted. Choose Kristina Olsson for the contrast between public excitement over a building and the uncertainty of life in the city building it.0
