Oct 2009 Australian Novels

Australian Novels

Tirra Lirra by the River - Jessica Anderson
The Acolyte - Thea Astley
Girl with a Monkey - Thea Astley
Eucalyptus - Murray Bail
The Tyranny of Distance - Geoffery Blainey
Robbery Under Arms - Rolf Boldrewood
Lucinda Brayford - Martin Boyd
The Resurrectionist - James Bradley
Turtle - Gary Bryson
Bliss - Peter Carey
Ilywhacker - Peter Carey
True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey
Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
His Natural life - Marcus Clarke
Such is Life - Tom Collins
Wake in Fright- Kenneth Cook
Come in Spinner - Dymphna Cusak & Florence James
God of Speed - Luke Davies
Candy - Luke Davies
The Sunken Road - Garry Disher
Night Letters - Robert Dessaix
Our Sunshine - Robert Drewe
The Shark Net - Robert Drewe
A Fortunate Life - A B Facey
The Service of Clouds - Delia Falconer
Gould's Book of Fish - Richard Flanagan
My Brilliant Career - Miles Franklin
The Spare Room - Helen Garner
Monkey Grip - Helen Garner
The Children's Bach - Helen Garner
Lillian's Story - Kate Grenville
Joan Makes History - Kate Grenville
The Secret River - Kate Grenville
Power Without Glory - Frank Hardy
The Transit of Venus - Shirley Hazzard
Capricornia - Xavier Herbert
A Child's True Book of Crime - Chloe Hooper
The Lucky Country - Donald Horne
The Fatal Shore - Robert Hughes
The Glass Canoe - David Ireland
A Woman of the Future - David Ireland
Moral Hazzard - Kate Jennings
Life in Seven Mistakes - Susan Johnson
My Brother Jack - George Johnston
Milk and Honey - Elizabeth Jolley
The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith - Thomas Keneally
The Year of Living Dangerously - CJ Koch
The Pea- Pickers - Eve Langley
Picnic at Hanging Rock - Joan Lindsay
The Magic Pudding - Norman Lindsay
Camille's Bread - Amanda Lohrey
Feather Man - Rhyll McMaster
Praise - Andrew McGahan
10 for 66 and all that - Arthur Mailey
An Imaginaery Life - David Malouf
Journey to the Stone Country - Alex Miller
The Orchard - Drusilla Modjeska
Stravinsky's Lunch - Drusilla Modjeska
Grand Days - Frank Moorhouse
My Place - Sally Morgan
The Plains - Gerald Murnane
The Harp in the South - Ruth Park
Coonardoo - Katharine Susannah Prichard
The Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balconey - Hal Porter
The Getting of Wisdom - Henry Handel Richardson
The Fortunes of Richard Mahony - Henry Handel Richardson
The Man Who Loved Children - Christina Stead
The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea - Randolph Stow
Visitants - Randolph Stow
Tourmaline - Randolph Stow
The Arrival - Shaun Tan (graphic novel)
Storm Boy - Colin Thiele
The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas
Loaded - Christos Tsiolkas
Seven Little Australian - Ethel Turner
The Children - Charlotte Wood
The Submerged Cathedral - Charlotte Wood
The Riders - Tim Winton
Cloudstreet - Tim Winton
Voss - Patrick White
The Twyborn Affair - Patrick White
I for Isobel - Amy Witting
Leaning Towards Infinity - Sue Woolfe
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak

What makes a book Australian? The nationality of the writer, or the setting? The language?

Another list here, from Australian Book Review, which polled readers for their favourites.

http://www.australianbookreview.com.au/competitions/abr-fan-poll

The winner, again, was Tim Winton's Cloudstret.

http://www.australianbookreview.com.au/files/Features/February_2010/ABR_Feb10_Favourite_Australian_Novel_Poll.pdf