Summer Reading Guide 2024: Australian Fiction, Poetry and Essays

Cherrywood

Jock Serong

From multi-award-winning author Jock Serong comes Cherrywood, an imaginative, darkly playful and deeply meaningful delight, a novel about legacy, community, wonder, love and reinvention.

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Here One Moment

Liane Moriarty

If you knew when you were going to die, what would you do differently?

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Theory & Practice

Michelle de Kretser

One of the most anticipated literary releases of the year, this gripping novel changes the game on what fiction can be and do.

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Dusk

Robbie Arnott

In the distant highlands, a puma named Dusk is killing shepherds. Down in the lowlands, twins Iris and Floyd are out of work, money and friends. When they hear that…

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Juice

Tim Winton

An epic novel of determination, survival, and the limits of the human spirit. This is Tim Winton as you’ve never read him before.

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The Belburd

Nardi Simpson

From the award-winning author of Song of the Crocodile comes a lyrical and masterfully woven novel about women, creation, belonging and the precious fragility of a life.

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All the Bees in the Hollows

Lauren Keegan

An atmospheric, original, folkoric mystery set in a remote Lithuanian beekeeping community in the 16th century, from debut author Lauren Keegan. For fans of Hannah Kent's Burial Rites and Kate…

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The Burrow

Melanie Cheng

In her unforgettable new novel, Victorian Premier's Literary Award-winner Melanie Cheng has created this year's literary masterpiece.

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Diving, Falling

Kylie Mirmohamadi

It's never too late to rewrite your own story.

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The Wedding Forecast

Nina Kenwood

The sparkling, relatable, hilarious and sexy adult romantic comedy from the author of the much-loved It Sounded Better in My Head and Unnecessary Drama.

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Essays that Changed Australia: Meanjin 1940 to Today

Esther Anatolitis (ed.)

A curated collection of essays that shaped Australia's culture and society

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This Kingdom of Dust

David Dyer

Like the moon landing itself, a feat of enormous ingenuity imagining the lives of the Apollo mission heroes, and those on planet earth in the tumultuous 1960s.

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Immortal Dark (Immortal Dark Trilogy, Book 1)

Tigest Girma

A lost heiress must infiltrate an arcane society and live with the vampire she suspects killed her family and kidnapped her sister in this dangerously romantic dark academia debut.

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Dirrayawadha (Rise Up)

Anita Heiss

From the bestselling author of Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray (River of Dreams) comes another groundbreaking historical novel about resistance, resilience and love during the frontier wars.

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Rapture

Emily Maguire

An imaginative and audacious historical novel from the best-selling author of Love Objects and An Isolated Incident.

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Restless Dolly Maunder

Kate Grenville

An exquisite portrait of Kate Grenville's complex, conflicted grandmother - a woman Kate feared as a child, and only came to understand in adulthood.

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The Temperature

Katerina Gibson

The debut novel from the multi-award winning author: six very different characters each have their lives altered by a tweet, a storm, a revelation - and a secret in one…

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Thanks for Having Me

Emma Darragh

The first fiction title from JOAN, consisting of interwoven stories about three generations of women in one family as they navigate girlhood, motherhood and selfhood, perfect for fans of Jennifer…

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Twenty-Two Impressions: Notes from the Major Arcana

Jessica Friedmann

A poetic new essay collection in which the symbols of the tarot brush up against life in a changing world.

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A Song to Drown Rivers

Ann Liang

A love story that transcends time and place.

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Wing

Nikki Gemmell

An explosive, contemporary literary thriller from international bestselling author Nikki Gemmell - Wing is Lord of the Flies meets Picnic at Hanging Rock meets Promising Young Woman.

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Spinning Around: The Kylie Playlist

Kirsten Krauth (ed.), Angela Savage (ed.)

This stunning follow-up to Minds Went Walking: Paul Kelly's Songs Reimagined and Into Your Arms: Nick Cave's Songs Reimagined features Alice Pung, Ellen Van Neerven and Christos Tsiolkas, and is…

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The Thinning

Inga Simpson

A powerful literary page-turner about two young people in a race against time to reach a monumental solar eclipse, from famed Australian novelist Inga Simpson

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Words to Sing the World Alive

Jasmin McGaughey

An exquisite celebration of First Nations languages from a selection of Australia's finest Indigenous writers, all wrapped up in a handsome hardback that's perfect for Christmas gift giving.

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Best of Australian Poems 2024

Shastra Deo (ed.), Kate Lilley (ed.)

Best of Australian Poems is an annual anthology collecting previously published and unpublished poems to create a poetic snapshot and barometer of the year that was. Capturing the richness and…

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The Echoes

Evie Wyld

Set between rural Australia and London, The Echoes is a story about the weight of the past and the promise of the future

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The Deal

Alex Miller

A powerful and perceptive novel from two-time Miles Franklin Award winner Alex Miller.

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My Name Is Gucci: A Dog’s Story

Sun Jung

My Name Is Gucci is a charming novel about the relationships between pets and their owners and about how the past shapes the present.

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Tomorrow There Will Be Sun: A Hope Prize Anthology

Various authors, Dame Quentin Bryce (foreword)

Prize-winning and highly commended stories from the 2024 Hope Prize, with judges including Dame Quentin Bryce, Dr Tony Birch and Julia Gillard.

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Bina: First Nations Languages Old and New

Gari Tudor-Smith, Paul Williams, Felicity Meakins

The remarkable story of Australia's First Nations Languages, from precolonial times to the present

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Praiseworthy

Alexis Wright

Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale of imagery for which Alexis Wright has become renowned.

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Things Will Calm Down Soon

Zoë Foster Blake

Welcome to the hectic world of beauty and business in this highly relatable novel following a talented hair stylist turned entrepreneur juggling family dramas, workplace near-catastrophes and relationship crises. Things…

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Anam

Andre Dao

Anam is a novel about memory and inheritance, colonialism and belonging, home and exile.

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First Year

Kristina Ross

For readers of Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney, Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler and Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors, First Year is a deeply intelligent and insightful exploration of…

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Summer Reading Guide 2024: Australian Fiction, Poetry and Essays

Cherrywood

Here One Moment

Theory & Practice

Dusk

Juice

The Belburd

All the Bees in the Hollows

The Burrow

Diving, Falling

The Wedding Forecast

Essays that Changed Australia: Meanjin 1940 to Today

This Kingdom of Dust

Immortal Dark (Immortal Dark Trilogy, Book 1)

Dirrayawadha (Rise Up)

Rapture

Restless Dolly Maunder

The Temperature

Thanks for Having Me

Twenty-Two Impressions: Notes from the Major Arcana

A Song to Drown Rivers

Wing

Spinning Around: The Kylie Playlist

The Thinning

Words to Sing the World Alive

Best of Australian Poems 2024

The Echoes

The Deal

My Name Is Gucci: A Dog’s Story

Tomorrow There Will Be Sun: A Hope Prize Anthology

Bina: First Nations Languages Old and New

Praiseworthy

Things Will Calm Down Soon

Anam

First Year