17 best-selling fiction books like Rainbow's End by Jane Harrison

Rainbow's End

By: Jane Harrison

3.42

Format: None pages, None

Set in the 1950s in the northern Victorian area of Shepparton and Mooroopna, Rainbow's End by Jane …

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Cover of Ransom by David Malouf

1. Ransom

By: David Malouf

3.69

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A reimagination of one of the most famous stories in all of literature-Achilles's slaughter and des… read more

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  • fiction
  • school
"The world, for Achilles, reassembled itself around a new centre."

-David Malouf, Ransom

"He had entered the rough world of men, where a man's acts follow him wherever he goes in the form of story."

-David Malouf, Ransom

"Words are powerful. They too can be the agents of what is new, of what is conceivable and can be thought and let loose upon the world."

-David Malouf, Ransom

"Far out where the gulf deepens, small waves kick up, gather, then collapse, and new ones replace them; and this, even as he watches, repeats itself, and will do endlessly whether he is here or not to…"

-David Malouf, Ransom

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2. Nine Days

By: Toni Jordan

3.73

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

One family. Nine momentous days. An unforgettable novel of love and folly and heartbreak. It is … read more

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  • fiction
  • school
"People who work out are so gullible. They think they'll live longer. Well, good luck to them. It's a shame most of them aren't bright enough to realise that the extra time added to their life when th…"

-Toni Jordan, Nine Days

"And here is the most wonderful thing of all. I have had one night with the man of my heart and, just this once, I have had something that I wanted. Whatever happens, I will keep this night stored awa…"

-Toni Jordan, Nine Days

"You must know this. People disappear. They just go puff. Thin air. Every time you see someone, you never know if you're seeing them for the last time. Drink them in, Alec. Kiss them. It's very import…"

-Toni Jordan, Nine Days

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3. Bad Dreams and Other Stories

By: Tessa Hadley

3.69

Format: 224 pages, ebook

In these short stories it’s the ordinary things that turn out to be most extraordinary: the history… read more

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  • fiction
  • school
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4. Hag-Seed

By: Margaret Atwood

3.80

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

When Felix is deposed as artistic director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival by his devious assist… read more

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  • fiction
"La grandeza está en la virtud, no en la venganza"

-Margaret Atwood, Hag-Seed

"Suddenly revenge is so close he can actually taste it. It tastes like steak, rare."

-Margaret Atwood, Hag-Seed

"But once you’ve climbed a ladder, what use is it? You kick it away, if you don’t intend to go down it again."

-Margaret Atwood, Hag-Seed

"You always do good ones. We trust you, Mr. Duke," Says Dylan. Foolish lads, thinks Felix: never trust a professional ham."

-Margaret Atwood, Hag-Seed

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5. The Longest Memory

By: Fred D'Aguiar

4.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

From William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turnerto Toni Morrison's Beloved, modern American fict… read more

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  • fiction
  • school
Cover of Oedipus Rex  (The Theban Plays, #1) by Sophocles, J.E. Thomas, Elizabeth Osborne

6. Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)

By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?" Sopho… read more

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  • fiction
  • school
  • plays
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7. My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun

By: Emily Dickinson

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

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  • fiction
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8. The Golden Age

By: Joan London

3.02

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is a story of resilience, the irrepressible, enduring nature of love, and the fragility of lif… read more

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  • fiction
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9. Runaway

By: Alice Munro

4.20

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Here are the infinite betrayals and surprises of love-between men and women, between friends, betwe… read more

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  • fiction

10. The 7 Stages of Grieving

By: Wesley Enoch

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • fiction
  • plays

11. We Have Always Lived in the Castle

By: Shirley Jackson , Jonathan Lethem

4.32

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Merricat Blackwood lives on the family estate with her sister Constance and her Uncle Julian. Not l… read more

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12. The Dressmaker

By: Rosalie Ham

3.50

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

A darkly satirical novel of love, revenge, and 1950s haute couture--soon to be a major motion pictu… read more

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13. Limberlost

By: Robbie Arnott

4.25

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him en… read more

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  • fiction
"After an hour of sodden stomping they saw ghostly figures beckoning them through the dense cloud. Highland snow gums, colour-swirled and hardy, and alpine yellow gums, splashed with shades of lemon a…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He told her the story of it, his words coming faster than with the others, without artifice or caution. Told her how he'd known there was something wonderful under the old paint from the moment he sa…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He'd stare at that field of water until all the things he could not handle were rinsed out of him, and all that remained within him was the memory of that night: the whale, the warmth of the coat, hi…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"Three days after their wedding they were standing at the base of Liffey Falls, at the brisk death of winter, watching an airborne river thrash its way earthward. The water tumbled through high ridges…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

Cover of The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3) by Chris Hammer

14. The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3)

By: Chris Hammer

4.23

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

The latest stunning thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands and The Tilt. Chris Hammer's… read more

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  • fiction
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15. The Boy from Boomerang Crescent

By: Eddie Betts

4.17

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Longlisted for the 2023 Indie Book Awards. It’s a long, hard road from the Nullarbor to the MCG.… read more

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16. Flames

By: Robbie Arnott

4.07

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

A young man named Levi McAllister decides to build a coffin for his twenty-three-year-old sister, C… read more

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  • fiction

17. Rainbow's End

By: Jane Harrison

3.42

Format: None pages, None

Set in the 1950s in the northern Victorian area of Shepparton and Mooroopna, Rainbow's End by Jane … read more

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  • fiction
  • school
  • plays
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18. The Rain Heron

By: Robbie Arnott

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Ren lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup. High on the forested slop… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Joy Moody is Out of Time by Kerryn Mayne

19. Joy Moody is Out of Time

By: Kerryn Mayne

3.96

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

On her twin daughters’ twenty-first birthday, Joy Moody – proprietor of Bayside’s premier laundroma… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Dark as Last Night by Tony Birch

20. Dark as Last Night

By: Tony Birch

4.15

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Dark as Last Night confirms, once again, that Tony Birch is a master of the short story. These exce… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Brink by Holden Sheppard

21. The Brink

By: Holden Sheppard

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A group of school-leavers: free at last, ready to party, expectations high. A remote island on t… read more

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David Malouf

3.69

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3.73

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3.69

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Fred D'Aguiar

4.00

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Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

Shankari Chandran

4.21

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Trent Dalton

4.41

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Charlotte Wood

3.68

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Robbie Arnott

4.25

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