11 best-selling fiction books like Detention by Tristan Bancks

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Detention

By: Tristan Bancks

3.83

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Sima and her family are pressed to the rough, cold ground among fifty others. They lie next to the …

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1. The List

By: Patricia Forde

3.67

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In the city of Ark, speech is constrained to five hundred sanctioned words. Speak outside the appro… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"There's always truth in dreams. Don't you know that? We have to learn what they mean, that's all."

-Patricia Forde, The List

"The here and now is only the smallest part of who we are, each of us is all that we have been, all our stories, all that we could be."

-Patricia Forde, The List

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2. Black Snake: The daring of Ned Kelly

By: Carole Wilkinson

3.44

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

"Everyone looks on me like a black snake" --Letter to Sergeant Babington, July 1870 Ned Kelly was a… read more

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  • australia
  • school

3. Borderland

By: None

3.76

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Borderland- a coming-of-age, YA eco-thriller about Indigenous land rights, with sci-fi elements. St… read more

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4. Boy Overboard

By: Morris Gleitzman

3.89

Format: 440 pages,

Kalau Sir Alex Ferguson-manajer Manchester United-melihat bakatku, dia pasti menerimaku jadi anggot… read more

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5. Within These Walls

By: Robyn Bavati

4.00

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

Whatever is coming, we'll face it together, as a family. As long as we're together, we'll be okay. … read more

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6. The Accident

By: Fiona Lowe

3.86

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

A terrible crash... but the facts don't add up. Worlds converge and two women's lives are torn … read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. Runt

By: Craig Silvey

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A heart-warming, funny, beautifully told story for readers of all ages from the bestselling author … read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • australia
  • audiobook
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8. Eleanor Jones is Not a Murderer

By: Amy Doak

3.69

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Eleanor Jones has just started at her ninth high school in less than five years. Since she and her … read more

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  • young adult
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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9. Detention

By: Tristan Bancks

3.83

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Sima and her family are pressed to the rough, cold ground among fifty others. They lie next to the … read more

Similar categories in Tristan Bancks's Detention book and Tristan Bancks's Detention

  • childrens
  • school
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • australia
  • audiobook
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10. Completely Normal (and other lies)

By: Biffy James

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Love has rules. So does grief. And Stella Wilde’s about to break them all. Stella Wilde is secre… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"This isn't all on you. But god forbid we blame the dude. Fucking patriarchy."

-Biffy James, Completely Normal (and other lies)

"I considered letting my own meltdown come to the surface, but I had no way of knowing how long it would last once I let it, so I didn't. I put it in the black well instead, backing away so I wouldn't…"

-Biffy James, Completely Normal (and other lies)

"Maybe it was better to accept that when someone died there were some things that were never going to happen, and this was just another one of them. Because death left things unfinished. Unsaid. Unsew…"

-Biffy James, Completely Normal (and other lies)

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11. Let’s Never Speak of This Again

By: Megan Williams

3.80

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Award Winner, Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing, 2022 Ella and I have been best … read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • australia
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12. Inkflower

By: Suzy Zail

4.32

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

A gritty YA novel about family secrets, hope and healing. Based on a true story. Lisa’s father has… read more

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  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
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13. We Are Wolves

By: Katrina Nannestad

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes it's good to be wild. Sometimes you have to be wild. When the Russian Army marches … read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • family
  • fiction
"Books are treasure."

-Katrina Nannestad, We Are Wolves

"How do you thank someone for saving your sister?"

-Katrina Nannestad, We Are Wolves

"I don't want to stop because when the songs and rhymes and stories and all the German words are gone, I will be gone. Liesl Anna Wolf will be no more."

-Katrina Nannestad, We Are Wolves

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14. Silver Linings

By: Katrina Nannestad

4.32

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A new heartwarming novel set in 1950s Australia from bestselling author Katrina Nannestad Nettie… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • family
"How can anyone eat now that Billy is gone? How can we even breathe?"

-Katrina Nannestad, Silver Linings

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15. The Sideways Orbit of Evie Hart

By: Samera Kamaleddine

3.65

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Friendship, family and feelings collide in this sparkling middle-grade debut from Matilda Prize win… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • family
  • contemporary
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16. No Words

By: Maryam Master

4.20

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Hero doesn't feel like a hero, but sometimes she feels as if the universe is asking her to be one. … read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
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17. Huda and Me

By: H. Hayek

4.03

Format: 142 pages, Kindle Edition

Huda's sitting in the airport lounge, fiddling with our tickets. I can tell she's excited because s… read more

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  • childrens
  • school
  • middle grade
  • family
  • contemporary
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18. Lenny's Book of Everything

By: Karen Foxlee

4.34

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

I knew my brother. I knew when he talked too much about Timothy his imaginary pet eagle. He was sca… read more

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  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
"But now we knew. It was a good thing. All of Davey, in all his time upon the earth, was good."

-Karen Foxlee, Lenny's Book of Everything

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19. Brain is (Not) Always Right

By: Scott Stuart

4.66

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Heart loves puppies, and chocolate, and rollercoasters, and dancing along to music. Brain likes lis… read more

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  • childrens
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20. Huda Was Here

By: H. Hayek

3.74

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

Huda hatches a bold plan to help her dad get a job - which lands her and her brother in all kinds o… read more

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  • middle grade
  • family
  • contemporary
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21. Woman, Missing

By: Sherryl Clark

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Gutsy new PI Lou Alcott takes charge in this brilliantly crafted thriller. Twisty, gritty and unput… read more

Similar categories in Sherryl Clark's Woman, Missing book and Tristan Bancks's Detention

  • australia
  • audiobook

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Black Snake: The daring of Ned Kelly

Carole Wilkinson

3.44

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Runt

Craig Silvey

4.46

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Eleanor Jones is Not a Murderer

Amy Doak

3.69

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Tristan Bancks

3.83

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Neverlanders

Tom Taylor

3.95

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Eleanor Jones is Not a Murderer

Amy Doak

3.69

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4.14

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