The Animals in That Country
By: Laura Jean McKay
3.42
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Out on the road, no one speaks, everything talks. Hard-drinking, foul-mouthed, and allergic to b…
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1. Changes: A Love Story
By: Ama Ata Aidoo , None , Tuzyaline Jita Allan
3.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
Esi decides to divorce after enduring yet another morning's marital rape. Though her friends and fa… read more
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- fiction
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2. The Book of Words
By: Susan Bernofsky , Jenny Erpenbeck
3.71
Format: None pages, Paperback
In The Book of Words, Jenny Erpenbeck captures with amazing virtuosity the inner life of a young gi… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
3. In the Winter Dark
By: Tim Winton
3.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Night falls. In a lonely valley called the Sink, four people prepare for a quiet evening. Then in h… read more
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- literary fiction
- australia
- fiction
- contemporary
4. Endgame
By: Samuel Beckett
4.67
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, no… read more
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- fiction
5. Plains of Promise
By: Alexis Wright
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this brilliant debut novel, Alexis Wright evokes city and outback, deepening our understanding o… read more
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6. Tourmaline
By: Randolph Stow
4.00
Format: 131 pages, Hardcover
Tourmaline is an isolated Western Australian mining town - a place of heat and dust, as allegorical… read more
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7. The Labyrinth
By: Amanda Lohrey
3.85
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Erica Marsden’s son, an artist, has been imprisoned for a monstrous act of revenge. Trapped in her … read more
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- literary fiction
- australia
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"Exhausted, I go to bed early again and for the first time in a long while sleep an unbroken sleep that lasts until dawn. When I wake my body is soft; it feels as if in my dreamless state I have known…"-Amanda Lohrey, The Labyrinth
8. Stone Yard Devotional
By: Charlotte Wood
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more
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- literary fiction
- australia
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- audiobook
9. Edenglassie
By: Melissa Lucashenko
4.13
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful … read more
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- literary fiction
- australia
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- audiobook
10. Venomous Lumpsucker
By: Ned Beauman
3.83
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A dark and witty story of environmental collapse and runaway capitalism from the Booker-listed auth… read more
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- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- audiobook
"I can’t believe this!"-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker
"It didn’t feel—at least in this moment—as if she’d lost them. It felt—and perhaps this was a self-protective reflex, her body refusing to take another blow— as if they’d never really been down there …"-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker
11. In Ascension
By: Martin MacInnes
3.79
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
12. Dropbear
By: Evelyn Araluen
4.13
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
I told you this was a thirst so great it could carve rivers. This fierce debut from award-winnin… read more
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- literary fiction
- australia
- audiobook
13. The Jaguar
By: Sarah Holland-Batt
4.21
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
With electrifying boldness, Sarah Holland-Batt confronts what it means to be mortal in an astonishi… read more
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- australia
14. The Animals in That Country
By: Laura Jean McKay
3.42
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Out on the road, no one speaks, everything talks. Hard-drinking, foul-mouthed, and allergic to b… read more
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- animals
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- contemporary
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- fantasy
- audiobook
15. The Silence of the Wilting Skin
By: Tlotlo Tsamaase
3.19
Format: 74 pages, Kindle Edition
In an African city, a nameless young woman living in the wards slowly begins to lose her identity: … read more
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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
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16. Audition
By: Pip Adam
3.64
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A spaceship called Audition is hurtling through the cosmos. Squashed immobile into its largest room… read more
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- science fiction
- dystopia
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17. Deutsche Geschichte
By: Andreas Fahrmeir
3.67
Format: 128 pages, Kindle Edition
Eine deutsche Geschichte von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart auf knappstem Raum – das bietet dieser … read more
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18. Hospital
By: Sanya Rushdi
3.70
Format: 132 pages, Hardcover
A strong and courageous novel that deftly tackles psychosis. In Melbourne, Australia, a woman in h… read more
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19. Is geschiedenis fictie?
By: Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
3.89
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
Homeruslezing 2024 Dit betoog is een aanval op intellectuele gemakzucht en een pleidooi voor de … read more
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20. A River Called Time
By: Courttia Newland
2.66
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The Ark was built to save the lives of the many, but rapidly became a refuge for the elite, the ent… read more
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- dystopia
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21. The Lotos-Eaters and Choric Song
By: Alfred Tennyson
3.77
Format: None pages, None
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