27 must-read australia books like Madukka the River Serpent by Julie Janson

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Madukka the River Serpent

By: Julie Janson

3.30

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

Aunty June is the proud owner of a TAFE certificate III in Investigative Services.It took her thirt…

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Cover of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran

1. Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

By: Shankari Chandran

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnam… read more

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  • fiction
  • australia
Cover of Lola in the Mirror by Trent Dalton

2. Lola in the Mirror

By: Trent Dalton

4.41

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from inter… read more

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  • fiction
  • crime
  • australia
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3. The Bookbinder

By: Pip Williams

4.07

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when Wor… read more

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  • fiction
"Your stitching is what will hold the story together."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"Love Eternal, in Baskerville typeface. He'd chosen it for its clarity and beauty."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"The myriad ways our words had failed to be bound, and here they were, finally, and there was only one bloody copy."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

Cover of Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder

4. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

By: Anna Funder

4.13

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more

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5. 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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  • fiction
  • australia
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6. 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
  • australia
"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

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7. 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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  • fiction
  • australia
  • indigenous
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8. Women & Children

By: Tony Birch

4.22

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb with his mum, Marion, and sister, Ruby,… read more

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  • fiction
  • australia
  • indigenous
Cover of The Tilt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #2) by Chris Hammer

9. The Tilt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #2)

By: Chris Hammer

4.29

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A man runs for his life in a forest. A woman plans sabotage. A body is unearthed. Newly-minted… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • crime
  • australia
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10. Days of Innocence and Wonder

By: Lucy Treloar

3.71

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

When someone is taken away, what is left behind? All her life, Till has lived in the shadow of t… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • crime
  • australia
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11. Safe Haven

By: Shankari Chandran

4.18

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The new novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. It was… read more

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

12. 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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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • crime
  • australia
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13. Sanctuary

By: Garry Disher

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A thrilling new standalone set in regional SA, from one of Australia's most esteemed crime authors.… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • crime
  • australia
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14. 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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  • australia
  • indigenous
Cover of The Angry Women's Choir by Meg Bignell

15. The Angry Women's Choir

By: Meg Bignell

4.07

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

By the acclaimed author of Welcome To Nowhere River comes a heart-warming and uplifting story about… read more

Similar categories in Meg Bignell's The Angry Women's Choir book and Julie Janson's Madukka the River Serpent

  • fiction
  • australia
Cover of Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year by Joanna Nell

16. Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year

By: Joanna Nell

3.77

Format: 352 pages, ebook

Husband and wife GPs Alan and Heather Winterbottom have worked side by side in their idyllic rural … read more

Similar categories in Joanna Nell's Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year book and Julie Janson's Madukka the River Serpent

  • fiction
  • australia
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17. 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

Similar categories in Robbie Arnott's Flames book and Julie Janson's Madukka the River Serpent

  • fiction
  • australia
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18. Murder Town

By: Shelley Burr

3.72

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Gemma Guillory knows her once-charming town is now remembered for one reason, and one reason only. … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • crime
  • australia
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19. Praiseworthy

By: Alexis Wright

3.91

Format: 736 pages, Paperback

Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale… read more

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  • fiction
  • australia
  • indigenous
Cover of The Remarkable Mrs Reibey by Grantlee Kieza

20. The Remarkable Mrs Reibey

By: Grantlee Kieza

4.03

Format: 499 pages, Kindle Edition

The extraordinary story of Mary Reibey - immortalised on the Australian $20 note, Australia's first… read more

Similar categories in Grantlee Kieza's The Remarkable Mrs Reibey book and Julie Janson's Madukka the River Serpent

  • australia
Cover of Pheasants Nest by Louise Milligan

21. Pheasants Nest

By: Louise Milligan

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

She wonders if they have discovered her missing yet. Has it broken in the news? Who has been assign… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • crime
  • australia
Cover of Seven Sisters by Katherine Kovacic

22. Seven Sisters

By: Katherine Kovacic

3.92

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Men get away with murder all the time. Now it's our turn ... A twisty, intriguing crime novel for f… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • crime
  • australia
Cover of Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech by Julia Gillard

23. Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech

By: Julia Gillard

4.28

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

Then it was done. After staying silent, I’d had my say. At no time did I feel worked up or hotly an… read more

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  • australia
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24. Day One

By: Abigail Dean

3.55

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Marty seems to do no wrong. Trent can’t seem to get things right. When they are thrown together by … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Tipping Point (Detective Kate Miles #3) by Dinuka McKenzie

25. Tipping Point (Detective Kate Miles #3)

By: Dinuka McKenzie

4.06

Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition

A suicide. A shooting. And a reckoning, decades in the making. The must-read new Detective Kate M… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • crime
  • australia
Cover of At the Foot of the Cherry Tree by Alli Parker

26. At the Foot of the Cherry Tree

By: Alli Parker

4.28

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A stirring story of love and hope, based on the incredible true story of Australia's first Japanese… read more

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  • fiction
  • australia
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27. Body Friend

By: Katherine Brabon

3.74

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Late in the summer five years ago, when I was recovering from a surgical procedure, I met two women… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Brabon's Body Friend book and Julie Janson's Madukka the River Serpent

  • fiction
  • australia
Cover of Body of Lies (Gemma Woodstock #4) by Sarah   Bailey

28. Body of Lies (Gemma Woodstock #4)

By: Sarah Bailey

3.91

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

DS Gemma Woodstock returns to Smithson in a mysterious new thriller from the bestselling author of … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Bailey's Body of Lies (Gemma Woodstock #4) book and Julie Janson's Madukka the River Serpent

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • crime
  • australia
Cover of Madukka the River Serpent by Julie Janson

29. Madukka the River Serpent

By: Julie Janson

3.30

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

Aunty June is the proud owner of a TAFE certificate III in Investigative Services.It took her thirt… read more

Similar categories in Julie Janson's Madukka the River Serpent book and Julie Janson's Madukka the River Serpent

  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • australia
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Queen Is Dead by Stan Grant

30. The Queen Is Dead

By: Stan Grant

4.32

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

From Stan Grant, leading journalist and author of the critically acclaimed bestsellers Talking to M… read more

Similar categories in Stan Grant's The Queen Is Dead book and Julie Janson's Madukka the River Serpent

  • australia
  • indigenous
Cover of Hurdy Gurdy by Jenny  Ackland

31. Hurdy Gurdy

By: Jenny Ackland

3.55

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A powerful and important novel with a crucial and timely feminist message, from the Stella Prize-sh… read more

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25 Best fiction books like Madukka the River Serpent by Julie Janson

Transform Your Habits

Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

Shankari Chandran

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

Transform Your Habits

The Bookbinder

Pip Williams

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Stone Yard Devotional

Charlotte Wood

3.68

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19 Best fiction books like Murder Town by Shelley Burr

Transform Your Habits

The Drowning

Bryan Brown

3.56

Transform Your Habits

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

Chris Hammer

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Sanctuary

Garry Disher

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Broken Bay (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti, #3)

Margaret Hickey

4.06

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