Friends & Dark Shapes
By: Kavita Bedford
3.79
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A group of housemates in Sydney’s inner city contend with gentrification, divisive politics, stalle…
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1. Between a Wolf and a Dog
By: Georgia Blain
4.23
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Ester is a family therapist with an appointment book that catalogues the anxieties of the middle cl… read more
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2. The Lovers
By: Yumna Kassab
2.95
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
What happens when we become used to each other, when we become bored, when we anticipate each other… read more
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3. Funny Ethnics
By: Shirley Le
3.58
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
I looked at the streets of Yagoona through eyes stinging with melted Maybelline liquid liner. Yagoo… read more
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4. Bodies of Light
By: Jennifer Down
4.29
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
So by the grace of a photograph that had inexplicably gone viral, Tony had found me. Or: he’d found… read more
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"The Sydney of this time was a different place to the honeymoon city I'd visited with Damien. That one was the crescent of the bridge, the rolling waves beneath the ferry, the shaded streets in The Ro…"-Jennifer Down, Bodies of Light
5. 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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6. Love & Virtue
By: Diana Reid
3.91
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Feminism, power and sex play out through the eyes of young Australian uni students in a contemporar… read more
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"Its feminism operated on the level of ‘Women in Medicine’ and ‘Women in Finance’ discussion panels, always conducted in a tone of revolutionary awe, as if any combination of women and profession were…"-Diana Reid, Love & Virtue
"I just don't want to mediate my whole identity through social media.' Eve resumed the vigorous hair brushing. 'I think photos should be a stolen moment in time. Not this thing on your phone: this way…"-Diana Reid, Love & Virtue
7. Thirst for Salt
By: Madelaine Lucas
3.84
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A Bustle, LitHub, Debutiful, and NYLON Most Anticipated Book of 2023 A Goodreads Buzziest Book of t… read more
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"As if it were possible to circumnavigate memory."-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt
"I like you as you are, he said. Even if you're going to wear me out."-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt
"As lovers learn, when love ends, you lose the future as well as the past."-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt
"The trouble is that our dreams, like our memories, are not immune to revision."-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt
8. Seeing Other People
By: Diana Reid
3.42
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
Which comes first—those you love, or those you want? Charlie’s skin was stinging. Not with heat … read more
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9. No Hard Feelings
By: Genevieve Novak
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Hungover, underpaid and overwhelmed, this isn't where Penny expected to be as she reached her late … read more
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10. Green Dot
By: Madeleine Gray
3.71
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises n… read more
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11. Nothing but My Body
By: Tilly Lawless
3.58
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A thought-provoking, discomforting and beautiful novel about love, obsession, community and friends… read more
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"Let me hold your hand so I know you're not a hallucination or a figment of my imagination."-Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body
"Respect has a sameness, a conformity to it, but disrespect is varied and alien in its individual manifestation."-Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body
"This is a love letter to friendship, I want you to write it on me in ink and then press me against the pages, your personal printing press."-Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body
"Just as my writing is brought more meaning by the tears cried by those who read it, so we are making something all together, in our bodies and the spaces between us and the moments in which we touch."-Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body
12. Kokomo
By: Victoria Hannan
3.55
Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition
'genuinely funny and heartbreaking' - VPLA judgesWhen Mina receives an urgent call from her best fr… read more
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"Mina let Valerie envelop her in silk and perfume. The smell was so pungent Mina could see it: a sunset of whipped egg-white clouds, a field of foxgloves, pink on pink on pink on pink."-Victoria Hannan, Kokomo
13. Everyone and Everything
By: Nadine J. Cohen
4.29
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
A dazzling literary debut, Everyone and Everything will make you laugh, cry and call your sister. … read more
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14. Something Bad is Going to Happen
By: Jessie Stephens
3.86
Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition
Adella is facing the dawn of a new year and the end of her twenties - and she's in a psychiatric un… read more
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- literary fiction
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15. The Work
By: Bri Lee
3.43
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
Lally has invested everything into her gallery in Manhattan and the sacrifices are finally paying o… read more
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- literary fiction
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16. Duck à l'Orange for Breakfast
By: Karina May
3.84
Format: 352 pages, Trade Paperback
What if the person getting you through the hardest time in your life is someone you've never met? … read more
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17. Between You and Me
By: Joanna Horton
3.72
Format: 341 pages, Kindle Edition
Between You and Me is a riveting portrayal of female friendship, and the frayed boundary between lo… read more
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18. One Day We're All Going to Die
By: Elise Esther Hearst
3.51
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Sorrow and Bliss meets Normal People in this utterly compelling, darkly humorous millennial coming… read more
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19. Search History
By: Amy Taylor
3.50
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A woman's obsession with her new boyfriend's dead ex-girlfriend fuels this sharp and honest debut n… read more
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20. The Next Big Thing
By: James Colley
3.63
Format: 307 pages, Paperback
Part young-love rom-com, part David and Goliath story, The Next Big Thing is a heartwarming, hilari… read more
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21. Cherry Beach
By: Laura McPhee-Browne
3.84
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
We arrived on a Tuesday, I can remember that. I can remember Hetty’s hand in mine as we moved slowl… read more
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22. Crushing
By: Genevieve Novak
3.80
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
When do you stop starting over? The sparkling new novel from the author of No Hard Feelings. Gettin… read more
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23. 28 Questions
By: Indyana Schneider
3.83
Format: 320 pages, ebook
A queer When Harry Met Sally for the Sally Rooney generation. Reader, imagine yielding to someone… read more
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24. Marshmallow
By: Victoria Hannan
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Some moments change everything. For five friends, what should have been a birthday to remember will… read more
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25. Sunbathing
By: Isobel Beech
4.05
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
Summertime in Italy, fresh vegetables from the garden, taking turns washing dishes, reading to each… read more
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26. Friends & Dark Shapes
By: Kavita Bedford
3.79
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A group of housemates in Sydney’s inner city contend with gentrification, divisive politics, stalle… read more
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27. The Honeyeater
By: Jessie Tu
3.59
Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition
A wildly inventive follow up to the acclaimed bestseller A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing, winner… read more
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28. Because I'm Not Myself, You See: A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness and Coming Back From the Brink
By: Ariane Beeston
4.57
Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition
A frank, hopeful and darkly funny memoir of postpartum psychosis and recoveryAriane Beeston is a ch… read more
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29. A Language of Limbs
By: Dylin Hardcastle
4.56
Format: 277 pages, ebook
The first love of a teenage girl is a powerful thing, particularly when the object of that desire i… read more
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30. Appreciation
By: Liam Pieper
3.78
Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition
Everything in this world has a price. A great work of art is no exception. And what fortune was eve… read more
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31. Woo Woo
By: Ella Baxter
3.50
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling and eccentric novel about what it means to make art as a woman, and about the powerful … read more
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