We Didn't Think It Through
By: Gary Lonesborough
4.32
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
From the author of the award-winning The Boy from the Mish, comes a compelling coming-of-age YA nov…
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1. Rabbit-Proof Fence
By: Doris Pilkington , Nugi Garimara
3.63
Format: 256 pages,
The remarkable true story of three young girls who cross the harsh Australian desert on foot to ret… read more
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2. 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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3. Friday Brown
By: Vikki Wakefield
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
I am Friday Brown. I buried my mother. My grandfather buried a swimming pool. A boy who can't speak… read more
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4. 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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- australia
- fiction
- indigenous
5. One Hundred Days
By: Alice Pung
3.97
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
One day, a boy in a nice silver car gives sixteen-year-old Karuna a ride. So Karuna returns the fav… read more
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- australia
- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
"They couldn't see that the bigger I got, the smaller I became, and they didn't understand that once the baby came, I would be gone."-Alice Pung, One Hundred Days
"I'm keeping this record to let you know that it wasn't always that way. That you were once mine, and when I looked in your dark eyes, you made me very happy."-Alice Pung, One Hundred Days
6. The In-Between
By: Christos Tsiolkas
3.70
Format: 400 pages, ebook
The tender, sensual and moving new novel from the award-winning and bestselling author of The Slap … read more
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- australia
- queer
- fiction
- contemporary
"There was respite in history. The beligerence and intolerance of the contemporary age was of no consequence to the past. And there was no shouting."-Christos Tsiolkas, The In-Between
7. Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray
By: Anita Heiss
4.17
Format: 416 pages, ebook
Gundagai, 1852The powerful Murrumbidgee River surges through town leaving death and destruction in … read more
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- australia
- fiction
- indigenous
"Using Wiradjuri language on the cover of my novel makes a strong statement … regarding the reclamation and maintenance of the traditional language of my family."-Anita Heiss, Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray
8. The Things That Matter Most
By: Gabbie Stroud
4.44
Format: 358 pages, Paperback
A powerful and moving debut novel about a school community in crisis from the bestselling author of… read more
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- australia
- fiction
- contemporary
9. 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
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- australia
- fiction
- contemporary
10. 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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- australia
- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
11. 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
- crime
12. One Song: Sometimes a Song Presses Pause on the World
By: A.J. Betts
4.00
Format: None pages, Audio CD
'In a few months, the four of us will be elsewhere, doing other things, and this chance we have wil… read more
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- young adult
- contemporary
"No one dismantles this band but me."-A.J. Betts, One Song: Sometimes a Song Presses Pause on the World
"Because I've been writing this song my whole life. It's the soundtrack of me."-A.J. Betts, One Song: Sometimes a Song Presses Pause on the World
"I'd lost myself in that haze, too, now that I think about it. I'd forgotten all else, when we jammed. It was sublime in there. I felt timeless. Thoughtless. Borderless. Made of nothing but air and mu…"-A.J. Betts, One Song: Sometimes a Song Presses Pause on the World
13. Scar Town
By: Tristan Bancks
4.04
Format: 188 pages, Kindle Edition
Twelve-year-old Will Haddon and his twin friends, Dar and Juno, find a safe full of money and human… read more
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- crime
- young adult
- contemporary
14. Different for Boys
By: Patrick Ness
3.82
Format: 104 pages, Hardcover
Friendship, masculinity, sex—Anthony Stevenson has a lot of questions. Is it different for boys who… read more
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- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"We can't kiss. Because that would make us gay."-Patrick Ness, Different for Boys
"Because nothing I did with Charlie ever once felt like that kiss with Jack."-Patrick Ness, Different for Boys
"You know, the way teenage guys talk about sex, you'd think all of us were having it all the time, nonstop."-Patrick Ness, Different for Boys
"Although doesn't really matter how many time you do it: you think it's going to make your life less lonely, but it never does."-Patrick Ness, Different for Boys
15. 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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- australia
- crime
- fiction
- contemporary
16. 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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- fiction
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
"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)
17. 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
- australia
- contemporary
18. Grace Notes
By: Karen Comer
4.16
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
, This song has a grace note a tiny note that's there for embellishment but can easily be ignored… read more
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- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- australia
- contemporary
"Restrictions can't stop our music, can't stop us."-Karen Comer, Grace Notes
"together we weave a set of colours so beautiful that surely every listener's heart expands"-Karen Comer, Grace Notes
"The world has stopped still, yet we can feel our frenzied, uncertain energy spinning the Earth."-Karen Comer, Grace Notes
"Surely traditions have to evolve? Surely daughters can choose their own happiness? Surely our world can handle this new virus?"-Karen Comer, Grace Notes
19. 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
20. Tiger Daughter
By: Rebecca Lim
4.07
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
IBBY Honour List 2024 A Kirkus, Booklist, She Reads and Amazon Best Book of 2023 Winner, People's… read more
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- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- australia
- contemporary
"It's aiming for the peaks,' I tell him, 'and swimming through the troughs so that there are moments where you can just float under the sun and see how far you've come."-Rebecca Lim, Tiger Daughter
21. A Room Made of Leaves
By: Kate Grenville
3.86
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
What if Elizabeth Macarthur-wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in early Sydney-had wr… read more
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- australia
- fiction
"We were two sets of people inhabiting the same space, each set going about its affairs as if the other were not there."-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves
"What he and I had made together was honest and important. But his orbit, like mine, lay elsewhere. We had been given a gift from the universe, a momentary precious conjunction. It was not meant to la…"-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves
"That was a place a person had to travel through alone. I met there a cold indifferent truth: that every person -- even a loved person, and I was not loved -- was alone. On the whole globe, there was …"-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves
"My husband had no one and that must be why some central part of him, some steady sense of who he was, had years ago gone like a mouse to hide away in its hole. But he could never admit the pain. He h…"-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves
22. The Quiet and the Loud
By: Helena Fox
3.99
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A heartbreaking, hopeful, and timely novel about holding too tight to family secrets, healing from … read more
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- fiction
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
"And for a moment - here, now - we aren't the pregnant girl or the quiet girl. We aren't scared of death, or of memories oozing out of the dark. We are two girls, suspended. Timeless. Immense. Untouch…"-Helena Fox, The Quiet and the Loud
23. Stuck Up & Stupid
By: Angourie Rice
3.05
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
A modern trans-Pacific twist on Pride and Prejudice, from an authentic team of debut authors who kn… read more
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- young adult
- contemporary
24. Blind Spot
By: Robyn Dennison
3.63
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
When Dale stumbles into a bedroom at a party and sees a drunk girl being undressed by a group of gu… read more
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- young adult
25. We Didn't Think It Through
By: Gary Lonesborough
4.32
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
From the author of the award-winning The Boy from the Mish, comes a compelling coming-of-age YA nov… read more
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- realistic fiction
- young adult
- indigenous
- fiction
- contemporary
- australia
- crime
- queer
26. Birdy
By: Sharon Kernot
4.27
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Maddy is mute. Since the Incident she has barely spoken. And now she and her mother and brother are… read more
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- young adult
27. Eventually Everything Connects: Eight Essays on Uncertainty
By: Sarah Firth
4.45
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A delicious mix of daily life, science, philosophy, pop culture, daydreams and irreverent humour, E… read more
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28. We Could Be Something
By: Will Kostakis
3.97
Format: 401 pages, Paperback
Part Coming-Out Story. Part falling-in-love story. Part falling-apart story. Harvey's dads… read more
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- young adult
- australia
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"Right now, I'm not sure I can get a book about a gay teenager through acquisitions. The schools market factors heavily into our thinking and they won't let it fly."-Will Kostakis, We Could Be Something
"Just because you released one novel doesn't mean you're owed a career, Sotiris. That isn't how the book world works. There are so many names I only ever see on one title."-Will Kostakis, We Could Be Something
29. Dirrayawadha
By: Anita Heiss
4.16
Format: None pages, Audiobook
From the bestselling author of Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray (River of Dreams) comes a sweeping new h… read more
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30. Returning
By: Kirli Saunders
4.24
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Mate, you're standing on stolen land.' Returning is a stunning work - a poetic and visual feast… read more
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31. The Spider and Her Demons
By: sydney khoo
4.21
Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition
Between surviving high school and working at her aunt’s dumpling shop, all Zhi wants is to find tim… read more
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- young adult
- australia
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
