23 Best australia books like In Moonland by Miles Allinson

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In Moonland

By: Miles Allinson

3.57

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

‘A parent’s love for a child, you probably know this yourself, it’s pretty bottomless. It goes down…

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1. The Natural Way of Things

By: None

4.75

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in an abandoned property in the… read more

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2. The Spare Room

By: Helen Garner

4.24

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, witty, and taut novel about a complex friendship between two women--one dying, the othe… read more

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3. Dark Emu

By: Bruce Pascoe

3.36

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for precolonial … read more

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4. Devotion

By: Hannah Kent

3.87

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Prussia, 1836. Hanne is nearly fifteen and the domestic world of womanhood is quickly closing in on… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • australia
"Dying is unlike living. The smooth running of time is for the beating heart only. The dead stutter. The hands on my clock do not turn to numbers but to each other."

-Hannah Kent, Devotion

"Thea, in all incarnations, wherever my soul has resided, I have loved you, am loving you, will love you. If the earth one day burns out its charge, you will find me in the ash. if the sea dries, find…"

-Hannah Kent, Devotion

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5. 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
  • fiction
  • australia
  • contemporary
"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

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6. 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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7. 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
  • death
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • australia
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8. 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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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • australia
  • contemporary
"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

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9. Cold Enough for Snow

By: Jessica Au

3.73

Format: 99 pages, Paperback

A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • australia
  • contemporary
"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

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10. 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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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • australia
  • contemporary
"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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11. 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
  • fiction
  • australia
  • contemporary
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12. 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
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13. 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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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • australia
  • contemporary
"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

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14. 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
  • contemporary
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15. The Hummingbird Effect

By: Kate Mildenhall

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An epic, kaleidoscopic story of four women connected across time and place by an invisible thread a… read more

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  • fiction
  • australia
  • contemporary
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16. Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts

By: Josie Shapiro

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The stunning debut novel by the winner of the Allen & Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. If you loved … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. The White Girl

By: Tony Birch

4.09

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

"A profound allegory of good and evil, and a deep exploration of human interaction, black and white… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • australia
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18. 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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19. Tell Me Again

By: Amy Thunig

4.41

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

For years, Amy Thunig thought she knew all the details about the day she was born, often demanding … read more

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  • australia
"Chapter 20-Part 2 "The hardest part of childhood with parents with these and are criminalised, isn’t necessarily life inside your home, it's how you are treated and mistreated by those outside your h…"

-Amy Thunig, Tell Me Again

"I have been reading Amy Thunigs book. And this quote stood out to me. I really think this explains a lot about how AOD stigma and harmful prohibition drug policies that disproportionately criminalize…"

-Amy Thunig, Tell Me Again

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20. The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory

By: Corey White

4.29

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A memoir of trauma, evil and resilience that will break your heart and then show you how to rebuild… read more

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  • australia
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21. The Living Sea of Waking Dreams

By: Richard Flanagan

3.71

Format: 240 pages, ebook

In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna’s aged mother is dying—if her three chil… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • australia
  • contemporary
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22. 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

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  • fiction
  • australia
  • contemporary
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23. 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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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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24. Wild Abandon

By: Emily Bitto

3.32

Format: 449 pages, Paperback

A breathtaking new novel from the Stella Prize-winning author of The Strays. In spring of 2011, … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • australia
  • contemporary
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25. 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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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • australia
  • contemporary
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26. Wildflowers

By: Peggy Frew

3.29

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

A compassionate and surprisingly funny novel that is impossible to put down and even harder to forg… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • australia
  • contemporary
"There were open paddocks winking with sugar cane, and distant silos and then a billboard that they all yelped at because it showed a huge picture of a foetus alongside a picture of a young woman with…"

-Peggy Frew, Wildflowers

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27. 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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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • australia
  • contemporary
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28. In Moonland

By: Miles Allinson

3.57

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

‘A parent’s love for a child, you probably know this yourself, it’s pretty bottomless. It goes down… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • death
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • australia
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29. 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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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • australia
  • contemporary
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30. 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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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary

23 Top fiction books like In Moonland by Miles Allinson

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Devotion

Hannah Kent

3.87

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The Labyrinth

Amanda Lohrey

3.85

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Stone Yard Devotional

Charlotte Wood

3.68

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Bodies of Light

Jennifer Down

4.29

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The Choke

Sofie Laguna

3.59

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Only the Animals

Ceridwen Dovey

4.14

El Zarco

Ignacio Manuel Altamirano

3.85

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Juan José Millás

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