Pink Mountain on Locust Island
By: Jamie Marina Lau
3.70
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
An unpredictable and innovative debut novel from a provocative new voice in Australian fiction. Emb…
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1. Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
By: Bill Hayes
4.41
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Bill Hayes came to New York City in 2009 with a one-way ticket and only the vaguest idea of how he … read more
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"O: 'The most we can do is to write - intelligently, creatively, critically, evocatively - about what it is like living in the world at this time"-Bill Hayes, Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
"Wouldn't it be nice if there weree a planet where the sound of rain falling is like Bach?" he says. "Yes, Planet Bach," I respond. He smiles -"Yes", he murmurs- picturing it, hearing it."-Bill Hayes, Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
"I have come to believe that kindness is repaid in unexpected ways and that if you are lonely or bone-tired or blue, you need only come down from your perch and step outside. New York—which is to say,…"-Bill Hayes, Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
"Sad, shocking, horrible, yes," underlining each word, "but..." (Oliver often said that but was his favorite word, a kind of etymological flip of the coin, for it allowed consideration of both sides o…"-Bill Hayes, Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
2. Picnic at Hanging Rock
By: Joan Lindsay
3.67
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Yo… read more
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- novels
- australia
- fiction
"Thinking's all right if you have the time for it."-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
"At every step the prospect ahead grew more enchanting with added detail of crenellated crags and lichen-patterned stone. Now a mountain laurel glossy above the dogwood's dusty silver leaves, now a da…"-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
"Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight…"-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
"And now, at last, after a lifetime of linoleum and asphalt and Axminster carpets, the heavy flat-footed woman trod the springing earth. Born fifty-seven years ago in a suburban wilderness of smoke-gr…"-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
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4. Bad Feminist
By: Roxane Gay
4.08
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Pink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color was black to be cool, but it is pink--al… read more
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5. Leap
By: Myfanwy Jones
5.00
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
A few weeks after finishing their final exams high school sweethearts have an argument at a party. … read more
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6. The Hate Race
By: Maxine Beneba Clarke
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Against anything I had ever been told was possible, I was turning white. On the surface of my skin… read more
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7. Too Much Lip
By: Melissa Lucashenko
4.06
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
A dark and funny new novel from the multi-award-winning author of Mullumbimby. Wise-cracking Ke… read more
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- literary fiction
- australia
- fiction
- contemporary
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
- literature
- australia
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
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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"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
10. 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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- literature
- literary fiction
- australia
11. The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner
By: Grace Tame
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Grace Tame has never walked on middle ground. From a young age, her life was defined by uncertai… read more
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"I learned something about the commodification of trauma that day [Tame's appearance on the ABC's Q&A programme], which is that you have to take things into your own hands. If you don't speak, people …"-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner
"I survived being Australian of the Year because I knew already that it wouldn't be a true reflection of my worth. I knew it would be ugly, at least in part. I came equipped with a glimpse of fame tha…"-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner
"I frowned at Scott Morrison deliberately because, in my opinion, he has done and assisted in objectively terrible things. No matter what your politics are, the harm that was caused under his governme…"-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner
12. Three Women
By: Lisa Taddeo
3.72
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
A riveting true story about the sex lives of three real American women, based on nearly a decade of… read more
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- contemporary
"Women shouldn't judge each others lives, if we haven't been through one another's fires."-Lisa Taddeo, Three Women
"It's more than fandom when a story touches you so hard that you wish the characters were your family"-Lisa Taddeo, Three Women
"He's usually so quiet, but he's talking now, and when quiet people open their mouths the whole world listens."-Lisa Taddeo, Three Women
"The problem, she's starting to understand, is that a man will never let you fall completely into hell. He will scoop you up right before you drop the final inch so that you cannot blame him for sendi…"-Lisa Taddeo, Three Women
13. I'd Rather Not
By: Robert Skinner
3.72
Format: 171 pages, Kindle Edition
An endlessly entertaining collection of wayward autobiographical tales about a search for a richer … read more
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- australia
- contemporary
14. The Book of Goose
By: Yiyun Li
3.71
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
A gripping, heartbreaking new novel about female friendship, art, and memory by the award-winning a… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"Time corrupts. And we pay a price for everything corruptible: food, roof beams, souls."-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose
"Few of us would make a fool of ourselves in pressing the animals to give us serious answers about their lives, but we do that all the time to other people."-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose
"Happiness, I would tell her, is to spend every day without craning one's neck to look forward to tomorrow, next month, next year, and without holding out one's hands to stop every day from becoming y…"-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose
"Childhood companionship is forced upon the children (...) Childhood friendship, though it has to meet the same geographical and temporal prerequisites, is something rarer: a child does not seek to bo…"-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose
15. The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion -- Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
By: Peter Wohlleben
3.75
Format: 7 pages, Audio CD
Through vivid stories of devoted pigs, two-timing magpies, and scheming roosters, The Inner Life of… read more
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"La ciencia es contraria a la sensibilidad de los animales hasta que ésta ya no pueda negarse. ¿No sería mejor argumentar, por si acaso, lo contrario, para no maltratar innecesariamente a los animales?"-Peter Wohlleben, The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion -- Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
"Si de verdad somos la especie más inteligente de este planeta -algo que presupongo-, ¿entonces por qué la ciencia no recorrió hace tiempo el camino inverso? ¿Por qué esforzarse durante años en enseña…"-Peter Wohlleben, The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion -- Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
16. Walking Practice
By: Dolki Min
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Squid Game meets The Left Hand of Darkness meets Under the Skin in this radical literary sensation … read more
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- fiction
"I’ve invested close to ten years of my time figuring out what exactly their criteria are. My conclusion is that there are no such criteria."-Dolki Min, Walking Practice
"Criteria are like glass. As long as they are respected and held without dropping them, they’ll stay solid and won’t break. I made myself complicit in humanity’s scam and adapted myself to the local e…"-Dolki Min, Walking Practice
"Do I exist in the same physical space as other people? Can I really seek joy and pleasure together with them? Why does the path become narrower the further I walk down it? Why is every place I go to …"-Dolki Min, Walking Practice
"He’s a real fucking dog. Ah, forgive me. I’ve accidentally lumped dogs in with the likes of him. I would like to give a sincere apology to all the dogs of Earth. I can almost hear their complaints no…"-Dolki Min, Walking Practice
17. Carceral Capitalism
By: Jackie Wang
4.61
Format: 359 pages, Paperback
Essays on the contemporary continuum of incarceration: the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, pre… read more
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- race
"In other words, their [police] survival and expansion becomes bound up with their capacity to use the police power and the court system to loot residents."-Jackie Wang, Carceral Capitalism
"The conversion of poverty into a personal moral failure was intimately tied to the construction of black Americans as disposable and subject to mass incarceration."-Jackie Wang, Carceral Capitalism
"As Iyko Day notes, Native dispossession occurs through the expropriation of land, while black dispossession is characterized by enslavement and bodily dispossession."-Jackie Wang, Carceral Capitalism
"The financialization of municipalities, the loss of key tax revenue streams, deindustrialization, and capital flight are the causes of the fiscal crisis—not reckless public spending."-Jackie Wang, Carceral Capitalism
18. The Coconut Children
By: Vivian Pham
3.78
Format: None pages, ebook
Fall in love twice, just to make sure.Sonny and Vince have always known each other. It took two yea… read more
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"She thought of him now and made him last forever."-Vivian Pham, The Coconut Children
"She had recognised him before he could remember himself."-Vivian Pham, The Coconut Children
"When the sun goes down, the insomniac dreams of having a nightmare, just to get some sleep in this too loud world."-Vivian Pham, The Coconut Children
"Her mother believed that love, in its most noble and worthy form, was sacrifice. To love her was to love purgatory."-Vivian Pham, The Coconut Children
19. Pink Mountain on Locust Island
By: Jamie Marina Lau
3.70
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
An unpredictable and innovative debut novel from a provocative new voice in Australian fiction. Emb… read more
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- novels
20. Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future
By: Tracey Spicer
3.58
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
`Mum, I want a robot slave.’ Broadcaster Tracey Spicer had an epiphany when her young son uttere… read more
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21. 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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