21 must-read australia books like Here Be Leviathans by Chris Flynn

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Here Be Leviathans

By: Chris Flynn

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A collection of funny, brilliant, boundary-pushing stories from the bestselling author of Mammoth. …

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1. Heat and Light

By: Ellen Van Neerven

3.85

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2013 David Unaipon Award In this award-winning work of fiction, Ellen van Neerven tak… read more

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2. 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
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3. Honeybees and Distant Thunder

By: Riku Onda

3.94

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Tender and intense, Honeybees and Distant Thunder is the unflinching story of love, courage and riv… read more

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  • fiction
"The highest form of human achievement was music. Human beings might have dirty, repulsive aspects to them, but out of the sordid swamp that was humanity - no, it was precisely because of this chaotic…"

-Riku Onda, Honeybees and Distant Thunder

"Music always had to be of the now. It couldn't just be something preserved in a museum, and it was meaningless unless it was alive in the present. If you were satisfied with merely unearthing a lovel…"

-Riku Onda, Honeybees and Distant Thunder

"What kind of job was it to be a musician? What sort of vocation was it, anyway? Vocation - that was the perfect word for it. It really was a calling, a living calling. It didn't fill your stomach, di…"

-Riku Onda, Honeybees and Distant Thunder

"What a strange thing music was. It was just one small individual up there performing, and the notes created by those fingers were here one moment and gone the next. Yet what was there was almost the …"

-Riku Onda, Honeybees and Distant Thunder

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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. 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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  • fiction
  • australia
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6. 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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7. 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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  • fiction
  • australia
"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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8. 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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  • fiction
  • australia
"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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9. 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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10. 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
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11. 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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  • fiction
  • australia
"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

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12. The Tea Ladies (The Tea Ladies, #1)

By: Amanda Hampson

3.79

Format: 368 pages, Trade Paperback

They keep everyone's secrets, until there's a murder... Sydney, 1965: After a chance encounter w… read more

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  • fiction
  • australia
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13. 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
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14. Clarke

By: Holly Throsby

3.88

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A compelling new novel from the bestselling author of Goodwood and Cedar Valley. 'Clarke is illu… read more

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  • fiction
  • australia
"He was so stocky. He was like a wheelie bin."

-Holly Throsby, Clarke

"Leelee?’ ‘Yes, Joe?’ ‘Would you still love me if I was a donkey?’ Leonie said, ‘Sweetheart, I’d love you no matter what you were. If you turned into a donkey, I’d just find us a house with a big barn…"

-Holly Throsby, Clarke

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15. Dark Mode

By: Ashley Kalagian-Blunt

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Once you’re online, there’s nowhere to hide Is it paranoia – or is someone watching? For ye… read more

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  • fiction
  • australia
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16. 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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  • fiction
  • australia
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17. A Country of Eternal Light

By: Paul Dalgarno

3.62

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An astonishingly inventive, playful, funny, poignant and deeply moving novel from one of Australia'… read more

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  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • australia
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18. 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

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • australia
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19. The Silence Project

By: Carole Hailey

3.76

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

On Emilia Morris's thirteenth birthday, her mother Rachel moves into a tent at the bottom of their … read more

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  • fiction
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20. 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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  • humor
  • australia
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21. Redemption Point (Crimson Lake, #2)

By: Candice Fox

4.17

Format: 398 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Candice Fox delivers a compulsive new crime thriller in Redemp… read more

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  • fiction
  • australia
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22. The Jaguar

By: Sarah Holland-Batt

4.21

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

With electrifying boldness, Sarah Holland-Batt confronts what it means to be mortal in an astonishi… read more

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  • australia
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23. This Devastating Fever

By: Sophie Cunningham

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Alice had not expected to spend the first twenty years of the twenty-first century writing about Le… read more

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  • fiction
  • australia
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24. 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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  • humor
  • fiction
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25. Everything Feels Like the End of the World

By: Else Fitzgerald

3.72

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Everything Feels Like the End of the World is a collection of short speculative fiction exploring p… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • australia
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26. The Vagus nerve reset: train your body to heal stress, trauma and anxiety

By: Anna Ferguson

3.59

Format: 257 pages, Paperback

'Understanding our nervous system and somatic healing hold the key for many of us in overcoming anx… read more

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27. 17 Years Later

By: J.P. Pomare

4.43

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Is the truth sometimes best left buried? A crime masterpiece by bestselling author J. P. Pomare… read more

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  • fiction
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28. Here Be Leviathans

By: Chris Flynn

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A collection of funny, brilliant, boundary-pushing stories from the bestselling author of Mammoth. … read more

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  • humor
  • collections
  • short stories
  • australia
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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29. Private Rites

By: Julia Armfield

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more

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  • fiction
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"

-Julia Armfield, Private Rites

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30. The Ledge

By: Christian White

4.39

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

When human remains are discovered in the forests of regional Victoria, the police are baffled, the … read more

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  • fiction

24 must-read fiction books like Here Be Leviathans by Chris Flynn

Transform Your Habits

Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

Shankari Chandran

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Honeybees and Distant Thunder

Riku Onda

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Lovers

Yumna Kassab

2.95

Transform Your Habits

Stone Yard Devotional

Charlotte Wood

3.68

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Transform Your Habits

Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Without Further ADO

Jessica Dettmann

3.72

Transform Your Habits

The Other Bridget

Rachael Johns

4.16

Transform Your Habits

No Hard Feelings

Genevieve Novak

3.80

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