The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Australia

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
15919 We Of The Never Never Mrs Aeneas Gunn 1908 Australian English
15919 The Escape Of The Notorious Sir William Heans William Gosse Hay 1919 Australian English
15919 Flynn Of The Inland Ion L Idriess 1932 Australian English
15919 Joe Wilson And His Mates Henry Lawson 1901 Australian English
15919 Here's Luck Lennie Lower 1930 Australian English
15919 My Crowded Solitude Jack McLaren 1926 Australian English
15919 Dot And The Kangaroo Ethel Pedley 1899 Australian English
15919 Landtakers Brian Penton 1934 Australian English
15919 Coonardoo Katharine Sussanah Pritchard 1929 Australian English
15919 Johah Louis Stone 1911 Australian English
15919 Two Expeditions Into The Interior Of Southern Australia, 1828 31 Charles Sturt 1833 Australian English
15919 A Complete Account Of The Settlement At Port Jackson Watkin Tench 1793 Australian English
15919 Ralph Rashleigh James Tucker 1929 Australian English
15919 The Elementary Forms Of The Religious Life Emile Durkheim 1912 French French
15919 The Sands Of Windee Arthur William Upfield 1931 Australian English
15919 The Cruise Of The Snark Jack London 1911 American English
16782 The World Crisis Winston Churchill 1923 British English
17171 The Nature of Life C. H. Waddington 1961 British English
17171 English Passengers Matthew Kneale 2000 British English
17171 Gipsy Moth Circles the World Francis Chichester 1967 British English
17171 Bob Rebecca Stead, Wendy Mass 2018 American English
17171 Coming Rain Stephen Daisley 2015 Australian English
17171 The Idea Of Perfection Kate Grenville 1999 Australian English
17171 The Forge Of God Greg Bear 1987 American English
17171 Johnno David Malouf 1975 Australian English
17171 Eucalyptus Murray Bail 1998 Australian English
17171 The Sugar Mother Elizabeth Jolley 1988 Australian English
17171 The Great World David Malouf 1990 Australian English
17171 Adventures Of A Young Naturalist Sir David Attenborough 2017 British English
17171 This Much Is True Miriam Margolyes 2021 British English
17171 Our Country’s Good Timberlake Wertenbaker 1988 British English
16933 Summer Of The Seventeenth Doll Ray Lawler 1955 Australian English
17171 The Recollections Of Geoffrey Hamlyn Henry Kingsley 1859 British English
17171 It Is Never Too Late To Mend Charles Reade 1856 British English
17171 Magic Or Madness Justine Larbalestier 2005 Australian English
17171 The Spare Room Helen Garner 2008 Australian English
17171 Y The Last Man Brian K. Vaughan 2002 American English
17171 Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone Benjamin Stevenson 2022 Australian English
17171 I Am The Messenger Markus Zusak 2002 Australian English
17171 The Victorian Internet Tom Standage 1998 British English
17171 Desolation Island Patrick O'Brian 1978 British English
17171 Language For A New Century Nathalie Handal, Tina Chang, Ravi Shankar 2008 Multiple English
17171 The Global Soul Pico Iyer 2000 British English
17171 Partners In Command Mark Perry 2007 Unknown English
17171 The Whale Philip Hoare 2008 British English
17171 Whole Earth Discipline Stewart Brand 2009 American English
17171 The Climate Book Greta Thunberg 2022 Swedish English
17171 How To Stop Time Matt Haig 2017 British English
17171 What Alice Forgot Liane Moriarty 2009 Australian English
17171 Lexicon Max Barry 2013 Australian English
17171 Spook Mary Roach 2005 American English
17171 Drawdown Paul Hawken 2017 American English
17171 The Life You Can Save Peter Singer 2009 Australian English
17171 Diplomacy Henry A. Kissinger 1994 American English
17171 The Echoes Evie Wyld 2024 British English
17171 The Lexus And The Olive Tree Thomas L. Friedman 1999 American English
17171 The Revolt Of The Public And The Crisis Of Authority In The New Millennium Martin Gurri 2014 Unknown English
17171 The Burrow Melanie Cheng 2024 Unknown English
17171 Faith Hope And Carnage Nick Cave, Sean O'Hagan 2022 Unknown English
17171 Australian Gospel Lech Blaine 2023 Unknown English
17171 Gunflower Laura Jean McKay 2023 Unknown Unknown
17171 Bird Courtney Collins 2012 Australian English
17171 Restless Dolly Maunder Kate Grenville 2023 Australian English
17171 Borderland Graham Akhurst 2023 Unknown English
17171 Jade And Emerald Michelle See-Tho 2024 Unknown English
17171 Juice Tim Winton 2024 Australian English
17171 New Animal Ella Baxter 2021 Australian English
17171 New Australian Fiction Suzy Garcia 2019 Unknown English
17171 No Church In The Wild Murray Middleton 2015 Unknown English
17171 Safe Haven Shankari Chandran 2024 Unknown English
17171 I Hope This Doesn't Find You Ann Liang 2024 Unknown English
17171 There And Back: Diaries 1999 2009 Michael Palin 2024 British English
17171 The Last Place On Earth Roland Huntford 1979 British English
17171 Sea Of Glory Nathaniel Philbrick 2003 American English
16814 Capricornia Xavier Herbert 1938 Australian English
17171 Everything I Know About Love Dolly Alderton 2018 British English
17171 Storm Boy Colin Thiele 1999 Australian English
17171 Bliss Peter Carey 1981 Australian English
17171 How Big Things Get Done Bent Flyvbjerg 2023 Unknown English
17171 My Story Joe Canning, Vincent Hogan 2024 Unknown English
17171 Cherrywood Jock Serong 2024 Australian English
17171 Tides Of Fire James Rollins 2023 American English
17171 The 6th Extinction James Rollins 2014 American English
17171 The Silk Roads Peter Frankopan 2015 British English
17171 Endure Alex Hutchinson 2018 Canadian English
17171 The Soul Of An Octopus Sy Montgomery 2015 American English
17171 Never Enough Judith Grisel 2019 Unknown English
17171 The Sports Gene David Epstein 2013 American English
17171 Lost Connections Johann Hari 2018 British English
17171 Lifespan David A. Sinclair 2019 Australian English
17171 A Corner Of A Foreign Field Ramachandra Guha 2003 Indian English
17171 My Brother Jack George Johnston 1964 Australian English
17171 Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want To Come Jessica Pan 2019 Unknown English
17171 The Brain That Changes Itself Norman Doidge 2007 Canadian English
17171 The Impersonators Jessica Anderson 1980 Australian English
17171 The Slow Natives Thea Astley 1965 Australian English
17171 Homesickness Murray Bail 1980 Australian English
17171 Lucinda Brayford Martin Boyd 1946 Australian English
17171 The Australian Ugliness Robin Boyd 1960 Australian English
17171 The Naked Island Russell Braddon 1951 Australian English
17171 All The Green Year D E Charlwood 1965 Australian English
17171 A History Of Australia, Vol. Iv. Manning Clark 1978 Australian English
17171 They're A Wierd Mob Nino Culotta 1957 Australian English
17171 Come In Spinner Dymphna Cusack, Florence James 1951 Australian English
17171 The Timeless Land Eleanor Dark 1941 Australian English
17171 Man Shy Frank Dalby Davison 2002 Australian English
17171 Kings In Grass Castles Mary Durack 1959 Australian English
17171 Careful, He Might Hear You Summer Locke Elliott 1963 Australian English
16814 Rum Rebellion H V Evatt 1938 Australian English
17171 Journals Of Expeditions Of Discovery Into Central Australia Edward John Eyre 2004 Australian English
17171 The Fring Dwellers Nene Gare 1961 Australian English
17171 The Letters Of Rachel Henning Rachel Henning 1952 Australian English
17171 The Lucky Country Donald Horne 1964 Australian English
17171 The Ridge And The River Tom Hungerford 1952 Australian English
17171 The Unknown Industrial Prisoner David Ireland 1971 Australian English
17171 Wild Cat Falling Colin Johnson 1965 Australian English
17171 The Chant Of Jimmie Blacksmith Thomas Keneally 1972 Australian English
17171 The Year Of Living Dangerously Christopher Koch 1978 Australian English
17171 The Pea Pickers Eve Langley 1942 Australian English
17171 Trap Peter Mathers 1966 Australian English