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
17168 1915 Roger McDonald 1979 Australian English
17168 The Americans, Baby Frank Moorhouse 1972 Australian English
17168 The Shiralee D'Arcy Niland 1955 Australian English
17168 Wild Men Of Sydney Cyril Pearl 1958 Australian English
17168 The Watcher On The Cast Iron Balcony Hal Porter 1963 Australian English
17168 Flying Fox And Drifting Sand Francis Ratcliffe 1976 Australian English
17168 They All Ran Wild Eric Rolls 1969 Australian English
17168 Vision Splendid Tom Ronan 1951 Australian English
17168 On Our Selection Steele Rudd 1976 Australian English
17168 Naked Under Capricorn Olaf Ruhen 1958 Australian English
17168 Ash Road Ivan Southall 1965 Australian English
17168 To The Islands Randolph Stow 1958 Australian English
17168 Ideas For Australian Cities Hugh Stretton 1970 Australian English
17168 The Battlers Kylie Tennant 1941 Australian English
17168 Man Of Two Tribes Arthur William Upfield 1956 Australian English
17168 The Australian Legend Russell Ward 1958 Australian English
17168 Alien Son Judah Waten 1952 Australian English
17168 The Nargun And The Stars Patricia Wrightson 1970 Australian English
17168 Embrace Fearlessly The Burning World Barry Lopez 2022 American English
17168 Our Final Warning Mark Lynas 2020 British English
17168 The Mystery Of A Hansom Cab Fergus Hume 2006 Australian English
17168 Days Of Grace Arnold Rampersad, Arthur Ashe 1993 American English
17168 Big Game, Small World Alexander Wolff 2002 Unknown English
17168 Free Speech Jacob Mchangama 2024 Unknown English
17168 The Chaos Machine Max Fisher 2022 Unknown English
17168 The Wages Of Destruction Adam Tooze 2006 British English
17168 On Lighthouses Jazmina Barrera 2017 Mexican Spanish
17168 Honeybee Craig Silvey 2020 Australian English
17168 Gould's Book Of Fish Richard Flanagan 2001 Australian English
17168 The Beatles Anthology The Beatles 2000 British English
17168 On Fire Naomi Klein 2019 Canadian English
17168 I Am, I Am, I Am Maggie O'Farrell 2017 British English
17168 The Day My Bum Went Psycho Andy Griffiths 2001 Australian English
17168 Migrations Charlotte McConaghy 2020 Australian English
17168 The Wealth And Poverty Of Nations David S. Landes 1998 American English
17168 The Call Of Cthulhu And Other Weird Stories H. P. Lovecraft 1999 American English
17168 Here Goes Nothing Steve Toltz 2022 Australian English
16929 The Elementary Forms Of Religious Life Emile Durkheim 1912 French French
17168 Churchill Martin Gilbert 1991 British English
17168 Guadalcanal Richard B. Frank 1990 American English
17168 Atlas Obscura Joshua Foer 2016 American English
16906 A History Of Civilizations Fernand Braudel 1963 French French
17168 The Dreaming Barbara Wood 1991 American English
17168 Sea Power Admiral James Stavridis 2017 American English
17168 Worn Sofi Thanhauser 2022 Unknown English
17168 Our Fragile Moment Michael Mann 2023 Unknown English
17168 The Dictionary People Sarah Ogilvie 2023 Unknown English
17168 This Is Wildfire Nick Mott, Justin Angle 2023 Unknown English
17168 The World Simon Sebag Montefiore 2023 British English
17168 The Earth Transformed Peter Frankopan 2023 British English
17168 The Half Known Life Pico Iyer 2023 British English
17168 Spare Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex 2023 British English
17168 The Mastermind Evan Ratliff 2019 American English
17168 Magic Tree House Mary Pope Osborne 1992 American English
17168 Destinations Jan Morris 1980 British English
17168 The Women's History Of The World Rosalind Miles 1988 British English
17168 Zero Zero Zero Roberto Saviano 2013 Italian Italian
17168 The Climate Crisis And The Global Green New Deal Noam Chomsky 2020 American English
17168 All That I Am Anna Funder 2011 Australian English
17168 The Ocean Of Life Callum Roberts 2012 British English
17168 In The Deserts Of This Earth Uwe George 1983 German German
17168 The Tao Of Cricket Ashis Nandy 1989 Indian English
17168 Trekka Round The World John Guzzwell 1979 British English
17168 Rip It Up And Start Again. Post Punk 1978 1984 Simon Reynolds 2005 British English
17168 The Happiest Refugee Anh Do 2010 Australian English
17168 Dying Cory Taylor 2016 Australian English
17168 The Lost Flowers Of Alice Hart Holly Ringland 2018 Australian English
17168 Rytual Chloe Wilson 2025 Unknown Unknown
17168 The New Climate War Michael Mann 2021 American English