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
17120 The Shiralee D'Arcy Niland 1955 Australian English
17120 Wild Men Of Sydney Cyril Pearl 1958 Australian English
17120 The Watcher On The Cast Iron Balcony Hal Porter 1963 Australian English
17120 Flying Fox And Drifting Sand Francis Ratcliffe 1976 Australian English
17120 They All Ran Wild Eric Rolls 1969 Australian English
17120 Vision Splendid Tom Ronan 1951 Australian English
17120 On Our Selection Steele Rudd 1976 Australian English
17120 Naked Under Capricorn Olaf Ruhen 1958 Australian English
17120 Ash Road Ivan Southall 1965 Australian English
17120 To The Islands Randolph Stow 1958 Australian English
17120 Ideas For Australian Cities Hugh Stretton 1970 Australian English
17120 The Battlers Kylie Tennant 1941 Australian English
17120 Man Of Two Tribes Arthur William Upfield 1956 Australian English
17120 The Australian Legend Russell Ward 1958 Australian English
17120 Alien Son Judah Waten 1952 Australian English
17120 The Nargun And The Stars Patricia Wrightson 1970 Australian English
17120 Embrace Fearlessly The Burning World Barry Lopez 2022 American English
17120 Our Final Warning Mark Lynas 2020 British English
17120 The Mystery Of A Hansom Cab Fergus Hume 2006 Australian English
17120 Days Of Grace Arnold Rampersad, Arthur Ashe 1993 American English
17120 Big Game, Small World Alexander Wolff 2002 Unknown English
17120 Free Speech Jacob Mchangama 2024 Unknown English
17120 The Chaos Machine Max Fisher 2022 Unknown English
17120 The Wages Of Destruction Adam Tooze 2006 British English
17120 On Lighthouses Jazmina Barrera 2017 Mexican Spanish
17120 Honeybee Craig Silvey 2020 Australian English
17120 Gould's Book Of Fish Richard Flanagan 2001 Australian English
17120 The Beatles Anthology The Beatles 2000 British English
17120 On Fire Naomi Klein 2019 Canadian English
17120 I Am, I Am, I Am Maggie O'Farrell 2017 British English
17120 The Day My Bum Went Psycho Andy Griffiths 2001 Australian English
17120 Migrations Charlotte McConaghy 2020 Australian English
17120 The Wealth And Poverty Of Nations David S. Landes 1998 American English
17120 The Call Of Cthulhu And Other Weird Stories H. P. Lovecraft 1999 American English
17120 Here Goes Nothing Steve Toltz 2022 Australian English
16901 The Elementary Forms Of Religious Life Emile Durkheim 1912 French French
17120 Churchill Martin Gilbert 1991 British English
17120 Guadalcanal Richard B. Frank 1990 American English
17120 Atlas Obscura Joshua Foer 2016 American English
16860 A History Of Civilizations Fernand Braudel 1963 French French
17120 The Dreaming Barbara Wood 1991 American English
17120 Sea Power Admiral James Stavridis 2017 American English
17120 Worn Sofi Thanhauser 2022 Unknown English
17120 Our Fragile Moment Michael Mann 2023 Unknown English
17120 The Dictionary People Sarah Ogilvie 2023 Unknown English
17120 This Is Wildfire Nick Mott, Justin Angle 2023 Unknown English
17120 The World Simon Sebag Montefiore 2023 British English
17120 The Earth Transformed Peter Frankopan 2023 British English
17120 The Half Known Life Pico Iyer 2023 British English
17120 Spare Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex 2023 British English
17120 The Mastermind Evan Ratliff 2019 American English
17120 Magic Tree House Mary Pope Osborne 1992 American English
17120 Destinations Jan Morris 1980 British English
17120 The Women's History Of The World Rosalind Miles 1988 British English
17120 Zero Zero Zero Roberto Saviano 2013 Italian Italian
17120 The Climate Crisis And The Global Green New Deal Noam Chomsky 2020 American English
17120 All That I Am Anna Funder 2011 Australian English
17120 The Ocean Of Life Callum Roberts 2012 British English
17120 In The Deserts Of This Earth Uwe George 1983 German German
17120 The Tao Of Cricket Ashis Nandy 1989 Indian English
17120 Trekka Round The World John Guzzwell 1979 British English
17120 Rip It Up And Start Again. Post Punk 1978 1984 Simon Reynolds 2005 British English
17120 The Happiest Refugee Anh Do 2010 Australian English
17120 Dying Cory Taylor 2016 Australian English
17120 The Lost Flowers Of Alice Hart Holly Ringland 2018 Australian English
17120 Rytual Chloe Wilson 2025 Unknown Unknown
17120 The New Climate War Michael Mann 2021 American English