Aug 25, 2024
The Best Australian Books of the 21st Century
*According to This Article from the Australian / New Zealander online newspaper The Conversation.
The majority of contributions to the list come from academics from various universities in Australia.
This list includes all the books mentioned in the article, both on the (unranked) list proper and honourable mentions, just to give the largest possible number of modern Australian recommendations in one place.
Not in database
Hossein Asgari - Only Sound Remains (2023)
Katherine Brabon - The Shut Ins (2021)
Ronnie Scott - Shirley (2023)
Jennifer Mills - The Airways (2021)
Julie Janson - Madukka: The River Serpent (2022)
Mark Willacy - Rogue Forces (2021)
Tracy Sorensen - The Vitals (2023)
Wayne Macauley - Other Stories (2010)
Andy J. Jackson - Human Looking (2021)
Angela Slatter - The Tallow Wife (2022)
2 comments
mort_a_venise
2 months ago
Amusing how they put in as many J.M. Coetzee books as they could following his naturalisation - in fact, Elizabeth Costello was released only a year after he first moved here. Even his lesser works outplace most Australian literature I suppose.
mort_a_venise
2 months ago
The Andy Griffiths inclusion is also interesting - its artistic ambitions are debatable compared to like Shaun Tan, but strictly speaking it's an important book. Maybe they should also have Ahn Do.