In her acclaimed Classics: Books for Life Jane Gleeson-White made a heartfelt call to 'read for life', and an invaluable literary excavation into our reading past to rediscover the great masterpieces that move and inspire us and to learn why they still resonate with us today. Now Gleeson-White turns her attention to Australian Classics: beloved novels, poems, short stories, children's books and seminal works of non-fiction are brought together here and compellingly presented for us to find or rediscover. Australian Classics celebrates our greatest works of literature and tells us why they matter and what they give us as readers. It is an inspired and inspiring feast of the great Australian books that make exalted readers of us all.