An Asian Australian reading list

Stranger Country
What happens when a 32-year-old first-generation Australian woman decides to chuck in a dream job, pack a sleeping bag and tent, and hit the long, dusty road for six months? Thirty-thousand kilometres later, Monica Tan has the...
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Room for a Stranger
A moving portrait of an improbable friendship and multicultural Australia more broadly, from the winner of the 2018 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction.
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Australia Day
Awarded the 2018 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction, Melanie Cheng's Australia Day paints a vivid and absorbing panorama of contemporary Australia
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No Country Woman
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Single Asian Female
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Flood Damages
Powerful first collection by acclaimed Filipina Australian performance poet
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The Permanent Resident
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Growing Up Asian in Australia
Asian-Australians are known to each other and the outside world by many labels: quiet achiever, FOB, gangster chigger, mainlander, banana. But are these labels based on some degree of truth or only fiction? What is it like to grow...
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The Life to Come
Michelle de Kretser's fifth novel is both a delicious satire on the way we live now and a deeply moving examination of the true nature of friendship.
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The Hamilton Case
A haunting and acclaimed novel of thwarted ambition, corruption, murder and family secrets by the author of the acclaimed bestseller The Rose Grower.
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The Rose Grower
On a cloudless summer afternoon in 1789, labourers working in the fields around Montsignac, a village in Gascony, saw a man fall out of the sky.
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The Lost Dog
Set in present-day Australia and mid-20th century India, The Lost Dog is a haunting, beautifully written work that brilliantly counterpoints new cityscapes and their inhabitants with the wild, ancient continent beyond.
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Close to Home: Selected Writings
This delightful collection brings together Alice Pung's most loved writing, on migration, family, identity, art and more. Warm, funny, moving and unfailingly honest, this is Alice Pung at her best - an irresistible delight for...
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Ruins
In the bustling streets, overcrowded hospitals and glittering nightclubs of Colombo, five family members find their bonds stretched to breaking point in the aftermath of the Sri Lankan civil war.
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Letter to Pessoa
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Swimsuit
Jenny catches up with a former flame at the local pool. The sun is bright and casts dark shadows in the water. There is violence even in this mundane place - a whirlpool through which Jenny swims, even as it pulls her under.
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The Family Law (TV Tie-In)
Meet the Law family - eccentric, endearing and hard to resist. Your guide: Benjamin, the third of five children and a born humorist. Join him as he tries to answer some puzzling questions: why won't his Chinese dad wear...
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Gaysia: Adventures in the Queer East
Benjamin Law considers himself pretty lucky to live in Australia: he can hold his boyfriend's hand in public and lobby his politicians to recognise same-sex marriage. As the child of migrants, though, he also wonders how different...
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Law School: Sex and relationship advice from Benjamin Law and his mum Jenny Phang
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The Agonist
Winner of the 2016 Thomas Shapcott Prize for Poetry.
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Portable Curiosities
In Portable Curiosities, Julie Koh re-imagines our world with a dark, satirical twist. These twelve stories combine absurd humour with searing critiques on contemporary society - the rampant consumerism, the casual...
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Saudade
A coming-of-age story set in Angola in the period leading up to the colony's independence, Saudade focuses on a Goan immigrant family caught between complicity in Portuguese rule, and their dependence on the Angolans who are their...
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A Necessary Murder: A Heloise Chancey Mystery
For lovers of flamboyant heroines, mouthy servants and bloody murders, from a Stella Prize shortlisted author.
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She Be Damned
A unique who-done-it that puts a modern spin on a classic style of mystery writing.
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Look Who’s Morphing
This is a collection of stories about transformation, with the storyteller and his family shifting through identities drawn from comics, video games, daytime TV, porn flicks and movies, in fantasies of sexual and physical power.
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Argosy
This innovative first full-length collection from Australian poet Bella Li draws inspiration from the surrealist collage novels of Max Ernst, is an arresting and utterly unique assemblage of poetry, collage and photography.
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On John Marsden: Writers on Writers
In this fascinating book, Alice Pung writes about one of her deep influences - the much-loved and hugely successful John Marsden.
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Unpolished Gem
Offers a vivid and ironic sense of two worlds. Combines the story of Pung's life growing up in suburban Footscray, with the inherited stories of the women in her family.
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Anguli Ma: A Gothic Tale
Anguli Ma is the central figure in a traditional Buddist folktale, a deranged killer who wears his victims' fingers in a garland around his neck. In this novella, Chi Vu takes the character, and turns him into an menacing...
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The Healing Party
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Billy Sing
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