Books that made us cry in 2018

The World Was Whole
The follow-up to Fiona Wright's essay collection Small Acts of Disappearance - winner of the Nita B. Kibble Award and the Queensland Literary Award for Non-fiction, shortlisted for the Stella Prize and the NSW Premier's Award for...
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If Cats Disappeared From The World
A million-copy bestseller, a poignant and thought-provoking Japanese tale that asks what it really is that makes life worth living.
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Catching Teller Crow
Winner of the Prize for Young Adult Writing at the 2019 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. Told in two unforgettable voices, this gripping novel interweaves themes of grief, colonial history, violence,...
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The Heart’s Invisible Furies
'By turns savvy, witty and achingly sad, this is a novelist at the top of his game.' Mail on SundayForced to flee the scandal brewing in her hometown, Catherine Goggin finds herself pregnant and alone, in search of a new life at...
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Between Us
Winner of the CBCA Book of the Year Award for Older Readers 2019. Ana's in a detention centre and Jono's life is spiralling out of control. Can their growing romance overcome the borders between them?
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Citizen: An American Lyric
Examines the experience of race and racism in Western society through sharp vignettes of everyday discrimination and prejudice. This book includes essays, images and poetry together to form a testament to the individual and...
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We Are Okay
After leaving her life behind to go to college in New York, Marin must face the truth about the tragedy that happened in the final weeks of summer when her friend Mabel comes to visit.
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The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted
A compelling and heartbreaking tale of grief and memory set in a small Victorian town in the 1960s.
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Bob
A charming middle-grade novel about friendship and the power of imagination, told in alternating chapters by Rebecca Stead, the Newbery Medal winning author of When You Reach Me, and Wendy Mass, New York Times bestselling author...
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The Care and Feeding of a Pet Black Hole
A girl's friendship with a lonely (and hungry) black hole leads her to face her own sadness in this original, funny, and touching novel
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