The Age's recommended books of 2017
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
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The Choke
It is quite a feat to write characters with such nuance . . . in harnessing her storytelling facility to expose the flaws in the system with what is becoming trademark.....
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Adult Fantasy
A wry and topical inquiry into how we respond when our cultural clock starts ticking.
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Lincoln in the Bardo
The extraordinary first novel by the bestselling, Folio Prize-winning, National Book Award-shortlisted George Saunders, about Abraham Lincoln and the death of his eleven year old son, Willie, at the dawn of the Civil War.
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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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Common People
From the 2016 Victorian Premier's Literary Award-winning author of Ghost River.
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Days Without End
Winner of the 2016 Costa Book of the Year and longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize: Sebastian Barry's sensational new novel set in mid-19th Century America.
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
An intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle, Sing, Unburied, Sing examines the ugly truths at the heart of the American story and the power - and limitations - of family bonds.
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Commonwealth
For use in schools and libraries only. Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how a chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children involved.
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The Hate U Give
A powerful and brave YA novel about what prejudice looks like in the 21st century.
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Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
A moving celebration of what Bill Hayes calls the evanescent, the eavesdropped, the unexpected of life in New York City, and an intimate glimpse of his relationship with the late Oliver Sacks.
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As the Lonely Fly
As the Lonely Fly is an epic story of persecution, migration and dispersal during tumultuous events in the 20th Century, which shines a light on the intertwined fates of Jews and Palestinians - a scenario with deep contemporary...
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The Catch
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The Dangers of Truffle Hunting
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Skylarking
'A brave, beautiful and richly textured book that delicately explores the fault lines in love and friendship.' --Lucy Treloar A spellbinding tale of friendship and desire, memory and truth, which questions what it is to remember...
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No Way But This: In Search of Paul Robeson
Vocalist. Actor. Athlete. Agitator. Icon. Martyr.
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Breaking the Mould
An extraordinary transformation is taking place in Australian sport; from suburban footy fields to stadium cage fights, sportswomen are breaking through the...
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Black Rock White City
Intensely human, yet majestic in its moral vision, Black Rock White City is an essential story of Australia's suburbs now, of displacement and immediate threat, and the unexpected responses of two refugees as...
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Dinner at the Center of the Earth
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The Collected Poems of Fay Zwicky
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The Unseen
A group of children inherit an elemental paradise on earth in Roy Jacobsen's phenomenally bestselling new novel about love, poverty and tragedy in early twentieth century Norway
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The Green Bell
The Green Bell is a lyrical and profoundly moving story about love and madness
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Draw Your Weapons
Draw Your Weapons stirs and confronts, disturbs and illuminates. A single book might not change the world, but this utterly original meditation on art and war might transform the way you see the world-and that makes all the...
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Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness. In this moment of...
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Pond
A sharp, funny and eccentric debut by one of Britain's most talented new voices.
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Family Life
For eight-year-old Ajay and his older brother Birju, life in Dehli in the late 1970s follows a comfortable, predictable routine: bathing on the roof, queuing for milk, playing cricket in the street. Yet, everything changes when...
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
Can violence really have declined? The images of conflict we see daily on our screens from around the world suggest this is an almost obscene claim to be making. In this title, the author shows violence within and between...
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Talking To My Country
An extraordinarily powerful and personal meditation on race, culture and national identity by one of Australia's leading journalists.
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Who Rules the World?
Examines America's pursuit and exercise of power in a post 9/11 world. Drawing on examples ranging from expanding drone assassination programs to civil war in Syria to the violence in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Israel and Palestine,...
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Based on interviews author Heather Morris conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov, The Tattooist of Auschwitz is a heart-wrenching, illuminating, and unforgettable tale of hope and...
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Dodge Rose
Eliza travels to Sydney to deal with the estate of her Aunt Dodge, and finds Maxine, a hitherto unknown cousin, occupying Dodge's apartment. When legal complications derail plans to live it up on their inheritance, the women's...
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A State of Freedom
What happens when we attempt to exchange the life we are given for something better? Can we transform the possibilities we are born into?
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Mirror Sydney
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La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust, Volume 1)
Philip Pullman returns to the world of His Dark Materials with this magnificent new novel, set ten years before Northern Lights and featuring his much-loved character, Lyra Belacqua.
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Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow
A breathtaking, enchanting new series by debut Australian author Jessica Townsend, about a cursed girl who escapes death and finds herself in a magical world - but is then tested beyond her wildest imagination.
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Rallying
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On Kate Jennings: Writers on Writers
‘Kate says she doesn't know what to say about writing. When people ask, she tells them to prepare for a life of failure.'
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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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The Town
With this long-awaited and utterly unique debut novel, Shaun Prescott announces himself as a compelling new voice. The Town is magnetic, revealing the true depth of Australia: the good, the bad, and the captivatingly ugly.
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The Student
A high-paced, hardboiled regional noir: fresh, gritty, unnerving, with a stark and lonely beauty.
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The Last Garden
From the author of the award-winning Dog Boy, a powerful literary work about frailty, redemption, and the healing power of animals.
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The Man Who Took to His Bed
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Belladonna
From the author of the highly acclaimed Trieste, a fierce novel about history, memory, and illness
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Chatelaine
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The Country Road: Stories
Although a famous Swiss author, Regina Ullmann has never appeared before in English: her oracular, strange, singular voice astonishes.
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I Hate the Internet: A novel
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Australia Day
An important and illuminating debut fiction collection about Australian life and identity.
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Affirmation of Poetry
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Jean Harley was Here
Jean Harley Was Here is a touching and original exploration of love, relationships, and the ways in which we need each other.
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The Field Is Lethal
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Down The Hume
A confronting and powerful novel from an exciting new voice - for lovers of Christos Tsiolkas (Loaded) and Luke Davies (Candy).
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Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
From the fiery intellectual provocateur - and one of our most fearless advocates of gender equality - a brilliant, urgent essay collection that both celebrates modern feminism and challenges us to build an alliance of strong women...
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The End We Start From
From a daring new talent, Megan Hunter, The End We Start From is a beautifully spare, haunting meditation (Emily St. John Mandel) on young motherhood, exile, and love in the midst of an all too likely environmental catastrophe
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The Littlehampton Libels: A Miscarriage of Justice and a Mystery about Words in 1920s England
Littlehampton in the 1920s was menaced by a bizarre poison-pen case, which required the attention of a leading Metropolitan Police detective, and resulted in four criminal trials before the real culprit was finally punished. The...
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The High Places
These wide-ranging stories resonate in the way of only the finest writing and the most pleasurable reading. There are storylines that seem straightforward on the surface but have a dozen things circling underneath, others that sit...
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Exit West
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The Parcel
The Parcel is the masterful new novel from acclaimed author Anosh Irani, and is a savage and beautifully rendered story about community, belonging, and the cheapness of human life.
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Their Brilliant Careers: The Fantastic Lives of Sixteen Extraordinary Australian Writers
Absurd, original and highly addictive ... In Their Brilliant Careers, Ryan O'Neill has written a hilarious novel in the guise of sixteen biographies of (invented) Australian writers. Meet Rachel Deverall, who discovered the...
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Red or Dead
The players and the supporters.His legacy would reveberate through the ages.In 1974, Liverpool Football Club and Bill Shankly stood on the verge of even greater success. Bill Shankly retired. Red or Dead is the story...
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Atlantic Black
The new novel from Miles Franklin award-winning author A.S. Patrić.
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Heat and Light
In this award-winning work of fiction, Ellen van Neerven takes her readers on a journey that is mythical, mystical and still achingly real. Over three parts, she takes traditional storytelling and gives it a unique,...
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Music Our Bodies Can’t Hold
Each of these poems is a portrait of someone with or reputed to have had Marfan Syndrome. Many of the poems emerge out of personal interviews, while others are portraits of public figures: Abraham Lincoln, Akhenaten, Mary Queen of...
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Extinctions
Humorous, poignant and galvanising by turns, Extinctions is a novel about all kinds of extinction - natural, racial, national and personal - and what we can do to prevent them.
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The Rules Of Backyard Cricket
In this unusual crime thriller, two brothers share a love of cricket and rise to fame but their character differences divide them.
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The Animators
From age eighteen on, I had a partner, a kindred spirit. I had a friend. Someone bound and determined to keep me from the worst in myself.
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This Water: Five Tales
This is likely to be the last work by Beverley Farmer, one of Australia's great prose stylists, and a pioneer of women's writing, in her exploration of feminine concerns, and her use of different literary forms - novel, short...
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A Journal of the Plague Year
This work follows Daniel Defoe's fictional narrator as he traces the devastating progress of the plague through the streets of London. Here we see a city transformed - some of its streets suspiciously empty and some...
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Mothering Sunday
The Sunday Times bestseller - an intensely moving and beautifully written new novel from the Booker-prize winning author of Last Orders and Waterland
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Being Here: The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker
An unconventional biography of the German expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker by one of France's most acclaimed literary talents
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Stories: The Collected Short Fiction
This new edition of Helen Garner's collected short fiction celebrates the seventy-fifth birthday of one of Australia's most loved authors.
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True Stories: The Collected Short Non-Fiction
An extraordinary book of collected short non-fiction, spanning fifty years of work, by one of Australia's great writers.
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Bird Country
The sparkling debut from an exciting new voice in Australian fiction, Claire Aman Bird Country is a collection of spare and affecting portraits of ordinary people in rural Australia
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The Ninth Hour
From the National Book Award-winning author comes a luminous, deeply humane novel about three generations of an Irish immigrant family in 1940s and 1950s Brooklyn - for fans of Anne Tyler, Anne Enright and Colm...
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Too Easy
Wisecracking social worker Stella Hardy returns, and this time she's battling outlaw bikie gangs, corrupt cops, and a powerful hunger for pani puri.
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Wimmera
In the long, hot summer of 1989, Ben and Fab are best friends. Growing up in a small country town, they spend their days playing cricket, yabbying in local dams, wanting a pair of.....
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And Fire Came Down
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Winter Traffic
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See What I Have Done
A deeply atmospheric novel by a startling new Aussie talent; an incredibly unique look inside the mind of Lizzie Borden, famously accused of murdering her father and stepmother in 1892.
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Hot Milk
Explores the violently primal bond between mother and daughter. Examining female rage and sexuality, this novel explores the strange and monstrous nature of motherhood, testing the bonds of parent and child to breaking point.
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The Trauma Cleaner
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To Become a Whale
The story of a young boy who has recently lost his mother, trying to make sense of the world of men and then embarking on a breathtaking adventure of his own - a stunning literary debut in the tradition of Favel Parrett's Past the...
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The Rules Do Not Apply
The new book by New Yorker journalist and author of Female Chauvinist Pigs, Ariel Levy.
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The Mothers
Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett's mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. It begins with a secret.
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