The Age's recommended books of 2018

Staying: A Memoir
A searing memoir by acclaimed novelist Jessie Cole, about surviving the suicide of loved ones, and finding a place to heal.
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Too Much Lip
Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2019. A dark and funny new novel from the multi-award-winning author of Mullumbimby.
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The Arsonist
On the day that became known as Black Saturday, one man deliberately lit two fires near the small town of Churchill, Gippsland, then stood on the roof of his house and watched the flames. The Arsonist, by the acclaimed author of...
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Axiomatic
Janet Malcolm meets The Empathy Exams, in a genre-bending work on how we understand the traumas we inherit.
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Less
A scintillating satire of the American abroad, a rumination on time and the human heart, a bittersweet romance of chances lost, Less is the winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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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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The Shepherd’s Hut
The Shepherd's Hut is an exquisite, brutal coming of age novel. It tells the story of Jaxie, a boy on the run from his past, and explores the way love and hate combine to form a young man's beliefs.
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Warlight
A mesmerising new novel from the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of The English Patient.
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A Horse Walks into a Bar
Flaying alive both himself and the people watching him, Dovaleh G provokes both revulsion and empathy from an audience that doesn't know whether to laugh or cry - and all this in the presence of a former childhood friend who is...
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Border Districts
A new work by a master of contemporary Australian fiction, highly regarded overseas, but little-known here. Giramondo's publication of Border Districts, and the retrospective volume Collected Short Fiction (early next year) is a...
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Terra Nullius
In the near future Australia is about to experience colonisation once more. What have we learned from our past? A daring debut novel from the winner of the 2016 black&write! writing fellowship.
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Deep Time Dreaming
'People would have known about Australia before they saw it. Smoke billowing above the sea spoke of a land that lay beyond the horizon. A dense cloud of migrating birds may have pointed the way. But the first Australians were...
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Home Fire
A contemporary reimagining of Sophocles' Antigone, Home Fire is an urgent, fiercely compelling story of loyalties torn apart when love and politics collide - confirming Kamila Shamsie as a master storyteller of our times.
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Flames
Two siblings traverse the southern island to try to find their way back to each other in this tale about grief and love and the bonds of family.
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Sun Music: New and Selected Poems
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Blakwork
Alison Whittaker's Blakwork is an original and unapologetic collection from which two things emerge; an incomprehensible loss, and the poet's fearless examination of the present.
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A Superior Spectre
A Superior Spectre is a highly accomplished debut novel about our capacity for curiosity, and our dangerous entitlement to it, and reminds us the scariest ghosts aren't those that go bump in the night, but those that are born and...
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Kudos
The award-winning and critically acclaimed author of Outline and Transit, completes the transcendent literary trilogy with Kudos.
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Sabrina
When Sabrina disappears, an airman in the U.S. Air Force is drawn into a web of suppositions, wild theories, and outright lies. Sabrina depicts a modern world devoid of personal interaction and responsibility, where relationships...
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Pachinko
A victorian epic transplanted to Japan, following a Korean family of immigrants through eight decades and four generations.
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Traumata
In this extraordinary book, Meera Atkinson explores the ways trauma reverberates over a lifetime, unearthing the traumatic roots of our social structures and our collective history.
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From the Wreck
From the Wreck tells the remarkable story of George Hills, who survived the sinking of the steamship Admella off the South Australian coast in 1859. Haunted by his memories and the disappearance of a fellow survivor, George's...
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The Library Book
Susan Orlean re-opens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, and delivers a dazzling love letter to the beloved institution of libraries.
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Trick of the Light
'Radiant, accomplished and exquisitely written, this is an outstanding collection.' Ryan O'Neill
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The Drover’s Wives: 99 Reinterpretations of Henry Lawson’s Australian Classic
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Coach Fitz
One of the strangest and most appealing novels you will read this year!
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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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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
A subversive, entertaining noir novel from the winner of the 2018 Man Booker Prize.
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Wintering
From 2018 Stella Prize-shortlistee Krissy Kneen, an evocative and mysterious novel about inexplicable disappearances and thylacines set in the remote south of Tasmania
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The Rapids: Ways of Looking at Mania
Writing and mental illness make excellent bedfellows, for better or worse. The Rapids is an extraordinary personal memoir peppered with film and literary criticism, as well as family history. It manages to be both a wild ride and...
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Teacher
A woman's struggle to keep the heart in teaching
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Pulse Points: Stories
Pulse Points is the collected stories by Jennifer Down, author of Our Magic Hour and one of Australia's newest and most promising literary talents.
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A Life of My Own
A memoir that follows Claire Tomalin through triumph and tragedy in about equal measure, from the disastrous marriage of her parents and the often difficult wartime childhood that followed, to her own marriage to the brilliant...
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Nine Perfect Strangers
Could ten days at a health resort really change you forever?
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The Whole Bright Year
From the creator of ‘Offspring' and author of Useful, a gripping, wry and tender novel about how holding on too tightly can cost us what we love.
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True Stories
Spanning forty years of work, True Stories is the collected essays, stories and diary entries of one of Australia's greatest writers
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The Mountain: Stories
From Paul Yoon, the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of Once the Shore and Snow Hunters, comes a luminous collection of short stories set throughout the world--from the Hudson Valley to the Russian Far East--across...
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Tilt
Tilt follows the skewed itinerary of attachment and loss, possession and dispossession; the movement of people and things, from Greta Garbo's Manhattan exile to the Green Bans of 1970s Sydney to the precarious passages of...
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Always Another Country
A moving portrait of the life journey and all the romance, heartache and grief that has helped to make Sisonke Msimang the writer, activist, mother and woman she is today.
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On Mother
A mother's love over decades and across continents. The sudden death of Sarah's mother reveals their relationship with poignant clarity and shows her the individual who existed beyond motherhood. A reflection on mothers and...
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Men We Reaped: A Memoir
A memoir that examines rural poverty and the lingering strains of racism in the south by the prize-winning author of Salvage the Bones.
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape
Neither a memoir nor an academic study but a deeply personal and meticulously researched rallying cry and required reading for us all.
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Dog Boy: Text Classics
Abandoned in a big city at the onset of winter, a hungry four-year-old boy follows a stray dog to her lair. There he joins four puppies suckling at their mother's teats. And so begins Romochka's life as a dog. Romochka is ashamed...
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The Man on the Mantlepiece: A Memoir
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One Hundred Years of Dirt
Social mobility is not a train you get to board after you've scraped together enough for the ticket. You have to build the whole bloody engine, with nothing but a spoon and hand-me-down psychological distress.
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The Peach Season
After the murder of her husband, Celia has shut herself and her 16-year-old daughter Zo away, toiling on a peach farm in the middle of nowhere. The arrival of two young people to help during picking season heralds the beginning of...
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The Fireflies of Autumn: And Other Tales of San Ginese
Tuscany as you have never seen it before . . .
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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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Newcastle Sonnets
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Speaking Up
As president of the Human Rights Commission, Gillian Triggs advocated for the disempowered, the disenfranchised, the marginalised. She withstood relentless political pressure and media scrutiny as she defended the defenceless for...
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Do Oysters Get Bored?
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Journey by Moonlight
An early-twentieth-century classic - the turbulent story of a businessman torn between middle-class respectability and sensational bohemia.
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Educated
An extraordinary memoir about a woman's discovery of education, its transformative power and the price she has to pay for it.
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Evening in Paradise: More Stories
From the author of A Manual for Cleaning Women: a collection of previously un-compiled stories from the short-story master and literary sensation Lucia Berlin.
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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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Godsend
Inspired by the story of John Walker Lindh, the American Taliban, Whiting Award winner John Wray explores the circumstances that could impel a young American to exchange identity, home, and to become an Islamist militant --
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Sunburnt Country
What does climate change in Australia really look like?
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Sisters of No Mercy
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The Everlasting Sunday
At once both beautiful and brutal, The Everlasting Sunday is a haunting debut novel about growing up, growing wild and what it takes to survive.
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The Enigmatic Mr Deakin
Alfred Deakin-scholar, spiritualist, prime minister-was instrumental in creating modern Australia. In the first biography of Deakin in more than half a century, the acclaimed political historian Judith Brett deftly weaves together...
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The Bridge
Drawing on true events of Australia's worst industrial accident - a tragedy that still scars the city - The Bridge is a profoundly moving novel that examines class, guilt, and moral culpability. Yet it shows that even...
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Lives Other Than My Own
Translation of: D'autres vies que la mienne.
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My Antonia
The final novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is a celebration of the American midwest with Cather's strongest heroine at its heart.
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On The Java Ridge
A literary novel about politics and seeking asylum, with the pace and tension of a political thriller. Plus some of the most compelling writing about the sea since Patrick O'Brian.
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The Fact of a Body
The gripping true story of a young law student, an unspeakable crime and a past that refuses to stay buried.
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November Road
Set against the assassination of JFK, a poignant and evocative crime novel that centres on a desperate cat-and-mouse chase across 1960s America - a story of unexpected connections, daring possibilities, and the hope of second...
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West
A spellbinding and timeless tale of isolation, the power of grief and the pull of home.
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Milkman
This beautiful and painful novel by Orange Prize shortlisted Anna Burns blends shades of early Edna O'Brien with Eimear McBride's exquisite ability to capture voice.
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On J.M. Coetzee: Writers on Writers
With tenderness and insight, Ceridwen Dovey draws on personal history to explore the Nobel Prize-winner's work - how his books 'do theory' on themselves - while also tracing the intellectual heritage that has been passed from...
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On Borrowed Time
A stunning new collection of essays from Australia's leading public intellectual.
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Passing Bell Ghazals For Tina
A renowned American poet utilizes the poetic form of the classic Persian ghazal to deal with the untimely passing of his wife.
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The Year Everything Changed: 2001
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The Rift
Selena and Julie are sisters. As children they were closest companions, but as they grow towards maturity, a rift develops between them. There are greater rifts, however. Julie goes missing at the age of seventeen. When Julie...
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Madame Bovary: Penguin Drop Caps
This translation first published ... 2010 --T.p. verso.
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Watermark
Rising and recoiling like the ocean, Watermark cracks open the coastal idyll of a quintessentially Australian seaside landscape to reveal shifting sands, fractured relationships, and innocence lost against a backdrop that is...
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Testament: Shortlisted for Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award
A prize-winning novel following a young woman uncovering the truth about her family's past in the Hungarian Holocaust.
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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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