The Age's recommended books of 2018
No Friend But the Mountains
An account of life inside Manus detention centre, from journalist and asylum-seeker Behrouz Boochani.
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Too Much Lip
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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Convenience Store Woman
The Japanese literary sensation about an unconventional woman who finds happiness in a Tokyo convenience store.
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Blakwork
A stunning mix of memoir, reportage, fiction, satire, and critique composed by a powerful new voice in poetry. Alison Whittaker's Blakwork is an original and unapologetic collection from which two things emerge; an...
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The Nowhere Child
On a break between teaching photography classes, Kim Leamy is approached by a stranger investigating the disappearance of a little girl from her Kentucky home twenty-eight years earlier. He believes she is that girl.
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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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Normal People
When they both earn places at Trinity College in Dublin, a connection that has grown between them lasts long into the following years. This is an exquisite love story about how a person can change another person's life - a...
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The Drover’s Wives: 99 Reinterpretations of Henry Lawson’s Australian Classic
Shortlisted for the 2019 Russell Prize for Humour WritingHenry Lawson's short story `The Drover's Wife' is an Australian classic that has sparked interpretations on the page, on canvas and on the...
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Coach Fitz
One of the strangest and most appealing novels you will read this year!
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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 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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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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Dyschronia
A wild and brilliant vision of a future Australia driven by ecological catastrophe.
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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 Man on the Mantlepiece: A Memoir
During a 1952 electric storm off Wattamolla NSW a waterspout drew in the CSIRO Cloud Physics Dakota, atomising all those aboard, including the writer's father. Or did it? When his living body has disappeared, what to...
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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 Silence of the Girls
The legend of The Iliad retold from the perspective of a woman: queen turned war prize, witness to history.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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Sisters of No Mercy
Mega-storm Martha has wreaked havoc and it's harder than ever to find a home. Hapless Pinky, Del - mother-hen and mentor - and the ever-resourceful and sometime sleuth Almond are members of Sisters of No Mercy. A band of...
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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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Boy Swallows Universe
An utterly wonderful novel of love, crime, magic, fate and coming of age, set in Brisbane's violent working class suburban fringe - from one of Australia's most exciting new writers.
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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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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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