The Age's recommended books of 2019
The Weekend
The brilliant new novel from Charlotte Wood, acclaimed author of The Natural Way of Things .
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Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume One, 1978-1987
The private diaries of one of Australia's greatest living writers, the much loved, fearless and fierce Helen Garner.
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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 Testaments
In this electrifying sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood answers the question that has tantalised readers for decades: What happened to Offred?
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Act of Grace
The exhilarating debut novel from the award-winning author of Night Games.
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Dark Emu
Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians.
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Complete Stories
Features stories ranging from teenagers coming into awareness of their sexual and artistic powers to humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies to old people who don't know what to do with themselves.
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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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The Dutch House
A masterpiece from the Orange Prize-winning, New York Times number one bestselling author of Commonwealth and Bel Canto: a story of love, family, sacrifice, and the power of place
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Song Spirals: Sharing Women’s Wisdom of Country Through Songlines
Songspirals is a rare opportunity for outsiders to experience Aboriginal women's role in crying the songlines in a very authentic and direct form.
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Bright
Explores the quality of human resilience through the adventures of Kampol Changsamran, a young boy left behind by his parents after their break-up --
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Growing Up Queer in Australia
Compiled by celebrated author and journalist Benjamin Law, Growing Up Queer in Australia assembles voices from across the spectrum of LGBTIQA+ identity.
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Imperfect
By turns illuminating, confronting and deeply personal, Imperfect challenges us all to consider how we exist in the world and how our bodies shape the people we become.
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The Bride Test
From the critically acclaimed author of The Kiss Quotient comes a romantic novel about love that crosses international borders and all boundaries of the heart...
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Funny, You Don’t Look Autistic: A Comedian’s Guide to Life on the Spectrum
Slaying autism stereotypes with stand-up, one joke at a time.
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The Pea Pickers
Steve and Blue are two girls who, dressed as men, are taken on as itinerant workers. But their disguise is partial - and their quest is for love. For Blue, the novel ends in marirage; but not for Steve. For her, desire is never...
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Heart of the Grass Tree
Heart of the Grass Tree is an exquisite, searing and hope-filled debut about mothers and daughters and family stories, about country and its living history.
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The Saturday Portraits
A collection of stunning biographical portraits from Maxine Beneba Clarke, bestselling and prize-winning author of The Hate Race and Foreign Soil.
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East of Time
A rendezvous of history and imagination, of realities and dreams, hopes and disenchantments. The setting is Lodz, Poland, in the years of the author's childhood, when he witnessed the cataclysmic events of the 1930s, imprisoned...
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We Are Here
These are the last adult witnesses - in their own words.
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Arturo’s Island
A novel of longing and thwarted desires, filled with Elsa Morante's brutal directness and familial torment (James Wood), Arturo's Island reemerges in this splendid translation to take its rightful place in the world literary...
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Half the Perfect World: Writers, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra, 1955-1964
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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 Farm
The must-read debut novel of 2019. Sharp, compulsive and darkly funny, this is an unforgettable novel about a world within touching distance of our own.
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About Bloody Time
ABOUT BLOODY TIME makes the case for menstrual revolution as an essential key to unlocking gender equality.
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Welcome to Your Period!
A modern, funny, inclusive and big-sisterish guide to getting your period, and what to do once it comes. Whether you're an apprehensive nine-year-old, the parent of a tween with a bunch of questions, or just someone who has a few...
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Love in the New Millennium
The most ambitious work of fiction by a writer widely considered the most important novelist working in China today
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The Accusation: Forbidden Stories From Inside North Korea
Searing fiction smuggled out of North Korea - the English PEN Translates Award winner, now in paperback
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The Cost of Living: Living Autobiography 2
What does it mean to be free - as an artist, a woman, a mother or daughter? And what is the price of that freedom?
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An Open Book
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On Shirley Hazzard: Writers on Writers
In this vibrant, rich and personal essay on acclaimed author Shirley Hazzard, Michelle de Kretser offers a masterclass in writing that is powerful and exhilarating
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How Fascism Works
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How Democracies Die: The International Bestseller: What History Reveals About Our Future
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On Tyranny
In the twentieth century, European democracies collapsed into fascism, Nazism and communism. These were movements in which a leader or a party claimed to give voice to the people and established rule by an elite with a monopoly on...
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Hearing Maud: A Journey for a Voice
Hearing Maud: A Journey for a Voice is a work of creative non-fiction that details the author's experiences of deafness after losing most of her hearing at age four. It charts how, as she grew up, she was estranged...
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Preservation
Preservation, based on the true story of the wreck of the Sydney Cove, sees master storyteller Jock Serong turn his talents to historical narrative now available in a smaller, competitively priced formatp.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px...
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The New Iberia Blues
The shocking death of a young woman leads Detective Dave Robicheaux into the dark corners of Hollywood, the mafia, and the backwoods of Louisiana in this gripping mystery from modern master (Publishers Weekly) James Lee Burke.
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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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Minotaur
A gritty and clever thriller from long-time Penguin author Peter Goldsworthy.
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Field of Poppies
Atmospheric and beguiling Field of Poppies is a novel the seduces the reader with mysteries and beauties but also speaks of something much larger.
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Killing Commendatore
But then he discovers a strange painting in the attic and unintentionally begins a strange journey of self-discovery that involves a mysterious ringing bell, a precocious thirteen-year-old girl, a Nazi assassination attempt and a...
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Infamy
A dark and gripping Western set in Tasmania, which reads like Cormac McCarthy meets Deadwood.
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Daughter of Bad Times
A suspenseful, truthful and compelling novel from the critically acclaimed author of The Roving Party.
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There Was Still Love
The profoundly moving new novel from the critically acclaimed and Miles Franklin shortlisted author of Past the Shallows and When the Night Comes. A tender and masterfully told story of memory, family and love.
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Prose: The Centenary Edition
This volume includes virtually all her published shorter prose pieces and a number of prose works not published until after her death. Here are her famous as well as her lesser-known stories, crucial memoirs, literary and travel...
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Hallaj: Poems of a Sufi Martyr
Hallaj: Poems of a Sufi Martyr, translated by Carl W. Ernst, is a definitive collection of poems by Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj, a famed early Sufi poet who influenced Rumi. The poems are known both for their literary artistry and...
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The Complete Poems of A. R. Ammons: Volume 1 1955-1977
One of the great American poets . . . he sounds like nobody else. -Helen Vendler
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Show Them a Good Time
An urgent and unforgettable collection of stories, Show Them a Good Time explores types -- men and women, their assigned roles and meanings -- in modern society.
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The Great Believers
The Carnegie Medal-winning novel of hope and heartbreak amidst the AIDs crisis, for fans of A Little Life and The Lacuna.
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She Said
From the Pulitzer-prize winning reporters who broke the news of Harvey Weinstein's sexual harassment and abuse comes the thrilling untold story of their investigation and its consequences for the #MeToo movement.
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The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast: New and Selected Stories
John L'Heureux has spent his long, prolific career exploring questions of morality and faith in stories that entertain, surprise, and sometimes disturb; and The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast compiles the enduring stories of a...
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Birth Plan
Birth Plan is LK Holt's fourth full-length collection is a generous, sharp-edged, technically masterful and expansive collection from one of Australia's foremost female poets. These poems are transformative, fiercely feminist,...
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This Life: Why Mortality Makes Us Free
A serious and original philosopher explores the purpose of your life.
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Heida: A Shepherd at the Edge of the World
The inspiring story of Icelandic sheep farmer, Heida, former model and feminist heroine has become an international bestseller and won both the Icelandic Booksellers' Prize and Women's Literature Prize
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Six
History in the making - the way history turns in the air like a coin - Cricket was a major part of the poet Zaffar Kunial's childhood when growing up near the Edgbaston cricket ground in Birmingham. or the timeless still point...
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Us
Debut collection of poems from Zaffar Kunial.
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Night Fishing
A luminous and remarkable memoir of a singular life in art and nature.
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Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent
The first major biography in English in over thirty years of the seminal modern Jewish thinker Martin Buber
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The Year of the Beast
One of Australia's finest and most critically acclaimed writers returns with a powerful novel that goes back to the very beginning of the story, to bring his sweeping Glenroy series to a magnificent close.
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Women Talking
A profound, unsettling novel from the award-winning author of All My Puny Sorrows.
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Ninth Street Women
The rich, revealing, and thrilling story of five women whose lives and painting propelled a revolution in modern art
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Olive, Again
An extraordinary new novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Number One New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton.
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Exploded View
A fearless and masterful new novel from the Stella Prize-winning author of Mateship with Birds
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Beauty
In Beauty Bri Lee explores our obsession with thinness and asks how an intrinsically unattainable standard of physical 'perfection' has become so crucial to so many
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Bruny
The brilliant and explosive new novel from the author of the award-winning The Museum of Modern Love.
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation
It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong?
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Wolfe Island
The stunning new novel from the award-winning author of Salt Creek is Barkskins or The Son meets The Road...
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When One Person Dies The Whole World Is Over
A poignant, bright and elegiac work of illustrated nonfiction by one of Australia's most revered comics makers.
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Star-Crossed
In this sparkling romantic comedy, a young journalist tampers with her magazine's horoscopes to win her friend's heart - and sets in motion an unpredictable and often hilarious ripple effect ...
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Simpson Returns
A satirical and surreal twist on the Anzac legend of Simpson and his donkey
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Shoot Through
Stella Hardy, the wisecracking social worker, is back to tackle crooked private contractors, an exotic cattle scam, and a delicious Mushroom Jalfrezi.
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The Hilton Bombing: Evan Pederick and the Ananda Marga
In 1978, Evan Pederick, a naive 22-year-old in the thrall of a radical religious movement, Ananda Marga, placed an enormous bomb outside Sydney's Hilton Hotel. Here is his story, told for the first time - an extraordinary tale of...
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State of Origin
When David was a kid, he thought he knew everything - especially about his pesky and annoying siblings who kept popping up out of nowhere. But on the same night in 1980 David's two brothers ran away, severely beaten. Years later...
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