The most talked-about books of 2019
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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Fleishman Is in Trouble
A blistering satirical novel about marriage, divorce and modern relationships, by one of the most exciting new voices in American fiction
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Dark Emu
Contradicts the conventional wisdom that native peoples were primitive hunter-gatherers
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On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
Brilliant, heartbreaking, tender, and highly original - poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a sweeping and shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to the redemptive power of storytelling
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White Tears, Brown Scars
White Tears/Brown Scars blows open the inconvenient truth that when it comes to race, white entitlement is too often masked by victimhood.
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Damascus
In Damascus, Tsiolkas has written a masterpiece of imagination and transformation: an historical novel of immense power and an unflinching dissection of doubt and faith, tyranny and revolution, and cruelty and...
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Three Women
All Lina ever wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn't touch her? All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a relationship with her teacher and...
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Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
In a dramatic account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost. ...
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Boy Swallows Universe
`The most extraordinary writer - a rare talent' Nikki Gemmell An utterly wonderful novel of love, crime, magic, fate and coming of age from one of Australia's most exciting...
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The Secret Commonwealth (The Book of Dust, Volume 2)
Master storyteller Philip Pullman continues the incredible journey of Lyra Silvertongue in the second volume of The Book of Dust.
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Ducks, Newburyport
An utterly original novel, longlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize in which one woman navigates, through compelling inner monologue, the tension and disquiet of contemporary America.
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Guts
Raina Telgemeier once again brings us a thoughtful, charming, and funny true story about growing up and gathering the courage to faceand conquer your fears.
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Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell (Updated Edition)
NEW REVELATIONS with new foreword by Tom Keneally.
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is a deeply-reasoned examination of the threat of unprecedented power free from democratic oversight.
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The Nickel Boys
The Nickel Boys is Colson Whitehead's follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning bestseller The Underground Railroad, in which he dramatizes another strand of United States history, this time through the...
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Young Dark Emu: A Truer History
The highly-anticipated junior version of Bruce Pascoe's multi award-winning book.
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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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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention-and our personal information-that redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the environment, and reveals all that we've been too distracted to see...
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Talking to Strangers
The No.1 international bestselling author back with a powerful and provocative exploration of what our interactions with strangers tell us about who we are.
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Lanny
Everyday lives conjure a tapestry of fabulism and domesticity. This village belongs to the people who live in it and to the people who lived in it hundreds of years ago.
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The Eighth Life (For Brilka)
At the start of the twentieth century, on the edge of the Russian Empire, a family prospers. It owes its success to a delicious chocolate recipe, passed down the generations with great solemnity and caution. A caution which is...
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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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Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Following in the footsteps of American luminaries such as Susan Sontag, Joan Didion and Rebecca Solnit, comes this dazzling collection of essays on the internet, the self, feminism and politics from one of the brightest young...
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It Sounded Better in My Head
From a debut Melbourne writer comes the big-hearted romantic comedy of the year, an addictive and joyful celebration of the awkward teen in all of us.
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See What You Made Me Do
Combining exhaustive research with riveting storytelling, See What You Made Me Do dismantles the flawed logic of victim-blaming and challenges everything you thought you knew about domestic and family violence.
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Invisible Women
She exposes the gender data gap - a gap in our knowledge that is at the root of perpetual, systemic discrimination against women, and that has created a pervasive but invisible bias with a profound effect on women's lives.
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The Uninhabitable Earth
A cinematic, propulsive and frightening climate tour of our near future - coming much faster than you think.
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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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Girl, Woman, Other
Joyfully polyphonic and sparklingly contemporary, Girl, Woman, Other is a gloriously new kind of history, a novel of our times- celebratory, ever-dynamic and utterly irresistible.
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Aurora Rising (The Aurora Cycle 1)
From the New York Times and internationally bestselling authors of The Illuminae Files comes a new science fiction epic . . .
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