ANZ LitLovers LitBlog

I’ve given up doing reading challenges, but I have some ongoing reading projects and a blog project to refine a ‘must-read’ list of Australian literature.  The first two reading projects are hosted elsewhere (click the links).

The Complete Booker: I collect Booker winners in first editions, so of course I want to read them all.

Read the Nobels: Some of the world’s most interesting writers have won the Nobel, so these winners are rarely a disappointment.

Miles Franklin winners: I collect hardback winners in first edition and plan to read them all eventually.  I read many of them before I started this blog, but there are about 30 of them reviewed here.

Then there’s another ongoing one, reading from the always updating 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.

There are also major Australian authors – and some less established authors who I think have a great future – whose long form fiction oeuvre I want to read over time. I have been reading most of them since long before I started reading this blog, so not every book is ever going to be reviewed here, and it’s most often a challenge just to find copies of the backlist.  But since many of these authors are still living and writing, it’s a movable feast.

Asterisked authors have their own Author Page from when I hosted a ‘reading week’, see the top menu above.

• Jessica Anderson (1916-2010)
• Thea Astley (1925-2004)*
• Larissa Behrendt
• Carmel Bird
• Peter Carey
• Stephen Carroll
• Brian Castro
• Simon Cleary
• Christy Collins
• Amanda Curtin
• Stephen Daisley
• Eleanor Dark (1901-1985)
• Liam Davison tribute (1957-2014)
• Gregory Day
• Michelle de Kretser
• Ceridwen Dovey
• Robert Drewe
• Richard Flanagan
• Enza Gandolfo
• Andrea Goldsmith
• Peter Goldsworthy
• Germaine Greer (non-fiction)
• Rodney Hall
• Marion Halligan
• Jacinta Halloran
• Elizabeth Harrower(1928-2020)
• Shirley Hazzard (1931-2016)
• Anita Heiss
• Helen Hodgman
• Patrick Holland
• John Hughes
• David Ireland
• Susan Johnson
• George Johnson
• Michelle Johnston
• Elizabeth Jolley*
• Nicholas Jose
• Thomas (Tom) Keneally
• Christopher Koch (1932-2013)
• Amanda Lohrey
• Joan London
• Melissa Lucashenko
• Wayne Macauley
• Roger McDonald
• David Malouf
• Olga Masters (1919-1986)
• Alex Miller
• Drusilla Modjeska
• Marie Munkara
• Gerald Murnane
• Brenda Niall (biography)
• Louis Nowra
• Kristina Olsson
• Paddy O’Reilly
• Stephen Orr
• Ruth Park (1917-2010)
• Bruce Pascoe
• A.S. (Alec) Patric
• Elliot Perlman
• Katharine Susannah Prichard (1883-1969)*
• Henry Handel Richardson (1870-1946)
• Philip Salom
• Kim Scott
• Christina Stead*
• Randolph Stow (1935-2010)
• John Tesarsch
• Lucy Treloar
• Patrick White (1912-1990)
• Rohan Wilson
• Tara June Winch
• Amy Witting (1918-2001)
• Charlotte Wood
• Alexis Wright
• Ouyang Yu

Last updated 23/4/2022

To see challenges I did in previous years, click here.