Need some good reads this summer? We have rounded up the best Australian adult fiction from the past year to get you started! There are so many quality titles by local authors that we are truly spoiled for choice. From exciting debuts to new releases from your favourite authors, there is something on this list for everyone. So cancel your plans, find a comfy spot in the sun and borrow or download your way through summer.
Australian adult fiction
- Hopeless kingdom by Kgshak Akec
- Limberlost* by Robbie Arnott
- The eulogy by Jackie Bailey
- The angry women's choir* by Meg Bignell
- Time and tide in Sarajevo by Bronwyn Birdsall
- The silence of water by Sharron Booth
- Marlo by Jay Carmichael
- Goodnight, Vivienne, goodnight* by Steven Carroll
- Cautionary tales for excitable girls by Anne Casey-Hardy ( e only)
- Every version of you by Grace Chan
- Song of the sun god by Shankari Chandran
- Enclave by Claire G. Coleman
- The signal line by Brendan Colley
- The improbable life of Ricky Bird* by Diane Connell
- This devastating fever* by Sophie Cunningham
- The cane* by Maryrose Cuskelly
- Jesustown* by Paul Daley
- Nimblefoot* by Robert Drew
- The glass house by Brooke Dunnell
- My heart is a little wild thing* by Nigel Featherstone
- One punch by Julie Fison
- Wildflowers* by Peggy Frew
- Pomegranate and fig by Zaheda Ghani
- Women I know* by Katerina Gibson
- The sorrow stone by Kari Gislason
- Abomination* by Ashley Goldberg
- A recipe for family* by Tori Haschka
- Marshmallow by Victoria Hannan
- Salt and skin* by Eliza Henry-Jones
- Captain Starlight’s apprentice by Kathryn Heyman
- The castaways of Harewood Hall
- A solitary walk on the moon by Hilde Hilton
- The brothers* by S. D. Hinton
- Hydra by Adriane Howell
- Mr. Carver’s whale* by Lyn Hughes
- The registrar* by Neela Janakiramanan
- Madukka the river serpent by Julie Janson
- Forty nights by Pirooz Jafari
- The making of her* by Bernadette Jiwa
- Tiny uncertain miracles* by Michelle Johnston
- Salonika burning by Gail Jones
- Dinner with the Schnabels* by Toni Jordan
- The lovers by Yumna Kassab
- Banjawarn by Josh Kemp
- Fanatic heart* by Tom Keneally
- The secret wife* by Mark Lamprell
- Till death, or a little light maiming, do us part* by Kathy Lette
- All that’s left unsaid by Tracey Lien
- The coast* by Eleanor Limprecht
- The whitewash by Siang Lu
- Loveland* by Robert Lukins
- Here for the right reasons* by Jodi McAlister
- Basin by Scott McCulloch
- The sun walks down* by Fiona McFarlane
- Iris* by Fiona Kelly McGregor
- The orphans* by Fiona McIntosh
- Denizen* by James McKenzie Watson
- Red* by Felicity McLean
- The accident by Katie McMahon
- Moon sugar by Angela Meyer
- A brief affair* by Alex Miller
- Faithless* by Alice Nelson
- No hard feelings* by Genevieve Novak
- Other houses* by Paddy O’Reilly
- The natural history of love* by Caroline Petit
- The family string by Denise Picton
- A place near Eden* by Nell Pierce
- Bone memories* by Sally Piper
- Electric mad and brave* by Tom Pitts
- Her fidelity* by Katharine Pollock
- Bon and Lesley by Shaun Prescott
- Bad art mother* by Edwina Preston
- The good captain by Sean Rabin
- Seeing other people* by Diana Reid
- The bay by Allie Reynolds
- The seven skins of Esther Wilding* by Holly Ringland
- Something blue by Alex Sarkis
- Blue hour by Sarah Schmidt
- The settlement* by Jock Serong
- Willowman* by Inga Simpson
- When jokers were kings by John Tesarsch
- Angelika Frankenstein makes her match by Sally Thorn
- Here goes nothing* by Steve Toltz
- After you were gone by Vikki Wakefield
- A caravan like a canary* by Sasha Wasley
- Sixty-seven days* by Yvonne Weldon
- The sawdust house* by David Whish-Wilson
- Cut* by Susan White
- Gemini falls* by Sean Wilson
- Bootstrap by Georgina Young
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More recommended reading
Want more reading suggestions? You can always speak to our library staff, who will help you find new authors based on your preferences. Come into the library or call us to find your next favourite read.
You can also visit our Booklists page for more reading recommendations, or our Book Groups page for everything you need for book groups.