Ten Favorite Works of 21st Century Australian Fiction

(alphabetically by author)

 

  • Things We Didn’t See Coming by Steven Amsterdam

  • The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey

  • Springtime: A Ghost Story by Michelle de Kretser

  • The Best of Greg Egan by Greg Egan

  • Crossings by Alex Landragin

  • The Boat by Nam Le

  • The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay

  • A Million Windows by Gerald Murnane

  • Their Brilliant Careers: The Fantastic Lives of Sixteen Extraordinary Australian Writers by Ryan O’Neill

  • Dead Europe by Christos Tsiolkas

(Bonus entry: The Great Gatsby: A Graphic Adaptation by Nicki Greenberg obviously relies heavily on the Fitzgerald novel, but it’s an unusually strange and sensitive rendition of the material and is probably the single best prose-to-comics adaptation I’ve encountered.)

— March 11, 2021


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