Tick off each book as you read it. 3 of these 51 Australian classics are free to read online at pagineapp.com/classics/australian, with author guides and links to the rest.
Colonial & bush classics (to 1920)
☐1.For the Term of His Natural Life — Marcus Clarke (1874)
☐2.Robbery Under Arms — Rolf Boldrewood (1888)
☐3.Seven Little Australians — Ethel Turner (1894) · free on Pagine
☐4.The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses — Banjo Paterson (1895)
☐5.While the Billy Boils — Henry Lawson (1896)
☐6.Dot and the Kangaroo — Ethel Pedley (1899) · free on Pagine
☐7.My Brilliant Career — Miles Franklin (1901)
☐8.Joe Wilson and His Mates — Henry Lawson (1901)
☐9.Such Is Life — Joseph Furphy (1903)
☐10.We of the Never Never — Jeannie Gunn (1908)
☐11.The Getting of Wisdom — Henry Handel Richardson (1910)
☐12.Jonah — Louis Stone (1911)
☐13.The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke — C. J. Dennis (1915)
☐14.The Magic Pudding — Norman Lindsay (1918) · free on Pagine
☐17.The Fortunes of Richard Mahony — Henry Handel Richardson (1930)
☐18.Blinky Bill — Dorothy Wall (1933)
☐19.Capricornia — Xavier Herbert (1938)
☐20.The Timeless Land — Eleanor Dark (1941)
☐21.The Harp in the South — Ruth Park (1948)
Postwar Australian classics
☐22.A Town Like Alice — Nevil Shute (1950)
☐23.The Tree of Man — Patrick White (1955)
☐24.The Shiralee — D’Arcy Niland (1955)
☐25.Voss — Patrick White (1957)
☐26.They’re a Weird Mob — John O’Grady (1957)
☐27.Riders in the Chariot — Patrick White (1961)
☐28.Storm Boy — Colin Thiele (1963)
☐29.We Are Going — Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1964)
☐30.Picnic at Hanging Rock — Joan Lindsay (1967)
☐31.Bring Larks and Heroes — Thomas Keneally (1967)
☐32.Monkey Grip — Helen Garner (1977)
☐33.The Thorn Birds — Colleen McCullough (1977)
☐34.Playing Beatie Bow — Ruth Park (1980)
☐35.A Fortunate Life — A. B. Facey (1981)
☐36.Schindler’s Ark — Thomas Keneally (1982)
☐37.Possum Magic — Mem Fox (1983)
☐38.My Place — Sally Morgan (1987)
☐39.Oscar and Lucinda — Peter Carey (1988)
Contemporary Australian classics
☐40.Cloudstreet — Tim Winton (1991)
☐41.Looking for Alibrandi — Melina Marchetta (1992)
☐42.Remembering Babylon — David Malouf (1993)
☐43.Tomorrow, When the War Began — John Marsden (1993)
☐44.True History of the Kelly Gang — Peter Carey (2000)
☐45.The Secret River — Kate Grenville (2005)
☐46.The Book Thief — Markus Zusak (2005)
☐47.Carpentaria — Alexis Wright (2006)
☐48.The Narrow Road to the Deep North — Richard Flanagan (2013)
☐49.Dark Emu — Bruce Pascoe (2014)
☐50.Boy Swallows Universe — Trent Dalton (2018)
☐51.Too Much Lip — Melissa Lucashenko (2018)
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