Text publishes a number of perfect book club reads. These are the stories that will engage you, challenge your thinking and prompt interesting debate. To help get the conversation flowing, download our book club notes for your next meeting.
Backwaters
Emma Ling Sidnam
House of Longing
Tara Calaby
Australian
Beatrix & Fred
Emily Spurr
Australian
Lay Your Body Down
Amy Suiter Clarke
Resistance
Jacinta Halloran
Australian
Salonika Burning
Gail Jones
Australian
Now Is Not the Time to Panic
Kevin Wilson
The Settlement
Jock Serong
Australian
The Brink
Holden Sheppard
Reading age:15+
Australian
The Not So Chosen One
Kate Emery
Reading age:14+
Australian
The Secret Wife
Mark Lamprell
Australian
Our Happy Days
Julia Holbe
The Way It Is Now
Garry Disher
Australian
Case Study
Graeme Macrae Burnet
Bodies of Light
Jennifer Down
Australian
The Book of Form and Emptiness
Ruth Ozeki
The Tulip Tree
Suzanne McCourt
Australian
Girl, 11
Amy Suiter Clarke
The Beautiful Fall
Hugh Breakey
Australian
Stranger Care
Sarah Sentilles
A Million Things
Emily Spurr
Australian
The Believer
Sarah Krasnostein
Australian
Reading age:14+
Australian
Nothing to See Here
Kevin Wilson
Room for a Stranger
Melanie Cheng
Australian
The Death of Noah Glass
Gail Jones
Australian
A Room Made of Leaves
Kate Grenville
Australian
The Rain Heron
Robbie Arnott
Australian
Sand Talk
Tyson Yunkaporta
Australian
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Joan Lindsay
Australian
It Sounded Better in My Head
Nina Kenwood
Reading age:14+
Australian
Her Mother’s Daughter
Nadia Wheatley
Australian
Exploded View
Carrie Tiffany
Australian
The Rosie Result
Graeme Simsion
Australian
The Rosie Effect
Graeme Simsion
Australian
The Trauma Cleaner
Sarah Krasnostein
Australian
The Fragments
Toni Jordan
Australian
Ladies in Black
Madeleine St John
Australian
Radiant Shimmering Light
Sarah Selecky
The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted
Robert Hillman
Australian
A Week in the Life of Cassandra Aberline
Glenda Guest
Themes:New Zealand fiction, social allegories, social critique, cultural commentary
Two Steps Forward
Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist
Australian
On the Java Ridge
Jock Serong
Australian
The Stolen Bicycle
Wu Ming-Yi
The Shadow Land
Elizabeth Kostova
A Dutiful Daughter
Thomas Keneally
Australian
The Last Garden
Eva Hornung
Australian
Thirty Days
Mark Raphael Baker
Australian
The Best of Adam Sharp
Graeme Simsion
Australian
The Restorer
Michael Sala
The Rules of Backyard Cricket
Jock Serong
Australian
War and Turpentine
Stefan Hertmans
