ABC’s First Tuesday Book Club Top 50 Australian Books
According to voting viewers of the ABC’s First Tuesday Book Club, as polled in late 2012, these are the top 50 Australian books:
- Cloudstreet – Tim Winton
- The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
- A Fortunate Life – A.B. Facey
- The Harp in the South – Ruth Park
- The Power of One – Bryce Courtenay
- Jasper Jones – Craig Silvey
- The Magic Pudding – Norman Lindsay
- The Slap – Christos Tsiolkas
- The Secret River – Kate Grenville
- Picnic at Hanging Rock – Joan Lindsay
- Seven Little Australians – Ethel Turner
- My Brother Jack – George Johnston
- My Brilliant Career – Miles Franklin
- True History of the Kelly Gang – Peter Carey
- Eucalyptus – Murray Bail
- Power Without Glory – Frank Hardy
- The Broken Shore – Peter Temple
- Monkey Grip – Helen Garner
- The Riders – Tim Winton
- The Tree of Man – Patrick White
- The Fatal Shore – Robert Hughes
- Unreliable Memoirs – Clive James
- The Tall Man – Chloe Hooper
- The Man Who Loved Children – Christina Stead
- The Dressmaker – Rosalie Ham
- The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney – Henry Handel Richardson
- The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith – Thomas Keneally
- Capricornia – Xavier Herbert
- Wake in Fright – Kenneth Cooke
- Ransom – David Malouf
- The Year of Living Dangerously – C.J. Koch
- The First Stone – Helen Garner
- Gallipoli – Alan Moorehead
- Maestro – Peter Goldsworthy
- The Monkey’s Mask – Dorothy Porter
- Wanting – Richard Flanagan
- Come In Spinner – Dymphna Cusack & Florence James
- Grand Days – Frank Moorhouse
- 1788 – Watkin Tench
- It’s Raining in Mango – Thea Astley
- Riders in the Chariot – Patrick White
- Carpentaria – Alexis Wright
- The Tyranny of Distance – Geoffrey Blainey
- That Deadman Dance – Kim Scott
- For Love Alone – Christina Stead
- An Intruder’s Guide to East Arnhem Land – Andrew McMillan
- The Life – Malcolm Knox
- The Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony – Hal Porter
- Here’s Luck – Lennie Lower
- Visitants – Randolph Stow
What about the Australian trilogy by Bryce courtesy?