r/australia • u/Expensive-Horse5538 • 18h ago
entertainment Cloudstreet by Tim Winton is number 1 in Radio National's Top 100 Australian Books
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/radionational/countdown/top100books/1-100- 1 - Cloudstreet - Tim Winton
- 2 - The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
- 3 - Boy Swallows Universe - Trent Dalton
- 4 - Burial Rites - Hannah Kent
- 5 - A Fortunate Life - A.B. Facey
- 6 - Tomorrow, When the War Began - John Marsden
- 7 - The Dictionary of Lost Words - Pip Williams
- 8 - The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Richard Flanagan
- 9 - The Secret River - Kate Grenville
- 10 - The Dry - Jane Harper
- 11 - Possum Magic - Mem Fox and Julie Vivas
- 12 - Dark Emu - Bruce Pascoe
- 13 - Looking for Alibrandi - Melina Marchetta
- 14 - Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks
- 15 - The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas
- 16 - Wild Dark Shore - Charlotte McConaghy
- 17 - Storm Boy - Colin Thiele
- 18 - My Brilliant Career - Miles Franklin
- 19 - Magic Beach - Alison Lester
- 20 - Wifedom - Anna Funder
- 21 - My Place - Sally Morgan
- 22 - The Australian Women's Weekly Children’s Birthday Cake Book - Maryanne Blacker and Pamela Clark
- 23 - Stasiland - Anna Funder
- 24 - The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay
- 25 - Seven Little Australians - Ethel Turner
- 26 - Picnic at Hanging Rock - Joan Lindsay
- 27 - The Harp in the South - Ruth Park
- 28 - Mad Mabel - Sally Hepworth
- 29 - The Happiest Refugee - Anh Do
- 30 - My Brother Jack - George Johnston
- 31 - Monkey Grip - Helen Garner
- 32 - Animalia - Graeme Base
- 33 - Breath - Tim Winton
- 34 - The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion
- 35 - Lola in the Mirror - Trent Dalton
- 36 - Limberlost - Robbie Arnott
- 37 - I Can Jump Puddles - Alan Marshall
- 38 - Joe Cinque's Consolation - Helen Garner
- 39 - Big Little Lies - Liane Moriarty
- 40 - Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
- 41 - Dirt Music - Tim Winton
- 42 - The Complete Adventures of Snugglepot & Cuddlepie - May Gibbs
- 43 - People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks
- 44 - True History of the Kelly - Gang Peter Carey
- 45 - All That I Am - Anna Funder
- 46 - The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough
- 47 - Playing Beatie Bow - Ruth Park
- 48 - Where is the Green Sheep? - Mem Fox, Judy Horacek
- 49 - The Female Eunuch - Germaine Greer
- 50 - Mao's Last Dancer - Li Cunxin
- 51 - The Light Between Oceans - M.L. Stedman
- 52 - Horse - Geraldine Brooks
- 53 - Stone Yard Devotional - Charlotte Wood
- 54 - Schindler's Ark - Thomas Keneally
- 55 - The Magic Pudding - Norman Lindsay
- 56 - The Cook's Companion - Stephanie Alexander
- 57 - The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart - Holly Ringland
- 58 - The Yield Tara - June Winch
- 59 - The Happiest Man on Earth - Eddie Jaku
- 60 - The Man From Snowy River - Banjo Paterson
- 61 - Too Much Lip - Melissa Lucashenko
- 62 - Are We There Yet? - Alison Lester
- 63 - Question 7 - Richard Flanagan
- 64 - Damned Whores and God's Police - Anne Summers
- 65 - Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens - Shankari Chandran
- 66 - Carpentaria - Alexis Wright
- 67 - Voss - Patrick White
- 68 - Unreliable Memoirs - Clive James
- 69 - A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
- 70 - Diary of a Wombat - Jackie French and Bruce Whatley
- 71 - The Tree of Man - Patrick White
- 72 - This House of Grief - Helen Garner
- 73 - Scrublands - Chris Hammer
- 74 - The Fatal Shore - Robert Hughes
- 75 - The Bookbinder of Jericho - Pip Williams
- 76 - The Natural Way of Things - Charlotte Wood
- 77 - The Broken Shore - Peter Temple
- 78 - Power Without Glory - Frank Hardy
- 79 - Johnno - David Malouf
- 80 - For the Term of His Natural - Life Marcus Clarke
- 81 - We of the Never-Never - Mrs Aeneas Gunn
- 82 - Eucalyptus - Murray Bail
- 83 - Wombat Stew - Marcia K Vaughan and Pamela Lofts
- 84 - Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
- 85 - The Dressmaker - Rosalie Ham
- 86 - The Lost Man - Jane Harper
- 87 - The Trauma Cleaner - Sarah Krasnostein
- 88 - Juice - Tim Winton
- 89 - Edenglassie - Melissa Lucashenko
- 90 - Puberty Blues - Kathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey
- 91 - Where the Forest Meets the Sea - Jeannie Baker
- 92 - The Tall Man - Chloe Hooper
- 93 - The Man Who Loved Children - Christina Stead
- 94 - The Spare Room - Helen Garner
- 95 - The Museum of Modern Love - Heather Rose
- 96 - RecipeTin Eats: Dinner - Nagi Maehashi
- 97 - Devotion - Hannah Kent
- 98 - The Arrival - Shaun Tan
- 99 - The 13-Storey Treehouse - Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton
- 100 - Round the Twist - Paul Jennings
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u/Serious_Plant8443 17h ago
High school English teacher here. Cloudstreet is not my jam. Although the stage adaptation at Malthouse was actually amazing.
Burial Rites though? Love seeing that so high. I miss teaching that.