Top 10 Australian SFF books
The ABC top 100 list of 100 Aussie books to read before you die is about to be shortlisted to a top 10 by popular vote.
NO SFF BOOKS ARE ON THIS LIST.
Let’s create our own. List suggestions in the comments below. Reply to suggestions to agree with nominations.
There is no need to nominate Margo Lanagan’s Sea Hearts for inclusion in this list, I got the message the first half-dozen times it was nominated 🙂
If anyone spots a nomination that isn’t Australian, please let me know.
Nominations for Top 100 Aussie reads so far
in alphabetical order
Books are NOT ranked
1) Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn
2) Arrival, The by Shaun Tan
3) Battle Axe by Sara Douglass
4) Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth
5) Black Crusade, The by Richard Harland
6) Blaze of Glory by Michael Pryor
7) Blood Countess, the by Tara Moss
8) Blood Song by Rhiannon Hart
9) Blood Ties by Pamela Freeman
10) Blue Silence by Michelle Marquardt
11) Book of Lies by James Maloney
12) Bottersnikes and Gumbles by S. A. Wakefield
13) Business of Death, The by Trent Jamieson
14) Centurion’s Empire, The by Sean McMullen,
15) Changeling, The by Sean Williams
16) Courier’s new Bicycle, The by Kim Westwood
17) Dark Space by Marianne de Pierres,
18) Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Mariller
19) Deep Field, The by James Bradley
20) Displaced Person by Lee Harding
21) Dragonlinks by Paul Collins
22) Dreaming Dragons by Damien Broderick
23) Etched City, The by KJ Bishop
24) Foxmask by Juliet Marillier
25) Gathering, The by Isobelle Carmody
26) Geomancer by Ian Irvine
27) Gift, The by Alison Croggon
28) How To Ditch Your Fairy by Justine Larbalestier
29) In Hollow Lands by Sophie Masson
30) Infernal, The by Kim Wilkins
31) Kelly Country by Bertram Chandler
32) Killeroo by Darren Close
33) Less than Human by Maxine McArthur,
34) Library of Forgotten Books by Rjurik Davidson
35) Luck of Brin’s Five, The by Cherry Wilder
36) Madigan Mine by Kirstyn McDermott
37) Magic Pudding, The by Norman Lindsay
38) Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
39) Metal Fatigue by Sean Williams
40) Midnite by Randolph Stow
41) Nargun and the Stars, The by Patricia Wrightson
42) Nylon Angel by Marianne de Pierres
43) Obernewtyn by Isobelle Carmody
44) Oceanic by Greg Egan
45) On The Beach by Neville Shute
46) Permutation City by Greg Egan
47) Pilo Family Circus, The by Will Elliott
48) Privateer by Simon Brown
49) Puzzle Ring, the by Kake Forsyth
50) Quarantine by Greg Egan
51) Resurrectionists, The by Kim Wilkins
52) Riley Jensen series by Keri Arthurs
53) Rynosseros by Terry Dowling
54) Sabriel by Garth Nix (It’s a different book than Shade’s Children)
55) Saturn Returns by Sean Williams
56) Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan
57) Shade’s Children/Sabriel by Garth Nix
58) Singing the Dogstar Blues by Alison Goodman
59) Slights by Kaaron Warren
60) Souls in the Great Machine by Sean McMullen
61) Space Demons by Gillian Rubenstein
62) Stone Mage & The Sea, The by Sean Williams
63) Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
64) The Sea and Summer by George Turner
65) Threshold by Sara Douglass
66) Time Future by Maxine McArthur
67) Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait by KA Bedford
68) Total Devotion Machine and other stories, The by Rosaleen Love
69) Velvet Waters by Gerald Murnane
70) Walking the Tree by Kaaron Warren
71) When We Have Wings by Claire Corbett
72) White Abacus by Damien Broderick
73) Wildwood Dancing by Juliette Marillier
74) Worldshaker by Richard Harland
75) X6 novella anthology from Coeur De Lion