“Read more Australian literature” is always a New Years Resolution of mine, and I never succeed because I don’t know what’s out there. Embarrassing, really. Apart from not reading much of it, I’m completely ignorant as to who’s who and what’s what. So I’ve compiled a rough list of titles, one that I can add to over the years, mostly Miles Franklin winners and what not. Hopefully this will help me to keep one of my NYRs.

• Capricornia, Xavier Herbert
• We of the Never Never, Aeneas Gunn
• Voss, Patrick White
• Breath, Tim Winton
• The Children’s Bach, Helen Garner
• Watcher on the Cast Iron Balcony, Hal Porter
• The Memory Room, Christopher Koch
• The Lost Dog, Michelle de Kretser
• A Fraction of the Whole, Steve Toltz
• The Spare Room, Helen Garner
• Careful, He Might Hear You, Sumner Locke Elliott
• Carpentaria, Alexis Wright
• The White Earth, Andrew McGahan
• My Brilliant Career, Miles Franklin
• Eucalyptus, Murray Bail
• Dancing on Coral, Glenda Adams

• Henry Handel Richardson: The Fortunes of Richard Mahony
  • Australia Felix (p1)
  • The Way Home (p2)
  • Ultima Thule (p3)
• Christina Stead: Novels
  • Seven Poor Men of Sydney (1934)
  • The Beauties and Furies (1936)
  • House of all Nations (1938)
  • The Man Who Loved Children (1940)
  • For Love Alone (1945)
  • Modern Women in Love (1945) edited with William J. Blake
  • Letty Fox: Her Luck (1946)
  • A Little Tea. A Little Chat (1948)
  • The People with the Dogs (1952)
  • Dark Places of the Heart (1966)
  • Cotters’ England (1967)
  • Australian Writers and their work (1969)
  • The Little Hotel: A Novel (1973)
  • Miss Herbert: The Suburban Wife (1976)
  • I’m Dying Laughing: The Humourist (1986)
  • The Palace With Several Sides: A Sort of Love Story (1986)

• George Johnston
  • My Brother Jack
  • Clean Straw for Nothing
  • A Cartload of Clay
  • Twelve Girls in the Garden
  • The Cyprian Woman
  • Closer to the Sun

• Oceana Fine, Tom Flood
• The Glade within the Grove, David Foster
• Some Everyday Folk and Dawn, Miles Franklin

• “Brent of Bin Bin” (pseudonym)
  • Up the Country (1928)
  • Ten Creeks Run (1930)
  • Back to Bool Bool (1931)
  • Prelude to Waking (1950)
  • Cockatoos (1955)
  • Gentleman at Gyang Gyang (1956)

• The Confessions of a Beachcomber, E J Banfield
• By Reef and Palm, Louis Becke
• The Journals of Captain Cook, Captain Cook
• Tirra Lirra By the River, Jessica Anderson
• The Mango Tree, Ronald McKie
• The Glass Canoe, David Ireland
• The Treatment & The Cure, Peter Kocan
• Come in Spinner, Dymphna Cusack and Florence James
• The Merry-Go-Round by the Sea, Randolph Stow