Fiction
- DALTON, Trent Boy swallows universe (new Queensland novel, recommended by Marie Z, and others)
- HALL, Rodney Love without hope (dedicated to Julian Burnside)
- LIANKE, Yan The day the sun died (translated Chinese novel, published by Text, under 400pp.)
- MILLER, Alex The passage of love (his latest, 584pp.) or Coal Creek (won Victorian Premier's Literary Award 2014, under 300pp.)
- OLSSON, Kristina Shell (new out in second half of 2018)
- SERONG, Jock On the Java Ridge (won the inaugural UK-based Staunch Prize "for a novel in the thriller genre where no woman is beaten, stalked, sexually exploited, raped or murdered".)
- SMITH, Zadie On beauty (retelling of Howards End)
- TOWLES, Amor A gentleman in Moscow
- WILSON, Josephine Extinctions (Miles Franklin winner)
- WINTON, Tim The shepherd's hut (his latest)
Classics (or nearly so!)
- GISSING, George The odd women
- McCARTHY, Mary The group
- ROBINSON, Marilynne (one by her: Housekeeping or Gilead or Home or Lila)
- TROLLOPE, Anthony (one by him)
- WILLIAMS, John Stoner
Non-fiction
- EHRENREICH, Barbara Natural causes: An epidemic of wellness, the certainty of dying, and killing ourselves to live longer
- GERGIS, Joelle Sunburnt country (climate change)
- GRIFFITHS, Tom The art of time travel: Historians and their craft (award-winning book surveying Australian historians)
- HEISS, Anita (ed) Growing up Aboriginal in Australia (recently given by the University of Melbourne to 600 members of staff)
- HOOPER, Chloe The arsonist (new out in second half of 2018, author of The tall man)
- KEAN, Sam The disappearing spoon (the periodic table)
- KRASNOSTEIN, Sarah The trauma cleaner (won or was shortlisted for several awards in 2018)
- TUMARKIN, Maria Axiomatic (Russian-Australian cultural historian, 250pp.)
But, please do bring others to the meeting ...
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