Indigenous Australian Writing

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Rabbit-Proof Fence
Rabbit-Proof Fence 3.69 avg rating — 8,680 ratings
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My Place
My Place 3.99 avg rating — 6,670 ratings
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Talking to My Country
Talking to My Country 4.40 avg rating — 4,116 ratings
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That Deadman Dance
That Deadman Dance
by: Kim Scott
3.61 avg rating — 1,548 ratings
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The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf (The Tribe, #1)
The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf (The Tribe, #1) 3.75 avg rating — 2,561 ratings
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Carpentaria
Carpentaria 3.74 avg rating — 1,990 ratings
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Too Much Lip
Too Much Lip 4.05 avg rating — 8,436 ratings
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Dark Emu
Dark Emu 4.28 avg rating — 15,490 ratings
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Swallow the Air
Swallow the Air 3.80 avg rating — 1,926 ratings
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Don't Take Your Love to Town
Don't Take Your Love to Town 3.93 avg rating — 257 ratings
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Stradbroke Dreamtime
Stradbroke Dreamtime 3.95 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Catching Teller Crow
Catching Teller Crow 3.78 avg rating — 5,921 ratings
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Sister Heart
Sister Heart 4.16 avg rating — 894 ratings
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Terra Nullius
Terra Nullius 3.75 avg rating — 4,045 ratings
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Mullumbimby
Mullumbimby 3.91 avg rating — 2,306 ratings
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Songs That Sound Like Blood
Songs That Sound Like Blood 3.87 avg rating — 108 ratings
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The White Girl
The White Girl 4.07 avg rating — 6,390 ratings
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Heat and Light
Heat and Light 3.79 avg rating — 1,245 ratings
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Benang: From the Heart
Benang: From the Heart
by: Kim Scott
3.88 avg rating — 365 ratings
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The Swan Book
The Swan Book 3.28 avg rating — 1,180 ratings
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My people: A Kath Walker collection
My people: A Kath Walker collection 4.02 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Wildcat Falling
Wildcat Falling 3.35 avg rating — 395 ratings
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The Disappearance of Ember Crow (The Tribe, #2)
The Disappearance of Ember Crow (The Tribe, #2) 4.11 avg rating — 563 ratings
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Macquarie PEN Anthology Of Aboriginal Literature
Macquarie PEN Anthology Of Aboriginal Literature 4.32 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Home
Home 3.83 avg rating — 452 ratings
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Ready When You Are
Ready When You Are 4.19 avg rating — 3,129 ratings
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The Lost Girl
The Lost Girl 3.82 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Good Morning, Mr Sarra: My life working for a stronger, smarter future for our children
Good Morning, Mr Sarra: My life working for a stronger, smarter future for our children 4.05 avg rating — 132 ratings
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Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia 4.30 avg rating — 3,941 ratings
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Paperbark: A Collection of Black Australian Writings
Paperbark: A Collection of Black Australian Writings 4.15 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Am I Black Enough For You?
Am I Black Enough For You? 3.87 avg rating — 582 ratings
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Under the Wintamarra Tree
Under the Wintamarra Tree 4.02 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Pemulwuy, The Rainbow Warrior
Pemulwuy, The Rainbow Warrior 4.14 avg rating — 127 ratings
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The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty (Indigenous Americas)
The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty (Indigenous Americas) 4.31 avg rating — 148 ratings
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Blakwork
Blakwork 4.30 avg rating — 320 ratings
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The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson
The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson 4.10 avg rating — 2,224 ratings
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The Mish
The Mish 3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Day of the Dog
The Day of the Dog 3.84 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Tradition, Truth and Tomorrow
Tradition, Truth and Tomorrow 4.10 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Taboo
Taboo
by: Kim Scott
3.63 avg rating — 1,125 ratings
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Inside Black Australia: An Anthology of Aboriginal Poetry
Inside Black Australia: An Anthology of Aboriginal Poetry 4.06 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Who Am I? The Diary Of Mary Talence, Sydney 1937
Who Am I? The Diary Of Mary Talence, Sydney 1937 3.95 avg rating — 383 ratings
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The Foretelling of Georgie Spider (The Tribe, #3)
The Foretelling of Georgie Spider (The Tribe, #3) 4.22 avg rating — 321 ratings
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Purple Threads
Purple Threads 3.84 avg rating — 316 ratings
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My People's Dreaming: An Aboriginal Elder Speaks on Life, Land, Spirit and Forgiveness
My People's Dreaming: An Aboriginal Elder Speaks on Life, Land, Spirit and Forgiveness 4.57 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Wise Women of the Dreamtime: Aboriginal Tales of the Ancestral Powers
Wise Women of the Dreamtime: Aboriginal Tales of the Ancestral Powers 3.81 avg rating — 103 ratings
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Under a Bilari Tree I Born
Under a Bilari Tree I Born 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Child's Dreaming
Child's Dreaming it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines
Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines 3.67 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Father Sky and Mother Earth
Father Sky and Mother Earth 3.76 avg rating — 33 ratings
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No Sugar
No Sugar 3.17 avg rating — 772 ratings
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If everyone cared: Autobiography of Margaret Tucker
If everyone cared: Autobiography of Margaret Tucker 4.30 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Australia's unwritten history
Australia's unwritten history 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Yield
The Yield 4.08 avg rating — 12,786 ratings
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Convincing Ground: Learning to Fall in Love with Your Country
Convincing Ground: Learning to Fall in Love with Your Country 4.38 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Common People
Common People 3.82 avg rating — 536 ratings
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New and Selected Poems Munaldjali, Mutuerjaraera
New and Selected Poems Munaldjali, Mutuerjaraera 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Ghost Bird
Ghost Bird 3.88 avg rating — 975 ratings
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Story About Feeling
Story About Feeling 4.26 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Gagudju Man: Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia
Gagudju Man: Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia 4.38 avg rating — 21 ratings
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My Culture and Me
My Culture and Me 3.73 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Australia Day
Australia Day 4.16 avg rating — 1,706 ratings
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The Tears of Strangers
The Tears of Strangers 4.02 avg rating — 147 ratings
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True Country
True Country
by: Kim Scott
3.51 avg rating — 138 ratings
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Because a white man'll never do it
Because a white man'll never do it 4.12 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Butterfly Song
Butterfly Song 3.69 avg rating — 127 ratings
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The spirit of Kuti Kina: Tasmanian Aboriginal poetry
The spirit of Kuti Kina: Tasmanian Aboriginal poetry 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Shadowboxing
Shadowboxing 4.08 avg rating — 914 ratings
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Bridge of Triangles
Bridge of Triangles 3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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After The Carnage
After The Carnage 3.65 avg rating — 371 ratings
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Calypso Summer
Calypso Summer 3.63 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Sweet Guy
Sweet Guy 3.09 avg rating — 11 ratings
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It Is No Secret: The Story Of A Stolen Child
It Is No Secret: The Story Of A Stolen Child 4.18 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Shadow Dreaming (The Dreaming, #1)
Shadow Dreaming (The Dreaming, #1) 3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Secrets From The Dust
Secrets From The Dust 3.86 avg rating — 152 ratings
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many lifetimes - a memoir
many lifetimes - a memoir 3.71 avg rating — 21 ratings
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First Australians: An Illustrated History
First Australians: An Illustrated History really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 42 ratings
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When the Pelican Laughed
When the Pelican Laughed 3.53 avg rating — 17 ratings
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I, The Aboriginal / Moon and Rainbow
I, The Aboriginal / Moon and Rainbow really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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It Just Lies There from the Beginning: Aboriginal Stories and Poems from the Top End
It Just Lies There from the Beginning: Aboriginal Stories and Poems from the Top End 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Breaking Point (Cabarita Crimes #8)
Breaking Point (Cabarita Crimes #8) 4.18 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Cleverman #1
Cleverman #1 4.15 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Black Hours
Black Hours 4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Blacklines: Contemporary Critical Writings By Indigenous Australians
Blacklines: Contemporary Critical Writings By Indigenous Australians 4.87 avg rating — 15 ratings
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After Story
After Story 4.06 avg rating — 4,950 ratings
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Do Not Go Round the Edges
Do Not Go Round the Edges 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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So Far, So Good
So Far, So Good 4.06 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Sky Song (The Dreaming Series, #2)
Sky Song (The Dreaming Series, #2) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
88.
Snake Cradle (Snake Dreaming: Autobiography of a Black Woman, #1)
Snake Cradle (Snake Dreaming: Autobiography of a Black Woman, #1) 3.94 avg rating — 159 ratings
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Karobran: The story of an Aboriginal girl
Karobran: The story of an Aboriginal girl really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
88.
Talkin' Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism
Talkin' Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism 4.49 avg rating — 428 ratings
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Kick the Tin
Kick the Tin 3.54 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Skin Painting (UQP Poetry Series)
Skin Painting (UQP Poetry Series) 4.44 avg rating — 25 ratings
88.
Dunbi the Owl
Dunbi the Owl 3.67 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Plains of Promise
Plains of Promise 3.83 avg rating — 219 ratings
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Spirits of the Rock (The Dreaming, #3)
Spirits of the Rock (The Dreaming, #3) 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Maybe tomorrow
Maybe tomorrow 4.25 avg rating — 225 ratings
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Land of the Golden Clouds
Land of the Golden Clouds 3.55 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Sovereign Subjects: Indigenous sovereignty matters
Sovereign Subjects: Indigenous sovereignty matters 3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Politics of Identity: Who Counts as Aboriginal Today?
The Politics of Identity: Who Counts as Aboriginal Today? 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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