Top Ten Tuesday is the brainchild of The Broke & the Bookish. Every Tuesday, we compile a list of our literary Top 10, and then add it to the blog hop.
This week is all about our Top 10 With X Setting – I chose Australia.
To be fair, I could have filled this entire list solely with Tim Winton novels. And maybe I will, someday, in another Top Ten Tuesday.
Literati Girl 
You missed Bill Bryson’s “In a Sunburned Country” (aka “Down Under”). Or is it for fiction only?
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No, it’s not fiction only. And I agree, Down Under is one of my favourite books about Australia and as a travelogue in general (I actually use at as an example of Australian Literature – by foreign authors – for my M.A. thesis right now). But it featured in a few other lists already, so I wanted to highlight other books. 🙂
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I’ve read lots of wonderful children’s books set in Australia: Flambards, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Playing Beatie Bow, By the River, The Big Birkett. Thanks for sharing these!
Here’s my Top Ten!
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I want to start reading more books outside of the US, so I’ll be sure to check these out! Thanks for stopping by my TTT! 😀
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Man, I’ve got to get out of my US/UK bubble. I don’t recognize any of these books…
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I got the idea for my MA thesis (cultural background variations of Australian authors and how they reflect in their works) from the fact that I couldn’t name 5 books published in or about Australia. So I researched and read a lot, and then when I had to put down a thesis topic, that’s the one I chose.
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Sweet, is there one or two that really stand out? Like ‘needs’ to be reads.
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For me, that’s definitely Breath by Tim Winton, Mullumbimby by Melissa Lucashenko and Tomorrow when the War began by John Marsden. They’re all good, though.
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