Ten Favorite Works of 21st Century Australian Fiction
(alphabetically by author)
Things We Didn’t See Coming by Steven Amsterdam
The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
Springtime: A Ghost Story by Michelle de Kretser
The Best of Greg Egan by Greg Egan
Crossings by Alex Landragin
The Boat by Nam Le
The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay
A Million Windows by Gerald Murnane
Their Brilliant Careers: The Fantastic Lives of Sixteen Extraordinary Australian Writers by Ryan O’Neill
Dead Europe by Christos Tsiolkas
(Bonus entry: The Great Gatsby: A Graphic Adaptation by Nicki Greenberg obviously relies heavily on the Fitzgerald novel, but it’s an unusually strange and sensitive rendition of the material and is probably the single best prose-to-comics adaptation I’ve encountered.)
— March 11, 2021