48 Shades of Brown
10 best books like 48 Shades of Brown (Nick Earls): Nukkin Ya, The Simple Gift, Take My Word for It, Peeling the Onion, The Submerged Cathedral, Will, Sleeping Dogs, Last Drinks, Storky: How I Lost My Nickname and Won the Girl, Loving Richard Feynman
| Author | Phillip Gwynne |
| ISBN | 0141309431 |
I have read Deadly Unna so many times - to many classes who have all enjoyed. For some reason I never thought about reading this, the sequel until this now. It was a great read. Blacky is a really likeable character. But I think what is best is that all the relationships shown here are complicated - there isn't...
| Author | Steven Herrick |
| ISBN | 0689868677 |
I'm not proud.
I'm sixteen, and soon
to be homeless.
Weary of his life with his alcoholic, abusive father, sixteen-year-old Billy packs a few belongings and hits the road, hoping for something better than what he left behind. He finds a home in an abandoned freight train outside a small...
| Author | John Marsden |
| ISBN | 0732907659 |
Lisa is the hard one. At least that’s what her friends/dorm mates believe. She doesn’t dig deep or spill the important stuff. The intimate details.
She isn’t silent like Marina—the girl with the scars who lingers on the fringes, without ever really joining in.
No, Lisa is...
| Author | Wendy Orr |
| ISBN | 0440227739 |
The car accident changed everything. Before, Anna knew who she was and what she looked like. But now she's a stranger to her family, her friends, and herself. She is no longer the pretty, popular girl who loves karate. Her body now betrays her, and she knows it will never be the same. All the layers that made...
| Author | Charlotte Wood |
| ISBN | 1740512642 |
'Set me as a seal on your heart, for love is stronger than death.'
Spanning many years, travelling across Australia's vast continent and through some of Europe's great cities, The Submerged Cathedral is a beguiling, heartbreaking story of paradise and the fall; of faith, sacrifice and atonement;...
| Author | Maria Boyd |
| ISBN | 0375862099 |
THE CRIME
It all started when Will mooned the girls' school bus. It wasn't his finest moment. And it's the last time William Armstrong will sully the St. Andrew's community, says Principal Waddlehead-er, Waverton.
THE PUNISHMENT
That's when a teacher worried about Will's...
| Author | Sonya Hartnett |
| ISBN | 0670865036 |
This book is so hard for me to rate - on one hand Sonia Hartnett's writing is stunning and I love how this is like an Aussie version of Faulkner's The Sound and the fury, one of my all time favourite novels. I'd go as far to say that Hartnett's writing is right up there with the greats. I just found that firstly,...
| Author | Andrew McGahan |
| ISBN | 1865084069 |
Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year, the Queensland Premier's Literary Award and winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Crime Novel.
It's a decade since the infamous Inquiry into corruption tore the state of Queensland apart. But for George Verney, disgraced journalist and bit-player...
| Author | Debra Garfinkle |
| ISBN | 0142407828 |
The journal of Michael "Storky" Pomerantz tells the tumultuous tale of life as a high-schooler—complete with the fact that the love of his life is dating a high school football player. As he chronicles the highs—and, of course, the most embarrassing lows—of his freshman year in high school,...
| Author | Penny Tangey |
| ISBN | 0702237256 |
I just love it when quirky little books find their way to me.
Loving Richard Feynman first popped up on my radar after Mandi (@thebookishmanicurist) spotlighted it on one of her amazing Insta posts. Being married to an engineer who is an avid devotee of Richard Feynman (they even share a birthday!),...
| Author | Simmone Howell |
| ISBN | 1582348359 |
Seventeen-year-old Gem loves movies, her feminist mom, and Dodgy, her coworker in a video store (at least she thinks she loves Dodgy). When a school trip inspires Gem to make an underground film, her best friends Lo and Mira are quick to join the project, taking on the roles of producer and star. The film...
| Author | Gabrielle Williams |
| ISBN | 0143566849 |
But there I go, getting ahead of myself. Skipping straight to the part where I was front-page news and they were calling me Dorothy, instead of starting at the beginning...
When Dodie's parents go missing just as final year exams are about to start, she convinces herself they're fine. But when...
| Author | Barry Jonsberg |
| ISBN | 1742373852 |
The boy sat in the branches of the fifth tree on the left, his scuffed boots dangling. Leah turned her eyes up. His face was heavily freckled, his eyes large, brown and almond-shaped. His hair stuck out at wild angles. 'Hello,' she said.
Sixteen-year-old Carly is interviewing Leah Cartwright...
Shortlisted for the 2009 Melbourne Prize, Best Writing Award. Fifteen-year-old Sabiha has a lot to deal with: her mother's mental health issues, her interfering aunt, her mother's new boyfriend, her live-in grandfather and his chess buddy, not to mention her arrogant cousin Adnan. They all want...
You don’t get many crocodiles in Manchester. I know, I know, I should have warnings when I drop bombs like that, shouldn’t I? I hope you weren’t drinking or anything… apologies if your computer is now a bit damp.
I think the closest I’ve ever come to a crocodile was on a school trip to Chester...
| Author | Brigid Lowry |
| ISBN | 0312342977 |
Life isn't neat and tidy. It's like a whole lot of balls of brightly colored wool thrown in a basket, with stray beginnings and endings and possibilities everywhere. Let's follow the blue.
Fifteen-year-old Bec has always been the good girl. Growing up with an eccentric celebrity chef mother...
He Died with a Felafel in His Hand
| Author | John Birmingham |
| ISBN | 1875989218 |
I once lived with a man who covered the entire wall of our shared (four people) bathroom with hard-core Dutch pornography. I asked him to take it down and he claimed it couldn’t be removed as it was ‘Art’. We had a yelling match that went for thirty minutes.
If you’ve ever shared a home with...
You'll Be Sorry When I'm Dead
| Author | Marieke Hardy |
| ISBN | 1742377262 |
From childhood dreams of prostitution to her unabashed passion for heavy drinking, from growing up wide-eyed on the set of Australian soaps to her infatuation with Bob Ellis, these are the outrageously entertaining and deeply revealing reminiscences of a multimedia star.
From stalking...
| Author | Garry Disher |
| ISBN | 0439369169 |
Michael and Ita Penrose had lived in Broome, Western Australia a lot of years – their two children, Hartley and Alice were friends with Mitsy Sennosuke, the Japanese daughter of Zeke and Sadako. Michael was a pearling master, running six luggers which were crewed by a mixture of nationalities, but...
