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Best books I’ve read 2025

Maybe my gayest year of reading.

Australian, Classics, Contemporary, End of year review, Environment, Fiction, Historical, LGBTIQ, Nonfiction, Novel, Poetry, queer, Year in review

Review: Ankami by Debra Dank

Exploring the unbearable.

Aboriginal writers, Australian, Colonialism, Family history, History, Nonfiction, Racism

Review: This Water by Beverley Farmer

Tales of the otherworld.

Australian, Fantasy, Fiction, Mythology, Speculative

Review: Nock Loose by Patrick Marlborough

Myth-making for a fiction of a nation.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, LGBTIQ, Novel

Review: Inferno by Andrew Brooks

Poetry to snack to.

Australian, Poetry, Sydney

Review: The Evening Of The Holiday by Shirley Hazzard

Romantic time.

Classics, Fiction, Italy, Romance

Review: Discipline by Randa Abdel-Fattah

Become undisciplined.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Islam, Novel, Palestine, Sydney

Review: Raging Grace (edited by Andy Jackson, Esther Ottaway and Kerri Shying)

Expansive poetry.

Australian, Disability, Health, Neurodivergence, Poetry

Review: Who Was That Man? by Neil Bartlett

Searching for origins.

England, gay, History, LGBTIQ, Nonfiction, Oscar Wilde, queer, UK

Review: After The Siren by Darcy Green

A romantasy to aspire to.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, LGBTIQ, Novel, queer, Romance, Sport

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