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Tag: Classics

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: The Evening Of The Holiday by Shirley Hazzard

Romantic time.

Classics, Fiction, Italy, Romance

Review: Querelle Of Brest by Jean Genet (translated by Gregory Steatham)

Be gay, do crime.

Classics, Fiction, France, Novel, queer

Review: The Rainbow by Yasunari Kawabata (translated by Haydn Trowell)

Everything in flux.

Classics, Fiction, Japan, Nobel Laureate, Novel, World War II

Review: A Kindness Cup by Thea Astley

Can’t we just forget about all that?

Australian, Classics, Colonialism, Indigenous Australians

Review: Nicolas Pages by Guillaume Dustan (translated by Peter Valente and James Horton)

Pure creative force.

1990s, Classics, Fiction, France, HIV, LGBTIQ, Novel, queer

Review: The Orphan Gunner by Sara Knox

This queer WWII novel soars.

Australian, British, Classics, Fiction, Historical, lesbian, LGBTIQ, Novel, queer, War, World War II

Review: Dancer From The Dance by Andrew Holleran

No queen is left unstoned.

Classics, Fiction, gay, LGBTIQ, New York, Novel

Best books I’ve read 2024

Books to prevent enshittification.

Australian, Classics, Colonialism, Contemporary, End of year review, Environment, Fiction, Historical, Indigenous writers, LGBTIQ, Nonfiction, Novel, Poetry, Stella Prize, Year in review

Review: Plains Of Promise by Alexis Wright

Visions horrifying and beautiful.

Aboriginal writers, Australian, Classics, Fiction, Historical, Novel

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