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Tag: Historical

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: Ghost Cities by Siang Lu

A game of truth and fiction.

Australian, China, Contemporary, Fiction, Historical, Novel, Speculative

Review: Stag Dance by Torrey Peters

Barnstorming fictions that detonate gender shibboleths.

Fiction, Historical, LGBTIQ, Novella, queer, Speculative, Trans writing, US

Review: Astraea by Kate Kruimink

History as a foreign country.

Australian, Fiction, Historical, Novella

Review: The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischwili (translated by Charlotte Collins and Ruth Martin)

Epic family saga, surprisingly queer.

Authoritarianism, Contemporary, Europe, Family saga, Fiction, Georgia, Historical, International Booker Prize, Novel, Russia, Soviet Union

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: A Language Of Limbs by Dylin Hardcastle

Sliding Doors with a queer Australian twist.

Australian, Fiction, Historical, LGBTIQ, Newcastle, Novel, Sydney

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: Anam by André Dao

History as speculative fiction.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Historical, Novel, Refugees, Vietnam, War

Review: Plains Of Promise by Alexis Wright

Visions horrifying and beautiful.

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

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