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The Bookshelf · Launching ABC Radio National’s 2026 Top 100 Books countdown at SWF · 22 May 2026 podcast

And there's no right or wrong, of course.

But we thought we might ask for a few suggestions from our guests today.

Now, Claire, maybe you are going to talk to some people or you're...

Well, why don't we get rolling and get some suggestions from our guests.

Lily King, as an outsider to Australian literature, you're an American.

What

work of Australian fiction made an impact on you?

Maybe, yeah, something memorable or seen or something.

Maybe even something, the first Australian book you read.

And of course the television miniseries was a sensation as well and by chance introduced two of the people who are becoming one of our greatest love stories of all time and that being Rachel Ward and Brian Brown who were in those roles.

by, do you remember who it was by?

Yeah, William Dick.

William Dick, sorry, yeah, of course.

How could you forget that, Claire?

What about you, Xianglu, Miles Franklin Literary Award winner?

What would you like to recommend?

Wow, that's beautiful.

Look, I actually did this in the last countdown.

I put Peter Temple, number one, with his book Broken Shore.

But I did that because I decided the list was going to have half Australian, half whatever else I wanted to add.

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