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363 reviews

Strange Little Girl by Jessica Knight

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informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

A thoughtful and insightful addition to Australia’s (finally) growing oeuvre of self-determined disability memoirs. 
Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia E. Butler

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challenging dark informative reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

Disturbing but extraordinary speculative fiction about accidental time travel into the more-racist past. 
Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert

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emotional funny hopeful reflective fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

The third and final (sob) romcom in Talia Hibbert's Brown Sisters MF romance series - witty, steamy and hugely endearing cottage-core about first impressions and being our best selves.
The Flirtation of Girls / Ghazal el-Banat by Sara M Saleh

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challenging reflective medium-paced

5.0

An extraordinary collection of poetry about colonisation, migration and the complexity of Arab-Australian Muslim women’s identities
Incense and Sensibility by Sonali Dev

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emotional funny reflective medium-paced
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  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

The third MF romance in Sonali Dev’s Austen-inspired, Desi-American dynasty about The Raj’s - a tender, thoughtful and witty second-chance romance about politics, lies, waiting and wanting the best.
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob

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challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

A wonderful, heart-felt and heart-breaking graphic memoir based around difficult questions from the author’s mixed-race son in the lead-up to Trump’s first run at President. 
Bloom Into You, Vol. 1 by Nakatani Nio

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medium-paced
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

Governance Now: the hidden challenge of leadership by

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informative

3.5

Lark & ​​Kasim Start a Revolution by Kacen Callender

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emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

A contemporary queer YA friendship-to-love romance about representation, misunderstandings and navigating honesty and accountability online and IRL, via Callender’s characteristically normative diversity (inc trans, enby, disability, POC and poly rep). 
Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert

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emotional funny lighthearted reflective fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

The second witty and wonderfully diverse contemporary MF romcom in The Brown Sisters series about grief, fears and the favours we do for friends.