Summer Reading Guide: Politics, Philosophy & Cultural Studies

Innovation: Knowledge and Ingenuity (First Knowledges)

Ian J McNiven, Lynette Russell

In the first book to detail Indigenous innovations in Australia, Ian J McNiven and Lynette Russell showcase this legacy of First Nations peoples and how they offer resourceful ways of…

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Justice & Hope

Raimond Gaita, Scott Stephens (ed.)

The collected writings of Raimond Gaita.

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Life As We Knew It

Aisha Dow, Melissa Cunningham

The gripping inside account of Australia’s extraordinary pandemic story.

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The Man Who Wasn’t There

Dan Box

A true story about lies, murder and the Territory

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Opinions

Roxane Gay

From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist and Hunger comes a stunning retrospective of essays and writings from the last decade covering politics, race and identity, feminism…

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Right Story, Wrong Story: Adventures in Indigenous Thinking

Tyson Yunkaporta

Sand Talk, Tyson Yunkaporta’s bestselling debut, cast an Indigenous lens on contemporary society. It was, said Melissa Lucashenko, ‘an extraordinary invitation into the world of the Dreaming’.

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Storytellers

Leigh Sales

Highly respected ABC anchor, bestselling author and hit podcaster Leigh Sales interviews the cream of Australian journalists about their craft - how (and why) they bring us the stories that…

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Technofeudalism

Yanis Varoufakis

The world-famous #1 bestselling economist explains how capitalism has been usurped by a technologically enhanced form of feudalism

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The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil and the Salvation of Philosophy

Wolfram Eilenberger

An enthralling intellectual adventure, starring the four women who created new ways of thinking from the ruins of totalitarianism and war, by the acclaimed author of Time of the Magicians

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Alone

Daniel Schreiber

A profoundly enlightening look at loneliness in modern life.

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Australia’s Pivot to India

Andrew Charlton

A thoroughly absorbing, must-read examination of why Australia's relationship with India might hold the key to our future, by federal MP Andrew Charlton

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Bite Back

Hannah Ferguson

The Co-Founder of Cheek Media Co. delivers the conversations we've been missing on everything from diet culture to the future of the #MeToo movement.

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Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything

Julia Baird

From the bestselling author of Phosphorescence comes a beautiful and timely exploration of that most mysterious but necessary of human qualities: grace.

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Consent Laid Bare

Chanel Contos

The game-changing book about sex and consent that every woman - and man - should read

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The Echidna Strategy

Sam Roggeveen

In the wake of a shift in the global power balance, how can Australia best protect itself?

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Faking It

Toby Walsh

A prescient analysis of what makes artificial intelligence so ... artificial

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Going Infinite

Michael Lewis

From the #1 bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the high-octane story of the enigmatic figure at the heart of one of the 21st century's most…

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I Don’t: The Case Against Marriage

Clementine Ford

Incendiary feminist and bestselling author Clementine Ford presents the inarguable case against marriage for the modern woman. Provocative, controversial and above all, compellingly and persuasively argued.

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Best Wishes

Richard Glover

Making the world a better, less annoying place one wish at a time.

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Best Australian Political Cartoons 2023

Russ Radcliffe

The year in politics as observed by Australia’s funniest and most perceptive political cartoonists.

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Divided Isles

Edward Acton Cavanough

A pacy must-read analysis of one of the most consequential geopolitical events in Australia's region.

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Bring No Clothes

Charlie Porter

An anarchic, intimate, lushly illustrated look at the clothes and lives of the Bloomsbury Group

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Divine Might

Natalie Haynes

The scintillating follow-up to Pandora's Jar from bestselling author Natalie Haynes.

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The Feminist Killjoy Handbook

Sara Ahmed

A profound guide to existing on your own terms, the first trade book from renowned intersectional feminist scholar Sara Ahmed

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Hidden Potential

Adam Grant

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again illuminates how we can elevate ourselves and others to unexpected heights.

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Writely or Wrongly

Joanne Anderson

An essential guide for anyone with cause to communicate in written form (most of us), a passing interest in doing it better (some of us), and a disinterest in a…

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Quarterly Essay 92: The Great Divide: Australia’s Housing Mess and How to Fix It

Alan Kohler

What caused Australia's housing crisis – and how we might fix it

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Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle

Jody Rosen

A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming our twenty-first century world

The bicycle is a vestige of the Victorian era, seemingly out of pace with our…

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Telling

Nairm Marr Djambana, Aboriginal Corporation

The 12 short life stories in Telling are grounded in First Nations storytelling traditions and reveal the diverse and complex nature of the experience of living in the wake of…

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Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Stories

Diarmuid Hester

How do places make us, and how do we make them?

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2023: A Year of Consequence

The Conversation, Justin Bergman (ed.)

This was a year of consequential decisions - not just for Australia, but the world.

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Seeing Others

Michele Lamont

From internationally renowned sociologist Michele Lamont, a game-changing argument about what we value and why

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A Therapeutic Journey

Alain de Botton

The essential guide to mental health from the bestselling author of The School of Life

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The Shrinking Nation

Graeme Turner

How Australia became less than it was, and how it can once again be more than it is.

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Summer Reading Guide: Politics, Philosophy & Cultural Studies

Innovation: Knowledge and Ingenuity (First Knowledges)

Justice & Hope

Life As We Knew It

The Man Who Wasn’t There

Opinions

Right Story, Wrong Story: Adventures in Indigenous Thinking

Storytellers

Technofeudalism

The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil and the Salvation of Philosophy

Alone

Australia’s Pivot to India

Bite Back

Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything

Consent Laid Bare

The Echidna Strategy

Faking It

Going Infinite

I Don’t: The Case Against Marriage

Best Wishes

Best Australian Political Cartoons 2023

Divided Isles

Bring No Clothes

Divine Might

The Feminist Killjoy Handbook

Hidden Potential

Writely or Wrongly

Quarterly Essay 92: The Great Divide: Australia’s Housing Mess and How to Fix It

Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle

Telling

Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Stories

2023: A Year of Consequence

Seeing Others

A Therapeutic Journey

The Shrinking Nation