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The System Is The Monster
Fiction has always been where truth hides. Across horror, thriller, literary fiction, fantasy & mystery every book on this list has something to say about power, who holds it, who destroys it, and how it reproduces itself.
eco-literature
includes contemporary fiction, scifi, horror, speculative fiction and nonfiction
Tiny Fables
All fiction books that appear in the Tiny Bookshop catalogue! Would sort them by genre as I read along.
Top 100 Australian books
G'day! This weekend our national radio station is counting down the top 100 Australian books of all time. As voted by readers. https://www.abc.net.au/listen/radionational/countdown/top100books I'll be listening as much as I can and I'll create a list to share the top 100 as we go.
The 50 Best Thrillers of the 21st Century
The New York Times published a list on August 5th, 2026, of the 50 best thrillers published since 2000 as voted on by hundreds of writers of every kind of crime fiction, from legal thrillers to spy novels to cozy mysteries, as well as librarians, editors, critics and Bookstagrammers.
New York Times | 50 Best Thrillers
50 Best Thrillers of the 21st Century | NYT List
50 Best Thrillers of the 21st Century (NYT)
August 2026 List of the best thrillers of the 21st century as nominated by mystery/thriller authors
Fae & Flame Society: Set in Small Town
For the Fae and Flame Society book club, often our seasonal book bingo includes a square for 'a book set in a small town.' Here is a list of books set in small towns across a variety of genres to push us outside of our normal romantasy.
NYT Reader’s Choice: Top 100 Thrillers of the Cent
August 2026 Reader’s choice of the best 100 thrillers All I gotta say is the definitely didn’t ask me. 🤷🏻♀️
Top 100 Books (ABC’s National Radio)
Top 100 books of the 21st Century according to ABC Radio National (Australia)
Aussie Crime Queens
Crime, mystery, and thrillers written by Australian female authors
Auz 🦘
Books by Australians and/or set in Australia 🇦🇺
Radio National Top 100 Books of the 21st Century
ABC Australian Radio countdown on the 18th & 19th October 2025
Radio National Top 100 Australian Books 2026
Announced on ABC Radio National 18 October 2026
Red Reader
World Reading Exploring Australia
Explore the down under place of Australia with books set in Australia or written by Australian authors . Through these books learn and explore Australia's people, cultures, foods, activities, animals, and more.
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie
Stories written by Aussie authors that I loved.
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