penguin friends (Southern Hemisphere Reads)
Southern Hemisphere reads!! we will be running an unofficial SH season readalong, so follow along to help us pick a book and read it with us - Winter readalong coming soon! this is for any books written by SH authors, especially those set here, so pop your fav recs in the comments đ (i haven't read all of these! so double check content warnings if you need to)
created by skgd03
last updated May, 2026
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skgd03OP
Please add your suggestions for this list and also for our winter readalong starting in June!
skgd03OP
First Nations Classics has been recommended as a great series of Australian Indigenous writing, I have added a couple from this list but check it out if you want to find more!
skgd03OP
A couple children's books:
Hairy Macleary is THE book you read as a preschooler in New Zealand
And Mophead was written by one of our recentish poet laureates who also taught me poetry for one semester đ
