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The Best Books of the Year: 2025
- December 17, 2025
- Books
- Features
- Affirm Press
- Allen and Unwin
- Atria Australia
- Barbara Truelove
- Bindery Books
- Chris Flynn
- Hachette Australia
- HarperCollins AU
- Jessica Townsend
- Johanna Van Veen
- kate solly
- Lili Wilkinson
- Madeline Cleary
- Nikita Gill
- Omar Musa
- Penguin Australia
- Poisoned Pen Press
- Ruby Jean Cottle
- Simon and Schuster Australia
- Stefanie Koens
- Steve MinOn
- UQP Books
It’s just over a week until Christmas and the AU Books Team have been busy making their lists, rating their books, and agonising over their choices for their favourite books of 2025. It’s never an easy task and it’s practically impossible to pick just one, so we let them pick a few. Of course this…
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“The queer love child of pulp horror and classic sci-fi” Barbara Truelove’s rip-roaring sci-fi adventure of AI and monsters is full of human heart. Of Monsters and Mainframes may feature a cast of sentient AI and monsters of the night, with humans operating largely as minor characters, but underneath all those fangs and fur and…
The AU’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025: April – June
- April 1, 2025
- Books
- Features
- Allen and Unwin
- Barbara Truelove
- Bindery Books
- Cadance Ball
- Elizabeth Broadbent
- Emily Paull
- Emma Gannon
- Emma Newman
- Emma Pei-Yin
- Fremantle Press
- Hachette Australia
- HarperCollins
- Heather M. Hermann
- Jody Cooksley
- Ocean Vuong
- Omar Sakr
- Penguin Books
- Raw Dog Screaming Press
- Safdar Ahmed
- Solaris
- Tor
- ultimo press
- UQP Books
- v.e. schwab
As we barrell on into yet another quickly-moving year, the books team at AU Review have pulled together a hotly anticipated list of dramas, mysteries, romances and fresh horrors to keep you riveted to your reading seat. Between the grissly mysteries and untimely deaths are touching stories of friendship, love and recognising our own strength…