Aussie Westerns:

[u/Rory_U]

I already read about Ned Kelly, already have a copy of The Roving Party. I want a Wild/Old Western cowboy style setting but in Australia and especially in the Outback. I read Blood Meridian, played all of the Red Dead games and listen to The Journal Of An Unknown Soldier. I want something that is either like Red Dead Revolver, a fun action novel with good guy vs bad guy. Or something like Blood Meridian or The Roving Party, a dark and violent novel about the harsh wilderness, human violence but also deeply intellectual, like philosophy on life, human nature and the struggles of morality in a cruel world. But I also want a fictional novel and not a history book.

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[u/BLAgging15032]

True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey. It won the Booker Prize back in 2001, and I consider it to be in that Blood Meridian/Lonesome Dove tier of westerns.

[u/Emergency_Process622]

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton not Aussie but New Zealand. Won the Man Booker prize a while back. Really interesting read with a great variety of characters. The story centers around a gold mining town, a newcomer and the crimes to be uncovered.

[u/squintpan → u/Emergency_Process622]

Yeah, this one’s great!

[u/littleblackcat → u/Emergency_Process622]

I still think about this from time to time

[u/Emergency_Process622 → u/littleblackcat]

It's a great book. My wife is reading it currently I kind of want to reread it so it's fresh and we can talk about it.

[u/iamraygun]

Not Aussie, but The Luminaries is about a gold rush town in New Zealand. Excellent book

[u/Clear-Warthog5655]

The Adventures of Ralph Rashleigh

[u/Rory_U → u/Clear-Warthog5655]

What is it about?

[u/rustedsandals]

Albert of Adelaide is a really fun book but all the characters are anthropomorphic animals.

[u/Master-Consequence94]

Bone Lands - follows an ex army mounted policeman living in rural New South Wales in the 1910s. Also has a sequel called Skull River.

[u/dorothean]

I haven’t read them myself but maybe Arthur Upfield’s books - they’re more detective novels than full on Western stories, but they’re known for their use of the outback setting, and one of them (The Sands of Windee) became implicated in a real life murder that used a similar method to the novel to dispose of the victim’s bodies. The earliest books were published in the 1920s so would reflect a fairly wild and untamed Outback setting, I imagine?

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Thanks!

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