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The list spotlights new titles since the previous update, featuring Australian authors, Booker Prize and Stella Prize award winners, and selected works appearing on the Radio National Top 100 list. Included entries summarize major novels with author, page count, and genre labels, supporting guided discussion and selection for reading groups.","OFFICIAL  \nBurnside Library Book Discussion Group  \nBooklist  \nUpdated to 30 October 2025  \nThis booklist is als` o available from:  \n[www.burnside.sa.gov.au/bookclubs](www.burnside.sa.gov.au/bookclubs)  \nPlease e-mail [library@burnside.sa.gov.au](library@burnside.sa.gov.au to suggest new titles)[ to suggest new titles](library@burnside.sa.gov.au to suggest new titles) for book group sets.  \nOFFICIAL  \nIcon Glossary  \nNew titles since last Book List  \nAustralian Authors  \n Booker Prize Award Winners  \n Stella Prize Award Winners  \nTitles on the Radio National Top 100 Book List  \nOFFICIAL  \n\n| Abulhawa, Susan\u003Cbr>Mornings in Jenin | In 1948 the Abulheja family are forcibly removed from their ancestral home in Ein Hod and sent to live in a refugee camp in Jenin. Through Amal, the bright granddaughter of the patriarch, we witness the stories of her brothers: one, a stolen boy who becomes an Israeli soldier; the other who in sacrificing everything for the Palestinian cause will become his enemy. Amal's own dramatic story threads its way through six decades of Palestinian-Israeli tension, eventually taking her into exile in Pensylvania in America. Amal's is a story of love and loss…(Discussion questions at back of book) | 10 | 2010\u003Cbr>325 pages\u003Cbr>Historical fiction |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Adiga, Aravind\u003Cbr>The White Tiger | Winner of 2008 Booker Prize for Fiction-Meet Balram Halwai, the ‘White Tiger’: servant, philosopher, entrepreneur, murderer. Born in a village in heartland India, the son of a rickshaw puller, Balram is taken out of school by his family and put to work in a teashop. As he crushes coals and wipes tables, he nurses a dream of escape-of breaking away from the banks of Mother Ganga, into whose depths have seeped the remains of a hundred generations.\u003Cbr>Balram’s journey from darkness of village life to the light of entrepreneurial success is utterly amoral, brilliantly irreverent, deeply endearing and altogether unforgettable. | 10 | 2008321 pages India |\n| Akhtar, Ayad\u003Cbr>Homeland Elegies | Blending fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and disposession. This is part family drama and part social essay, at it’s heart it is a story of a father and a son and the country they call home. | 10 | 2020343 pages\u003Cbr>Domestic\u003Cbr>America |\n| Allende, Isabel\u003Cbr>In the midst of winter | Amid the biggest Brooklyn snowstorm in living memory, an unexpected friendship blossoms between three people thrown together by circumstance. Richard Bowmaster, a lonely university professor in his sixties, hits the car driven by Evelyn Ortega, a young, undocumented migrant from Guatemala. But what at first seems an inconvenience takes an unforeseen and darker turn when Evelyn comes to him and his neighbour Lucia Maraz, desperately seeking help. Sweeping from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala to turbulent 1970s Chile and Brazil, and woven with Isabel Allende's trademark humanity, passion and storytelling verve, In the Midst of Winter is a mesmerizing and unforgettable tale. | 10 | 2017\u003Cbr>340 pages\u003Cbr>Historical fiction |\n| Allende, Isabel\u003Cbr>The Japanese Lover | In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco's parents send her overseas to live with an aunt and uncle in their opulent San Francisco mansion. There she meets Ichimei Fukuda, the son of the family's Japanese gardener, and between them a tender love blossoms, but following Pearl Harbor the two are cruelly pulled apart. Throughout their lifetimes, Alma and Ichimei reunite again and again, but theirs is a love they are forever forced to hide from the world.\u003Cbr>Decades later, Alma is nearing the end of her long and eventful life. Irina Bazili, a care worker struggling to reconcile her own troubled past, meets the older woman and her grandson, Seth at Lark House nursing home. 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