Popular Oceanian Romance Books

Find romance books written by authors from Oceania for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (24)

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The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion EN

Rating: 4 (16 votes)
Description:
Don Tillman is getting married. He just doesn’t know who to yet. But he has designed the Wife Project, using a sixteen-page questionnaire to help him find the perfect partner. She will most definitely not be a barmaid, a smoker, a drinker, or a late-arriver. Rosie Jarman is all these things. She is also fiery and intelligent and beautiful. And on a quest of her own to find her biological father—a search that Don, a professor of genetics, might just be able to help her with. The Wife Project teaches Don some unexpected things. Why earlobe length is an inadequate predictor of sexual attraction. ... continue

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The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough EN

Rating: 4 (4 votes)
Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
Description:
Now, 25 years after it first took the world by storm, Colleen McCullough's sweeping family saga of dreams, titanic struggles, dark passions, and forbidden love in the Australian Outback returns to enthrall a new generation. As powerful, moving, and unforgettable as when it originally appeared, it remains a monumental literary achievement—a landmark novel to be read . . . and read again!

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Thirst for Salt by Madelaine Lucas EN

0 Ratings
Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
Description:
“A love affair so richly and attentively imagined it carries the grace and gravity of memory itself.” —Leslie Jamison It’s hard to remember now that I was once that girl, lying in the sand in my red swimsuit and swimming late into the day. Sharkbait, he called me. It’s in the water where she first sees him: a local man almost twenty years her senior. Adrift in the summer after finishing college, a young woman is on holiday with her mother in an isolated Australian coastal town. Finding herself pulled to Jude, the man in the water, she begins losing herself in the simple, seductive rhythms of h... continue

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Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
Description:
Originally published in Sydney by Pan Macmillan Australia in 2016.