Read Around Oceania Challenge

Read at least one book by an author from each country in Oceania.

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Best books from Oceania (281)
161.

Kalyana by Rajni Mala Khelawan EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Oceania / Fiji flag Fiji
Description:
A moving story about what it means to be a woman in a society where choices are limited and decisions are difficult. A must read for mothers, and their adult daughters.

162.

Kava in the Blood by Peter Thomson EN

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Country: Oceania / Fiji flag Fiji
Description:
Judges report, Montana NZ Book Awards 2000: "This is an excellent story, beautifully written and skillfully mixing the personal with the political."

163.

Storm Echo by Nalini Singh EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Oceania / Fiji flag Fiji
Description:
New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh takes us into the hearts of two fractured people in a world on the brink of a psychic Armageddon . . . Silence has fallen. The Psy are free to feel emotion. Free to love. But Silence was never a prison for Ivan Mercant. The biggest threat to his future lies dormant in his brain—a psychic monster that wants only to feed. And now, the brutal leash he’s kept on that monster is slipping. He prepared for this day, for the end of Ivan Mercant . . . but that was before he met Lei. As primal as she is human, this wild changeling brings color into his life... continue
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164.

Caressed By Ice by Nalini Singh EN

Rating: 5 (5 votes)
Country: Oceania / Fiji flag Fiji
Description:
The author of Shards of Hope and Shield of Winter presents a Psy/Changeling novel in which two people who know evil intimately must unlock the good within their icy hearts… As an Arrow, an elite soldier in the Psy Council ranks, Judd Lauren was forced to do terrible things in the name of his people. Now a defector, his dark abilities have made him the most deadly of assassins—cold, pitiless, unfeeling. Until he meets Brenna… Brenna Shane Kincaid was an innocent before she was abducted—and had her mind violated—by a serial killer. Her sense of evil runs so deep, she fears she could become a kil... continue

165.

Quiet in Her Bones by Nalini Singh EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Oceania / Fiji flag Fiji
Description:
In this gripping thriller set in New Zealand, New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh takes you into the twisted world of an exclusive cul-de-sac located on the edge of a sprawling forest. My mother vanished ten years ago. So did a quarter of a million dollars in cash. Thief. Bitch. Criminal. Now, she's back. Her bones clothed in scarlet silk. When socialite Nina Rai disappeared without a trace, everyone wrote it off as another trophy wife tired of her wealthy husband. But now her bones have turned up in the shadowed green of the forest that surrounds her elite neighborhood, a haven of ... continue

166.

A Disappearance in Fiji by Nilima Rao EN

Rating: 4 (3 votes)
Country: Oceania / Fiji flag Fiji
Description:
A charming debut historical mystery set in 1914 Fiji.

167.

Chalo Jahaji : On a Journey Through Indenture in Fiji by Brij V. Lal EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Oceania / Fiji flag Fiji
Description:
Indians of the indentured diaspora have a remarkable lot in common. Meeting as 'foreign' students in India, the girmitiya descendants from Guyana, Mauritius, Fiji and Natal immediately develop a close bonding because of their use of common words, similarity of names, culinary preferences and transported texts. In similar manner, when Brij Lal visited Trinidad in 1998, both his physical as well as his spiritual being enabled him to blend immediately with his Bhojpuri brethren in Chinidad Tapu. His book, Chalo Jahaji, focusses ostensibly on the girmit experience in Fiji. It seeks to tell the sto... continue


169.

Atoll Politics : The Republic of Kiribati by Howard Van Trease EN

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Country: Oceania / Kiribati flag Kiribati
Description:
Edited by Howard Van Trease, but including Kiribati authors.

170.

Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia by Evelyn Flores, Emelihter Kihleng EN

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Country: Oceania / Kiribati flag Kiribati
Description:
For the first time, poetry, short stories, critical and creative essays, chants, and excerpts of plays by Indigenous Micronesian authors have been brought together to form a resounding—and distinctly Micronesian—voice. With over two thousand islands spread across almost three million square miles of the Pacific Ocean, Micronesia and its peoples have too often been rendered invisible and insignificant both in and out of academia. This long-awaited anthology of contemporary indigenous literature will reshape Micronesia’s historical and literary landscape. Presenting over seventy authors and one ... continue