There are stories that stay with you, words that resonate. They leave impressions, an imprint of their weight, well after the work of reading is done.
Here are just a few from my list:
Novels
Mateship with Birds by Carrie Tiffany
The Minnow by Diana Sweeney
Mr Pip by Lloyd Jones
Past the Shallows by Favel Parrett
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
1933 Was a Bad Year by John Fante
Of a Boy by Sonya Hartnett
The Spare Room by Helen Garner
The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht
Short Stories
‘Singing my Sister Down’ by Margo Lanagan
‘Incarnations of Burned Children’ by David Foster Wallace
‘Pressure Okay’ by Jennifer Down
Foreign Soil short story collection by Maxine Beneba Clarke