Anthologies#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| 10 Short Stories You Must Read This Year |
2009 |
Buy |
| The Best Australian Essays: A Ten-Year Collection |
2011 |
Buy |
| My Mother, My Father: On Losing a Parent |
2013 |
Buy |
Australians Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Australians: Origins to Eureka |
2009 |
N/A |
| Origins to Eureka |
2009 |
Buy |
| Eureka to the Diggers |
2011 |
Buy |
| Australians: Flappers to Vietnam |
2009 |
N/A |
| Flappers to Vietnam |
2014 |
Buy |
| A Short History |
2017 |
Buy |
Children’s#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Roos In Shoes |
2003 |
Buy |
Non-Fiction#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Moses The Lawgiver |
1975 |
Buy |
| Outback |
1984 |
Buy |
| Australia: Beyond the Dreamtime |
1987 |
Buy |
| Now and in Time to Be |
1991 |
Buy |
| The Place Where Souls Are Born |
1992 |
Buy |
| Our Republic |
1993 |
Buy |
| Memoirs From A Young Republic |
1993 |
Buy |
| The Utility Player |
1993 |
Buy |
| Homebush Boy |
1995 |
Buy |
| The Great Shame |
1997 |
Buy |
| American Scoundrel |
2002 |
Buy |
| A Commonwealth of Thieves |
2005 |
Buy |
| Dimsum |
2005 |
Buy |
| Searching for Schindler |
2007 |
Buy |
| A Bloody Good Rant |
2021 |
Buy |
Penguin Lives Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Abraham Lincoln |
1960 |
Buy |
| Mao Zedong: A Life |
1999 |
Buy |
| Mozart: A Life |
1999 |
Buy |
| Marcel Proust |
1999 |
Buy |
| Crazy Horse |
1999 |
Buy |
| Saint Augustine |
1999 |
Buy |
| James Joyce |
1999 |
Buy |
| Rosa Parks |
2000 |
Buy |
| Virginia Woolf |
2000 |
Buy |
| Woodrow Wilson |
2000 |
Buy |
| Herman Melville |
2000 |
Buy |
| Leonardo da Vinci: A Life |
2000 |
Buy |
| Dante |
2001 |
Buy |
| Jane Austen |
2001 |
Buy |
| Buddha |
2001 |
Buy |
| Simone Weil |
2001 |
Buy |
| Andy Warhol: A Biography |
2001 |
Buy |
| Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life |
2001 |
Buy |
| Joseph Smith |
2002 |
Buy |
| Winston Churchill: A Life |
2002 |
Buy |
| Pope John XXIII |
2002 |
Buy |
| Charles Dickens |
2002 |
Buy |
| Elvis Presley |
2002 |
Buy |
| Saint Therese of Lisieux |
2003 |
Buy |
| Robert E. Lee |
2003 |
Buy |
| Frank Lloyd Wright: A Life |
2004 |
Buy |
| George Herbert Walker Bush |
2004 |
Buy |
| Napoleon |
2006 |
Buy |
| Julia Child |
2007 |
Buy |
| Joan of Arc |
2008 |
Buy |
| Martin Luther |
2008 |
Buy |
| Branch Rickey: A Life |
2011 |
Buy |
Point In Time Collection Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Ash Wednesday |
2022 |
Buy |
| We Are Bone and Earth |
2022 |
Buy |
| Naomi’s Gift |
2022 |
Buy |
| A Wild Rose |
2022 |
Buy |
| Alison’s Conviction |
2022 |
Buy |
| Landing |
2022 |
Buy |
| Mother Swamp |
2022 |
Buy |
Short Stories/Novellas#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Blackberries: Allen & Unwin shorts |
2012 |
Buy |
Standalone Novels#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Place at Whitton |
1964 |
Buy |
| The Fear |
1965 |
Buy |
| Bring Larks And Heroes |
1967 |
Buy |
| Three Cheers for the Paraclete |
1968 |
Buy |
| The Survivor |
1969 |
Buy |
| A Dutiful Daughter |
1971 |
Buy |
| The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith |
1972 |
Buy |
| Blood Red, Sister Rose of the Maid of Orleans |
1974 |
Buy |
| Gossip from the Forest |
1975 |
Buy |
| Season In Purgatory |
1977 |
Buy |
| Victim of the Aurora |
1977 |
Buy |
| Ned Kelly and the City of the Bees |
1978 |
Buy |
| Confederates |
1979 |
Buy |
| Passenger |
1979 |
Buy |
| Cut Rate Kingdom |
1980 |
Buy |
| Schindler’s List / Schindler’s Ark |
1982 |
Buy |
| A Family Madness |
1985 |
Buy |
| Playmaker |
1987 |
Buy |
| To Asmara / Towards Asmara |
1989 |
Buy |
| Act Of Grace |
1989 |
Buy |
| By The Line |
1989 |
Buy |
| Flying Hero Class |
1991 |
Buy |
| Woman of the Inner Sea |
1992 |
Buy |
| Jacko: The Great Intruder |
1994 |
Buy |
| A River Town |
1995 |
Buy |
| Bettany’s Book |
2000 |
Buy |
| The Tyrant’s Novel |
2003 |
Buy |
| Office of Innocence |
2003 |
Buy |
| The Widow and Her Hero |
2007 |
Buy |
| The People’s Train |
2009 |
Buy |
| An Angel in Australia |
2011 |
Buy |
| The Daughters of Mars |
2012 |
Buy |
| Shame and the Captives |
2013 |
Buy |
| Napoleon’s Last Island |
2015 |
Buy |
| Crimes of the Father |
2016 |
Buy |
| Two Old Men Dying |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Pact |
2020 |
Buy |
| The Dickens Boy |
2020 |
Buy |
| The Book of Science and Antiquities |
2020 |
Buy |
| Corporal Hitler’s Pistol |
2021 |
Buy |
The Monsarrat Mystery Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Soldier’s Curse |
2017 |
Buy |
| The Unmourned |
2019 |
Buy |
| The Ink Stain |
2019 |
Buy |
| The Power Game |
2020 |
Buy |
Tom Keneally Children’s#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Roos In Shoes |
2003 |
Buy |
Thomas Keneally is one of Australia’s most prominent living writers, with a career that began in 1964 and has produced over forty novels along with substantial non-fiction work. His novel Schindler’s List (1982) won the Booker Prize and became the basis for Steven Spielberg’s film, bringing Keneally international recognition.
Beyond that landmark book, Keneally has written widely about Australian history, wartime experience, and moral dilemmas in settings that range from colonial Australia to World War I nursing stations to Napoleonic exile. His Australians series is a major work of popular history, and The Monsarrat Mystery books, co-written with his daughter Meg Keneally, show him still active and experimenting well into his career.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has Thomas Keneally written?
Thomas Keneally has written 110 books across ten series.
What was Thomas Keneally's first book?
Thomas Keneally’s first book is Abraham Lincoln, published in 1960.
What is Thomas Keneally best known for?
Keneally is best known for Schindler’s List (1982), originally published as Schindler’s Ark, which won the Booker Prize and was adapted by Steven Spielberg into the 1993 film. The book tells the true story of Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved over a thousand Jewish lives during the Holocaust.