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The titles included in the longlist for this year's Miles Franklin Literary Award offer a breadth of narrative forms and styles.

The summer break is a great time to catch up on those books you've been meaning to read, but haven't got around to. Here are CityMag's recommendations based on our favourites for the year.

Stone Yard Devotional is a chronicle of a huge problem in our time: the sense of futility in all our efforts to amend. By Juliette Hughes

Our books columnist delves into an eclectic selection this month: two excellent new literary novels by Charlotte Wood and Lucy Treloar set in isolated rural Australia, the moving life story of ‘The Fonz’, and Kaz Cooke’s companion to menopause.

The narrator of Charlotte Wood’s new novel has shed her life to live with nuns. The world intrudes in the form of COVID, a mouse plague and recovered bones, delivered by someone from her past.

Charlotte Wood’s latest novel imagines a woman turning her back on her life in the search for something meaningful.

As Charlotte Wood was writing her latest book, she got cancer. As did her two sisters. But the acclaimed novelist is determined that her work is not despairing

Each month, Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

Set at a rural Australian monastery, with a minimal plot and a looming climate catastrophe, this is a book of introspection – and of despair

From Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon to Olivia Rodrigo’s long-awaited follow-up album, there’s plenty to look forward to.