Hey guys, it's Tilly and today I am here with some of the greatest Australian authors you guys need to read. So today's Australia day, which is quite a controversial day in Australia, it is pretty much also known as Invasion Day and although I could open a huge can of words, I'm not going to do that today. In fact, today I'm going to celebrate one of the greatest things to come out of Australia and that is the great YA Australian authors. I'm going to give you guys a huge list of great books by YA Australian authors and you guys should read them, spend your money on them, love them, and then move to Australia and you can all party here together. Alright, let's get started. As usual with most of my other videos, when I have a lot of books in them, I won't go into too much detail about the books, but if you guys would like to know more about any of these books, leave a comment below with a title of the book and I'll give you guys a mini review of it and hopefully you guys will love this. First up, we have in between days by Vicky Wakefield, I really enjoyed this in my first Vicky Wakefield book and I know I will be reading more and yeah, it was really good. It kind of resparks my love for outdoor cinemas. Melissa Cue has the incredible adventures of cinnamon gill and also my life in outer space. This is my favorite one by her so far though and I totally recommend it. It's a really fun contemporary, so if you guys like that, you should read this. Next up is a huge fantasy series and it was Open Newton by Isabel Carmody and when I say huge, I don't mean it's only wildly known, it is also like a huge series. This is the latest book released in the series. This is the first one. There you guys have the actual size difference. So like, you know, it's a lot of reading and a huge commitment, but it's totally worth it. I didn't interview with the author of this next book and I will leave a link to it below. So you guys can go and check it out and learn more about the book as well. But I can tell you guys now it's absolutely amazing and that is where by Nate Catti and it's fantastic standalone novel. So it's really good, really quick and you guys know it's gonna be all resolved by the end. Sort of. Australia has a bunch of great contemporary authors and that includes AJ Betts who read Zach and Mia and AJ Betts is a lot in the book world. So if you guys haven't heard of her, you guys should read her book and then just fall in love with her. Next up we have Risk by Flore Ferris. This is a really good book about online predators. It's a really good middle grade slash YA book. I met this next author a while ago and she is absolutely amazing and funny and perfect in every single way and that is Shivon Plaza and Shiro Franky and you guys should really read this book and also keep an eye out for her future ones. Yellow by Jake Emigasin. It was at this moment that he knew he fucked up. And this is another fantastic book. I always kind of forget to mention this one but it definitely deserves all the hype that surrounds it. This next one is a trilogy and I probably wouldn't say it's YA. I'd say it's pretty much more of an adult series but it is freaking fantastic. I've talked about it enough for you guys to know that the first book is not very good in my opinion but the other two in the series are fucking great. I'm sorry to swear but it's totally Australian to do it. And that one is Captive Prince by C.S. Packet and Seriously Guys is such a good series. The first one deals a lot with sexual abuse and rape and a lot of different triggers. So if you guys are not prepared for that, I don't recommend reading this but if you guys do, then I highly recommend this series. It is really, really good. This next series is like huge and the authors are both Australian and I very much love them. I really enjoy their books and I've met one of the authors before and he was absolutely amazing. And that is Amy Kaufman and Jay Christoff and they wrote the Illuminaire files which is Illuminaie and Gemina which are released so far. Amy Kaufman also co-wrote the Starbound trilogy and Jay Christoff is also the author of Never Night as well. I feel super lucky because I've actually met so many of these authors. But this next author, when I met her, went out for like dinner afterwards and she was so nice and funny and her books are freaking fantastic and she's just amazing, amazing. And that is Lynn and Ony here at the Akane series. This is part of the Madoran Chronicles. The third book, Dray Korra, comes out soon which is going to be so good. I highly recommend you guys pick up these books if you guys like real easy fantasy books because they're so good. For this next author, a quick and fun fact, she was actually my high school English teacher and she has written some amazing books that are perfect for schools and like middle grade and YA books that helped deal with a lot of different problems like anxiety, drugs and depression and bullying and everything like that and she is just fantastic in the way that she writes it. My all time favorite book by her, there was The Strang Avalon and I noticed by Kate McCaffrey, her other books include In ecstasy, crashing down, beautiful monster and also her latest one which is saving jazz. Next up, we have one of the all-time great Australian authors and that is John Marson who wrote the Tomorrow and the War began series. This book is a Madoran film and a TV series and I highly recommend that you guys check out the TV series because it's actually really, really good but I need a bigger audience so they can continue doing more seasons of it and we really, really want that so please go and watch it and really enjoy it. Next up, we have another really, really great author. I have once again met him in person and he is so funny and that one is Wilka Starkus who wrote the sidekicks and the first third and if you guys watch my videos enough, you know how much I love the sidekicks it is one of my all-time favorite books and I highly recommend it. And of course, we have my all-time favorite Australian author, The Great, The Talented, The Beautiful Me, I mean Marcus Susak. He wrote the absolutely phenomenal The Book Thief, which I have nine editions of, one is not currently on the shelf. Here at I in the message, I currently have four editions of One is Not on the shelf. And lastly, he wrote Underdogs, which is like a three-minute book series which is pretty good but it's not as good as The Messenger in The Book Thief. But basically, he's fantastic and if you guys don't know by now, you should definitely read him and he's one of my all-time favorites. And for my last YA Australian author that I have really enjoyed, it is Melina Marquetta. And Melina Marquetta has so many amazing books, but my favorite of all time would have to be On the Jellico Road, close second would be looking for Ella Brandy. Then you also have the Piper's son and saving Francesca and choose other series as well like Finneken on the Rock, which I haven't even read yet, but I can guarantee that every single book that she writes will be amazing. I know that there are so many more amazing Australian authors out there but these are just my favorites. You guys should leave a comment below with your favorite Australian authors and hopefully you guys have a wonderful bookish day and that great things happen to you. Thank you for watching and don't forget to check out my other social media. I have my Instagram links down below where I share plenty of bookish photos. My good reason for you guys can read my pretty rambling and crazy reviews and also my Tumblr blog, which has pretty much everything on there. Hopefully I'll see you guys again next time. So basically, the first half of this video is going to meet you guys tips, tricks and advice on how to book cheap and whether you go should book cheap or not. And the second half will be my story on it.