2008 books
22) Doris Pilkington (Nugi Garimara), Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, 1996
Pilkington's mother Molly was one of three young Aboriginal girls who in 1931 made a 1,600-kilometre trek back home through the Western Australia desert, mostly barefoot and without maps, after their escape from the Moore River Native Settlement near Perth. Despite her fictionalisation of the factual backbone of the story this often feels like an academic paper, though this isn't a book to be criticised for its schizophrenic style, the story itself is impressive enough though I have yet to see the film. Recommended.