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What are your favourite books that deserve to be better known? 7 literary experts share theirs

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By James Ley, Alexander Cothren, Delia Falconer, Emmett Stinson, Georgia Phillips, John Kinsella, Sascha Morrell, Tegan Bennett Daylight
| The Conversation Verified
Recognised classics and bestsellers tend to hog the literary limelight. But dedicated readers know there are plenty of great books out there that don’t necessarily get the attention they deserve. There is a particular pleasure in an unexpected recommendation or new discovery, so we asked some literary experts to nominate their favourite obscure book. We were looking for lost treasures, works they think deserve to be better known – and they gave us some excellent responses.
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People With No Charisma

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By Tegan Bennett Daylight
| The Saturday Paper Verified
Dutch writer Jente Posthuma’s first novel, People With No Charisma, was recently published in Australia. What I’d Rather Not Think About, her second, was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and is described on the Booker website as “razor-sharp, deliberately laconic, and often absurdly funny”. People With No Charisma is about an unnamed girl whose charismatic mother dies slowly of cancer in the living room, leaving the girl alone with her psychiatrist father.
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Flipping the bird at an old man wasn’t exactly in my playbook. It felt like a rupture

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By Tegan Bennett Daylight
| Inkl
‘Flipping the bird wasn’t something I wanted to be doing,’ writes Tegan Bennett Daylight. Composite: Guardian Design/Alamy Here’s a scene: I’m at a library on the outskirts of Melbourne. I’m “in conversation” with a librarian. It’s not possible to keep those words out of scare quotes, not if you’re aware of the small and faulty machine that keeps Australian book publicity moving.
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