
The Battle of Hackham Heath is the second novel in the Ranger's Apprentice: The Early Years series written by Australian author John Flanagan. It was first released in Australia on 31 October 2016, and in the United States on 29 November 2016. The series serves as a prequel to the Ranger's Apprentice series, and is a direct sequel to a story in The Lost Stories.

The Best of Adam Sharp is a 2016 novel by Australian novelist Graeme Simsion. The work was first published on 19 September 2016 in Australia / New Zealand by Text Publishing. English-language rights have been sold worldwide. Translation rights have been sold in Czech, Estonian, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, and Polish. Movie rights have been optioned to Vocab Films with Toni Collette attached to play the role of Angelina.

The Four Legendary Kingdoms is the fourth thriller novel in the Jack West Jr. series, by the Australian writer Matthew Reilly.

The Ghostfaces is the sixth installment in the Brotherband novel series by Australian author John Flanagan. It was released on 14 June 2016 in the United States. In this sixth book in the action-packed Brotherband Chronicles, the Herons find themselves in unfamiliar lands and prepare for battle with a ruthless, unknown enemy.

The Good People is a 2016 novel by Australian author Hannah Kent.

Play With Knives is a novel by the Australian author Jennifer Maiden. Maiden wrote the original manuscript in the early 1980s, and it was published in an abridged form by Allen & Unwin in 1990. It was translated into German by dtv Verlagsgesellschaft as Ein Messer im Haus in 1994. Quemar Press published the novel digitally in an updated edition in 2016, and published it in a paperback edition in 2018, combining it with its unpublished sequel, Play With Knives: Two: Complicity. Play With Knives is the first book in Maiden's Play With Knives Quintet of novels.

Truly Madly Guilty is a novel by Australian author Liane Moriarty. It tells the story of Sam and Clementine, an ordinary yet busy married couple trying to balance work and family life. After the couple is invited by Clementine's old friend Erika to a neighbor's barbecue party, a spiral of intrigue, lust, and betrayal is unleashed. The book was published in July 2016 by Flatiron Books.