Christos Tsiolkas

Christos Tsiolkas is a literature and fiction author from Melbourne that is best known for his novel “The Slap.” He likes to style himself a film critic, essayist, playwright and award winning author of several short story collections and more than half a dozen novels. Tsiolkas was born to Greek parents but was born and spent much of his life in Australia. He had some discouragement from very early on as The first time he told his mother that he intended to pursue a career as an author, she told him that he was never going to make it as he would die on the streets, poor and alone.

The best place to start is the Australian Screen Classics series, the earliest of Christos Tsiolkas's multi-book series: it opens with The Devil's Playground (2002) and runs to 12 books across 2002–2020, ending with Mad Dog Morgan (2020). Christos Tsiolkas's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Christos Tsiolkas has 63 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1995 and 2025. 46 of them belong to 3 named series — the largest being the Australian Foreign Affairs series with 23 books — and 17 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Christos Tsiolkas's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Australian Screen Classics (2002–2020, 12 books), Australian Foreign Affairs (2017–2025, 23 books) and Writers on Writers (2017–2022, 11 books).

This guide splits Christos Tsiolkas's 63 books into 3 named series and 17 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Australian Foreign Affairs (23 books, 2017–2025); Australian Screen Classics (12 books, 2002–2020); Writers on Writers (11 books, 2017–2022).