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Gold Coast Book Lovers - Other Books Reviewed by Month and Year

Nov-05 The Hunting Gun by Yasushi Inoue Fugitive Pieces by Ann Michaels The Schopenhauer Cure by Irvin Yalom Grave Secrets by Kathy Reichs

Dec-05 My Year of Meats by Ruth L.Ozeki Blink by Malcolm Gladwell The diviner’s son by Gary Crew The Raphael Affair by Iain Pears The Titian Committee by Iain Pears

Jan-06 The South by Colm Toibin The Heather Blazing by Colm Toibin Open Secrets- Taft -Ann Patchett The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen The tipping point by Malcolm Gladwell One crowded hour - Tim Bowden

Feb-06 Small Island By Andrea Levy by We need to talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver Saving fish from drowning by Amy Tan– Ice Station by Matthew Reilly Pomegranate soup by Marsha Mehran The fatal shore by Robert Hughes

Mar-06 The city of falling angels by John Berendt Prochownik’s dream by Alex Miller Coldheart Canyon by Clive Barker The virgin’s lover by Philippa Gregory

Apr-06 The Tyrannicide Brief by Geoffrey Robertson Atonement: a novel by Ian McEwan The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown Cell by Stephen King– The day of the locust by Nathanael West Incidents in the Rue Laugier by

May-06 Looking for Blackfella's Point by Mark McKenna Theft: A love story by Dark Visions by Stephen King, George R.R. Collins and Dan Simmons Youth (or Boyhood: Scenes From a Provincial Life) by J.M.Coetzee Past Mortem by Ben Elton Daniel isn‘t talking by Marti Leimbach The hottest day of the year by Brinda Charry

Jun-06 The possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq Children of the Lucky Country? by F. Stanley, S. Richardson & M Prior Sacrament by Clive Barker Lighthousekeeping by Jeannette Winterson To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler Digging to America by Anne Tyler

Jul-06 Dina’s Book by Herbjorg Wassmo Hanna’s Daughters by Marianne Fredriksson Scarecrow by Matt Reilly The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate Di Camillo

Aug-06 Embers by Sandor Marai Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux

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Regeneration by Illywhacker by Peter Carey Aftermath by Peter Robinson- The Ballad of Desmond Kale by Roger McDonald– There, Where the Pepper Grows by Bem le Hunte–

Sep-06 Flesh by Richard Laymon A New World by Amit Chaudhuri Johnno by David Malouf Henry and Cato by - Tell me I’m here by Ann Deveson-

Oct-06 Kafka on the shore by Haruki Murakami Neuromancer by William Gibson, Odd Thomas By Dean Koontz In Cold Blood by Truman Capote The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fford- Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami– Conversations At Curlow Creek by David Malouf The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien

Nov-06 A Fine Balance by Virtual Light by William Gibson The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon Every Move You Make by David Malouf The Harsh Cry of the Heron by Lian Hearn The vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Going West by Maurice Gee Plumb By Maurice Gee The Potato Factory by Bryce Courtenay

No other books in Dec 06

Jan-07 The Road by Cormac Mc Carthy The Dress maker by Rosalie Ham The Book of salt by Monique Truong The High Flyer by Nicholas Shakespeare Earthly Possessions by Ann Tyler

Feb-07 Silk by Alessandro Baricco One man's meat by E B White Papa Hemingway By A E Hotchner Pattern Recognition by William Gibson Count Zero by William Gibson Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson The Twyborn Affair by Patrick White The Turning by Tim Winton In the Shadow of Angkor: A Search for Cambodian Literature by Sharon May Women in the Background by Barry Humphries The Known World by EP Jones

Mar-07 The red pony by John Steinbeck The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe The view from Castle Rock by Alice Munro Journey to the Stone Country by Alex Miller Forever Odd by Dean Koontz Brother Odd by Dean Koontz A 1000 Acres by Jane Smiley The Underpainter by The Even More Complete Book of Australian Verse by John Clarke

Apr-07 No! I Don’t Want To Join A Book Club by Virginia Ironside Altar Ego by Kathy Lette The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien The Unknown Terrorist by The Prestige by Christopher Priest In The Lake Of The Woods by Tim O’Brien Wild Fire by Nelson DeMille

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May-07 Let Me Sing You Gentle Songs by Linda Olsson Careless by Deborah Robertson Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life by Michael Dirda Snow Falling On Cedars by David Guterson Nabokov’s Quartet by Vladimir Nabokov Borneo Fire by William Rivière Immortality by Milan Kundera

Jun-07 Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald East of Time by Jacob G. Rosenberg Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor E.Frankl The Patron Saint Of Eels by Gregory Day The Geographer’s Library by Jon Fasman Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson Almost French by Sarah Turnbull

Jul-07 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins Rushing to Paradise by J.G Ballard Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Lisey’s Story by Stephen King

Aug-07 She Came To Stay by Simone de Beauvoir Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Dream Stuff by David Malouf The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera Blaze by Richard Bachman Lies by Enrique de Hériz Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks Abarat by Clive Barker A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian by Marina Lewycka

Sep-07 Spook Country by William Gibson A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick Black Wind by F. Paul Wilson

Oct-07 After Dark by Haruki Murakami Orlando by Virginia Woolf Unpolished Gem by Alice Pung Sing and Don’t Cry by Cate Kennedy Empire of the Sun by J.G.Ballard The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea

Nov-07 The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson The Children Of Men by P.D.James by Day Of The Bees by Thomas Sánchez Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier The Schoonermaster’s Dance by Alan Gould

Dec-07 Fairyland by Paul J. McAuley Skin and Bone by Kathryn Fox The Second Bridegroom by Rodney Hall Journeys: Modern Australian Short Stories edited by Barry Oakley

Jan-08 Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson Portrait Of The Artist As An Old Man by Joseph Heller Candide By Voltaire Flying Hero Class by Tom Keneally The Story Of The Night by Colm Tóibín

Feb-08 Malicious Intent by Kathryn Fox Reading In Bed by Susan Gee Boule De Suif or Ball Of Fat by Guy de Maupassant

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Sexing The Cherry by Jeanette Winterson A Closed Eye by Anita Brookner Angels And Insects by A.S.Byatt The Master by Colm Tóibín

Mar-08 No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy The Mist by Stephen King His Illegal Self by Peter Carey Marie by Madeleine Bourdouxhe Faultlines by Nancy Huston Chain Of Evidence by Garry Disher The Boy In The Stripped Pyjamas by John Boyne The Shifting Fog by Kate Morton

Apr-08 The Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck Duma Key by Stephen King The Lady Vanishes by Ethel Lina White The Dig Tree by Sara Murgatroyd

May-08 Breath by Tim Winton Sleepwalking Land by Mia Couto Solstice by Joyce Carol Oates The Pillars of The Earth by Ken Follett by Talking about O’Dwyer by C.K. Stead The Painted Veil by Somerset Maugham

Jun-08 by Thea Astley The Broken Shore by Peter Temple The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë The Book is Dead by Sherman Young 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo The Lucy Family Alphabet by Judith Lucy

Jul-08 Winterdance by Gary Paulsen A Prisoner of Birth by Jeffrey Archer The Good Parents by Joan True Blue? Compiled by Peter Goldsworthy The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott-Fitzgerald I'm Not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke Suite Françoise by Irène Némirovsky Why Manners Matter by Lucinda Holdforth Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts

Aug-08 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott-Fitzgerald Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz Gone, Baby, Gone by Dennis Lehane A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch Chocky by John Wyndham

Sep-08 The Boat by Nam Le Tumble Home by Amy Hempel Contact by Carl Sagan Sky Burial by Xinran

Oct-08 The Counterfeiters by André Gide Fine Just The Way It Is by Annie Proulx On Rage by Germaine Greer The Enchantress Of Florence by The Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

Nov-08 The Writing Class by Jincy Willet The Return Of The Solider by Rebecca West The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison The Rip by Robert Drewe–

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Dec-08 Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert Heinlen The War Of Don Emmanuel’s Nether Parts by Louis De Bernières How Beautiful It Is And How Easily It Can Be Broken: Essays by Daniel Mendelsohn

Jan-09 The Collected Stories by Grace Paley Blindness by Jose Saramago Salmon Fishing In The Yemen by Paul Torday My Wicked, Wicked Ways by Errol Flynn The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet by Colleen McCullough

Feb-09 Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott Tomorrow When The War Began by John Marsden The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas The White Tiger by The Tall Man by Chloe Hooper A Fraction Of The Whole by Steve Toltz Your Heart Belongs To Me by Dean Koontz

Apr-09 The Help by Kathryn Stockett The Pleasures And Sorrows Of Work by Alain de Botton Why Not Catch 21? The Stories Behind The Titles by Gary Dexter The Sex Diaries:Why Women Go Off Sex And Other Bedroom Battles by Bettina Arndt Other Bedroom Battles by Bettina Arndt

May-09 Ransom by David Malouf Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd Too Close To Home by Linwood Barclay Ice by Louis Nowra UFO In Her Eyes by Xialu Guo The Other Hand by Chris Cleave

Jun-09 Planet Google by Randolph Stross Leave me alone by Murong Xuecun by DBC Pierre In the Land of Invisible Women by Qanta A.Ahmed

Jul-09 Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson Butterfly by Sonya Hartnett The Awakening by Kate Chopin On Humbug by Robert Dessaix Dog On It by Spencer Quinn Le Testament Français by Andrei Makine One Whole And Perfect Day by Judith Clarke A Spot Of Bother by Mark Haddon The Stone Raft by José Saramago

Aug-09 Guilt About The Past by Bernhard Schlink The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton Once Upon The River Love by Andrei Makine Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf The Hours by Michael Cunningham

Sep-09 Tom is dead by Marie Darrieussecq

Nov-09 Gigi and The Cat by Colette The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro Confucius from the Heart by Yu Dan

Dec-09 The Lost Art of Sleep by Michael McGirr 1788 by David Hill The Comfort of Figs by Simon Cleary

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Jan-10 The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver The Housekeeper + Professor by Yoko Ogawa Noah’s Compass by Anne Tyler A Mirror Garden by Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian and Zara Houshmand

Feb-10 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout Beowulf On The Beach by Jack Murnighan–

Mar-10 Moral Disorder by The Year Of The Flood by Margaret Atwood In Conversation: Ben Naparstek Talks With 39 Great Writers Shrinking the World - The 4,000 Year Story of How Email Came to Rule Our Lives by John Freeman Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King– The Emancipator’s Wife by Barbara Hamly Death Of A River Guide by Richard Flanagan Stanley and Sophie: A Memoir - by Kate Jennings The City and The City by China Miéville Ask The Dust by John Fante

Apr-10 by The Innocent by Ian McEwan Me, Myself and Prague by Rachel Weiss All The Rivers Run by Nancy Cato The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho

May-10 Fit to Print by Joris Luyendijk Mrs Kimble by Jennifer Haigh The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett Tea Time For The Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier Ron McCoy’s Sea of Diamonds by Gregory Day

Jun-10 Lovesong by Alex Miller The Winter of Our Disconnect by Susan Maushart The Lighted Rooms Ruchard Mason The 10PM Question Kate de Goldi

Jul-10 The Stars My Destination (or Tiger, Tiger) by Alfred Bester The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker What Becomes A. L. Kennedy Poet's Choice by Edward Hirsch Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe The Harp in The South by Ruth Park Solar Ian McEwan

Aug-10

Camille Alexandre Dumas Day Out of Days Sam Shepard Close Range, Bad Dirt and Fine Just the Way It Is (Wyoming Series Trilogy) Annie Proulx

Sep-10 Petropolis by Anya Ulinich Home Truth by Carmel Bird Zero History By William Gibson The Invention of Curried Sausage by Uwe Timm Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Oct-10 The Well at the World’s End A.J. Mckinnon The Devil’s Advocate Morris West Last Night at Chateau Marmont Lauren Weisberger The Pain Chronicles Melanie Thernstrom Wolf Notes Judith Beveridge Charmed Lives Bruce Beaver

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The Devil’s Advocate Andrew Neiderman How Math Can Save Your Life James D. Stein

Nov-10 To Siberia Per Petterson I Curse The River of Love Per Petterson Virgin Earth Philippa Gregory A House in Fez Suzanna Clark

Dec-10 Something Beginning With… (UK) / The ABC Of Love (US) Sarah salway Reading The Brain Stanislas Dehaene At Home: A Short History of Private Life Bill Bryson On Chesil Beach Ian McEwan This Is How M. J. Hyland Summertime J. M. Coetzee The Matchmaker of Perigord Julia Stuart Reading The OED Ammon Shea A Guide to the Birds of East Africa Nicholas Drayson Conditions of Faith Alex Miller

Jan-11 In The Wake Per Petterson Hand Me Down World Lloyd Jones Player One Douglas Coupland Getting The Picture Sarah Salway Green On Capri: A Memoir Shirley Hazzard Maralinga Judy Nunn These Foolish Things Deborah Moggach The Empty Family Colm Toibin

Feb-11 Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self Danielle Evans Bird Cloud Annie Proulx

Mar-11 Super Sad True Love Story Gary Shteyngart Moxyland Lauren Beukes

Mar-11 Super Sad True Love Story Gary Shteyngart Moxyland Lauren Beukes

Apr-11 Beyond Black Hilary Mantel The Wave Susan Casey Scribbling The Cat:Travels With An African Soldier Alexandra Fuller

May-11 The Tiger's Wife Téa Obreht The Professor's House Willa Cather Legend of a Suicide David Vann Sanditon Jane Austen And Another Lady Billy Bathgate E. L. Doctorow The Glass Castle Jeanette Walls

Jun-11 Snake Kate Jennings Before I Go To Sleep S. J. Watson Ask The Dust John Fante 2:46 Aftershocks: Stories from the Japan Earthquake Jeff W. Richards Just My Type Simon Garfield

Jul-11 Just One More Thing Peter Falk The Great House Nicole Krause The Meaning of Life: Applying Philosophy to Life A. C. Grayling Lavinia Ursula Le Guin

Aug-11 There Should Be More Dancing Rosalie Ham Never Let Me Go The Social Animal David Brooks

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How To Be Alone Jonathan Franzen

Sep-11 Breakfast of Champions Kurt Vonnegut The Life Malcolm Knox The Addition Toni Jordan The Amateur Science Craig Sherbourne "The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai" Wang Anyi

Oct-11 Kafka's Soup Mark Crick Serpent's Delight Ruth Park The Bean Trees Barbara Kingsolver Shadow Karin Altvegen Due Preparations For The Plague Janette Turner Hospital

Nov-11 A Case Of Exploding Mangoes Mohammed Hanif The Quickening Michelle Hoover Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal Jeanette Winterson

Dec-11 The Map and The Territory Michel Houellebecq As I Lay Dying William Faulkner Chess Stefan Zweig Jimmy Corrigan: the Smartest Kid on Earth Chris Ware The Leftovers Tom Perrotta

Jan-12 The Promise of by Kari Gislason The Silver Pigs by Lindsay Davis 1Q84 by Harumi Murakami

Feb-12 Look at Me by Jennifer Egan Distrust that Particular Flavor by William Gibson The song of the lark by Willa Cather All that I am by Anna Funder Making it up by The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal Joseph Lyons: the people's prime minister by Anne Henderson The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser The Family Law by Benjamin Law

Mar-12 Sydney by Delia Falconer A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby Borrowed Finery by Paula Fox The shallows by Nicholass Carr Dangerous Women by Conville, Lovett and Hoggard

Apr-12 Spirit House by Mark Dapin A streetcat Named Bob by James Bowen An Essay on The New Aesthetic by Bruce Sterling

May-12 The fine colour of rust by Paddy O'Reilly As I was Saying by Robert Dessaix Absence of mind by Marilynne Robinson Foal's Bread by Gillian Mears

Jun-12 A Gay and melancholy sound by Merle Miller Fifty shades of grey by EL James How to be a woman by Caitlin Moran Caribou Island By Daid Vann The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Jul-12 The sly company of people who care by Rahul Battharchaya

Aug-12

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Our Lady of Alic Bhatti by Mohammed Hanif

Sep-12 The Biggest Estate on Earth by Bill Gammage The Detour by Gerbrand Bakker

Oct-12 Black Mountain by Venero Armanno Dirt by David Vann Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey by Fiona Carnarvon

Nov-12 Happy Valley by Patrick White This is how you lose her by Junot Diaz Swallow the Air by Tara June Winch A novel Bookstore by Laurence Cosse

Dec-12 Dear Life by Alice Munro Mindfulness for life by Stephen McKenzie and Craig Hassed

Jan-13 The Watch Tower by Elizabeth Harrower A sport and a pastime by James Salter A life of Montaigne in one question by Sarah Bakewell

Feb-13 Don't look now by Daphne du Maurier One Day I will write about this place by Binyavanga Wainaina The Best Australian Essays 2012 Across the Universe by Beth Revis Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell A Long Day's Evening by Bilge Karasu Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver The Childhood of Jesus by J M Cotzee

Mar-13 No nerwsletter

Apr-13 The last thing he wanted by Joan Didion Elephantoms by Lyall Watson It's fine by me by Per Petterson

May-13 Centuria by Giorgio Manganelli Why don't Zebras get ulcers? By Robert M.Sapolsky Women and Power Griffith Review No 40

Jun-13 I capture the castle by Dodie Smith Seven Sisters by Margaret Drabble Questions of travel by Michelle de Kretser

Jul-13 Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc The Lover by Marguerite Duras Dumb Luck by Vu Trong Phung The Quiet American by Graham Greene Night again: Contempoprary fiction from Vietnam by Linh Dinh When Heaven And Earth Changed Places by Le Ly Hayslip The happiest Fefugee buy Anh Doh The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton by

Aug-13 Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Nemesis by Philip Roth

Sep-13 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner Mr Wigg by Inga Simpson Burial Rites by Hannah Kent Good Morning Mr Sarra by Chris Sarra

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Life After Life by Kate Atkinson The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P by Adelle Waldman What The Psychic told The Pilgrim by Jane Christmas The Big New Yorker Book Of Dogs The Bodysurfers by Robert Drewe All Roads Lead To Austen by Amy Elizabeth Smith

Oct-13 The Turning by Tim Winton The Big New Yorker Book of Cats The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout A History of Silence by Lloyd Jones Eyrie by Tim Winton Brooklyn by Colm Toibin The Happiness of Blond People by Elif Shafak

Nov-13 Stoner by John Williams The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion Religion for Atheists by Alain de Botton

Dec-13 The Flying Man by Roopa Farooki My Struggle Book 1, A death in the Family by Karl Ove Knausgaard I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai City of the mind by Penelope Lively One Summer America 1927 by Bill Bryson Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac

Jan-14 Spilt Milk by Chico Buarque The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles by Katherine Pancol Her Father's Daughter by Alice Pung Nice Work by Jana Wendt Restless by William Boyd The Commandant by Jessica Anderson The Puppet Boy of Warsaw by Eva Weaver Requiem for a wren by Nevil Shute The Woman in Black by Susan Hill Mullumbimby by Melissa Lukashenko The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch The Pure Gold Baby by Margaret Drabble Nest by Janine Burke Mezza Italiana by Zoe Boccabella Ragtime by E.L.Doctorow

Feb-14 The Power of habit by Charles Duhigg The artist's way at work Wilkie Collins by Peter Ackroyd A song of ice and fire by At Mrs Lippincote by My Driver by Maggie Gee Frankenstein by Mary Shelley The Matisse stories by A.S.Byatt From Curtin to Kerr by Fred Daly For one more day by Mitch Albom Fire Down Below by The little Friend by Donna Tartt The Railwayman's Wife by Ashley Hay The rendez-vosu by Daphen du Maurier

Mar-14 by The Beloved by Annah Faulkner All Change by Elizabeth Jane Howard The match maker of Perigord Fever by Mary Beth Keane Howards End on the landing by Susan Hill Love and lament by John Milliken Thompson

Apr-14 Boyhood Island by Karl Ove Knausgaard Nest by Janine Burke

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Dancing to the Flute by Manisha Jolie Amin Deserving death by Katherine Howell The Farm by Tom Rob Smith Astonished by Beverly Donofrio Sinning across Spain by Ailsa Piper Hobart by Peter Timms The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates One breath away by Heather Gudenkauf The collected works by A.J.Firky The unexpected professor by John Carey Budapest by Chico Buarque Night Letters by Robert Dessaix Letter from an unknown woman by Stefan Zweig A girl is a half formed thing by Eimear Mcbride A first place by David Malouf The News by Alain de Botton Les Belles Images by Simone de Beauvoir The Library of unrequited love Sophie Divry

May-14 Confessions of an art addict by Peggy Guggenheim The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman Madness a Memoir by Kate Richards The Conversation by David Brooks Tolstoy and the purple chairs Nina Sankovitch Les Darcy by Peter Fitzsimmons Sane New World by Ruby Wax Barcelona by Robert Hughes Reading like a writer by Francine Prose

Jun-14 Paris Stories by Getting stoned with savages The Messenger by Marcus Suzak Orpheus Lost by Janette Turner Hospital Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan Poems that make old men cry ed by Anthony Holden In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut

Jul-14 Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton All that Is by James Salter The Rosie Project Graeme Simsion Brandwashed by Martin Lindstrom Moonwalking with Einstein Joshua Foer Foreign Soil Maxine Beneba-Clarke The Night Guest Fiona McFarlane Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby The Blaze of Obscurity by Clive James Reading by Moonlight by Brenda Walker Africa Junction by Ginny Baily The Diving Bell and The Butterfly Jean-Dominque Bauby The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble Girt by David Hunt

Aug-14 How I rescued my brain by David Roland Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill 12 Edmonton St by David Malouf Martni: A Memoir by Earth Hour by David Malouf The forgotten rebels of Eureka by Clare Wright The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson Bonkers by Jennifer Saunders Art as therapy Alain de Botton and John Armstrong The life boat by Charlotte Rogan The Widow Clicot Leaving Microsoft to change the world by John Wood Born to Run by Christopher McDougall Darkness on the edge of town by Jessie Cole Nest by Inga Simpson

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Deeper Water by Jessie Cole The collected works of A.J.Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin The flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner Silence once begun by Jesse Ball Dinner at the homesick restaurant by Anne Tyler Songs from a distance by Bhuchung D Sonam All the land to hold us by Rick Bass Three crooked kings by Matthew Condon On the beach by Nevil Shute The Fault in our stars by John Green The Mitford girls by Mary S Lovell The miniaturist by Jessie Burton The Taint of Midas by Anne Zouroudi He who must be Obeid by Kate McClymont and Linton Besser

Oct-14 The heart is a lonely hunter by Carson McCullers The spectator bird by Wallace Stegner Lila by Marilynne Robinson Colorless Tsuru Tazaki by Harukli Murakami The Thrnbirds by Coleen McCullugh Bel Canto by Ann Patchett Jacks and Jokers by Matthew Condon The orphan master's son by Adam Johnson The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri We are all completely beside ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler The bone clocks by David Mitchell The last days of the incas by Kim McQuarrie Murder in the telephone exchange by June Wright

Nov-14 The Peripheral by William Gibson Daddy we hardly knew you by Germaine Greer Zealot by Reza Aslan Travels with Epicurus by David Klein Amnesia by Peter Carey Monster on the hill by Rob Harrel

Dec-14 The Intellectuals and the Masses by John Carey The Children Act by Ian McEwan Devil Bones by Kathy Reichs Big little lies by Liane Moriarty The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford Highland Fling by Nancy Mitford All the Birds Singing by Evie Wylde Thin Air by Ann Cleeves This House of Grief by Helen Garner An Inconvenient Genocide: Who Now Remembers the Armenians by Geoffrey Robertson Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer What Days are For by Robert Dessaix Waking up by Sam Harris Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood

Jan-15 I refuse by Per Petterson Ashes in my mouth, sand in my shoes by Per Petterson My family and other animals by Gerald Durrel The Golden Age by Joan London Goats from a small island by Anna Nicholas Floodline by Kathryn Heyman So brilliantly clever by v Papillon by Henri Charriere Shantaram by Gregory Davis Roberts Nothing if not critical by Robert Hughes The meaning of everything by Simon Winchester The Age Of Wonders by Richard Holmes The queen her lover and the most notorious spy in history by Roland Perry Still Alice by Lisa Genova All the light we cannot see by Anthony Doerr After Darkness by Christine Piper

Feb-15 Indian Nocturne by Antonio Tabucchi The Photograph by Penelope Lively Heart Songs by Annie Proulx Forty Stories by Anton Chekhov

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Open City by Teju Cole The Poet's Tale Chaucer and the year that made The Canterbury Tales by Paul Strohm The bush by Don Watson Big book of Numbers by Adam Spencer Lamentation by C.J.Sansom After the fire a still small voice by Evie Wyld A bone of fact David Walsh The last Word by Hanif Kureishi

Mar-15 Brother of the more famous Jack by Barbara Trapido Three letters from the Andes by Patrick Leigh Fermor Under the sun: The letters of Bruce Chatwin ed by E Chatwin and Nicholas Shakespeare The Aitch Factor by Susan Butler Under another sky: Journeys in Roman Britain by Charlotte Higgins Lady Susan by Jane Austen The Aitch Factor by Susan Butler The reef a passionate history by Iain McCalman Death comes to Pemberley by PD James Girl on the landing by Paul Torday The pile of stuff at the bottom of the stairs by Christina Hopkinson Summer house with swimming pool by Herman Koch What I love by Siri Hustvedt

Apr-15 Hunger by Knut Hamsun Dancing in the Dark by Karl Ove Knausgaard The snow Kimono by Mark Henshaw The Railwayman's wife by Ashley Hay The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac A Short History of Richard Kline by Amanda Lohrey The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doige The Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish by D Butterworth Leisureville by Andrew D Blechman Dear Life, on caring for the elderly by Karen Hitchcock Down and out in Paris and London G Orwell Judgement Day P Lively Amy and Isabelle by E Strout Never Any End to Paris The Sorrows of An American Siri Hustsvedt The Enchantment of Lilly Dahl Siry Hustsved A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin Bitter Wash Road by Garry Disher

May-15 Shakespeare by Bill Bryson 4 The Grapes Of Wrath John Steinbeck 3.5 As I walked Out of the Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee 3 Tasmania: the tipping point Griffiths Review 3 Hot Little Hands by Abigail Ulman 2.5 Thirteen Steps Down by Ruth Rendell 2 The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly by Sun Mi Hwang

Jun-15 Desert Queen by Janet Wallach, 4 H is for Hawk by Helen Mcdonald, 4 The reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida and David Mitchell,4 The Mermaid Coast, 3 Land's Edge by Tim Winton, 4 At Mrs Lippincote's by Elizabeth Taylor 3, 3.5, 4 The Little Book of the Icelanders by Alda Sigmundsdottir,3 The Seamstress by Maria Duenas, 2 Unto Dust By Herman Charles Bosman, 4

Jul-15 Passing On by Penelope Lively, 3 Light Years by Maggie Gee, 2 The Architecture of Happiness by Alain De Boton, 4 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, 4 The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford, 3.5 Submission by Michel Houellebecq, 4 The Simple Act of Reading, 3 Family Furnishings by Alice Munro, 4 Will you please be quiet, please? By Raymond Carver The Eye of the Sheep by Sofie Laguna, 3.5 Sing in the morning, cry at night, 3.5 The sea by John Banville,4

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Knowledge of Angels by Jill Paton Walsh, 4 Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda N Adichie, 3.5

Sep-15 The Sunlit Night, 4 This is the story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett, 3 The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry, 3.5 Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo, 4 A Literate Passion: Letters of Anais Nin and H Miller 1933-53, 3 The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel, 2.5 Angel by Elizabeth Taylor, 3.5 Ignorance by Milan Kundera, 4 To Play the King by Michael Dobbs,3 What Alice Forgot, Lian Moriarty, 3 Hello Beautiful by Hannie Rayson, 3.5 The Whites by Harry Brandt, 3.5 Jar City by Arnaldour Indridason, 3 Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood, 2 Love and the Platypus by Nicholas Drayson 3 The Widow and Her Hero by Thomas Kenneally, 3 , A life by Hermione Lee, 3.5 A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman,3.5 Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada, 4.5 Austerlitz by W.G.Sebald, 4 I am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes, 3 The Green Road by , 3.5 Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Mayomi Munaweera, 2.5

Oct-15 In the Walled Gardens, 3.5 Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, 2.5 Revolutionary Iran by Michael Axworthy The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante, 4 Those who leave and those who Stay by Elena Ferrante, 4 The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante, 4 The Museum of Extraordinary Things, 2.5 The dressmaker, 4 Beowulf, 3 Consequences by Penelope Lively, 3 Island Home by Tim Winton, 3.5 Animal People by Charlotte Wood, 4 The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K.Chesterton, 3 The Taming of the Queen by Philippa Gregory, 3 History o f the Rain by Niall Williams, 4 Widow Basquiat by Jennifer Clement,3 Ransacking Paris by Patti Miller, 2.5 Cavalier And Clay by Michael Chabon, 3 A god in ruins by Kate Atkinson, 3

Nov-15 Lilian's Story by Kate Grenville 4 The book of Emmett by Deborah Foster 3 One Summer by David Baldacci 2 The Ash Burner by Kari Gislason 3.5, 3 Older and Bolder by Renate Singer 3.5 True Stories by Helen Garner 4 Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt 3.5 Island Home by Tim Winton 5 Across the nightingale floor by Leanne Hearne 3 Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith 3.3 The dust that falls from dreams by Louis de Bernières 3 Fall girl by Tony Jordan 2.5 A long way from Verona by Jane Gardan 2.5 Women in Black by Madeleine St John 3 Snowdrops by A D Miller 3 The Strays by Emily Butto 3.5 Flesh wounds by Richard Glover 3.5 Spinster by Kate Bolick 3 Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki by Haruki Murakami 3.5

Dec-15 The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare 3 Hamlet by William Shakespeare 3.5 and 4 Purity by Jonathan Franzen 3.5 The Whites by Richard Price writing as Harry Brandt 4 A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor 3

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The Green Road by Anne Enright 3 and 3.5 Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín 3.5 Summer at Mount Hope by Rosalie Ham 3 Hungry Hill by Daphne du Maurier 2.5 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 4 Small Victories by Ann Lamott 1 The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens 4 A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 4 The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson 3.5 The Griffith Review: Looking West 3.5 The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood 4 In Tasmania by Nicholas Shakespeare 3.5 Etham Frome by Edith Wharton 3

Jan-16 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey 2 That Eye The Sky by Tim Winton 3.5 Skylight by Jose Saramago 2.5 The Common Reader by Alan Bennett 3 The Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 3 England, England by Julian Barnes 3 The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers 3.5 City of the Beasts Isabel Allende 2.4 Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary by Anita Anand 4.5 Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev by Robert Dessaix 3.5 Blue Guitar by John Banville 4 The Natural Way of things by Charlotte Wood 3 and 3.5 Animal People by Charlotte Wood 3 Doghead by Morten Ramsland 3 Flesh Wounds by Richard Glover 3 Preparations for the Next Life by Atticus Lish 4 Three Crooked Kings by Matthew Condon 3 In the Heart of the Sea:The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick

Feb-16 My name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout 4.5, 4.5, 4 & 4 A little life by Hanya Yanagihara 0 (Yes – 0 out of 5) Past the Shallows Favel Parrett 3 Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey 3 The Winter’s Tale by Shakespeare 3.5 The gap of time by Jeanette Winterson 3, 3.5 Jacks and Jokers by Matthew Condon 3 The Almost Nearly Perfect People: The Truth About the Nordic Miracle by Michael Booth 2.5 Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff 3 The Women in Black by Madeleine St John 4 The White Road by Edmund de Waal 3.5 The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George 2.5 The other side of the world by Stephanie Bishop 2.5 What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver 2.5, 4 Lilian’s Story by Kate Grenville 2, 4 Cloud Street by Tim Winton 3.5, 4 A strangeness in my mind by Orhan Pamuk 4 The discreet hero by Mario Vargas Llosa 3.5 and 3 The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk 3.4-5 Quartet (3), After leaving Mr. Mackenzie (3), Voyage in the Dark (2), Good morning midnight (2) by Jean Rhys How to be good by Nick Hornby 2.5 Levels of life by Julian Barnes 3 When the night comes by Favel Parrett 4 Ghost River by Tony Birch 2.5 Blood by Tony Birch 3 The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood 3.5 Preparations for the next life by Atticus Lish 3.5 Some Luck by Jane Smiley 4 Best Australian Essays 2015 4 especially: “Staying with the Trouble” by Sophie Cunningham (which won the 2015 Calibre Prize) 5 and “Regions of Thick-Ribbed Ice” by Helen Garner 4.

Mar-16 Island Home by Tim Winton 4 Family Furnishings by Alice Munro 5 The nature of passion by 3 A time of gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor 4 The third policeman by Flann O’Brien 2 (better one is At Swim-Two-Birds) Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert 2.5 The heart is a lonely hunter by Carson McCullers 4.5

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The little Paris Bookshop by Nina George 2.5 My Struggle Book 5, Some Rain Must Fall by Karl Ove Knausgaard 3.5 Independent People by Halldór Laxness 5 Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler 4 Euphoria by Lily King 4 Gutenberg’s apprentice by Alix Christie 3.5 Crazy rich Asians by Kevin Kwan 3.5 Not my father’s son by Alan Cumming 3 My name is Lucy Barton 3.5, 4, 2.5, 4 Fine Colour of Rust by P. A. O’Reilly 3.5 The bazaar of bad dreams by Stephen King 3.5 All fall down by Matthew Condon 3 Eureka by Peter Fitzsimons 4 The women’s pages by Debra Adelaide 4 The Joke by Milan Kundera 3 The Cutting Season by Attica Locke 3 The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright 3 The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel 3 and 4 Modern Love: The Story of John and Sunday Reed by Lesley Harding & Kendrah Morgan 4.

Apr-16 Under Cover: Adventures in the art of editing by Craig Munro, 2.5 Fever at Dawn by Péter Gárdos, 3 The year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, 3 American Housewife by Hellen Ellis, 3.5 Bonkers by Jennifer Saunders, 4. According to Yes by Dawn French, 2.5 Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War… by Jason Stearns, 4 The Laughing Clowns by William McInnes, 3 Cometh the hour by Jeffrey Archer, 2.5 by Hillary Mantel, 3 I am pilgrim by Terry Hayes, 3 Owls Do Cry by Janet Frame, 4 Selected Stories by Janet Frame, 4 The cove by Ron Rush, 2.5 Penguin and the Lane Brothers: The Untold Story of a Publishing Revolution by Stuart Kells, 4 I was only 16 by , 4

May-16 Etham Frome by Edith Wharton, 3.5 The natural way of things by Charlotte Wood ,3.5, 4 The taming of the queen by Philippa Gregory, 3 In other words by Jhumpa Lahiri, 3 This is Gail by Gail O’Brian, 3 Between a wolf and a dog by Blain, 4 Too close to home by by Georgia Blain, 2.5 Resilience by Ann Deveson Summer House with swimming pool by Herman Koch, 4 Past the shallows by Favel Parrett, 4 The fisherman by Chigozie Obioma, 4 The Whites by Richard Price writing as Harry Brandt, 3 The light on the water by Olga Lorenzo, 3.5 The living by Anjali Joseph, 4 The chimes by Anna Smaill Zero K by Don DeLillo, 4.5 Major Pettigrew’s last stand by Helen Simonson, 3 It started with Paris by Kathy Kelly, 2.5 Dinner at the homesick restaurant by Anne Tyler, 3.5 Hamlet’s Dresser by Bob Smith, 4 At Mrs Lippincote’s by Elizabeth Taylor, 4 Small Victories by Ann Lamott, 4 The truth according to us by Annie Barrows, 3

Jun-16 Boy Lost by Kristina Olson, 4. Mothering Sunday By , 4.5. A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler, 3.5. The Abundance by Annie Dillard, 4. Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust, 4. The Sheperd’s Life by James Rebanks, 3. A Model Childhood by Christa Wolf, 3.5. Everywhere I Look by Helen Garner 3.5. Landskipping by Anna Pavord, 3. The Bricks That Built The House by Kate Tempest, 3. The Sacred Combe by Thomas Maloney, 3. When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro, 3.

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The Road To little Dribble by Bill Bryson, 4. Falling Towards England by Clive James, 3.5. Winter of the World by Ken Follet, 3.5. Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler, 4. The Beginners Goodbye by Anne Tyler,3.5. Gilgamesh by Joan London, 3. The Course of Love by Alain de Botton, 4. How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff, 2.5. Fineflour by Gillian Mears, 3. Dark Palace by Frank Moorhouse, 3. The Attack by Jasmina Khadra, 3. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell, 3. The Midnight Watch by David Dyer, 4. I am Spock by Leonard Nimoy, 4. Where the Tress are by Inga simpson, 3.5. The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami, 4. Zone of Interest by Martin Amis, 4.

Jul-16 What days are for by Robert Dessaix 3.5. When we were orphans Kazuo Ishiguro 2.5. Three letters from the Andes by Patrick Leigh Fermor 4. The submerged cathedral by Charlotte Wood 4. Barkskins by Annie Proulx 4 Janet, 4 Nicola. The bricks that built the houses by Kate Tempest 3. Between a wolf and a dog by Georgia Blain 3. A whole life by Robert Seethaler 3. Road to ruin by Nikki Savva 3. Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe 3.5. An isolated incident by Emily Maguire 2.5. Hope farm by Peggy Frew 3. Red carpets by Rupert Everett 3. The magic faraway tree by Enid Blyton 3. Five on a treasure island by Enid Blyton 1. Dona Nicanora’s hat shop by Kirstan Hawkins 3. In the sanctuary of outcasts by Neil White 4. The Notebook Trilogy by Agota Kristof 4. The glorious heresies by Lisa McInerney 2.5. Only the animals by Ceridwen Dovey 4. The last painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith 3.5. The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal 4. How Proust can change your life by Alain be Botton 3. The course of love by Alain be Botton 3.5. The art of travel by Alain be Botton 3.5.

Aug-16 La Symphonie Pastorale and Isabelle by Andre Gide 3.5 The Sacred Balance by David Suzuki 4 The Dry by Jane Harper 4, 4 Wild Cat Falling by Colin Johnson 3 Teatime for the Firefly by Shonna Patel 3 This House of Grief by Helen Garner 4 Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Keran Desai 3.5 Barkskins by Annie Proulx 4 The Lover by Marguerite Dumas 4.5 Where Heaven and Earth Change Places by Le Ly Hayslip 4 The Fisherman by Chigozie Obioma 3 Dona Nicanora’s Hat Shop by Kirstan Hawkins 2.5 The submerged Cathedral by Charlotte Wood 3.5 The Awakening of Miss Prim by Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera 2 Past the Shallows by Favel Parrett 3 A Long Time Coming by Melanie Joosten 3.5 Between a Wolf and a Dog by Georgia Blain 4 Out in the Open by Jesus Carrasco 4 The soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery 3.5 The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion 3.5 Forever Young by Stephen Carroll 2.5 I capture the castle by Dodie Smith 3 Everywhere I look by Helen Garner 4, 4 Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift 3, 2 Drink Time in the Company of Patrick Leigh Fermor by Dolores Payás 3.5 The Night Manager by John le Carre 3 Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson 3.5 Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood 3.5

Sep-16 Out in the Open by Jesús Carrasco 3.5

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Hawaii by James A. Michener 4 The Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry 2.5 Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey 3 The 13th Disciple by Deepak Chopra 2.5 Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan 3 An Invisible Friendship by Joyce Grenfell and Katharine Moore 4 The soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery 3.5 Before The Fall by Noah Hawley 3 Swallow the Air by Tara June Winch 3 Promising Azra by Helen Thurloe 3 Hot Milk by Deborah Levy 3 What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi 4 The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks 3 The Informers by Gabriel García Vázquez 3 American Housewife by Helen Ellis 3.5 Blood Kin by Ceridwen Dovey 3.5 Beauty Is A Wound by Eka Kurniawan 2 Dumb Luck by Vũ Trọng Phụng 5 The Tiger Wife by Téa Obreht 4 The Bridge On The Drina by Ivo Andrić 2.5 Black Rock White City by A. S. Patric 4.5

Nov-16 Regions of Thick-Ribbed Ice by Helen Garner 3.5 All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 2.5 The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories of my life by John Le Carré 4 White City Black Rock by A S Patric 3 Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga 3.5 The Sympatizer Viet Thanh Nguyen 4 Great Meadow: an evocation by Dirk Bogarde 4 What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi 3 Hope Farm 3 The Turner House by Angela Flournoy 4 Older and Bolder by Renata Singer 2 Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama 3.5

Dec-16 The rules of Backyard Cricket Jock Serong 3.5. Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer 2.5. Flanuese by Lauren Elkin 2.5. The Tzar of love and techno by Anthony Marr 3.5. The course of love by Alain de Botton 3. The ministry of pain by Dubravka Ugresic 4. Where the trees were by Inga Simpson 3, 4. Wild cat falling by Colin Johnson 3.5. The life of houses by Lisa Gorton 4. The Turner house by Angela Flournoy 3.5. Agnes by Peter Stamm 2.5. The Dry by Jane Harper 2.5. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari 3

Jan-17 The Feel of Steel by Helen Garner, 3.5 Oranges are not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson, 4 Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days by Jeanette Winterson, 3.5, 3.5 & 3 Dumb Luck by Vu Trong Phung, 3 Life by Gwyneth A. Jones, 3.5 Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor, 3.5 The Notebook Trilogy by Agota Kristof, 4 Commonwealth by Ann Patchett, 4.5 & 4 Dancing Backwards by Sally Vickers, 2 Blame by Nicole Trope, 3 The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood, 3.5 Mullumbimby by Melissa Lucashenko, 3 A Manual for Cleaning Women, 4 & 4.5 The Life Changing Magic of not Giving a F@#k, 3 The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain, 3 The Dry by Jane Harper, 4 A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, 2.5

Feb-17 Difficult Women by Roxane Gay, 3.5 The Life Changing Magic of Tidying by Marie Kondo, 4 Spark Joy by Marie Kondo, 3 Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe, 3.5 Today will be different by Maria Semple, 3.5 The Notebook Trilogy by Agota Kristof, 5

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Lila by Marilynne Robinson, 4 Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance, 3 Catherine the Great, Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie, 3 Johnno by David Malouf, 4.5 Commonwealth by Ann Patchett, 4 Best Australian Essays 2016 ed. Geordie Williamson, 3.5 Flesh Wounds by Richard Glover, 4

Mar-17 About Grace by Anthony Doerr, 4. The Notebook Trilogy : The Notebook, The Proof and The Third Lie by Ágota Kristóf, 4.5. The Door by Magda Szabó, 3.5. Johnno by David Malouf,5. Harland’s Half-Acre by David Malouf, 4. An Isolated Incident by Emily Maguire, 3.5. The Whole Wild World by Thomas Dusevic, 2.5. Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada, 2.5. Silence by Shusaku Endo, 2. Moonglow by Michael Chabon, 4 Commonwealth Ann Patchett, 3.5 The Rector's Wife by Joanne Trollope, 3. A Village Affair by Joanna Trollope, 3. The Hate Race by Maxine Beneba Clark, 4. A Very English Scandal by John Preston, 3. The Shell Seekers by Rosamund Pilcher, 3. Barbed Wire and Cherry Blossoms by Anita Heiss, 4.

Apr-17 Animal Farm by George Orwell, 4 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, 3.5 A Hundred Small Lessons by Ashley Hay, 2.5 A bad Character by Deepti Kapoor, 2.5 Tender is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald, 3.5 Cold Earth by Ann Cleeves, 3 Quarterly essay No. 65: The White Queen by David Marr, 4 The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick, 3 Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healy, 3.5 The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson, 3

May-17 My cat Yugoslavia by Pajtim Statovci, 3.5 Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue, 2.5 Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout, 3.5, 3 and 3 A Bad Character by Deepti Kapoor, 3 Tirra Lirra by the River by Jessica Anderson, 4 The Constant Gardener by John Le Carre, 3.5 The Pleasures of Leisure by Robert Dessaix, 4 Tenth of December by , 3 On Learning Norwegian by Lydia Davis, 4 Position Doubtful by Kim Mahood, 3.5 Inn by Daphne Du Maurier, 3 The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin, 3.5 Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi, 3.5 The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing, 3 NUMBER9DREAM By David Mitchell, 2.5 My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem, 3 The Toymaker by Liam Pieper, 3 by George Saunders, 4

Jun-17 Barkskins by Annie Proulx, 4.5 The Green Road by Ann Enright, 3 and 4 The Woman who invented Beauty: Helena Rubenstein by Michelle Fitoussi, 3 Only by Caroline Baum, 3.5 Miss Garnet’s Angel by Sally Vickers, 4 Waterland by Graham Swift, 4 Small Island by Andrea Levy, 3.5 The Pleasures of Leisure by Robert Dessaix, 3.5 Light and Shadow - memoir of a spy’s son by Mark Colvin, 3 Understory by Inga Simpson, 3 Tirra Lirra by the River by Jessica Anderson, 4.5 Larchfield by Polly Clark, 3 The Cows [Don’t follow the herd]by Dawn O’Porter, 3

Jul-17 Die Wise by Stephen Jenkinson, 5 The Marvellous Misadventures of Ingrid Winter by J.S. Drangsholt, 2

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My cat Yugoslavia by Pajtim Statovci, 3.5 The Mothers by Brit Bennett, 2.5, 2,5 and 3. The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington, 2.5 Fludd by Hilary Mantel, 3 Other chairs by Barbara Blackman,3.5 One Year of Life by Cecil Roberts, 3 Gone Afield by Cecil Roberts, 3

Aug-17 A Palace in the Old Village by Tahar Ben Jelloun, 3.5 The Curse of the Pogo Stick: a Laotian murder mystery by Colin Cotterill, 3.5 Regions of Thick Ribbed Ice by Helen Garner, 4.5 The Last Woman Hanged by Caroline Overington,3 The Notebook by Agota Kristof, 4 Understory, by Inga Simpson, 4 Sprinter and Sprummer: ’s Changing Seasons, by Timothy J. Entwistle, 3 Australia Day by Melissa Cheng, 3.5 The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker, 4 and 4 Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by Danielle Evans, 4

Sep-17 My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell, 3.5 by Penelope Lively, 3.5 Siracusa by Delia Ephron, 3 Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo, 3.5 The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas, Barkskins by Annie Proulx, 4 Tirra Lirra by the River by Jessica Anderson, 4 Nothing Holds Back the Night by Delphine de Vigan ,3.5 A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin, 4 My Cat Yugoslavia by Pajtim Statovci, 3 Based on a True Story by Delphine de Vigan, 3.5 and4 Am I Black Enough For You? By Anita Heiss, 3.5 The Husband Hunters by Anne de Courcy, 4 Victoria by Julia Baird, 3

Oct-17 The Songs of Trees David by David Haskell, 3 Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving, 4 The Golden House by Salman Rushdie, 3.5 Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, 4 Ministry of Utmost Happiness by , 4.5 The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas, 3.5 Stay with me by Ayobami Adebayo, 3 Extinctions by Josephine Wilson, 4 Jean Harley Was Here by Heather Taylor Johnson 3 Hinterland by Steven Lang, 4 A Legacy of Spies by John Le Carre’, 3 Nothing Holds Back the Night by Delphine de Vigan, 3.5 and 4.5 The Notebook Trilogy by Agota Kristof 3.5 Understory by Inga Simpson 4

Dec-17 Heather, the Totality by Matthew Weiner, 2 and 2 The Animators by Kayla-Rae Whitaker, 4.5 and 4 Family Album by Penelope Lively, 3 Stories by Helen Garner, 3 True Stories by Helen Garner, 3 The best Australian Essays by Anna Goldsworthy 3 The last painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith 2.5 Pastures of the Blue Crane by H.F. Brinsmead 3 Birds Art Life Death by Kyo Maclear Le Bal and Snow in Autumn by Irene Nemirovsky, 4 The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundati Roy, 3 A Long way from Home by Peter Carey, 3 The Elegance of a Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery, 3 Women & Power by Mary Beard, 2.5 The Spy by Paulo Coelho, 2.5 What Is It All But Luminosity by Art Garfunkel, 2 The Lake House by Kate Morton, 2.5 Thank You for Being Late by Thomas L Friedman, 3

Nov-17 Catherine the Great: A Portrait of a Woman by Robert Massie, 3.5 One Child: The Story of China’s Most Radical Experiment by Mei Fong, 3.5 The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead,2 Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 2.5

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The House by the Lake by Kate Morton, 3 The weather obsession by Lawrie Zion, 3 Stay with me by Ayobami Adebayo, 3.5 The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning by Margaretta Magnusson, 3 Whip Bird by Robert Drewe, 3 A Gentleman In Moscow by Amor Towles,4 Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang, 4 and 4 Victoria by Julia Baird, 3.5 The choke by Sophie Laguna, 3 Nothing holds back the night by Delphine de Vigan, 4 The Animators by Kyla Rae Whitaker, 4.5 Lincoln in the bardo by George Sanders, 3.5 In search of my father by Helena Popovic, 2.5 The girl who saved the king of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson, 2 Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, 3

Oct-18 The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 5 Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin, 2.5 The Cow Book by Jon Connell, 4 Atlantic Black by A S Patrić, 3 The Butterfly Man by Heather Rose, 4 and 3.5 The Crossway by Guy Stagg, 3 The Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley, 2 Dancing with Strangers by Inga Clendinnen, 4 Waiting by Philip Salom, 4 The Trauma Cleaner by Sophie, 4.5 War light by Michael Ondatjee, 2.5 Tracker by Alexis Wright, 3.5 Notes on a nervous planet by Matt Haig, 3 Always another country by Sisonke Msimang, 3.5 Happy Valley Patrick White, 4 The Narrow Road to the Deep North Richard Flanagan, 3.5 The Power of Hope Kon Karapanagiotidis, 3

Sep-18 ZeroK by Don DeLillo, 3 I feel bad about my Neck by Nora Ephron, 3.5 Woman at 1000 degrees by Hallgrimur Helgason, 4 The Road to Jonestown by Jeff Guinn, 4 We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families by P. Gourevitch, 3 The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris, 4 The Master and his Emissary by Iain McGilchrist

Aug-18 I Feel Bad About My Neck, Nora Ephron, 4.5 The Late Show, Michael Connolly, 4 In the Skin of a Lion, Michael Ondaatje, 4 Captains Courageous, Rudyard Kipling, 3.5 The Choke, Sofie Laguna, 3 An American Marriage, Tayani Jones, 3.5 Flames, Robbie Arnott, 4 Be My Enemy, Christopher Brookmyre, 4 We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson, 2.5 Stern Men, Elizabeth Gilbert, 2.5 Think Before It’s Too Late, Edward de Bono, 3 The Brain that Changes Itself, Norman Doidge, 3 Everything Here is Beautiful, Mira Lee, 3 The Butterfly Man, Heather Rose, 3.5 Written in my own heart’s blood, Outlander Book 8 by Diana Gabaldon, 3.5 Winter by Karl Ove Knausgaard, 3.5

Jul-18 Flights by 3.5 The Salmon who Dared to Leap Higher by Ahn Do-hyun 3 The Master and Margarita by Mikail Bulgakov 3.5 Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee, 3 Wild by Cheryl Strayed, 3 Gate of Lilacs: A Verse commentary on Proust, by Clive James 3.5 Such Small Hands by Andres Barba 3 Johnno by David Malouf 4 Remembering Babylon by David Malouf 4 Breath by Tim Winton 3 A Long Way from Home by Peter Carey 3.5 The Quiet American by Graham Greene 3.5 Deep Time Dreaming by Billy Griffiths 5 The Butterfly Man by Heather Rose 3.5

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The River Wife by Heather Rose 3 An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon 3

June 2018 The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula le Guin, 3 The Dispossessed by Ursula le Guin, 4 My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey, 3 The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers, 5 Danger Music by Eddie Ayres, 3 A Life Apart by Mariapia Veladiano, 3.5 The Lucky Galah by Tracy Sorensen, 3.5 A gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, 4 Snake by Kate Jennings 4 Remembering Babylon by David Malouf 4 Little Princes by Conor Grennan,3 Elizabeth Macarthur – A Life at the Edge of the World by Michelle Scott Tucker, 3 Girls at the Piano by Virginia Lloyd, 2.5 The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon, 3.5 A Breath Of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon, 3 I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephrin, 3

May-18 The Last Tudor by Philippa Gregory, 3.5. A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin, 4.5. Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon, 3.5. Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan, 3.5. Middlemarch by George Eliot, 4.5. A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, 2.5. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, 4. The News by Alain de Botton, 3.5. A Long Way from Home by Peter Carey, 3.5. The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton, 3.5. Quarterly Essays by David Malouf, 4. Dear Mrs Bird by A.J.Pearce, 1. The Queen Of Bloody Everything by Joanna Nadin, 2. The End of Loneliness by Benedict Well, 3.5. The Shepherd’s Hut by Tim Winton, 4. The Town by Shaun Prescott, 3. Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbag, 2.5.

Apr-18 Homo Deus: A brief history of tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari, 3 Island Home by Tim Winton 4 Snake by Kate Jennings, 4 A Life Apart by Mariapia Veladiano, 3.5 Dragonfly in Amber, Book 2 of Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon, 3 Autumn by Karl Ove Knausgaard, 3.5 The Shepherd’s Hut by Tim Winton, 4.5 Piano Lessons by Anna Goldsworthy, 3 Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube by Blair Braverman, 3 Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine by Gail Honeyman, 3 The secret life of cows by Rosamund Young, 2.5

Mar-18 The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow by Thea Astley, 3.5 The Choke by Sofie Laguna, 3.5 My Brother Jack by George Johnston, 4 A long way home by Peter Carey, 4 The Craving Mind (from cigarettes to smart phones to love – why we get hooked and how we can break bad habits) by Judson Brewer, 3.5 The Swan Book by Alexis Wright, 3.5 The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, 4 Extinctions by Josephine Wilson, 3 Down in the City, Elizabeth Harrower, 3 Song of a Captive Bird, Jasmin Darznik, 3 Creativity Rules, Tina Seelig, 3

Feb-18 Changing My Mind by Zadie Smith, 3 Swing Time by Zadie Smith, 3.5 The Mothers by Brit Bennett, 3 Wednesdays with Bob by Derek Rielly, 3.5 The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker, 4 Stay with me by Ayobami Adebayo, 3.5 The Red Coast by Di Morrissey, 2.5 Autumn by Ali Smith, 4 Clean Straw for Nothing by George Johnston, 3.5 Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, 3.5 A horse walks into a bar, David Grossman, 4

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Based on a true story, Delphine De Vigan, 3 The German Girl , Armando Lucas Correa, 3 Before the Fall, Noah Hawley, 2.5

Jan-18 On the Road by Jack Kerouac, 3.5 Whip bird by Robert Drewe, 2.5 Salt Blood (Essay) by Michael Adams, 4 Tirra Lirra By The River by Jessica Anderson, 5 Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout, 4 Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood, 4 Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders, 2.5 The Happiest Refugee by Ahn Doh, 3 The Gift of Anger by Arun Ghandi, 3.5 The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker, 3 The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan, 2.5 The White Queen: One Nation and the Politics of Race by David Marr, 3.5

Nov-18 Blowing the Bloody Doors Off by Michael Caine, 3.5 Clock Dance by Anne Tyler, 3.5 The Cow Book by John Connell, 3.5 and 3.5 Overstory by Richard Powers, 4 French Exit by Patrick de Witt, 2.5 The Tobacconist by Robert Seethaler, 3.5 The Ravenmaster by Christopher Skaife, 3 A Gate At The Stairs by Lorrie Moore, 3

Dec-18 Overstory by Richard Powers, 4 French Exit by Patrick de Witt, 2.5 The Tobacconist by Robert Seethaler, 3.5 The Cow Book by John Connell, 3.5 x 2 Blowing the Bloody Doors Off by Michael Caine 3.5 Clock Dance by Anne Tyler 3.5 The Odyssey by Homer new translation by Emily Wilson, 4 The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore, 3.5

Jan-19 The architecture of happiness by Alain De Botton, 3.5 Stasiland by Anna Funder, 3 Remember Me by Liz Byrski, 3 Clock Dance by Anne Tyler, 3 Nutshell by Ian McEwan, 3 In the Memorial Room by Janet Frame, 3 Contact by Carl Sagan, 3.5

Feb-19 Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami, 3.5 The Library Book by Susan Orlean, 3.5 Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson, 3 Black Swan Green by David Mitchell, 4 Full Fathom Five by Kate Humphrey, 3.5 Tara Road by Maeve Binchy, 3 The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick, 3.5

Mar-19 Commonwealth by Anne Patchett, 4 Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami, 4 Ines of my soul by Isabel Allende, 3 Blood by Tony Birch, 3 A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne, 3.5

Apr-19 Grace by Paul Lynch, 4 The Death of Murat Idrissi, by Tommy Wieringa, 3.5 The Freedom Artist by ,2.5 The Book That Matters Most by Ann Hood, 4 A Hundred Small Lessons by Ashley Hay, 3 How to Bake Pi by Eugenia Cheng, 3 On Doubt by Leigh Sales,5 A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, 5

May-19 A Tale for the Time Being by Judith Ozecki, 4 A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, 4.5 The Tobacconist by Robert Seethaler, 4

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The Salt Path by Raynor Winn, 3.5 A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne, 4 100 Years of DirtRick Morton,3 Out Stealing HorsesPer Pettersen 4.5 A House in Norwa by Vigdis Hjorth, 4 Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton, 3 Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak, 2.5 Peace Like a River by Leif Enger, 3 Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie, 4 The Binding by Bridget Collins, 4 The Lost Man by Jane Harper, 4

Jun-19 We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver, 4.5 Electric Dreams by Philip K Dick, 3.5 The Colour of Water by James McBride, 4.5 Overstory by Richard Power,3 A Tale for the Time Being by Judith Ozecki, 4 The Salt Path by Raynor Winn, 4.5 The Atomic Weight of Love by Elizabeth J Church, 3.5 American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson, 2.5 Peace Like a River by Leif Enger, 3.5 The Last Days of the Romanov Dancers by Kerri Turner, 4 Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman, 4 Perfect Skin by Nick Earls, 4

Jul-19 Mennonites don’t dance by Darcie Fiesen Hossack, 4 The Happiness Glass by Carol Lefevre, 4 The paper house by Anna Spargo-Ryan, 3 Jonno by David Malouf, 4 An Imaginary Life by David Malouf, 4 Ransom by David Malouf, 4 The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wolleben, 3.5 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, Yuval Noah Harari 4 In the Garden of the Fugitives, by Ceridwen Dovey 4 The Art of the Wasted Day, by Patricia Hampl 4 Mr Wigg by Inga Simpson, 3.5 Black Moses by Alain Mabanckou, 3.5 A General Theory of Oblivion by Jose Eduardo Agualusa, 4 The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, 4 The White Girl by Tony Birch, 2.5

Aug-19 City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert, 3 The Good Life by Hugh Mackay, 3 Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, 3.5 The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith, 4 Born a crime by Trevor Noah, 4 Butterfly on a pin by Allanah Hill, 3.5 Educated by Tara Westover, 4 The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris, 3 Balcony Over Jerusalem by John Lyons, 4.5 So Greek by Niki Savva, 2.5 Exploded View by Carrie Tiffany, 4 Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak, 3 A House in Norway by Vigdis Hjorth, 3.5 and 4 Banking Bad by Adele Ferguson, 4 The Erratics by Vikings Lavaeu-Harvey, 4 One Hundred Years of Dirt by Rick Morton, 4 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, 5 The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead, 4 Troll Hunting by Ginger Gorman, 3 Daughters of the Lake by Wendy Webb, 3 Taking Tom Murray Home by Tim Slee, 3.5 On the trail of Genghis Khan by Tim Cope, 3.5 Married to Bhutan by Linda Leaming, 3 There should be more dancing by Rosalie Ham, 3

Sep-19 The Erratics by Vicki Laveau Harvie, 4 and 4 Taking Tom Murray Home by Tim Slee, 2.5 Virgil Wander by Leif Enger, 3 Star Crossed by Minnie Darke, 3 There Should Be More Dancing by Rosalie Ham, 3 Talk on the wild side by Lane Green, 3.5 One hundred years of dirt by Rick Morton, 3 and 2.5

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Oct-19 If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italio Calvino 4.5 Your Backyard birds by Grainne Cleary 3 The Mystery of things by AC Grayling 3 The Land Before Avocado by Richard Glover 3.5 The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee 4 The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Chrisy Lefteri 4.5 Becoming by Michelle Obama 3 The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith 4 The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre by Dominic Smith 2.5 Just Kids by Patti Smith 3 Mind Body Life Mastery by Dr James Rouse 3 The Doctor Who Sat for a Year by Brendon Kelly 2

Nov-19 by Margaret Atwood, 3.5, 3 The Spare Room by Helen Garner, 4 The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, 3.5 Bruny by Heather Rose, 3 Olive, again by Elizabeth Strout, 4 The Dutch House by Ann Patchett, 3.5 Exploded View by Carrie Tiffany, 3 Memory Craft by Lynne Kelly, 3.5 The Memory Code by Lynne Kelly, 3.5 Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami, 3.5 Music and Freedom by Zoe Morrison 3 Letters to Alice by Fay Weldon 3.5 On Quiet by Nikki Gemmell 4 The Muse by Jessie Burton 4 Memory Craft by Lynne Kelly 3.5 The Memory Code by Lynne Kelly 3.5 Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami 3.5 If on a Winters Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino, 4.5 The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown, 4. 5 Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq, 3.5 Dolores by Lauren Aimee Curtis, 3

Dec-19 The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman, 4 White Nights by Ann Cleeves, 3 The Spare Room by Helen Garner, 4 Boy, Lost by Kirstina Olsson, 5 The Labyrinth of the Spirits by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, 4 The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak, 2.5 The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein, 4 Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, 3.5 Identity Crisis by Ben Elton, 3 The Erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie, 3.5 Quichotte by Salmon Rushdie, 3 Too Much Lip by Mellisa Lucachenko, 3.5 The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, 3

Jan-20 The Trauma Cleaner, by Sarah Krasnostein 4 Last Drinks, by Andrew McGahan 3.5 Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout 5 and 4 No friend but the mountains by Behrouz Boochani, 4 There was still love by Favel Parrett, 4 After the party by Cressida Connelly, 2.5 The birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant, 2.5 A House for Mr Biswas by V S Naipaul, 3.5 The Secrets Between Us by Thrity Umrigar, 4 Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout, 4.5 The Widow by Fiona Barton, 2.5 The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri, 3.5 Born a Crime by Trevor Noah, 3.5 Olive Again by Elizabeth Strout, 4 Beyond the Sea by Paul Lynch, 4 Blue Dog, by Louis de Berniers, 4 The Lemon Table, by Julian Barnes, 3 Cult of Two, by Michael Faudet, 3 My Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion, 4 The Erratics, by Vickie Laveau Harvie, 3.5 My Name is Why, by , 4 Lanny by Max Porter, 4.5 The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville, 4

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In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 4.5

Feb-20 Cloudstreet by Tim Winton, 4.5 Educated by Tara Westover, 2.5 Burial Rites by Hannah Kent, 4.5 Lanny by Max Porter, 4 The art of growing up by John Marsden, 3 The idea of perfection by Kate Grenville, 4 Paris or die by Jayne Tuttle 2.5 Love in the time of cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 4.5 Letters to Alice, on first reading Jane Austen by Fay Weldon, 3.5 Unquiet by Linn Ullmann, 4 The World that we Knew by Alice Hoffman, 2.5 The Cherry Orchard, by Anton Chekov, 3 The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman, 3.5 Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout, 4.5 Grief is the thing with Feathers by Max Porter, 4

Mar-20 Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas, 4 Stasiland by Anna Funder, 4 How to Live by Sarah Bakewell, 3 When I am playing with my cat, how do I know she is not playing with me… by Saul Framton, 3.5 Do nothing – service the attention economy… by Jenny O’Dell 4.5Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino 3.5 A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, 4 The Rules of Backyard Cricket by Jock Serong, 3 My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout 4 Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout 4 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout 4 Olive Again by Elizabeth Strout 3.5 and 4 Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift 3 Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens, 4 Amnesty by Aravind Adiga, 3 By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah, 3.5 The Professor of Poetry by Grace McCleen, 3 The Little Princess by Conor Grenman, 3 Unquiet by Linn Ullmann, 3 Not a diet book By James Smith, 4 Fleishman is in trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner, 3

Apr-20 Quota by Jock Serong 3.5 Phosphorescence by Julia Baird 3.5 Sea People, the puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson, 4.5 The art of time travel, historians and their craft by Tom Griffiths, 4 The summer book by Tove Jansson, 4, 3 and 3 Crudo by Olivia Laing, 3.5 Girl, Woman, Other by , 3 Your own kind of girl by Clare Bowditch, 2.5 Fleishman is in trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner,2 The miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo, 2 One Moonlight Night, Caradog Pritchard, 4 Mazel Tov, the Story of my Extraordinary Friendship with an Orthodox Jewish Family by J.S. Margot, 3.5 The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope, 3.5 The Mussel Feast by Birgit Vanderbeke, trans. Jamie Bulloch, 3.5 American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins, 2.5 Outer Dark by Cormack McCarthy, 3.5 Tyll by Daniel Kelhmann, 3.5 The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville 3.5 Lanny by Max Porter 3.5 The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld, 3 The Brisbane Line by J.P. Powell, 3 Troll Hunting by Ginger Gorman, 4.5

May-20 The Dickens Boy by Tom Keneally, 3.5 Here we are by Graham Swift, 4 The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo, 3.5,3 & 3 The Fish Girl by Miranda Riwoe, 4 The Erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie, 3.5 Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, 4 Unquiet by Linn Ullman, 3 The Mirror & the Light, by Hilary Mantel 4.5 On Artists by Ashleigh Wilson, 3 Outpost by Dan Richards, 3 The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, 3

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West with the Night by Beryl Markham, 4 The bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald, 4 The death of Noah Glass by Gail Jones, 4 Too much lip by Melissa Lucashenko, 3.5 Bruny by Heather Rose, 3 Redhead by the side of the road by Anne Tyler, 2.5 The railwayman’s wife by Ashley Hay, 2.5

Jun-20 Getting On, Griffith Review #68, 3.5 The Booskhop by Penelope Fitzgerald, 2.5 Ordinary People by Diana Evans, 3 Elizabeth Costello by J M Coetzee, 4.5 Waterland by Graham Swift, 4 To the Promised Land, David Goldberg, 4 Underland by Robert Macfarlane, 4.5 Overstory by Richard Powers, 4 Here we are by Graham Swift, 4 & 3 See what you made me do by Jess Hill, 4 & 4 The whole picture: the colonial story of the Art in our museums… by Alice Procter, 4.5 The children’s Bach by Helen Garner, 4 The mirror and the light by Hillary Mantel, 4 & 4.5 We are the Weather by Jonathan Safran Foer, 4 In the Quiet by Eliza Henry Jones, 3 & 3.5

Jul-20 The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, 3 Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee, 4 Friend of my Youth by Amrit Chaudri, 3 The Shepherds Life by James Redbanks, 4 Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte, 2.5 The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham, 2.5 The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 4 The Outsider by Stephen King, 3 How To Kill Your Husband (and Other Handy Household Hints) by Kathy Lette, 2.5 Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes. 4.5 The Witch of Exmoor by Margaret Drabble, 3 Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively, 3.5 Grandmothers by Helen Elliott 3.5 The Whole Picture: Colonial story of art in our museums by Alice Proctor 4 Beowulf by Seamus Heaney 4.5 Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman 3.5 Mudlarking by Lara Maiklem 4 The Bell in the Lake by Lars Mytting, 3 Stone Sky Gold Mountain by Mirandi Riwoe, 3 Anything is possible by Elizabeth Strout, 4 Humankind by Rutger Bergman, 4 Here we are by Graham Swift, 3.5 The grammarians by Cathleen Schine, 3.5 The anarchy: the relentless rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple, 3 A Fortunate Life by Albert B Facey, 3.5 In the Quiet by Eliza Henry-Jones, 3.5 On Quiet by Nikki Gemmell, 3 After by Nikki Gemmell, 4 On Violence by Natasha Stott Despoja, 3.5 See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control… by Jess Hill, 5 Flesh Wounds by Richard Glover, 4 The Children’s Bach by Helen Garner, 3 The Cockroach by Ian McEwan, 2.5 Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton, 3.5 Waiting for the Barbarians by J M Coetzee, 4 Olive Again by Elizabeth Strout 4.5 Actress by Anne Enright, 4 Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell, 4 by Kazuo Ishiguro, 4 Elizabeth Costello by J M Coetzee, 3 Funny Weather, Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing, 3 The Art of Rest by Claudia Hammond, 3.5 By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah, 4 The Thing Around my Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 3.5

Aug-20 Actress by Anne Enright, 3 Kokomo by Victoria Hannan, 3 Suzanne by Annais Barbeau-Lavalette, 4 The Ministry of Utmost Hapiness by Arundhati Roy, 3 And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini, 3

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The Girl from Munich by Tania Blanchard, 2 Suitcase of Dreams by Tania Blanchard, 2.5 Black Dogs by Ian McEwan, 3.5 Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes, 4 Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively, 5 A Bigger Picture by Malcolm Turnbull, 3 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, 3.5 Seven poor men of Sydney by Christina Stead, 3.5 Heartbreaker by Claudia Dey, 3 Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes, 4 Middlemarch by George Elliot, 4.5 Under Full Sail by Rob Mundle, 4 Mudlarking – Lost and Found on the River Thames by Lara Maiklem, 4, 4 and 3.5 Love in the Time Of Cholera by Gabriel Carcia Marquez, 4.5 The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben, 3 Poum and Alexandre by Catherine de Saint Phalle, 4.5 The sea and Us by Catherine de Saint Phalle, 4 The girl with the louding voice by Abi Dare, 3 The Things She Owned by Katharine Tamiko Arguile, 2.5 Stone sky gold mountain by Mirandi Riwoe, 2.5 Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan, 2 and 2.5 See What You Made Me Do, Jess Hill 4.5 My Name is Lucy Barton, Elizabeth Strout 3 The Museum of Innocence, Orhan Pamuk 4 A spool of blue thread by Anne Tyler, 2.5 Humankind by Rutger Bregman, 3.5 Breath by James Nestor, 3.5 An Elephant in my Kitchen by Francoise Malby-Anthony, 3.5 Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout, 3.5 Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie, 3 Interviewing by William Seymour, 3.5 Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman, 3.5 Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker, 3.5 Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift 4.5 One Moonlit Night by Caradog Prichard, 3.5 The Bookshop by Penelope Lively, 4 Staziland by Anna Funder, 4

Sep-20 The Rotter’s Club by Jonathon Coe, 3.5 Scrublands by Chris Hammer, 2.5 Lifespan by David Sinclair, 3 Cosmos by Carl Sagan, 3 Actress by Anne Enright, 3 Stone Sky Gold Mountain by Mirandi Riwoe, 3 The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald, 4 Phosphorescence: on Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark by Julia Baird, 3.5 Any Ordinary Day by Leigh Sales, 3 A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville, 4 Monkey Grip by Helen Garner, 3 Cosmo Cosmolino by Helen Garner, 3 True Stories: Selected Non Fiction by Helen Garner, 4 Joe Cinque’s Consolation by Helen Garner, 4 This House of Grief by Helen Garner, 4.5 Everywhere I Look by Helen Garner, 3.5 Stories: The Collected Short Fiction by Helen Garner, 3 Ungrateful Daughters: The Stuart Princesses Who Stole Their Father’s Throne by Maureen Waller, 4 The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary, 2.5 The Orphan of Good Hope by Roxane Dhand, 3.5 Spiderweb by Penelope Lively, 3.5 I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika Sanchez, 3.5 The Inland Sea by Madeleine Watts, 3 The Friend by Sigrid Nunez, 4 A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, 4 The Leavers by Lisa Ko, 3.5 The Yield by Tara Lynch, 2.5 The Periodic Table by Primo Levi, 3.5 On Brunswick Ground by Catherine de Saint Phalle, 3.5 Poum and Alexandre by Catherine de Saint Phalle, 4 Here is the beehive by Sarah Crossan, 3.5

Oct-20 The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré, 3.5 and 2.5 Breath by Tim Winton, 3.5 The White Girl by Tony Birch, 3.5 by Penelope Fitzgerald, 2.5

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No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani, 4.5 The Riders by Tim Winton, 2.5 Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo, 4 The Plague by Albert Camus, 4 Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell, 4 And the Birds Rained Down by Jocelyn Saucier, 3 Billion Dollar Whale: The Man who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood and the World by Bradley Hope and Tom Wright, 3.5 The Choice by Edith Eger, 3.5 An Improbable Life by Trevor McDonald, 3.5 Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift, 4 The Yield by Tara June Winch, 4 Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid, 4 The Discomfort of Evening by Merieke Lucas Rijnveld, 4 The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman, 3.5 Return Ticket by Jon Doust, 2.5 Flaws in the Glass: A Self Portrait by Patrick White, 4 The Ratline by Philippe Sands, 4 A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville, 3

Nov-20 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, 4 The First Stone by Helen Garner, 4 My Purple Scented Novel by Ian McEwan, 4 All Our Shimmering Skies by Trent Dalton, 3.5 One Hundred Years of Dirt by Rick Morton, 3.5 by Audur Ava Olafsdottir, 4 Turbulence by David Szalay, 4 Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, 5 The Dissent of Annie Hall by Ros Franey, 2.5 Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett, 3.5 The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple, 4 Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler, 3.5 Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars by Joyce Carol Oates, 4 The Question of Love by Hugh Mackay, 3.5 Landscape of Farewell by Alex Miller, 3 The Whole Picture by Alice Procter, 5 Unquiet: A novel by Linn Uhlmann, 4 The Wild Silence by Raynor Winn, 3.5

Dec-20 Bel Canto by Ann Patchett, 3.5 Parisian Lives by Deidre Bair, 3 by , 3, 3.5, 4 & 4.5 Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman, 4 by Peter Carey, 4 Atomic Habits by James Clear, 3.5 The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 3.5 Lady Clementine by Marie Benedict, 3.5 England and Other Stories by Graham Swift, 3.5 Shuttlecock by Graham Swift, 3 The Kashmir Shawl by Rosie Thomas, 2.5 Tomorrow by Graham Swift, 1 Knucklehead by Adam Smyer, 3.5 The World Beneath by Cate Kennedy, 3.5 Landscape of Farewell by Alex Miller, 3 Spiderweb by Penelope Lively, 3 The white girl by Tony Birch, 3 The Kennedy Curse by James Patterson, 3 The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, 2 The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie, 3.5 Jack by Marilynne Robinson, 4.5 Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh, 3 The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, 4 Shotgun Lovesongs by Nickolas Butler, 3 Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes, 3 Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami, 3.5

Jan-21 The Clock Winder by Anne Tyler, 3 No Friend but the Mountains by Behrouz Boochani, 4 Blue in Chicago by Bette Howland, 3.5 Pause by Rachel O’Meara, 3.5 The Salt Path by Raynor Winn, 3.5 Bottled Goods by Sophi Van Llewyn, 3 Bruny by Heather Rose, 2.5 The Labyrinth by Amanda Lohrey, 4

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Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami, 3.5 If on a Winter’s night a traveller by Italo Calvino, 4.5 Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart, 4 Flesh Wounds by Richard Glover, 3.5 Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunderson, 3.5 The Italian Girl by Iris Murdoch, 3.5 The Anarchy: the Relentless Rise of the East Indian Company by William Dalrymple, 4.5 The Little Friend by Donna Tartt, 2 Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam, 3.5 The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas, 4

Feb-21 The Last Midwife by Sandra Dallas, 2.5 Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan, 3 The Death of Mrs Westaway by Judith Ware, 2.5 Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett, 3.5 A History of the World in 10 ½ chapters by Julian Barnes, 4.5 Turbulence by David Szalay, 4 Landscape of Farewell by Alex Miller, 4 The Phone Box at the Edge of the World by Laura Imai Messina, 3 The Vagrants by Yiyun Li, 4.5 The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald, 4 The Tax Inspector by Peter Carey, 3.5 An Imaginary Life by David Malouf, 3.5 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, 3.5 The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante, 3 My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante, 3 The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante, 3 The Vegetarian by Han Kang, 3 Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi, 2.5 What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez, 3.5 Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami, 3.5 Forgotten Women the Writers by Zing Tsjeng, 3.5 Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart, 4 Kim Jiyoung, born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo, 3.5 Wild woods by Richard Nairn, 3 Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo, 3 Cool by Annette Asp, Steven Quartz, 4 The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild, 3 And the Birds Rained Down by Jocelyne Soucier, 3.5 The Details by Tegan Bennett Daylight, 3.5 The Italian Girl by Iris Murdoch, 3.5

Mar-21 Transcription by Kate Atkinson, 3.5 The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald, 2 Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante, 3 The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante, 3.5 Accidental Feminists by Jane Caro, 3.5 The Details: On Love, Death and Reading by Tegan Bennett Daylight, 4 Learning from the Germans by Susan Neiman, 4 The Phone Box at the End of the World by Laura Imai Messina, 3.5 This Has Been Absolutely Lovely by Jessica Dettmann, 3 Rules of Civility by Amor Towles, 3 Once More With Feeling by Ceridwen Dovey, 3 The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner, 3.5 Mindsight by Dan Seigel, 3.5 The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles, 4 Franny and Zooey by J.D Salinger, 4.5 Bringing the Fight by Merle Thornton, 3.5 Landscape of Farewell by Alex Miller, 3.5 Emma by Jane Austen, 4 Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively, 3.5 Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli, 3.5 Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and The Birth of the FBI by David Grann, 4 Turbulence by David Szalay, 3.5 The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Dare, 3.5

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