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GCBL- Other Books We Read

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

Nov-05The Hunting Gun by Yasushi InoueFugitive Pieces by Ann MichaelsThe Schopenhauer Cure by Irvin YalomGrave Secrets by Kathy Reichs

Dec-05My Year of Meats by Ruth L.OzekiBlink by Malcolm GladwellThe diviner’s son by Gary CrewThe Raphael Affair by Iain PearsThe Titian Committee by Iain Pears

Jan-06The South by Colm ToibinThe Heather Blazing by Colm ToibinOpen Secrets- Alice MunroTaft -Ann PatchettThe Corrections - Jonathan FranzenThe tipping point by MalcolmGladwellOne crowded hour - Tim Bowden

Feb-06Small Island By Andrea LevyThe sea by John BanvilleWe need to talk about Kevin by Lionel ShriverSaving fish from drowning by Amy Tan–Ice Station by Matthew ReillyPomegranate soup by Marsha MehranThe fatal shore by Robert Hughes

Mar-06The city of falling angels by John BerendtProchownik’s dream by Alex MillerColdheart Canyon by Clive BarkerThe virgin’s lover by Philippa Gregory

Apr-06The Tyrannicide Brief by Geoffrey RobertsonAtonement: a novel by Ian McEwanThe Da Vinci Code by Dan BrownCell by Stephen King–The day of the locust by Nathanael WestIncidents in the Rue Laugier by Anita Brookner

May-06Looking for Blackfella's Point by Mark McKennaTheft: A love story by Peter CareyDark Visions by Stephen King, George R.R. Collins and Dan SimmonsYouth (or Boyhood: Scenes From a Provincial Life) by J.M.CoetzeePast Mortem by Ben EltonDaniel isn‘t talking by Marti LeimbachThe hottest day of the year by Brinda Charry

Jun-06The possibility of an Island by Michel HouellebecqChildren of the Lucky Country? by F. Stanley, S. Richardson & M PriorSacrament by Clive BarkerLighthousekeeping by Jeannette WintersonTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfCold Mountain by Charles FrazierThe Accidental Tourist by Anne TylerDinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne TylerDigging to America by Anne Tyler

Jul-06Dina’s Book by Herbjorg Wassmo

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Hanna’s Daughters by Marianne FredrikssonScarecrow by Matt ReillyThe Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate Di Camillo

Aug-06Embers by Sandor MaraiMosquito Coast by Paul TherouxRegeneration by Pat BarkerIllywhacker by Peter CareyAftermath by Peter Robinson-The Ballad of Desmond Kale by Roger McDonald–There, Where the Pepper Grows by Bem le Hunte–

Sep-06Flesh by Richard LaymonA New World by Amit ChaudhuriJohnno by David MaloufHenry and Cato by Iris Murdoch-Tell me I’m here by Ann Deveson-

Oct-06Kafka on the shore by Haruki MurakamiNeuromancer by William Gibson,Odd Thomas By Dean KoontzIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteThe Eyre Affair by Jasper Fford-Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami–Conversations At Curlow Creek by David MaloufThe Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien

Nov-06A Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryVirtual Light by William GibsonThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafonEvery Move You Make by David MaloufThe Harsh Cry of the Heron by Lian HearnThe vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’FarrellHullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran DesaiGoing West by Maurice Gee Plumb By Maurice GeeThe Potato Factory by Bryce Courtenay

No other books in Dec 06

Jan-07The Road by Cormac Mc CarthyThe Dress maker by Rosalie HamThe Book of salt by Monique TruongThe High Flyer by Nicholas ShakespeareEarthly Possessions by Ann Tyler

Feb-07Silk by Alessandro BariccoOne man's meat by E B WhitePapa Hemingway By A E HotchnerPattern Recognition by William GibsonCount Zero by William GibsonMona Lisa Overdrive by William GibsonThe Twyborn Affair by Patrick WhiteThe Turning by Tim WintonIn the Shadow of Angkor: A Search for Cambodian Literature by Sharon MayWomen in the Background by Barry HumphriesThe Known World by EP Jones

Mar-07The red pony by John SteinbeckThe Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom WolfeThe view from Castle Rock by Alice MunroJourney to the Stone Country by Alex MillerForever Odd by Dean Koontz

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Brother Odd by Dean KoontzA 1000 Acres by Jane SmileyThe Underpainter by Jane UrquhartThe Even More Complete Book of Australian Verse by John Clarke

Apr-07No! I Don’t Want To Join A Book Club by Virginia IronsideAltar Ego by Kathy LetteThe Lord of the Rings by JRR TolkienThe Unknown Terrorist by Richard FlanaganThe Prestige by Christopher PriestIn The Lake Of The Woods by Tim O’BrienWild Fire by Nelson DeMille

May-07Let Me Sing You Gentle Songs by Linda OlssonCareless by Deborah RobertsonBook by Book: Notes on Reading and Life by Michael DirdaSnow Falling On Cedars by David GutersonNabokov’s Quartet by Vladimir NabokovBorneo Fire by William RivièreImmortality by Milan Kundera

Jun-07Austerlitz by W.G. SebaldEast of Time by Jacob G. RosenbergMan’s Search For Meaning by Viktor E.FranklThe Patron Saint Of Eels by Gregory DayThe Geographer’s Library by Jon FasmanOut Stealing Horses by Per PettersonAlmost French by Sarah Turnbull

Jul-07The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe God Delusion by Richard DawkinsRushing to Paradise by J.G BallardCryptonomicon by Neal StephensonThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeLisey’s Story by Stephen King

Aug-07She Came To Stay by Simone de BeauvoirOur Man in Havana by Graham GreeneThe Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoDream Stuff by David MaloufThe Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan KunderaBlaze by Richard BachmanLies by Enrique de HérizYear of Wonders by Geraldine BrooksAbarat by Clive BarkerA Short History of Tractors in Ukranian by Marina Lewycka

Sep-07Spook Country by William GibsonA Scanner Darkly by Philip K. DickBlack Wind by F. Paul Wilson

Oct-07After Dark by Haruki MurakamiOrlando by Virginia WoolfUnpolished Gem by Alice PungSing and Don’t Cry by Cate KennedyEmpire of the Sun by J.G.BallardThe Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor by Gabriel Garcia MarquezGirls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea

Nov-07The Stone Gods by Jeanette WintersonThe Children Of Men by P.D.JamesDivisadero by Michael Ondaatje

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Day Of The Bees by Thomas SánchezRebecca by Daphne du MaurierThe Schoonermaster’s Dance by Alan Gould

Dec-07Fairyland by Paul J. McAuleySkin and Bone by Kathryn FoxThe Second Bridegroom by Rodney HallJourneys: Modern Australian Short Stories edited by Barry Oakley

Jan-08Snow Crash by Neal StephensonPortrait Of The Artist As An Old Man by Joseph HellerCandide By VoltaireFlying Hero Class by Tom KeneallyThe Story Of The Night by Colm Tóibín

Feb-08Malicious Intent by Kathryn FoxReading In Bed by Susan GeeBoule De Suif or Ball Of Fat by Guy de MaupassantSexing The Cherry by Jeanette WintersonA Closed Eye by Anita BrooknerAngels And Insects by A.S.ByattThe Master by Colm Tóibín

Mar-08No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthyThe Mist by Stephen KingHis Illegal Self by Peter CareyMarie by Madeleine BourdouxheFaultlines by Nancy HustonChain Of Evidence by Garry DisherThe Boy In The Stripped Pyjamas by John BoyneThe Shifting Fog by Kate Morton

Apr-08The Grapes Of Wrath by John SteinbeckDuma Key by Stephen KingThe Lady Vanishes by Ethel Lina WhiteThe Dig Tree by Sara Murgatroyd

May-08Breath by Tim WintonSleepwalking Land by Mia CoutoSolstice by Joyce Carol OatesThe Pillars of The Earth by Ken FollettLife of Pi by Yann MartelTalking about O’Dwyer by C.K. SteadThe Painted Veil by Somerset Maugham

Jun-08Drylands by Thea AstleyThe Broken Shore by Peter TempleThe Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Book is Dead by Sherman Young20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu GuoThe Lucy Family Alphabet by Judith Lucy

Jul-08Winterdance by Gary PaulsenA Prisoner of Birth by Jeffrey ArcherThe Good Parents by Joan LondonTrue Blue? Compiled by Peter GoldsworthyThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott-FitzgeraldI'm Not Scared by Niccolo AmmanitiThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee BurkeSuite Françoise by Irène Némirovsky

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Why Manners Matter by Lucinda HoldforthShantaram by Gregory David Roberts

Aug-08The Great Gatsby by F. Scott-FitzgeraldLife Expectancy by Dean KoontzGone, Baby, Gone by Dennis LehaneA Severed Head by Iris MurdochChocky by John Wyndham

Sep-08The Boat by Nam LeTumble Home by Amy HempelContact by Carl SaganSky Burial by Xinran

Oct-08The Counterfeiters by André GideFine Just The Way It Is by Annie ProulxOn Rage by Germaine GreerThe Enchantress Of Florence by Salman RushdieThe Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

Nov-08The Writing Class by Jincy WilletThe Return Of The Solider by Rebecca WestThe Bluest Eye by Toni MorrisonThe Rip by Robert Drewe–

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

Jan-09The Collected Stories by Grace PaleyBlindness by Jose SaramagoSalmon Fishing In The Yemen by Paul TordayMy Wicked, Wicked Ways by Errol FlynnThe Independence of Miss Mary Bennet by Colleen McCullough

Feb-09Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne LamottTomorrow When The War Began by John MarsdenThe Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriThe Slap by Christos TsiolkasThe White Tiger by Aravind AdigaThe Tall Man by Chloe HooperA Fraction Of The Whole by Steve ToltzYour Heart Belongs To Me by Dean Koontz

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

May-09Ransom by David MaloufBog Child by Siobhan DowdToo Close To Home by Linwood BarclayIce by Louis NowraUFO In Her Eyes by Xialu GuoThe Other Hand by Chris Cleave

Jun-09Planet Google by Randolph StrossLeave me alone by Murong Xuecun

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Vernon God Little by DBC PierreIn the Land of Invisible Women by Qanta A.Ahmed

Jul-09Housekeeping by Marilynne RobinsonButterfly by Sonya HartnettThe Awakening by Kate ChopinOn Humbug by Robert DessaixDog On It by Spencer QuinnLe Testament Français by Andrei MakineOne Whole And Perfect Day by Judith ClarkeA Spot Of Bother by Mark HaddonThe Stone Raft by José Saramago

Aug-09Guilt About The Past by Bernhard SchlinkThe House of Mirth by Edith WhartonOnce Upon The River Love by Andrei MakineMrs Dalloway by Virginia WoolfThe Hours by Michael Cunningham

Sep-09Tom is dead by Marie Darrieussecq

Nov-09Gigi and The Cat by ColetteThe White Castle by Orhan PamukToo Much Happiness by Alice MunroConfucius from the Heart by Yu Dan

Dec-09The Lost Art of Sleep by Michael McGirr1788 by David HillThe Comfort of Figs by Simon Cleary

Jan-10The Lacuna by Barbara KingsolverThe Housekeeper + Professor by Yoko OgawaNoah’s Compass by Anne TylerA Mirror Garden by Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian and Zara Houshmand

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

Mar-10Moral Disorder by Margaret AtwoodThe Year Of The Flood by Margaret AtwoodIn Conversation: Ben Naparstek Talks With 39 Great WritersShrinking the World - The 4,000 Year Story of How Email Came to Rule Our Lives by John FreemanDolores Claiborne by Stephen King–The Emancipator’s Wife by Barbara HamlyDeath Of A River Guide by Richard FlanaganStanley and Sophie: A Memoir - by Kate JenningsThe City and The City by China MiévilleAsk The Dust by John Fante

Apr-10Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelThe Innocent by Ian McEwanMe, Myself and Prague by Rachel WeissAll The Rivers Run by Nancy CatoThe Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho

May-10Fit to Print by Joris LuyendijkMrs Kimble by Jennifer HaighThe Uncommon Reader by Alan BennettTea Time For The Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall

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My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du MaurierRon McCoy’s Sea of Diamonds by Gregory Day

Jun-10Lovesong by Alex MillerThe Winter of Our Disconnect by Susan MaushartThe Lighted Rooms Ruchard MasonThe 10PM Question Kate de Goldi

Jul-10The Stars My Destination (or Tiger, Tiger) by Alfred BesterThe Twin by Gerbrand BakkerWhat Becomes A. L. KennedyPoet's Choice by Edward HirschUncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher StoweThe Harp in The South by Ruth ParkSolar Ian McEwan

Aug-10

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

Sep-10Petropolis by Anya UlinichHome Truth by Carmel BirdZero History By William GibsonThe Invention of Curried Sausage by Uwe TimmNorthanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Oct-10The Well at the World’s End A.J. MckinnonThe Devil’s Advocate Morris WestLast Night at Chateau Marmont Lauren WeisbergerThe Pain Chronicles Melanie ThernstromWolf Notes Judith BeveridgeCharmed Lives Bruce BeaverThe Devil’s Advocate Andrew NeidermanHow Math Can Save Your Life James D. Stein

Nov-10To Siberia Per PettersonI Curse The River of Love Per PettersonVirgin Earth Philippa GregoryA House in Fez Suzanna Clark

Dec-10Something Beginning With… (UK) / The ABC Of Love (US) Sarah salwayReading The Brain Stanislas DehaeneAt Home: A Short History of Private Life Bill BrysonOn Chesil Beach Ian McEwanThis Is How M. J. HylandSummertime J. M. CoetzeeThe Matchmaker of Perigord Julia StuartReading The OED Ammon SheaA Guide to the Birds of East Africa Nicholas DraysonConditions of Faith Alex Miller

Jan-11In The Wake Per PettersonHand Me Down World Lloyd JonesPlayer One Douglas CouplandGetting The Picture Sarah SalwayGreen On Capri: A Memoir Shirley HazzardMaralinga Judy Nunn

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These Foolish Things Deborah MoggachThe Empty Family Colm Toibin

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

Mar-11Super Sad True Love Story Gary ShteyngartMoxyland Lauren Beukes

Mar-11Super Sad True Love Story Gary ShteyngartMoxyland Lauren Beukes

Apr-11Beyond Black Hilary MantelThe Wave Susan CaseyThe Finkler Question Howard JacobsonScribbling The Cat:Travels With An African Soldier Alexandra Fuller

May-11The Tiger's Wife Téa ObrehtThe Professor's House Willa CatherLegend of a Suicide David VannSanditon Jane Austen And Another LadyBilly Bathgate E. L. DoctorowThe Glass Castle Jeanette Walls

Jun-11Snake Kate JenningsBefore I Go To Sleep S. J. WatsonAsk The Dust John Fante2:46 Aftershocks: Stories from the Japan Earthquake Jeff W. RichardsJust My Type Simon Garfield

Jul-11Just One More Thing Peter FalkThe Great House Nicole KrauseThe Meaning of Life: Applying Philosophy to Life A. C. GraylingLavinia Ursula Le Guin

Aug-11There Should Be More Dancing Rosalie HamNever Let Me Go Kazuo IshiguroThe Social Animal David BrooksHow To Be Alone Jonathan Franzen

Sep-11Breakfast of Champions Kurt VonnegutThe Life Malcolm KnoxThe Addition Toni JordanThe Amateur Science Craig Sherbourne"The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel ofShanghai" Wang Anyi

Oct-11Kafka's Soup Mark CrickSerpent's Delight Ruth ParkThe Bean Trees Barbara KingsolverShadow Karin AltvegenDue Preparations For The Plague Janette Turner Hospital

Nov-11A Case Of Exploding Mangoes Mohammed HanifThe Quickening Michelle Hoover

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The Sense of an Ending Julian BarnesWhy Be Happy When You Could be Normal Jeanette Winterson

Dec-11The Map and The Territory Michel HouellebecqAs I Lay Dying William FaulknerChess Stefan ZweigJimmy Corrigan: the Smartest Kid on Earth Chris WareThe Leftovers Tom Perrotta

Jan-12The Promise of Iceland by Kari GislasonThe Silver Pigs by Lindsay Davis1Q84 by Harumi Murakami

Feb-12Look at Me by Jennifer EganDistrust that Particular Flavor by William GibsonThe song of the lark by Willa CatherAll that I am by Anna FunderMaking it up by Penelope LivelyThe Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de WaalJoseph Lyons: the people's prime minister by Anne HendersonThe Lost Dog by Michelle de KretserThe Family Law by Benjamin Law

Mar-12Sydney by Delia FalconerA Long Way Down by Nick HornbyBorrowed Finery by Paula FoxThe shallows by Nicholass CarrDangerous Women by Conville, Lovett and Hoggard

Apr-12Spirit House by Mark DapinA streetcat Named Bob by James BowenAn Essay on The New Aesthetic by Bruce Sterling

May-12The fine colour of rust by Paddy O'ReillyAs I was Saying by Robert DessaixAbsence of mind by Marilynne RobinsonFoal's Bread by Gillian Mears

Jun-12A Gay and melancholy sound by Merle MillerFifty shades of grey by EL JamesHow to be a woman by Caitlin MoranCaribou Island By Daid VannThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

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

Aug-12Our Lady of Alic Bhatti by Mohammed Hanif

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

Oct-12Black Mountain by Venero ArmannoDirt by David VannLady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey by Fiona Carnarvon

Nov-12

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Happy Valley by Patrick WhiteThis is how you lose her by Junot DiazSwallow the Air by Tara June WinchA novel Bookstore by Laurence Cosse

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

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

Feb-13Don't look now by Daphne du MaurierOne Day I will write about this place by Binyavanga WainainaThe Best Australian Essays 2012Across the Universe by Beth RevisEleanor and Park by Rainbow RowellA Long Day's Evening by Bilge KarasuFlight Behavior by Barbara KingsolverThe Childhood of Jesus by J M Cotzee

Mar-13No nerwsletter

Apr-13The last thing he wanted by Joan DidionElephantoms by Lyall WatsonIt's fine by me by Per Petterson

May-13Centuria by Giorgio ManganelliWhy don't Zebras get ulcers? By Robert M.SapolskyWomen and Power Griffith Review No 40

Jun-13I capture the castle by Dodie SmithSeven Sisters by Margaret DrabbleQuestions of travel by Michelle de Kretser

Jul-13Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlancThe Lover by Marguerite DurasDumb Luck by Vu Trong PhungThe Quiet American by Graham GreeneNight again: Contempoprary fiction from Vietnam by Linh DinhWhen Heaven And Earth Changed Places by Le Ly HayslipThe happiest Fefugee buy Anh DohThe Secret Keeper by Kate MortonStaying On by Paul Scott

Aug-13Farenheit 451 by Ray BradburyNemesis by Philip Roth

Sep-13Angle of Repose by Wallace StegnerMr Wigg by Inga SimpsonBurial Rites by Hannah KentGood Morning Mr Sarra by Chris SarraLife After Life by Kate AtkinsonThe Love Affairs of Nathaniel P by Adelle WaldmanWhat The Psychic told The Pilgrim by Jane ChristmasThe Big New Yorker Book Of DogsThe Bodysurfers by Robert DreweAll Roads Lead To Austen by Amy Elizabeth Smith

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Oct-13The Turning by Tim WintonThe Big New Yorker Book of CatsThe Burgess Boys by Elizabeth StroutA History of Silence by Lloyd JonesEyrie by Tim WintonBrooklyn by Colm ToibinThe Happiness of Blond People by Elif Shafak

Nov-13Stoner by John WilliamsThe Signature of All Things by Elizabeth GilbertSo Long, See You Tomorrow by William MaxwellSlouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan DidionReligion for Atheists by Alain de Botton

Dec-13The Flying Man by Roopa FarookiMy Struggle Book 1, A death in the Family by Karl Ove KnausgaardI am Malala by Malala YousafzaiCity of the mind by Penelope LivelyOne Summer America 1927 by Bill BrysonEugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac

Jan-14Spilt Milk by Chico BuarqueThe Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles by Katherine PancolHer Father's Daughter by Alice PungNice Work by Jana WendtRestless by William BoydThe Commandant by Jessica AndersonThe Puppet Boy of Warsaw by Eva WeaverRequiem for a wren by Nevil ShuteThe Woman in Black by Susan HillMullumbimby by Melissa LukashenkoThe Sea, The Sea by Iris MurdochThe Pure Gold Baby by Margaret DrabbleNest by Janine BurkeMezza Italiana by Zoe BoccabellaRagtime by E.L.Doctorow

Feb-14The Power of habit by Charles DuhiggThe artist's way at workWilkie Collins by Peter AckroydA song of ice and fire by At Mrs Lippincote by Elizabeth TaylorMy Driver by Maggie GeeFrankenstein by Mary ShelleyThe Matisse stories by A.S.ByattFrom Curtin to Kerr by Fred DalyFor one more day by Mitch AlbomFire Down Below by William GoldingThe little Friend by Donna TarttThe Railwayman's Wife by Ashley HayThe rendez-vosu by Daphen du Maurier

Mar-14The Luminaries by Eleanor CattonThe Beloved by Annah FaulknerAll Change by Elizabeth Jane HowardThe match maker of PerigordFever by Mary Beth KeaneHowards End on the landing by Susan HillLove and lament by John Milliken Thompson

Apr-14Boyhood Island by Karl Ove Knausgaard

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Nest by Janine BurkeDancing to the Flute by Manisha Jolie AminDeserving death by Katherine HowellThe Farm by Tom Rob SmithAstonished by Beverly DonofrioSinning across Spain by Ailsa PiperHobart by Peter TimmsThe Goldfinch by Donna TarttThe Falls by Joyce Carol OatesOne breath away by Heather GudenkaufThe collected works by A.J.FirkyThe unexpected professor by John CareyBudapest by Chico BuarqueNight Letters by Robert DessaixLetter from an unknown woman by Stefan ZweigA girl is a half formed thing by Eimear McbrideA first place by David MaloufThe News by Alain de BottonLes Belles Images by Simone de BeauvoirThe Library of unrequited love Sophie Divry

May-14Confessions of an art addict by Peggy GuggenheimThe Complete Maus by Art SpiegelmanMadness a Memoir by Kate RichardsThe Conversation by David BrooksTolstoy and the purple chairs Nina SankovitchLes Darcy by Peter FitzsimmonsSane New World by Ruby WaxBarcelona by Robert HughesReading like a writer by Francine Prose

Jun-14Paris Stories by Mavis GallantGetting stoned with savagesThe Messenger by Marcus SuzakOrpheus Lost by Janette Turner HospitalCrazy Rich Asians by Kevin KwanPoems that make old men cry ed by Anthony HoldenIn a Strange Room by Damon GalgutArctic Summer by Damon Galgut

Jul-14Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah ThorntonAll that Is by James SalterThe Rosie Project Graeme SimsionBrandwashed by Martin LindstromMoonwalking with Einstein Joshua FoerForeign Soil Maxine Beneba-ClarkeThe Night Guest Fiona McFarlaneGone Girl by Gillian FlynnFever Pitch by Nick HornbyThe Blaze of Obscurity by Clive JamesReading by Moonlight by Brenda WalkerAfrica Junction by Ginny BailyThe Diving Bell and The Butterfly Jean-Dominque BaubyThe Radiant Way by Margaret DrabbleGirt by David Hunt

Aug-14How I rescued my brain by David RolandDept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill12 Edmonton St by David MaloufMartni: A Memoir by Frank MoorhouseEarth Hour by David MaloufThe forgotten rebels of Eureka by Clare WrightThe Daylight Gate by Jeanette WintersonBonkers by Jennifer SaundersArt as therapy Alain de Botton and John Armstrong

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The life boat by Charlotte RoganThe Widow Clicot Leaving Microsoft to change the world by John WoodBorn to Run by Christopher McDougallDarkness on the edge of town by Jessie ColeNest by Inga Simpson

Sep-14Deeper Water by Jessie ColeThe collected works of A.J.Fikry by Gabrielle ZevinThe flamethrowers by Rachel KushnerSilence once begun by Jesse BallDinner at the homesick restaurant by Anne Tyler Songs from a distance by Bhuchung D SonamAll the land to hold us by Rick BassThree crooked kings by Matthew CondonOn the beach by Nevil ShuteThe Fault in our stars by John GreenThe Mitford girls by Mary S LovellThe miniaturist by Jessie BurtonThe Taint of Midas by Anne ZouroudiHe who must be Obeid by Kate McClymont and Linton Besser

Oct-14The heart is a lonely hunter by Carson McCullersThe spectator bird by Wallace StegnerLila by Marilynne RobinsonColorless Tsuru Tazaki by Harukli MurakamiThe Thrnbirds by Coleen McCullughBel Canto by Ann PatchettJacks and Jokers by Matthew CondonThe orphan master's son by Adam JohnsonThe Lowland by Jhumpa LahiriWe are all completely beside ourselves by Karen Joy FowlerThe bone clocks by David MitchellThe last days of the incas by Kim McQuarrieMurder in the telephone exchange by June Wright

Nov-14The Peripheral by William GibsonDaddy we hardly knew you by Germaine GreerZealot by Reza AslanTravels with Epicurus by David KleinAmnesia by Peter CareyMonster on the hill by Rob Harrel

Dec-14The Intellectuals and the Masses by John CareyThe Children Act by Ian McEwanDevil Bones by Kathy ReichsBig little lies by Liane MoriartyThe Pursuit of Love by Nancy MitfordHighland Fling by Nancy MitfordAll the Birds Singing by Evie WyldeThin Air by Ann CleevesThis House of Grief by Helen GarnerAn Inconvenient Genocide: Who Now Remembers the Armenians by Geoffrey Robertson Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff DyerWhat Days are For by Robert DessaixWaking up by Sam HarrisStone Mattress by Margaret Atwood

Jan-15I refuse by Per PettersonAshes in my mouth, sand in my shoes by Per PettersonMy family and other animals by Gerald DurrelThe Golden Age by Joan LondonGoats from a small island by Anna NicholasFloodline by Kathryn HeymanSo brilliantly clever by v

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Papillon by Henri CharriereShantaram by Gregory Davis RobertsNothing if not critical by Robert HughesThe meaning of everything by Simon WinchesterThe Age Of Wonders by Richard HolmesThe queen her lover and the most notorious spy in history by Roland PerryStill Alice by Lisa GenovaAll the light we cannot see by Anthony DoerrAfter Darkness by Christine Piper

Feb-15Indian Nocturne by Antonio TabucchiThe Photograph by Penelope LivelyHeart Songs by Annie ProulxForty Stories by Anton ChekhovOpen City by Teju ColeThe Poet's Tale Chaucer and the year that made The Canterbury Tales by Paul StrohmThe bush by Don WatsonBig book of Numbers by Adam SpencerLamentation by C.J.SansomAfter the fire a still small voice by Evie WyldA bone of fact David WalshThe last Word by Hanif Kureishi

Mar-15Brother of the more famous Jack by Barbara TrapidoThree letters from the Andes by Patrick Leigh FermorUnder the sun: The letters of Bruce Chatwin ed by E Chatwin and Nicholas ShakespeareThe Aitch Factor by Susan ButlerUnder another sky: Journeys in Roman Britain by Charlotte HigginsLady Susan by Jane AustenThe Aitch Factor by Susan ButlerThe reef a passionate history by Iain McCalmanDeath comes to Pemberley by PD JamesGirl on the landing by Paul TordayThe pile of stuff at the bottom of the stairs by Christina HopkinsonSummer house with swimming pool by Herman KochWhat I love by Siri Hustvedt

Apr-15Hunger by Knut HamsunDancing in the Dark by Karl Ove KnausgaardThe snow Kimono by Mark HenshawThe Railwayman's wife by Ashley HayThe Dharma Bums by Jack KerouacA Short History of Richard Kline by Amanda LohreyThe Brain That Changes Itself by Norman DoigeThe Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish by D ButterworthLeisureville by Andrew D BlechmanDear Life, on caring for the elderly by Karen HitchcockDown and out in Paris and London G OrwellJudgement Day P LivelyAmy and Isabelle by E StroutNever Any End to ParisThe Sorrows of An American Siri HustsvedtThe Enchantment of Lilly Dahl Siry HustsvedA Kiss Before Dying by Ira LevinBitter Wash Road by Garry Disher

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

Jun-15Desert Queen by Janet Wallach, 4

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

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

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

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

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

Dec-15The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare 3Hamlet by William Shakespeare 3.5 and 4Purity by Jonathan Franzen 3.5The Whites by Richard Price writing as Harry Brandt 4A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor 3The Green Road by Anne Enright 3 and 3.5Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín 3.5Summer at Mount Hope by Rosalie Ham 3Hungry Hill by Daphne du Maurier 2.5Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 4Small Victories by Ann Lamott 1The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens 4A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 4The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson 3.5The Griffith Review: Looking West 3.5The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood 4In Tasmania by Nicholas Shakespeare 3.5Etham Frome by Edith Wharton 3

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

Feb-16My name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout 4.5, 4.5, 4 & 4A little life by Hanya Yanagihara 0 (Yes – 0 out of 5)Past the Shallows Favel Parrett 3Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey 3The Winter’s Tale by Shakespeare 3.5The gap of time by Jeanette Winterson 3, 3.5

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Jacks and Jokers by Matthew Condon 3The Almost Nearly Perfect People: The Truth About the Nordic Miracle byMichael Booth 2.5Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff 3The Women in Black by Madeleine St John 4The White Road by Edmund de Waal 3.5The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George 2.5The other side of the world by Stephanie Bishop 2.5What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver 2.5, 4Lilian’s Story by Kate Grenville 2, 4Cloud Street by Tim Winton 3.5, 4A strangeness in my mind by Orhan Pamuk 4The discreet hero by Mario Vargas Llosa 3.5 and 3The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk 3.4-5Quartet (3), After leaving Mr. Mackenzie (3), Voyage in the Dark (2), Goodmorning midnight (2) by Jean RhysHow to be good by Nick Hornby 2.5Levels of life by Julian Barnes 3When the night comes by Favel Parrett 4Ghost River by Tony Birch 2.5Blood by Tony Birch 3The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood 3.5Preparations for the next life by Atticus Lish 3.5Some Luck by Jane Smiley 4Best Australian Essays 2015 4 especially:“Staying with the Trouble” by Sophie Cunningham (which won the 2015 CalibrePrize) 5 and “Regions of Thick-Ribbed Ice” by Helen Garner 4.

Mar-16Island Home by Tim Winton 4Family Furnishings by Alice Munro 5The nature of passion by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 3A time of gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor 4The third policeman by Flann O’Brien 2 (better one is At Swim-Two-Birds)Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert 2.5The heart is a lonely hunter by Carson McCullers 4.5The little Paris Bookshop by Nina George 2.5My Struggle Book 5, Some Rain Must Fall by Karl Ove Knausgaard 3.5Independent People by Halldór Laxness 5Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler 4Euphoria by Lily King 4Gutenberg’s apprentice by Alix Christie 3.5Crazy rich Asians by Kevin Kwan 3.5Not my father’s son by Alan Cumming 3My name is Lucy Barton 3.5, 4, 2.5, 4Fine Colour of Rust by P. A. O’Reilly 3.5The bazaar of bad dreams by Stephen King 3.5All fall down by Matthew Condon 3Eureka by Peter Fitzsimons 4The women’s pages by Debra Adelaide 4The Joke by Milan Kundera 3The Cutting Season by Attica Locke 3The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright 3The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel 3 and 4Modern Love: The Story of John and Sunday Reed by Lesley Harding & Kendrah Morgan 4.

Apr-16Under Cover: Adventures in the art of editing by Craig Munro, 2.5Fever at Dawn by Péter Gárdos, 3The year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, 3American Housewife by Hellen Ellis, 3.5Bonkers by Jennifer Saunders, 4.According to Yes by Dawn French, 2.5Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War… by Jason Stearns, 4The Laughing Clowns by William McInnes, 3Cometh the hour by Jeffrey Archer, 2.5Bring up the bodies by Hillary Mantel, 3I am pilgrim by Terry Hayes, 3Owls Do Cry by Janet Frame, 4

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Selected Stories by Janet Frame, 4The cove by Ron Rush, 2.5Penguin and the Lane Brothers: The Untold Story of a Publishing Revolution by Stuart Kells, 4I was only 16 by , 4

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

Jun-16Boy Lost by Kristina Olson, 4.Mothering Sunday By Graham Swift, 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.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-16What 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.

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

Sep-16Out in the Open by Jesús Carrasco 3.5Hawaii by James A. Michener 4The Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry 2.5Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey 3The 13th Disciple by Deepak Chopra 2.5Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan 3An Invisible Friendship by Joyce Grenfell and Katharine Moore 4The soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery 3.5Before The Fall by Noah Hawley 3Swallow the Air by Tara June Winch 3Promising Azra by Helen Thurloe 3Hot Milk by Deborah Levy 3What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi 4The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks 3The Informers by Gabriel García Vázquez 3American Housewife by Helen Ellis 3.5Blood Kin by Ceridwen Dovey 3.5Beauty Is A Wound by Eka Kurniawan 2Dumb Luck by Vũ Trọng Phụng 5The Tiger Wife by Téa Obreht 4The Bridge On The Drina by Ivo Andrić 2.5

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Black Rock White City by A. S. Patric 4.5

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

Dec-16The 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-17The Feel of Steel by Helen Garner, 3.5Oranges are not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson, 4Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days by Jeanette Winterson, 3.5, 3.5 & 3Dumb Luck by Vu Trong Phung, 3Life by Gwyneth A. Jones, 3.5Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor, 3.5The Notebook Trilogy by Agota Kristof, 4Commonwealth by Ann Patchett, 4.5 & 4Dancing Backwards by Sally Vickers, 2Blame by Nicole Trope, 3The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood, 3.5Mullumbimby by Melissa Lucashenko, 3A Manual for Cleaning Women, 4 & 4.5The Life Changing Magic of not Giving a F@#k, 3The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain, 3The Dry by Jane Harper, 4A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, 2.5

Feb-17Difficult Women by Roxane Gay, 3.5The Life Changing Magic of Tidying by Marie Kondo, 4Spark Joy by Marie Kondo, 3Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe, 3.5Today will be different by Maria Semple, 3.5The Notebook Trilogy by Agota Kristof, 5Lila by Marilynne Robinson, 4Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance, 3Catherine the Great, Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie, 3Johnno by David Malouf, 4.5Commonwealth by Ann Patchett, 4Best Australian Essays 2016 ed. Geordie Williamson, 3.5Flesh Wounds by Richard Glover, 4

Mar-17About 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.

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

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

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

Jul-17Die Wise by Stephen Jenkinson, 5The Marvellous Misadventures of Ingrid Winter by J.S. Drangsholt, 2My cat Yugoslavia by Pajtim Statovci, 3.5The Mothers by Brit Bennett, 2.5, 2,5 and 3.The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington, 2.5Fludd by Hilary Mantel, 3Other chairs by Barbara Blackman,3.5One Year of Life by Cecil Roberts, 3

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Gone Afield by Cecil Roberts, 3

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

Sep-17My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell, 3.5Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively, 3.5Siracusa by Delia Ephron, 3Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo, 3.5The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas,Barkskins by Annie Proulx, 4Tirra Lirra by the River by Jessica Anderson, 4Nothing Holds Back the Night by Delphine de Vigan ,3.5A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin, 4My Cat Yugoslavia by Pajtim Statovci, 3Based on a True Story by Delphine de Vigan, 3.5 and4Am I Black Enough For You? By Anita Heiss, 3.5The Husband Hunters by Anne de Courcy, 4Victoria by Julia Baird, 3

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

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

Nov-17Catherine the Great: A Portrait of a Woman by Robert Massie, 3.5One Child: The Story of China’s Most Radical Experiment by Mei Fong, 3.5The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead,2

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

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

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

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

Jul-18Flights by Olga Tokarczuk 3.5The Salmon who Dared to Leap Higher by Ahn Do-hyun 3The Master and Margarita by Mikail Bulgakov 3.5Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee, 3Wild by Cheryl Strayed, 3Gate of Lilacs: A Verse commentary on Proust, by Clive James 3.5

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Such Small Hands by Andres Barba 3Johnno by David Malouf 4Remembering Babylon by David Malouf 4Breath by Tim Winton 3A Long Way from Home by Peter Carey 3.5The Quiet American by Graham Greene 3.5Deep Time Dreaming by Billy Griffiths 5The Butterfly Man by Heather Rose 3.5The River Wife by Heather Rose 3An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon 3

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

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

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

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Down in the City, Elizabeth Harrower, 3Song of a Captive Bird, Jasmin Darznik, 3Creativity Rules, Tina Seelig, 3

Feb-18Changing My Mind by Zadie Smith, 3Swing Time by Zadie Smith, 3.5The Mothers by Brit Bennett, 3Wednesdays with Bob by Derek Rielly, 3.5The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker, 4Stay with me by Ayobami Adebayo, 3.5The Red Coast by Di Morrissey, 2.5Autumn by Ali Smith, 4Clean Straw for Nothing by George Johnston, 3.5Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, 3.5A horse walks into a bar, David Grossman, 4Based on a true story, Delphine De Vigan, 3The German Girl , Armando Lucas Correa, 3Before the Fall, Noah Hawley, 2.5

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

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

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