The books
I've read since I began this list, current read first.
Goodbye Sarajevo by Atka Reid and Hana Schofield
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll
January 2013
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Bitin' Back by Vivienne Cleven
The Boundary by Nicole Watson
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
The Spare Room by Helen Garner
The Essence of the Thing by Madeleine St John
The Women in Black by Madeleine St John
Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
A Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
Mama Mia by Mia Freedman
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Books vs Cigarettes by George Orwell
Slow Train to Guantanamo by Peter Millar
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Bridget Jones' Diary by Helen Fielding
The War is Dead, Long Live the War by Ed Vulliamy
Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Ancient Light by John Banville
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Jazz by Toni Morrison
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
St Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Season of the Witch by David Talbot
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Conde
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
The Forrests by Emily Perkins
Cocaine Blues (a Phyrne Fisher mystery) by Kerry Greenwood
Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
Here is New York by E.B White
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
The Passage by Justin Cronin
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F.Scott Fitzgerald
Women of Letters curated by Marieke Hardy and Michaela Maguire
The Cartographer by Peter Twohig
Carry on Jeeves by P.G Wodehouse
The Group by Mary McCarthy
January 2012
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Melbourne by Sophie Cunningham
Do No Harm by Carol Topolski
Mr Fox by Helen Oyeyemi
Nine
Parts of Desire by Geraldine
Brooks
Revenge
of the Mooncake Vixen by Marilyn Chin
Madame
Brussels: This Moral Pandemonium by L.M Robinson
Poor
Man's Wealth by
Rod Usher
We Need
to Talk About Kevin by Lionel
Shriver
We Were
the Mulvaneys by Joyce
Carol Oates
Norwegian
Wood by Haruki Murakami
Me and Mr Booker by
Cory Taylor
Sometime in 2011
Green = Female Author
Orange = Male Author
Purple = Australian Woman Writer
