Last updated in February 2020.
Newly added titles are denoted by an asterisk (*)
Australian author or setting
Arnott, Robbie – Flames
Atkins, Clare – Between us *
Barrett, Shirley – The bus on Thursday
Bird, Carmel – Cape Grimm
Bishop, Stephanie – Other Side of the World
Blain, Georgia – Between a wolf and a dog
Brooks, Geraldine – Caleb's crossing.
Brooks, Geraldine – People of the book.
Byrski, Liz – A month of Sundays *
Carey, Peter – A long way from home *
Carey, Peter – Jack Maggs
Carey, Peter – The chemistry of tears
Carey, Peter – Theft : a love story.
Carmody, Sam – The windy season
Clarke, Marcus – For the term of his natural life
Conte, Steven – The zookeeper's war.
Cotton, Peter – Dead cat bounce
Darke, Minnie– Star–crossed *
Day, Livia – A trifle dead : book one of the Cafe La Femme series
Day, Marele – Mrs Cook : the real and imagined life of the Captain's wife.
Dean, Geoffrey – The literary lunch : selected stories
De Kretser, Michelle – The life to come *
Dessaix, Robert – Night letters : a journey through Switzerland and Italy.
Dettman, Joy – Wind in the wires.
Donoghue, Emma – Room.
Drewe, Robert, 1943 – The true colour of the sea *
Epstein, Sarah – Small spaces *
Erskine, Y. A. (Yvette) – Brotherhood.
Flanagan, Richard – Death of a river guide
Flanagan, Richard – First person
Flanagan, Richard – Gould's book of fish
Flanagan, Richard – The narrow road to the deep north
Flanagan, Richard – The sound of one hand clapping
Flanagan, Richard – Wanting
Foxlee, Karen, 1971– Lenny's book of everything *
Franklin, Miles – My brilliant career
Funder, Anna – All that I am
Garner, Helen – Monkey grip
Garner, Helen – The spare room.
Gee, Poppy – Bay of Fires
Grenville, Kate – Lilian's story.
Grenville, Kate – Sarah Thornhill.
Grenville, Kate – The secret river.
Ham, Rosalie – Dressmaker
Harper, Jane – The dry
Harper, Jane–Force of nature *
Hay, Ashley – A hundred small lessons
Hazzard, Shirley – The transit of Venus.
Heiss, Anita – Barbed wire and cherry blossoms
Hoeg, Peter – Miss Smilla’s feeling for snow
Hurley, Susan – Eight lives *
Jaffe, Meredith – The fence
Johnson, Katherine – The better son *
Johnston, George – My brother Jack.
Jordan, Toni – Addition
Kennedy, Cate – The world beneath
Kent, Hannah – Burial rites
Kneale, Matthew – English passengers
Koch, C. J. (Christopher John) – Highways to a war.
Koch, C. J. (Christopher John) – Lost voices
Koch, C. J. (Christopher John) – The memory room
Laguna, Sofie – Eye of the Sheep
Lang, Lisa – Utopian man.
Le, Nam – The boat
Leigh, Julia – The hunter
Lette, Kathy – The boy who fell to Earth
Limprecht, Eleanor – Passengers *
Livett, Jennifer – Wild island
London, Joan – The good parents.
Lowe, Fiona– Birthright *
Lukins, Robert – The everlasting Sunday *
Malouf, David – An imaginary life
Malouf, David – Remembering Babylon
Marchetta, Melina – Tell the truth, shame the devil
Marsden, John – South of Darkness
McCullough, Colleen – Bittersweet
McInerney, Monica – The trip of a lifetime
McIntosh, Fiona – The lavender keeper
Mears, Gillian – Foal's bread.
Middleton, Mike – Edge of time
Miller, Alex – Conditions of faith.
Miller, Alex – Journey to the stone country.
Moon, Josephine – The chocolate promise
Moriarty, Liane – Big little lies
Moriarty, Liane – Nine perfect strangers
Moriarty, Liane – Truly madly guilty *
Morris, Heather – Tattooist of Auschwitz
Morrissey, Di – A distant journey
Morton, Kate – The lake house
Morton, Kate – The secret keeper
Mundy, Robyn – Wildlight
Murnane, Gerald – Collected short fiction *
Musa, Omar – Here come the dogs *
Nunn, Judy – Tiger men
O’Flynn, Mark – The last days of Ava Langdon
Olsson, Kristina – Shell
Overington, Caroline – I came to say goodbye.
Parrett, Favel – Past the shallows
Parrett, Favel – When the night comes
Perlman, Elliot – The street sweeper.
Picoult, Jodi – Small great things
Ringland, Holly – The lost flowers of Alice Hart
Rose, Heather – The butterfly man
Rose, Heather –The museum of modern love *
Savanadasa, Rajith – Ruins *
Scholes, Katherine – Congo dawn *
Scholes, Katherine – The hunter's wife
Scholes, Katherine – The perfect wife
Scott, Kim – That deadman dance.
Scott, Margaret – Family album
Scott, Rosie – Faith singer.
Silvey, Craig – Jasper Jones
Silvey, Craig – Rhubarb.
Simsion, Graeme C – The Rosie project
St John, Madeleine – Ladies in black
Stedman, M. L – The light between oceans.
Throsby, Holly –Cedar valley
Tiffany, Carrie – Mateship with birds
Treloar, Lucy – Salt Creek
Tsiolkas, Christos – Barracuda
Tsiolkas, Christos – The slap
Van Hooft, Kate – We see the stars *
Viggers, Karen – The lightkeeper's wife
White, Patrick – The tree of man.
Williams, Sue I. – Murder with the lot
Wilson, Josephine – Extinctions
Wilson, Rohan – To name those lost
Wilson, Rohan David – The roving party
Winton, Tim – Breath
Winton, Tim – Eyrie
Winton, Tim – The riders
Winton, Tim – The shepherd’s hut
Wood, Charlotte – The children
Wood, Danielle – The alphabet of light and dark
Wright, Alexis – Carpentaria
Wyld, Evie – All the Birds Singing
Zable, Arnold – Cafe Scheherazade
Zorn, Claire – One would think the deep *
Zusak, Markus – The book thief
Zusak, Markus – Bridge of Clay
International authors
Ahern, Cecelia – Roar *
Ali, Monica – Brick lane.
Atwood, Margaret Eleanor – Oryx and Crake.
Atwood, Margaret Eleanor – The blind assassin.
Atwood, Margaret Eleanor – The handmaid’s tale
Austen, Jane – Mansfield Park.
Aw, Tash – The harmony silk factory.
Backman, Fredrik, 1981 – A man called Ove *
Baldacci, David – The last mile
Barbery, Muriel – The elegance of the hedgehog
Barnes, Julian – The sense of an ending
Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew) – Peter Pan
Beatty, Paul – The sellout *
Bennett, Alan – The uncommon reader.
Bohjalian, Chris – The Sandcastle girls
Bronte, Charlotte – Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily – Wuthering heights.
Burns, Anna – Milkman
Burton, Jessie – The muse
Campbell, Karen – This is where I am
Catton, Eleanor – The Luminaries
Clark, Mary Higgins – I've got my eyes on you *
Cole, Jessie – Deeper water
Collins, Bridget, – The binding *
Collins, Wilkie – Woman in white
Connelly, Michael – The wrong side of goodbye
Conrad, Joseph – Heart of darkness.
Craven, Margaret – I heard the owl call my name
De Kretser, Michelle – Questions of travel
Dhaliwal, Aminder – Woman world (graphic novel) *
Diamant, Anita – The red tent.
Dickens, Charles – Great expectations.
Doerr, Anthony – All the light we cannot see
Donoghue, Emma – Room.
Doughty, Louise – Apple Tree Yard
Dovey, Ceridwen – Only the Animals
Edugyan, Esi – Washington Black
Eggers, Dave – The circle
Erdrich, Louise – The painted drum : a novel *
Farr, Tracy – The life and loves of Lena Gaunt
Fellowes, Julian – Belgravia
Ferrante, Elena – My brilliant friend
Finn, A. J. – The woman in the window *
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott) – The Great Gatsby.
Flaubert, Gustave – Madame Bovary.
Flynn, Gillian – Gone Girl
Foer, Jonathan Safran – Extremely loud & incredibly close.
Fowler, Karen Joy – The Jane Austen Book Club.
Fowler, Karen Joy – We are all completely beside ourselves
Fowler, Therese – Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
Gaiman, Neil – Norse mythology *
Galbraith, Robert – The cuckoo's calling
Galland, Nicole – Godiva
Gibbons, Stella – Cold Comfort Farm.
Green, John – The fault in our stars
Green, John – Turtles all the way down *
Greene, Graham – Travels with my aunt.
Grisham, John – Camino Island *
Grossman, David – A horse walks into a bar
Haddon, Mark – The curious incident of the dog in the night–time.
Hamid, Mohsin – Exit west *
Haruf, Kent – Our souls at night
Hawkins, Matt – Stairway (graphic novel) *
Hawkins, Paula – Girl on the train
Honeyman, Gail – Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine
Hornby, Nick – How to be good.
Hosseini, Khaled – A thousand splendid suns.
Hosseini, Khaled – And the mountains echoed
Hosseini, Khaled – The kite runner.
Huxley, Aldous – Brave new world
Ishiguro, Kazuo – When we were orphans.
Ivey, Eowyn – The snow child
Jacobson, Howard – The Finkler question.
James, Henry – Washington Square.
James, Marlon – Brief history of seven killings
James, P. D – Death comes to Pemberley.
Jonasson, Jonas – The one hundred year old man who climbed out the window and disappeared
Jones, Lloyd – Hand me down world
Jones, Lloyd – Mister Pip
Keneally, Thomas – Schindler's list
Kidd, Sue Monk – The secret life of bees.
Kingsolver, Barbara – The lacuna.
Kingsolver, Barbara – The Poisonwood Bible.
Kline, Christina Baker – The orphan train
Knight, Christine M – Life song
Kundera, Milan – The unbearable lightness of being.
Lahiri, Jhumpa – The lowland
Lavell, Iris – Elsewhere in Success
Le Carre, John – The constant gardener.
Lee, Harper – Go set a watchman *
Lee, Harper – To kill a mockingbird
Levy, Andrea – Small island.
Lewycka, Marina – A short history of tractors in Ukrainian.
Liebenberg, Lauren – The voluptuous delights of peanut butter and jam.
Lindley, Maureen – A girl like you.
Lovestam, Sara – Wonderful feels like this
McCall Smith, Alexander – Friends, lovers, chocolate.
McCarthy, Cormac – The road.
McEwan, Ian – Enduring love
McEwan, Ian – Machines like me : and people like you *
McEwan, Ian – The children act
McEwan, Ian – Sweet Tooth
McGuire, Ian – North water
McNaught, Jon – Kingdom (graphic novel) *
Mah, Adeline Yen – Falling leaves return to their roots
Maine, Sarah – The house between tides
Mantel, Hilary – Bring up the bodies
Mantel, Hilary – Wolf Hall.
Martel, Yann – Life of Pi
Miéville, China – The city & the city *
Miller, Madeline – The song of Achilles.
Mistry, Rohinton – A fine balance.
Mitchell, David (David Stephen) – The thousand autumns of Jacob De Zoet
Moriarty, Laura – The chaperone
Morrison, Toni – Beloved.
Moyes, Jojo – Me before you
Murakami, Haruki – Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his years of pilgrimage
Munro, Alice – Lying under the apple tree : new selected stories *
Nemirovsky, Irene – Suite Francaise.
Ness, Patrick – Crane Wife
Ness, Patrick – The knife of never letting go *
Ng, Celeste – Little fires everywhere *
Nicholls, David – Us
O'Farrell, Maggie – The hand that first held mine
O'Farrell, Maggie – This must be the place
O'Hagan, Andrew – The illuminations
Ondaatje, Michael – The English patient
Ondaatje, Michael – Warlight
Orwell, George – Animal farm : a fairy story.
Orwell, George – Nineteen eighty–four
Palmer, Fiona – Secrets between friends *
Patchett, Ann – Bel canto.
Patchett, Ann – Commonwealth
Patchett, Ann – State of wonder.
Picoult, Jodi – Storyteller
Plath, Sylvia – The bell jar
Pullman, Philip – La Belle Sauvage *
Quinn, Kate – The Alice network *
Richell, Hannah – Secrets of the tides.
Richell, Hannah – The shadow year
Rodriguez, Deborah – The little coffee shop of Kabul
Rooney, Sally – Normal people *
Rossiter, Nan Parson – More than you know
Rothschild, Hannah – The improbability of love
Rowling, J. K – The casual vacancy
Roy, Arundhati – The God of small things.
Roy, Arundhati – The ministry of utmost happiness
Rushdie, Salman – The satanic verses.
Saint–Exupery, Antoine de – Little prince
Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David) – The catcher in the rye
Santopolo, Jill – The light we lost *
Saunders, George – Lincoln in the Bardo
Scobie, Claire – The pagoda tree
Shaffer, Mary Ann – The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
Shriver, Lionel – The post birthday world
Shriver, Lionel – We need to talk about Kevin
Simonson, Helen – The summer before the war
Simpson, Inga – Nest
Smith, Ali – Autumn
Smith, Dominic – The last painting of Sara de Vos
Solomons, Natasha – The song collector
Steinbeck, John – The grapes of wrath
Stevenson, Robert Louis – Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and other tales
Stockett, Kathryn – The help.
Strout, Elizabeth – My name is Lucy Barton
Sullivan, Mark T – Beneath a scarlet sky *
Suskind, Patrick – Perfume : the story of a murderer
Swift, Graeme – Mothering Sunday
Tolstoy, Leo – Anna Karenina
Towles, Amor – A gentleman in Moscow
Tremain, Rose – Road home
Tyler, Anne – Digging to America.
Tyler, Anne – The amateur marriage.
Vickers, Salley – The cleaner of Chartres
Vonnegut, Kurt – Slaughterhouse–five
Walters, Minette – The scold's bridle.
Waters, Sarah – The paying guests
Waugh, Evelyn – Brideshead revisited
Wharton, Edith – Age of innocence.
Winterson, Jeanette – Oranges are not the only fruit
Woolf, Virginia – To the lighthouse
Yanagihara, Hanya – A little life
Yates, Richard – Revolutionary road.
Yoon, Nicola – The sun is also a star *
Biography and Memoir
Alcott, Dylan – Able *
Altmann, Carol – Four seasons with a grumpy goat
Ames, Matthew – Will to live
Andersson, Per J. – The amazing story of the man who cycled from India to Europe for love *
Barnes, Jimmy – Working class man
Boochani, Behrouz – No friend but the mountains : writing from Manus prison
Berendt, John – The city of falling angels
Boo, Katherine – Behind the beautiful forevers
Bowden, Tim – One crowded hour
Bowden, Tim – The way my father tells it
Brierley, Saroo – A long way home
Burden, Hilary – A story of seven summers
Colvin, Mark – Light and shadow
Crawford, Anne – Ralf
Davidson, Robyn – Tracks
De Crespigny, Richard – QF32
De Crespigny, Robin – The people smuggler : the true story of Ali Al Jenabi
De Waal, Edmund – The hare with amber eyes
Dessaix, Robert – Twilight of love : travels with Turgenev
Do, Anh – The happiest refugee
Duncan, Susan (Susan Elizabeth) – Salvation Creek
Durrell, Gerald – My family and other animals
Eastman, Berenice – Nan Chauncy : a writer's life
Eastman, Merridy – How now brown frau
Facey, A. B. (Albert Barnett) – A fortunate life
Flanagan, Arch – The line : a man's experience
Flanagan, Martin – In sunshine or in shadow
Funder, Anna – Stasiland
Gelman, Rita Golden – Tales of a female nomad
Garner, Helen – Everywhere I look
Gilbert, Elizabeth – Eat, pray, love
Glover, Richard – The land before avocado *
Grenville, Kate – One life
Guevara, Ernesto – The motorcycle diaries
Hill, Alannah – Butterfly on a pin *
Hirsi Ali, Ayaan – Infidel
Howard, Patricia – What colour is love
Howell, Georgina – Daughter of the desert
Idle, Eric – Always look on the bright side of life
Jeffrey, Betty – Paradise Road :the white coolies
Kirby, M. D. (Michael Donald) – A private life : fragments, memories, friends
Krasnostein, Sarah – The trauma cleaner
Lahiri, Jhumpa – In other words
Laveau–Harvie, Vicki – The erratics *
Lee, Bri – Eggshell skull : a memoir about standing up, speaking out and fighting back *
Leroux, Marie–Paule – A frog in the billabong
Linstead, Hilary – Growing old outrageously
Llewellyn, Kate – The dressmaker's daughter
Lomax, Eric – The railway man
Macdonald, Helen – H is for Hawk
Mackinnon, A. J. (Alexander James) – The unlikely voyage of Jack de Crow
Mah, Adeline Yen – Falling leaves return to their roots
Mandela, Nelson – Long walk to freedom
Mattingley, Christobel – King of the wilderness : the life of Deny King
Moore, Philippa – The latte years : a story of losses, gains and life beyond the after photo
Mortenson, Greg – Three cups of tea
Newport, Jerry – Mozart and the whale
Nicholls, Freda – The amazing Mrs Livesey
Nicolson, Nigel – Virginia Woolf
Obama, Barack – Dreams from my father
Obama, Michelle – Becoming *
Proulx, Annie – Bird cloud
Pung, Alice – Unpolished gem
Pung, Alice (editor) – Growing up Asian in Australia
Richmond Mouillot, Miranda – A fifty – year silence
Roberts, Jason – A sense of the world
Sales, Leigh – Any ordinary day
Sara, Sally – Gogo mama : a journey into the lives of twelve African women
Saunders, Jennifer – Bonkers
Scott, Margaret – Changing countries
Seierstad, Asne – The bookseller of Kabul
Sixsmith, Martin – Philomena
Stein, Gertrude – The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Stroud, Gabbie – Teacher
Summers, Anne – Unfettered and alive : a memoir *
Szubanski, Magda – Reckoning : a memoir
Tapp Coutts, Toni – A sunburnt childhood
Taylor, Cory – Dying: a memoir
Timms, Peter – In search of Hobart
Turnbull, Sarah – All good things
Turnbull, Sarah – Almost French : a new life in Paris
Ulman, Vivienne – Alzheimer's : a love story
Walsh, David (David Dominic) – A bone of fact
Warne, Shane – No spin *
West, Ida – Pride against prejudice
Westover, Tara – Educated *
Winterson, Jeanette – Why be happy when you could be normal?
Wright, Judith – Half a lifetime
Wyndham, Susan – Life in his hands : the true story of a neurosurgeon and a pianist
Yousafzi, Malala – I am Malala
Other Non–Fiction
Brooks, Geraldine – Nine parts of desire : the hidden world of Islamic women
Caro, Jane – Accidental feminists *
Deveson, Anne – Resilience
Fry, Stephen – The ode less travelled : unlocking the poet within *
Homer – Odyssey *
Hooper, Chloe – The arsonist : a mind on fire *
Kevin, Tony – Walking the Camino : a modern pilgrimage to Santiago
Koch, C. J. (Christopher John) – The many–coloured land : a return to Ireland
Krien, Anna – Into the woods : the battle for Tasmania's forests
Pascoe, Bruce – Dark emu : black seeds : agriculture or accident?
Peterson, Jordan – 12 rules for life *
Sacks, Oliver – The man who mistook his wife for a hat and other clinical tales
Williams, Rhian – The poetry toolkit : the essential guide to studying poetry *
Wynhausen, Elisabeth – Dirt cheap : life at the wrong end of the job market
* Newly added title