Australian Fiction – Fiction with an Australian setting or author
- Armstrong, Judith - War & peace and Sonya
- Arnott, Robbie – Flames*
- 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
- Brooks, Geraldine - Year of wonders: A novel of the plague
- Byrski, Liz - Gang of four
- Carey, Peter - Jack Maggs
- Carey, Peter - Parrot and Olivier in America.
- Carey, Peter - The chemistry of tears
- Carey, Peter - Theft: A love story
- Carmody, Sam - The windy season
- Carroll, Steven - The time we have taken.
- Carter, Paul D - Eleven seasons
- Clarke, Marcus - For the term of his natural life
- Conte, Steven - The zookeeper's war
- Cotton, Peter - Dead cat bounce
- 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
- Dessaix, Robert - Night letters : a journey through Switzerland and Italy.
- Dettman, Joy - Wind in the wires.
- Donoghue, Emma - Room.
- 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 - The unknown terrorist
- Flanagan, Richard - Wanting
- 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
- Goldsworthy, Peter - Three dog night.
- Grenville, Kate - Lilian's story.
- Grenville, Kate - Sarah Thornhill.
- Grenville, Kate - The idea of perfection.
- Grenville, Kate - The secret river.
- Halligan, Marion - The fog garden : a novel
- Ham, Rosalie - Dressmaker
- Harper, Jane - The dry
- Hartnett, Sonya - Of a boy.
- Hartnett, Sonya - Thursday's child.
- Hay, Ashley – A hundred small lessons
- Hazzard, Shirley - The great fire
- Hazzard, Shirley - The transit of Venus.
- Heiss, Anita – Barbed wire and cherry blossoms
- Hoeg, Peter – Miss Smilla's feeling for snow *
- Jaffe, Meredith – The fence
- Jennings, Kate - Moral hazard.
- Johnston, George - My brother Jack.
- Jordan, Toni - Addition
- Jordan, Toni - Fall girl.
- 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
- Koval, Ramona - Samovar.
- Laguna, Sofie - Eye of the Sheep
- Lang, Lisa - Utopian man.
- Le, Nam - The boat
- Legge, Kate - The unexpected elements of love.
- Leigh, Julia - The hunter
- Lette, Kathy – The boy who fell to Earth
- Livett, Jennifer - Wild island
- Lomer, Kathryn - What now, Tilda B?
- London, Joan - Gilgamesh
- London, Joan - The good parents.
- 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 - Autumn Laing.
- 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 *
- Morris, Heather – Tattooist of Auschwitz *
- Morrissey, Di – A distant journey *
- Morton, Kate – The lake house *
- Morton, Kate - The secret keeper
- Mundy, Robyn – Wildlight
- Nunn, Judy - Tiger men
- Nunn, Malla - A beautiful place to die.
- 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.
- Scholes, Katherine - The hunter's wife
- Scholes, Katherine - The perfect wife
- Scott, Kim - That deadman dance.
- Scott, Margaret - Family album
- Scott, Rosie - Faith singer.
- Shakespeare, Nicholas - Snowleg.
- 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.
- Temple, Peter - The broken shore.
- Throsby, Holly –Cedar valley *
- Tiffany, Carrie - Mateship with birds
- Treloar, Lucy – Salt Creek
- Tsiolkas, Christos - Barracuda
- Tsiolkas, Christos - The slap
- 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 - Cloudstreet
- Winton, Tim - Eyrie
- Winton, Tim - The riders
- Winton, Tim – The shepherd's hut *
- Winton, Tim - The turning.
- 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.
- Zusak, Markus - The book thief
- Zusak, Markus - Bridge of Clay *
International authors
- Adam, Paul - Unholy trinity
- Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi - Half of a yellow sun
- Adiga, Aravind - The white tiger.
- Ali, Monica - Brick lane.
- Atkinson, Kate - Behind the scenes at the museum.
- Atkinson, Kate - Case histories.
- 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.
- 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
- Bennett, Alan - Four stories
- Bennett, Alan - The uncommon reader.
- Berendt, John - Midnight in the garden of good and evil
- Bohjalian, Chris - The Sandcastle girls
- Boyd, William - Restless.
- Boylan, Clare - Emma Brown
- 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
- Chatwin, Bruce - On the black hill.
- Chevalier, Tracy - Girl with a pearl earring.
- Cleave, Chris - The other hand.
- Coelho, Paulo - The alchemist.
- Coetzee, J. M - Disgrace
- Cole, Jessie - Deeper water
- 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
- Dai, Sijie - Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress.
- De Kretser, Michelle - Questions of travel
- De Kretser, Michelle - The Hamilton case.
- Desai, Kiran - The inheritance of loss.
- 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
- Dubus, Andre - House of sand & fog.
- Ebershoff, David - The Danish girl
- Edugyan, Esi – Washington Black *
- Eggers, Dave – The circle
- Farr, Tracy - The life and loves of Lena Gaunt
- Faulks, Sebastian - Charlotte Gray.
- Fellowes, Julian - Belgravia
- Ferrante, Elena - My brilliant friend
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott) - The Great Gatsby.
- Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary.
- Flynn, Gillian - Gone Girl
- Foer, Jonathan Safran - Extremely loud & incredibly close.
- Forna, Aminatta - The memory of love.
- 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
- Franzen, Jonathan - Freedom
- Frazier, Charles - Cold mountain
- Galbraith, Robert - The cuckoo's calling
- Galland, Nicole – Godiva
- Garcia Marquez, Gabriel - Love in the time of cholera
- Gibbons, Stella - Cold Comfort Farm.
- Green, John - The fault in our stars
- Greene, Graham - Travels with my aunt.
- Grossman, David – A horse walks into a bar
- Gruen, Sara - Water for elephants.
- Haddon, Mark - The curious incident of the dog in the night-time.
- Harris, Robert - Pompeii
- Haruf, Kent – Our souls at night
- 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.
- Hulme, Keri - The bone people.
- Huxley, Aldous - Brave new world
- Ishiguro, Kazuo - Never let me go.
- 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.
- James, P. D - Devices and desires
- James, P. D - The lighthouse
- 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 - Prodigal summer.
- 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
- Lahiri, Jhumpa - The namesake.
- Lang, Graham - Lettah's gift.
- Lavell, Iris - Elsewhere in Success
- Le Carre, John - The constant gardener.
- Lee, Harper – Go set a watchman *
- Lee, Harper - To kill a mockingbird
- Leon, Donna - Fatal remedies
- 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 - Amsterdam
- McEwan, Ian - Atonement
- McEwan, Ian - Black dogs
- McEwan, Ian - Enduring love.
- McEwan, Ian - Sweet Tooth
- McEwan, Ian - The children act
- McGuire, Ian – North water
- Mah, Adeline Yen - Falling leaves return to their roots
- Maine, Sarah – The house between tides
- Mankell, Henning - Before the frost.
- Mantel, Hilary - Bring up the bodies
- Mantel, Hilary - Wolf Hall.
- Martel, Yann - Life of Pi
- Matar, Hisham - In the country of men.
- 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
- Nemirovsky, Irene - Suite Francaise.
- Ness, Patrick - Crane Wife
- 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 - Anil's ghost.
- Ondaatje, Michael - The English patient
- Ondaatje, Michael – Warlight *
- Orwell, George - Animal farm : a fairy story.
- Orwell, George - Nineteen eighty-four
- Paretsky, Sara - Body work.
- Patchett, Ann - Bel canto.
- Patchett, Ann - Commonwealth
- Patchett, Ann - State of wonder.
- Perez-Reverte, Arturo - The Seville communion.
- Picoult, Jodi - Plain truth.
- Picoult, Jodi - Storyteller
- Plath, Sylvia - The bell jar.
- Proulx, Annie - That old ace in the hole.
- Proulx, Annie - The shipping news.
- Pym, Barbara - Excellent women.
- Rendell, Ruth - Harm done
- Richell, Hannah - Secrets of the tides.
- Richell, Hannah - The shadow year
- Rodriguez, Deborah - The little coffee shop of Kabul
- 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
- Ruiz Zafon, Carlos - The shadow of the wind.
- Rushdie, Salman - The satanic verses.
- Saint-Exupery, Antoine de - Little prince
- Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David) - The catcher in the rye
- Saunders, George – Lincoln in the Bardo
- Scobie, Claire - The pagoda tree
- Sebold, Alice - The lovely bones.
- See, Lisa - Snow Flower and the secret fan
- Shaffer, Mary Ann - The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
- Shreve, Anita - Resistance
- Shriver, Lionel - The post birthday world
- Shriver, Lionel - We need to talk about Kevin
- Simonson, Helen - Major Pettigrew's last stand
- Simonson, Helen – The summer before the war
- Simpson, Inga - Nest
- Smith, Ali - Autumn
- Smith, Dominic – The last painting of Sara de Vos
- Smith, Zadie - White Teeth
- 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 *
- Sskind, Patrick - Perfume : the story of a murderer
- Swift, Graeme - Mothering Sunday
- Swift, Graham - Waterland
- Tartt, Donna - The little friend
- Toibin, Colm - The Blackwater lightship.
- 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 - Miss Garnet's angel.
- Vickers, Salley - The cleaner of Chartres
- Vickers, Salley - The other side of you.
- 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.
Biography and Memoir
- Allende, Isabel - Paula
- Altmann, Carol - Four seasons with a grumpy goat
- Ames, Matthew - Will to live
- Barnes, Jimmy – Working class man
- Bauby, Jean-Dominique - The diving bell and the butterfly
- 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
- Burns, R. J. (Robin Joan) - Just tell them I survived : women in Antarctica
- Clift, Charmian - Mermaid singing ; Peel me a lotus
- Colvin, Mark – Light and shadow
- Cracknell, Ruth - Journey from Venice : a memoir
- Crawford, Anne - Ralf
- Dalton, Robin - Aunts up the Cross
- 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 - A mother's disgrace
- Dessaix, Robert - Twilight of love : travels with Turgenev
- Do, Anh - The happiest refugee
- Drabble, Margaret - The pattern in the carpet : a personal history with jigsaws
- Drewe, Robert - The shark net
- 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
- Eastman, Merridy - There's a bear in there (and he wants Swedish)
- Facey, A. B. (Albert Barnett) - A fortunate life
- Fiennes, William - The music room
- 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
- Grenville, Kate - One life
- Guevara, Ernesto - The motorcycle diaries
- Hales, Dianne - La bella lingua
- Hirsi Ali, Ayaan - Infidel
- Holborow, Barbara - Those tracks on my face
- Howard, Patricia - What colour is love
- Howell, Georgina - Daughter of the desert
- Huggan, Isabel - Belonging
- 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
- Leroux, Marie- Paule - A frog in the billabong
- Linstead, Hilary - Growing old outrageously
- Llewellyn, Kate - The dressmaker's daughter
- Lomax, Eric - The railway man
- McCutcheon, Sandy - The magician's son
- 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
- Mazari, Najaf - The rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif
- Miro, Asha - Daughter of the Ganges
- 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
- Pilkington, Doris - Follow the rabbit-proof fence
- Proulx, Annie - Bird cloud
- Pung, Alice - Unpolished gem
- Pung, Alice (editor) - Growing up Asian in Australia
- Richmond Mouillot, Miranda - A fifty - year silence
- Rigney, Victoria - Dancing on the edge of the empire
- 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
- Shakespeare, Nicholas - In Tasmania
- Sixsmith, Martin - Philomena
- Stein, Gertrude - The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
- Stroud, Gabbie – Teacher *
- Tapp Coutts, Toni - A sunburnt childhood
- Taylor, Cory – Dying: a memoir
- Timms, Peter - In search of Hobart
- Turnbull, Sarah - All good things
- Ulman, Vivienne - Alzheimer's : a love story
- Ustinov, Peter - Dear me
- Walker, Brenda - Reading by moonlight
- Walls, Jeannette - The glass castle
- Walsh, David (David Dominic) - A bone of fact
- West, Ida - Pride against prejudice
- Winchester, Simon - The map that changed the world
- Winchester, Simon - The surgeon of Crowthorne
- 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
Other Non-Fiction
- Brooks, Geraldine - Nine parts of desire : the hidden world of Islamic women
- De Botton, Alain - The art of travel
- Deveson, Anne - Resilience
- Gaita, Raimond - The philosopher's dog
- Hamilton, Clive - Affluenza : when too much is never enough
- Hamlin, Catherine - The hospital by the river : a story of hope
- Huggan, Isabel - Belonging
- 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
- Lahiri, Jhumpa – In other words
- Macdonald, Helen - H is for Hawk
- Pascoe, Bruce – Dark emu : black seeds : agriculture or accident?
- Pundyk, Grace - The honey spinner : on the trail of ancient honey, vanishing bees, and the politics of liquid gold
- Reynolds, Henry - This whispering in our hearts
- Robertson, Geoffrey - The justice game
- Sacks, Oliver - The man who mistook his wife for a hat and other clinical tales
- Scott, Kim - Kayang & me
- Seierstad, Asne - The bookseller of Kabul
- Szubanski, Magda – Reckoning : a memoir
- Turnbull, Sarah - Almost French : a new life in Paris
- Wynhausen, Elisabeth - Dirt cheap : life at the wrong end of the job market
- Yousafzi, Malala – I am Malala
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