Reading Lists

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A wannabe reader-for-a-living, the deckchair guru loves to sit down with a good book, though finding time to do so is often limited to the workday commute (about 35 mins each way).

2009 Book List:

  1. Everything Changes – Jonathan Tropper
  2. Power Without Glory – Frank Hardy
  3. The Hard Way: The story behind Power Without Glory – Frank Hardy
  4. Down to the Crossroads – Guy Rundle
  5. The Divine Wind – Garry Disher
  6. Jennifer Government – Max Barry
  7. Bones – Jonathan Kellerman
  8. And So It Went – Bob Ellis
  9. Green grass, running water – Thomas King
  10. A Nest of Occasionals – Tony Martin
  11. Mama Mia – Mia Freedman
  12. He Died with a Felafel in his Hand – John Birmingham

2008 Book List:

  1. Breath – Tim Winton
  2. Mr Wong Goes West – Nury Vittachi
  3. How to Talk to a Widower – Jonathan Tropper
  4. Boned – Anonymous
  5. A Figure of Speech – Graham Freudenberg
  6. Shantaram – Gregory David Roberts
  7. Shakespeare: The World as Stage – Bill Bryson
  8. In the Event of my Untimely Demise – Brian Sack
  9. The Rise and Rise of Kerry Packer: Uncut – Paul Barry
  10. The Shark Net – Robert Drewe
  11. The Gathering – Anne Enright
  12. Sushi Daze – Rob Payne
  13. That’d Be Right – William McInnes

2007 Book List:

  1. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid – Bill Bryson
  2. Chart Throb – Ben Elton
  3. Ludmila’s Broken English – DBC Pierre
  4. The First Casualty – Ben Elton
  5. Love and Other Near-Death Experiences – Mil Millington
  6. Down Under – Bill Bryson
  7. Sunstroke – Jesse Kellerman
  8. Gone – Jonathan Kellerman
  9. False Impression – Jeffrey Archer
  10. Midas – Russell Andrews
  11. Jonestown – Chris Masters
  12. Company – Max Barry
  13. Sucked In – Shane Maloney
  14. The Book of Joe – Jonathan Tropper
  15. Made in America – Bill Bryson
  16. Who Killed Channel 9? – Gerald Stone
  17. The Boss – Andrew O’Keeffe
  18. My Life as a Fake – Peter Carey
  19. Time Bomb – Jonathan Kellerman

2006 Book List:

  1. A Man’s Got to Have a Hobby – William McInnes
  2. The Latham Diaries – Mark Latham
  3. Lolly Scramble – Tony Martin
  4. Teacher Man – Frank McCourt
  5. Pressure Point – Greg Baker
  6. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
  7. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
  8. Vernon God Little – DBC Pierre
  9. Morning’s Gone – Jon Cleary
  10. Holding the Man – Timothy Conigrave
  11. Aphrodite – Russell Andrews
  12. Start From Here – Sean French
  13. Regret – Ian Kennedy Williams
  14. A Long Way Down – Nick Hornby
  15. Angels and Demons – Dan Brown
  16. Suspension – Richard Crabbe
  17. Freakonomics – Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
  18. Kokoda – Peter Fitzsimons
  19. Cricket Kings – William McInnes

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