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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

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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