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These are the books I have read in recent years (and actually remembered to write down). They will give you some idea of what my reading taste is like. From 2015, I now record all books read and edited on Goodreads.com. I don’t review books that I have worked on personally as I feel this is a conflict of interest.

2014

 

1. An Improper Proposition by Amy Rose Bennett
2. Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
3. Butterfly Season by Natasha Ahmed
4. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
5. Done With Men by Shuchi Kalra Singh
6. Eleven Seasons by Paul D Carter
7. End Game by Sean Michael
8. Eyrie by Tim Winton
9. Fairway to Heaven by Lily Malone
10. Finally Home by Zee Kensington
11. First Time Brad & Sebastian by EM Rose
12. First Time Josh & Dan by EM Rose
13. Flight Made Easy by Helena Maeve
14. Handle With Care by Willa Okati
15. Heist by Robert Scholfield
16. Holding Out for a Hero by Amy Andrews
17. Holiday Affair by Annie Seaton
18. Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee
19. Living Again by Brynn Stein
20. Lost & Found by Brooke Davis
21. Marble Bar by Robert Schofield
22. Mateship with Birds by Carrie Tiffany
23. M.I.L.F. by Willow West
24. Mi Familia by Tessa Cardenas
25. Overcoming His Pride by Amber Kell
26. Outback Love Affair by Vivienne Bruce
27. Picturing Lysander by LM Somerton
28. Play Acting (Gin & Jazz) by Morticia Knight
29. Plus One by Scarlett Parrish
30. Polar Opposites by Aliyah Burke
31. Red Dirt Talking by Jacqueline Wright
32. SEALing Fate by Trina Lane
33. Sense and Sensibility (The Austen Project) by Joanna Trollope
34. Silver’s Chance by Billi Jean
35. Summer Son by Anna Martin
36. The Collected Works of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
37. The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith
38. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
39. The Green Heart of Love by Jacquelyn Webb
40. The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion
41. The Silver Tongued City Boy by Tamsin Baker
42. The Sioux Warrior by Robin Gideon
43. The Tea Chest by Josephine Moon
44. The Veil by Tiffany Aaron
45. The Waystation by Blair Erotica
46. Three Sisters by Susan Mallery
47. Tiger’s Lily by Cheyenne Meadows

2013

1. A Faery Dream by Heather Kinnane
2. A Man for All Seasons by Jenny Brigalow
3. A Man Without Breath by Philip Kerr
4. A Newlywed’s Adventures in Married Land by Shweta Ganesh Kumar
5. An Upside Down Christmas by Loretta Laird
6. As the River Runs by Stephen Scourfield
7. A Tryst in Time by H.C. Brown
8. Blond Truth by Tamsin Baker
9. Dancing with the Daffodils by Tarion Keelan
10. Dear K by H.C. Brown and KevaD
11. Divided Kingdom by Rupert Thomson
12. Double Jeopardy by Sundari Venkatraman
13. Drawing Closer by Jenny Schwartz
14. Ellie’s Gentleman by Georgiana Louis
15. England or Bust by Georgiana Louis
16. Fifty Bales of Hay by Rachael Treasure
17. Fifty Shades of Mr Darcy: A Parody by William Codpiece Thwackery
18. Finding Billie by Priscilla Brown
19. Fire by Delys Bird
20. Here & There: collected travel writing by AA Gill
21. Heart’s Truth by Tamsin Baker
22. Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O’Farrell
23. It’s Love Dude by Jenny Schwartz
24. Jilted by Rachael Johns
25. Jordy’s Song by EM Rose
26. Life is So Good by George Dawson and Richard Glaubman
27. Lord Byron’s Secret Obsession by H.C. Brown
28. Loving a Fae by Tamsin Baker
29. Loving Memories by Imogene Nix
30. Man Drought by Rachael Johns
31. Money for Blood by Darry Fraser
32. Montebello by Robert Drewe
33. Mrs Queen Takes the Train by William Kuhn
34. Outback Affair by Jacqueline Wright and Rosemary Fitzgerald
35. Prudence and the Mighty Flynn by Sarah Evans
36. Role Play by Ana Vincent
37. Sex, Lies and Bonsai by Lisa Walker
38. Short Soup by Colleen Kwan
39. The 100-Year-Old-Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
40. The Ask by Sam Lipsyte
41. The Best Man by Kristan Higgins
42. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
43. The Bookshop on Jacaranda Street by Marlish Glorie
44. The Bucket List: Part Two – Caught by Annie Oakfield
45. The Cartographer by Peter Twohig
46. The Chevalier by Jacqueline Seewald
47. The Dumped Club by Ally Symmons
48. The Fast Diet by Michael Mosley
49. The Light Between Oceans by ML Stedman
50. The List of My Desires by Gregoire Delacourt
51. The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
52. The Passers by Loretta Laird
53. The Persuasion of Miss Jane Brody by Isabella Hargreaves
54. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
55. The View from Here by Lisa Knight
56. The Water is Wide: A Memoir by Pat Conroy
57. The Wedding Season by Su Dharmapala
58. This Forever Game by Darry Fraser
59. Shameless Ambition by Robert Fanshaw
60. Six Years by Harlan Coben
61. Wattle Creek by Fiona McCallum
62. Wool by Hugh Howey

2012

1. A Tiny Bit Marvellous by Dawn French
2. Adolph Hitler: My Part in His Downfall by Spike Milligan
3. All That I Am by Anna Funder
4. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
5. Burmese Days by George Orwell
6. Campaign Ruby by Jessica Rudd
7. Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie
8. Chefs of the Margaret River Region by Sue-LynAldrian-Moyle and Lisa Hanley
9. Christmas Wishes by Rhian Cahill
10. Death Comes to Pemberley by PD James
11. Fifty Shades of Grey by EL James
12. Finding Jasper by Lynne Leonhardt
13. Flavours of Melbourne by Jonette George
14. Gold by Chris Cleave
15. Poet’s Cottage by Josephine Pennicott
16. Produce to Platter: Mornington Peninsula by Jonette George
17. Puppy Love by Ana Vincent
18. Ruby Blues by Jessica Rudd
19. Running Pink by Megan Norris
20. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday
21. The Baron’s Bargain by Misty King
22. The Bodysurfers by Robert Drewe
23. The Bucket List: Part One by Annie Oakfield
24. The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling
25. The Curious Incident of the Dog inthe Night Time by Mark Haddon
26. The Freudian Slip by Marion von Adlerstein
27. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacksby Rebecca Skloot
28. The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul by Deborah Rodriguez
29. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
30. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
31. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
32. Things That are Found in Trees; edited by Richard Rossiter
33. Truth by Peter Temple

1. 10 Short Stories You Must Read in 2010
2. 5 Ways to Carry a Goat by Ben Groundwater
3. A History of Insects by Yvonne Roberts
4. Book of Lost Threads by Tess Evans
5. Dear Fatty by Dawn French
6. Dog Boy by Eva Hornung
7. Hopetoun Wives by Fran Cusworth
8. How to Break Your Own Heart by Maggie Alderson
9. In the Mood by Laura Bloom
10. Indelible Ink by Fiona McGregor
11. Lovesong by Alex Miller
12. Mama Mia by Mia Freedman
13. Red Dust by Fleur McDonald
14. Remember Me by Liz Byrski
15. Second Fiddle by Mary Wesley
16. Stairway to Paradise by Madeleine St John
17. Sustenance by Simone Lazaroo
18. The Children’s Writer by Gary Crew
19. The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O’Farrell
20. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
21. The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore
22. The Plantation by Di Morrissey
23. The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
24. The Women in Black by Madeleine St John
25. The World Beneath by Cate Kennedy
26. Tickled Onions by Morris Gleitzman
27. Trip of a Lifetime by Liz Byrski
28. You or Someone Like You by Chandler Burr
29. The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea by Randolph Stow

1. A Christmas Secret by Anne Perry
2. A Partisan’s Daughter by Louis de Bernieres
3. Body Surfing by Anita Shreve
4. Boy on a Wire by Jon Doust
5. Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
6. Emma in Love by Emma Tennant
7. Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child
8. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
9. Harnessing Peacocks by Mary Wesley
10. Iris and Ruby by Rosie Thomas
11. Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
12. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
13. Love Like Water by Meme McDonald
14. Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez
15. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
16. Past Mortem by Ben Elton
17. Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
18. Q & A by Vikas Swarup
19. Red Dress Walking by Sarah Jones
20. Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
21. Roadside Sisters by Wendy Harmer
22. Rosewater and Soda Bread by Marsha Mehran
23. Seven Seasons in Aurukun by Paula Shaw
24. Swimming to Ithaca by Simon Mawer
25. Ten Things I Hate About Me by Randa Abdel-Fattah
26. The Boat by Nam Le
27. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
28. The Children by Charlotte Wood
29. The Good Mayor by Andrew Nicoll
30. The Good Parents by Joan London
31. The Good Wife by Elizabeth Buchan
32. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fizgerald
33. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shafer
34. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
35. The Last Sky by Alice Nelson
36. The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve
37. The Moment You Were Gone by Nicci Gerrard
38. The Shifting Fog by Kate Morton
39. The Sixth Wife by Suzannah Dunn
40. The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
41. The Spare Room by Helen Garner
42. The True Story of Butterfish by Nick Earls
43. The Turning by Tim Winton
44. The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
45. The Watsons and Emma Watson by Jane Austen and Joan Aiken
46. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
47. Tiger Woods by Nicholas Edwards
48. Unless by Carol Shields
49. Upside Down, Inside Out by Monica McInerney
50. When Will There be Good News by Kate Atkinson

1. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hossein
2. Animal Farm by George Orwell
3. Austenland by Shannon Hale
4. Breath by Tim Winton
5. Burning Bright by Tracey Chevalier
6. Certainty by Madeleine Thien
7. For One More Day by Mitch Albom
8. H.R.H. by Danielle Steel
9. Instances of the Number 3 by Salley Vickers
10. Kimberley Moon by Di Morrissey
11. Miss Webster and Cherif by Patricia Duncker
12. More Letters from Pemberley by Jane Dawkins
13. No! I Don’t Want to Join a Bookclub by Virginia Ironside
14. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
15. One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson
16. One Hot Country Summer by Rebecca Shaw
17. Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
18. Perfect Skin by Nick Earls
19. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
20. Pride and Promiscuity: The Lost Sex Scenes of Jane Austen by Arielle Eschstut and Dennis Aston
21. Quarter Tones by Susan Mann
22. Queen Kat, Carmel and St Jude by Maureen McCarthy
23. Rise and Shine by Anna Quindlen
24. Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
25. Saffron Kitchen by Yasmin Crowther
26. Shalott by Felicity Pulman
27. Still Life With Husband by Lauren Fox
28. Summer’s Lease by John Mortimer
29. Sun at Midnight by Rosie Thomas
30. Suspense and Sensibility by Carrie Bedis
31. The Binding Chair by Kathryn Harrison
32. The Careful Use of Compliments by Alexander McCall Smith
33. The Darcy Connection by Elizabeth Aston
34. The Darcy Spirit by Elizabeth Aston
35. The Fall by Simon Mawer
36. The Faraday Girls by Monica McInerney
37. The Gospel of Gods and Crocodiles by Elizabeth Stead
38. The Last Days of Dogtown by Anita Diamant
39. The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen by Syrie James
40. The Other Side of You by Salley Vickers
41. The Potter’s House by Rosie Thomas
42. The Reckoning by Sue Walker
43. The Reinvention of Ivy Brown by Roberta Taylor
44. The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
45. The Three Miss Margarets by Louise Shaffer
46. The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
47. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell
48. Trip of a Lifetime by Liz Byrski
49. Tuvalu by Andrew O’Conner
50. When Madeline was Young by Jane Hamilton

1. A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
2. Adèle by Emma Tennant
3. Alphabet Sisters by Monica McInerney
4. Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie
5. Atonement by Ian McEwan
6. Belly Dancing for Beginners by Liz Byrski
7. Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
8. Bone People by Ker Hulme
9. Calico Road by Anna Jacobs
10. Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
11. Coronation Talkies by Susan Kurosawa
12. Doctored Evidence by Donna Leon
13. Escaping by Henrietta Taylor
14. Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier
15. Fortune’s Rock by Anita Shreve
16. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
17. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling
18. Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Anita Desai
19. In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant
20. Magic Hour by Kristin Hannah
21. Star Sullivan by Maeve Binchy
22. Sunstroke by Jesse Kellerman
23. The Borrowed Girl by Gabrielle Carey
24. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
25. The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho
26. The Five People you Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
27. The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch
28. The Last Girls by Lee Smith
29. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
30. The Optimists by Andrew Miller
31. The Station at Austin Downs by Jo Jackson King
32. The Wives of Bath by Wendy Holden
33. Two Lives by Vikram Seth
34. When in Rome by Penelope Green
35. You’ve Gotta Have Balls by Lily Brett
36. Zorro by Isabel Allende

1. A Line in the Sand by Gerald Seymour
2. A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler
3. A Wedding in December by Anita Shreve
4. A Widow for One Year by John Irving
5. Aiding and Abetting by Muriel Spark
6. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
7. Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
8. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
9. Big Women by Fay Weldon
10. Brick Lane by Monica Ali
11. Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
12. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
13. Dirt Music by Tim Winton
14. Disgrace by JM Coetzee
15. Electricity by Victora Glendinning
16. Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho
17. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
18. Geisha of Gion by Mineko Iwasaki
19. Girl With a Pearl Earing by Tracy Chevalier
20. Good Harbour by Anita Diamant
21. Hiam by Eva Sallis
22. In Translation by ?
23. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
24. Life is So Good by George Dawson and Richard Glaubman
25. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
26. Lilian’s Story by Kate Grenville
27. Loving Him by Kate O’Riordan
28. Lucky by Alice Seabold
29. Mao’s Last Dancer by Li Cunxin
30. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
31. Micky Darlin’ by Victor Kelleher
32. Miss Garnet’s Angel by Salley Vickers
33. Mr Golightly’s Holiday by Salley Vickers
34. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
35. Nancy Wake by Peter Fitzsimons
36. Oranges are not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
37. Perfune by Patrick Suskind
38. Pomegranate Soup by Marsha Mehran
39. Pompeii by Robert Harris
40. Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende
41. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
42. Riding the Bus with My Sister by Rachel Simon
43. Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult
44. The 158-pound Marriage by John Irving
45. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
46. The Bride Stripped Bare by Nikki Gemmell
47. The Budda of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
48. The Cider House Rules by John Irving
49. The Cloning of Joanna May by Fay Weldon
50. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
51. The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
52. The Hills of Tuscany by Ferenc Máté
53. The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
54. The Kite Runner by Khalid Hossein
55. The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
56. The Last Resort by Douglas Rogers
57. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
58. The Memory Stones by Kate O’Riordan
59. The Mistress of Lilliput by Alison Fell
60. The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
61. The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillipa Gregory
62. The Pilot’s Wife by Anita Shreve
63. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
64. The Sea by John Banville
65. The Shark Net by Robert Drewe
66. The Surgeon of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester
67. The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve
68. True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
69. Wild Swans by Jung Chang
70. Women in the Background by Barry Humphries
71. Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks