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
- An Improper Proposition by Amy Rose Bennett
- Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
- Butterfly Season by Natasha Ahmed
- Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
- Done With Men by Shuchi Kalra Singh
- Eleven Seasons by Paul D Carter
- End Game by Sean Michael
- Eyrie by Tim Winton
- Fairway to Heaven by Lily Malone
- Finally Home by Zee Kensington
- First Time Brad & Sebastian by EM Rose
- First Time Josh & Dan by EM Rose
- Flight Made Easy by Helena Maeve
- Handle With Care by Willa Okati
- Heist by Robert Scholfield
- Holding Out for a Hero by Amy Andrews
- Holiday Affair by Annie Seaton
- Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee
- Living Again by Brynn Stein
- Lost & Found by Brooke Davis
- Marble Bar by Robert Schofield
- Mateship with Birds by Carrie Tiffany
- M.I.L.F. by Willow West
- Mi Familia by Tessa Cardenas
- Overcoming His Pride by Amber Kell
- Outback Love Affair by Vivienne Bruce
- Picturing Lysander by LM Somerton
- Play Acting (Gin & Jazz) by Morticia Knight
- Plus One by Scarlett Parrish
- Polar Opposites by Aliyah Burke
- Red Dirt Talking by Jacqueline Wright
- SEALing Fate by Trina Lane
- Sense and Sensibility (The Austen Project) by Joanna Trollope
- Silver’s Chance by Billi Jean
- Summer Son by Anna Martin
- The Collected Works of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
- The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith
- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
- The Green Heart of Love by Jacquelyn Webb
- The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion
- The Silver Tongued City Boy by Tamsin Baker
- The Sioux Warrior by Robin Gideon
- The Tea Chest by Josephine Moon
- The Veil by Tiffany Aaron
- The Waystation by Blair Erotica
- Three Sisters by Susan Mallery
- Tiger’s Lily by Cheyenne Meadows
2013
- A Faery Dream by Heather Kinnane
- A Man for All Seasons by Jenny Brigalow
- A Man Without Breath by Philip Kerr
- A Newlywed’s Adventures in Married Land by Shweta Ganesh Kumar
- An Upside Down Christmas by Loretta Laird
- As the River Runs by Stephen Scourfield
- A Tryst in Time by H.C. Brown
- Blond Truth by Tamsin Baker
- Dancing with the Daffodils by Tarion Keelan
- Dear K by H.C. Brown and KevaD
- Divided Kingdom by Rupert Thomson
- Double Jeopardy by Sundari Venkatraman
- Drawing Closer by Jenny Schwartz
- Ellie’s Gentleman by Georgiana Louis
- England or Bust by Georgiana Louis
- Fifty Bales of Hay by Rachael Treasure
- Fifty Shades of Mr Darcy: A Parody by William Codpiece Thwackery
- Finding Billie by Priscilla Brown
- Fire by Delys Bird
- Here & There: collected travel writing by AA Gill
- Heart’s Truth by Tamsin Baker
- Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O’Farrell
- It’s Love Dude by Jenny Schwartz
- Jilted by Rachael Johns
- Jordy’s Song by EM Rose
- Life is So Good by George Dawson and Richard Glaubman
- Lord Byron’s Secret Obsession by H.C. Brown
- Loving a Fae by Tamsin Baker
- Loving Memories by Imogene Nix
- Man Drought by Rachael Johns
- Money for Blood by Darry Fraser
- Montebello by Robert Drewe
- Mrs Queen Takes the Train by William Kuhn
- Outback Affair by Jacqueline Wright and Rosemary Fitzgerald
- Prudence and the Mighty Flynn by Sarah Evans
- Role Play by Ana Vincent
- Sex, Lies and Bonsai by Lisa Walker
- Short Soup by Colleen Kwan
- The 100-Year-Old-Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
- The Ask by Sam Lipsyte
- The Best Man by Kristan Higgins
- The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
- The Bookshop on Jacaranda Street by Marlish Glorie
- The Bucket List: Part Two – Caught by Annie Oakfield
- The Cartographer by Peter Twohig
- The Chevalier by Jacqueline Seewald
- The Dumped Club by Ally Symmons
- The Fast Diet by Michael Mosley
- The Light Between Oceans by ML Stedman
- The List of My Desires by Gregoire Delacourt
- The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
- The Passers by Loretta Laird
- The Persuasion of Miss Jane Brody by Isabella Hargreaves
- The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
- The View from Here by Lisa Knight
- The Water is Wide: A Memoir by Pat Conroy
- The Wedding Season by Su Dharmapala
- This Forever Game by Darry Fraser
- Shameless Ambition by Robert Fanshaw
- Six Years by Harlan Coben
- Wattle Creek by Fiona McCallum
- Wool by Hugh Howey
2012
- A Tiny Bit Marvellous by Dawn French
- Adolph Hitler: My Part in His Downfall by Spike Milligan
- All That I Am by Anna Funder
- Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
- Burmese Days by George Orwell
- Campaign Ruby by Jessica Rudd
- Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie
- Chefs of the Margaret River Region by Sue-LynAldrian-Moyle and Lisa Hanley
- Christmas Wishes by Rhian Cahill
- Death Comes to Pemberley by PD James
- Fifty Shades of Grey by EL James
- Finding Jasper by Lynne Leonhardt
- Flavours of Melbourne by Jonette George
- Gold by Chris Cleave
- Poet’s Cottage by Josephine Pennicott
- Produce to Platter: Mornington Peninsula by Jonette George
- Puppy Love by Ana Vincent
- Ruby Blues by Jessica Rudd
- Running Pink by Megan Norris
- Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday
- The Baron’s Bargain by Misty King
- The Bodysurfers by Robert Drewe
- The Bucket List: Part One by Annie Oakfield
- The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling
- The Curious Incident of the Dog inthe Night Time by Mark Haddon
- The Freudian Slip by Marion von Adlerstein
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacksby Rebecca Skloot
- The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul by Deborah Rodriguez
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
- Things That are Found in Trees; edited by Richard Rossiter
- Truth by Peter Temple
2011
- 10 Short Stories You Must Read in 2011
- A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif
- Beneath My Mother’s Feet by Amjed Qamar
- Big Girl by Danielle Steel
- Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
- Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
- Elizabeth Costello by JM Coetzee
- Gilgamesh by Joan London
- Land’s Edge by Tim Winton
- Last Chance Cafe by Liz Byrski
- Life in Seven Mistakes by Susan Johnson
- Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
- Open House by Elizabeth Berg
- Other People’s Diaries by Kathy Webb
- Pemberley by Emma Tennant
- Prime Cut by Alan Carter
- Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad by Bee Rowlatt & May Witwit
- The Bronte Story by Tim Vicary
- The Chocolate Run by Dorothy Koomson
- The Girl on the Landing by Paul Torday
- The Happiest Refugee by Anh Do
- The Hours of theNight by Sue Gee
- The Other Hand by Chris Cleave
- The Rip by Robert Drewe
- The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Bronte by Laura Joh Rowland
- The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht
- Worse Things Happen at Sea by William McInnes and SarahWatt
2010
- 10 Short Stories You Must Read in 2010
- 5 Ways to Carry a Goat by Ben Groundwater
- A History of Insects by Yvonne Roberts
- Book of Lost Threads by Tess Evans
- Dear Fatty by Dawn French
- Dog Boy by Eva Hornung
- Hopetoun Wives by Fran Cusworth
- How to Break Your Own Heart by Maggie Alderson
- In the Mood by Laura Bloom
- Indelible Ink by Fiona McGregor
- Lovesong by Alex Miller
- Mama Mia by Mia Freedman
- Red Dust by Fleur McDonald
- Remember Me by Liz Byrski
- Second Fiddle by Mary Wesley
- Stairway to Paradise by Madeleine St John
- Sustenance by Simone Lazaroo
- The Children’s Writer by Gary Crew
- The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O’Farrell
- The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
- The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore
- The Plantation by Di Morrissey
- The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The Women in Black by Madeleine St John
- The World Beneath by Cate Kennedy
- Tickled Onions by Morris Gleitzman
- Trip of a Lifetime by Liz Byrski
- You or Someone Like You by Chandler Burr
- The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea by Randolph Stow
2009
- A Christmas Secret by Anne Perry
- A Partisan’s Daughter by Louis de Bernieres
- Body Surfing by Anita Shreve
- Boy on a Wire by Jon Doust
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
- Emma in Love by Emma Tennant
- Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child
- Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Harnessing Peacocks by Mary Wesley
- Iris and Ruby by Rosie Thomas
- Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
- Love Like Water by Meme McDonald
- Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Past Mortem by Ben Elton
- Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Q & A by Vikas Swarup
- Red Dress Walking by Sarah Jones
- Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
- Roadside Sisters by Wendy Harmer
- Rosewater and Soda Bread by Marsha Mehran
- Seven Seasons in Aurukun by Paula Shaw
- Swimming to Ithaca by Simon Mawer
- Ten Things I Hate About Me by Randa Abdel-Fattah
- The Boat by Nam Le
- The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
- The Children by Charlotte Wood
- The Good Mayor by Andrew Nicoll
- The Good Parents by Joan London
- The Good Wife by Elizabeth Buchan
- The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fizgerald
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shafer
- The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
- The Last Sky by Alice Nelson
- The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve
- The Moment You Were Gone by Nicci Gerrard
- The Shifting Fog by Kate Morton
- The Sixth Wife by Suzannah Dunn
- The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
- The Spare Room by Helen Garner
- The True Story of Butterfish by Nick Earls
- The Turning by Tim Winton
- The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
- The Watsons and Emma Watson by Jane Austen and Joan Aiken
- The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
- Tiger Woods by Nicholas Edwards
- Unless by Carol Shields
- Upside Down, Inside Out by Monica McInerney
- When Will There be Good News by Kate Atkinson
2008
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hossein
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Austenland by Shannon Hale
- Breath by Tim Winton
- Burning Bright by Tracey Chevalier
- Certainty by Madeleine Thien
- For One More Day by Mitch Albom
- H.R.H. by Danielle Steel
- Instances of the Number 3 by Salley Vickers
- Kimberley Moon by Di Morrissey
- Miss Webster and Cherif by Patricia Duncker
- More Letters from Pemberley by Jane Dawkins
- No! I Don’t Want to Join a Bookclub by Virginia Ironside
- On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
- One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson
- One Hot Country Summer by Rebecca Shaw
- Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
- Perfect Skin by Nick Earls
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Pride and Promiscuity: The Lost Sex Scenes of Jane Austen by Arielle Eschstut and Dennis Aston
- Quarter Tones by Susan Mann
- Queen Kat, Carmel and St Jude by Maureen McCarthy
- Rise and Shine by Anna Quindlen
- Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
- Saffron Kitchen by Yasmin Crowther
- Shalott by Felicity Pulman
- Still Life With Husband by Lauren Fox
- Summer’s Lease by John Mortimer
- Sun at Midnight by Rosie Thomas
- Suspense and Sensibility by Carrie Bedis
- The Binding Chair by Kathryn Harrison
- The Careful Use of Compliments by Alexander McCall Smith
- The Darcy Connection by Elizabeth Aston
- The Darcy Spirit by Elizabeth Aston
- The Fall by Simon Mawer
- The Faraday Girls by Monica McInerney
- The Gospel of Gods and Crocodiles by Elizabeth Stead
- The Last Days of Dogtown by Anita Diamant
- The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen by Syrie James
- The Other Side of You by Salley Vickers
- The Potter’s House by Rosie Thomas
- The Reckoning by Sue Walker
- The Reinvention of Ivy Brown by Roberta Taylor
- The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
- The Three Miss Margarets by Louise Shaffer
- The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
- The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell
- Trip of a Lifetime by Liz Byrski
- Tuvalu by Andrew O’Conner
- When Madeline was Young by Jane Hamilton
2007
- A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
- Adèle by Emma Tennant
- Alphabet Sisters by Monica McInerney
- Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie
- Atonement by Ian McEwan
- Belly Dancing for Beginners by Liz Byrski
- Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
- Bone People by Ker Hulme
- Calico Road by Anna Jacobs
- Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
- Coronation Talkies by Susan Kurosawa
- Doctored Evidence by Donna Leon
- Escaping by Henrietta Taylor
- Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier
- Fortune’s Rock by Anita Shreve
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling
- Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Anita Desai
- In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant
- Magic Hour by Kristin Hannah
- Star Sullivan by Maeve Binchy
- Sunstroke by Jesse Kellerman
- The Borrowed Girl by Gabrielle Carey
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
- The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho
- The Five People you Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
- The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch
- The Last Girls by Lee Smith
- The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
- The Optimists by Andrew Miller
- The Station at Austin Downs by Jo Jackson King
- The Wives of Bath by Wendy Holden
- Two Lives by Vikram Seth
- When in Rome by Penelope Green
- You’ve Gotta Have Balls by Lily Brett
- Zorro by Isabel Allende
2006 and before
- A Line in the Sand by Gerald Seymour
- A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler
- A Wedding in December by Anita Shreve
- A Widow for One Year by John Irving
- Aiding and Abetting by Muriel Spark
- Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
- Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
- Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
- Big Women by Fay Weldon
- Brick Lane by Monica Ali
- Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
- Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
- Dirt Music by Tim Winton
- Disgrace by JM Coetzee
- Electricity by Victora Glendinning
- Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho
- Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
- Geisha of Gion by Mineko Iwasaki
- Girl With a Pearl Earing by Tracy Chevalier
- Good Harbour by Anita Diamant
- Hiam by Eva Sallis
- In Translation by ?
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Life is So Good by George Dawson and Richard Glaubman
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- Lilian’s Story by Kate Grenville
- Loving Him by Kate O’Riordan
- Lucky by Alice Seabold
- Mao’s Last Dancer by Li Cunxin
- Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
- Micky Darlin’ by Victor Kelleher
- Miss Garnet’s Angel by Salley Vickers
- Mr Golightly’s Holiday by Salley Vickers
- My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
- Nancy Wake by Peter Fitzsimons
- Oranges are not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
- Perfune by Patrick Suskind
- Pomegranate Soup by Marsha Mehran
- Pompeii by Robert Harris
- Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende
- Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
- Riding the Bus with My Sister by Rachel Simon
- Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult
- The 158-pound Marriage by John Irving
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- The Bride Stripped Bare by Nikki Gemmell
- The Budda of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
- The Cider House Rules by John Irving
- The Cloning of Joanna May by Fay Weldon
- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
- The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
- The Hills of Tuscany by Ferenc Máté
- The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
- The Kite Runner by Khalid Hossein
- The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
- The Last Resort by Douglas Rogers
- The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
- The Memory Stones by Kate O’Riordan
- The Mistress of Lilliput by Alison Fell
- The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
- The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillipa Gregory
- The Pilot’s Wife by Anita Shreve
- The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
- The Sea by John Banville
- The Shark Net by Robert Drewe
- The Surgeon of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester
- The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve
- True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
- Wild Swans by Jung Chang
- Women in the Background by Barry Humphries
- Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks