Frogdancer Reads

2024 Fiction:

• The Haunting of Hill House – Jackson
• The Swap – Harding
• Normal Rules Don’t Apply – Atkinson (FANTASTIC.)
• The Love Contract – Vizard (Don’t bother…)
• Darling Girls – Hepworth (Another ripper from this author!)
• Romantic Comedy – Sittenfield*
• The Drowning – Brown*
• Kill Your Husbands – Heath*
• How To Get Fired – Belich*(Short stories – really good.)
• Back on Track – Stringer
• Kill Your Brother – Heath*
• Mole Creek – Dunbar
• The Fall Between – Tindale (audio)
• Apartment 303 – Hawkins (ugh)
• The Seven – Hammer*
• Transcription – Atkinson
• System Collapse – Wells
• The Running Grave – Galbraith**
• The Family Remains – Jewell
• Homecoming – Morton (Needs one hell of a trimming-down.)
• Thank you for listening – Whelen
• Mrs Winterbottom takes a gap year – Nell. (Dull.)
• Then She Was Gone – Jewell
• Medea – Hewlett
• The Best Way to Bury Your Husband – Casale*
• The Last Word – Griffiths**
• Joy Moody is Out of Time – Mayne*
• Julia – Newman**

2024 Non-Fiction:

• The Happiest Man on Earth – Jaku
• The Last Man in Europe – Glover*
• Did I Ever Tell You This? – Sam Neill*
• Good With Money – Edwards
• Wifedom – Funder. ***
• Winston’s War – Dobbs**
• The House of Hidden Meanings – RuPaul*

2023 Fiction:

• The Way It Is Now – Disher*
• The Trivia Night – Lowe
• The Paris Apartment – Foley.*
• Devotion – Kent*
• Small Things Like These – Keegan
• A Slow Fire Burning – Hawkins
• The Lesuire Seeker – Zadoorian
• The Rest Of Us Just Live Here – Ness*
• Mrs England – Halls (audiobook.)*
• Perfect Little Children – Hannah
• Marple – (Anthology)
• A Sliver of Darkness – Tudor
• The Good Mother – Cairns
• Double Lives – McCaffrey
• The Familiars – Halls (Audiobook.)
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Angelou
• The Foundling – Halls
• The House in the Cerulean Sea – Kline. (AWFUL. So preachy.)
• The Party Crasher – Kinseller
• The Last Chairlift – Irving.
• Our Missing Hearts – Ng*
• My Sister’s Bones – Ellwood
• Our Woman in Moscow – Williams
• A Great Hope – Stanley (audio)*
• The Soulmate – Hepworth*
• Red Dirt Road – White
• Holding – Norton
• Dead Tide – McIntosh
• The Colony – Magee
• Foster – Keegan
• Every Version of You – Chan*
• Hail Mary Project – Weir*
• Dark Mode – Blunt
• This Time Tomorrow – Straub
• Never Never – Hoover and Fisher
• Old Babes in teh Woeds_ Stories – Atwood
• A Routine Infidelity – Coleman
• The Wives – Fisher
• The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding – Ringland. AWFUL.
• The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels – Hallet
• When Women were Dragaons – Barnhill
• The City We Became – Jeminsin *
• The Model Wife – Stringer (audio.)
• Birds of a Feather – Stringer
• A Chance of Stormy Weather – Stringer
• The Book Eaters – Dean*
• Something in the Wine – Stringer
• Elektra – Saint
• Keeping Up Appearances – Stringer.
• Wrong Place, Wrong Time – McAllister*
• The Money Club – Lowe*
• A Flicker in the Dark – Willingham
• Cobalt Blue – Reilly
• No Wind of Blame – Heyer
• Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales From the Café – Kawaguchi
• The Running Club – Lowe
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Shaffer*
• Before Your Memory Fades – Kawaguchi
• How to Stop Time – Haig
• A Keeper – Norton
• Forever Home- Norton
• Here Be Leviathans – Flynn***
• Home Stretch – Norton
• Lenny Marks Gets Away With Murder – Mayne***
• Queen of the Road – Stringer
• Mortal Engines – Reeve
• Dark Matter – Crouch
• The Family Tree – Mullin
• Case Histories – Atkinson
• The Empress – Griffiths
• Ghost Stories – Dahl
• So Late in the Day- Keenan*
• Everyone on this Train is a Suspect – Stevenson*
• The Children’s Bach – Garner
• Scrublands – Hammer
• Silver – Hammer
• Trust – Hammer
• The Turn of the Screw – James
• And Then I Woke Up – Devlin
• A Spondle Splintered – Harrow
• The Tilt – Hammer
• Holly – King
• In Memoriam – Winn****
• The Scourge Between Stars – Brown
• The Mysterious Affair at Styles – Christie
• Women and Children – Birch
• The Last Devil to Die – Osman**
• Treasure and Dirt – Hammer
• Sweet Jimmy – Brown
• Lola in the Mirror – Dalton*
• Days of Innocence and Wonder – Treloar
• Black Sheep – Nunn (AWFUL. Steer clear of this one!)

2023 Non-fiction:

• Ten Steps to Nanette – Gadsby
• Strong Money Australia – Gow ***
• Die with Zero – Perkins
• Dog Days: A Year With Olive and Mable – Cotter
• Spare- Prince Harry
• I Am, I Am, I Am – O’Farrell*
• The Ulysses Contract – Kemp*
• The Bookseller at the End of the World – Shaw
• Fight Like a Girl – Ford
• The Far Land – 200 years of Murder, Mayhem and Mutiny in the South Pacific – Presser*
• The Teacher’s Pet – Thomas.
• Stephen Fry in America – Fry
• The Trauma Cleaner – Krasnostein
• Factfulness – Rosling*

2022 Fiction:

• The Colour of Money
• The Invisible Life of Adde LaRue – Schwab*
• All Systems Red – Wells
• Oh William! – Strout*
• Warlight – Ontaatje
• Artificial Condition – Wells
• Rogue Condition – Wells
• Exit Stategy – Wells
• Go Tell The Bees That I Am Gone – Gabaldon
• The Silence of the Girls – Barker*
• Network Effect – Wells
• Fugitive Telemetry – Wells*
• The Hush – Foster
• The Death House – Pinborough
• One Step Too Far – Gardner
• The Last Thing He Told Me – Dave
• Cloud Cuckoo Land – Doerr*
• Rawblood – Catriona Ward*
• The Last House on Needless St – Ward*
• Sundial – Ward
• Gwendy’s Final Task – King
• Gwendy’s Button Box – King
• Dirty Little Secrets – Spain *
• The Girl Beyond the Gate – Day
• Trick of the Light – Elvery*
• The Glass Hotel – St John Mandel*
• French Braid – Tyler*
• When You Are Mine – Rowbotham*
• The Gardener – Vickers
• The Beginner’s Goodbye – Tyler
• A Wrinkle in Time – L’Engle
• Pieces of Her – Slaughter. (Simply AWFUL.)
• The Murder Rule – McTiernan
• Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant – Tyler**
• A Home Like Ours – Lowe
• A Single Thread – Chevalier
• A Wind in the Door – L’Engle
• A Swiftly Tilting Planet – L’Engle
• The Hypnotist’s Love Story – Moriarty*
• Gwendy’s Magic Feather – Chizmar
• The Accidental Tourist – Tyler*
• The Other Side of Beautiful – Lock*
• The Younger Wife – Hepworth* (LOVED this!)
• The Mother-in-law – Hepworth** (Loved this one, too.)
• The Rich Man’s House – McGahan
• Birthright – Lowe
• The White Earth – McGahan
• Daughter of Mine – Lowe
• You’ll be the Death of Me – McManus
• Home Fires – Lowe*
• The Hate you Give – Thomas *
• Bazaar of Bad Dreams – King*
• The Mother’s Promise – Hepworth (meh.)
• Parting Words – Moriarty
• The Things We Keep – Hepworth
• The Island – McKinty*
• Behind Her Eyes – Pinborough*
• A Family of Strangers – Lowe
• The Cold, Cold Ground – McKinty*
• I Hear the Sirens in the Streets – McKinty*
• In the Morning I’ll be Gone – McKinty
• Gun Street Girl – McKinty*
• Rain Dogs – McKinty*
• Police at the Station and they Don’t Look Happy – McKinty
• The Chain – McKinty
• Everyone in my Family has Killed Someone – Stevenson (EXCELLENT!)*
• I want to know that I will be ok – Sullivan
• Hidden River – McKinty
• Two Nights in Lisbon – Pavone*
• Falling Glass – McKinty
• The Cabin at the End of the World – Tremblay
• Coronado – Lehane
• Fairy Tale – King
• The Mother – Caro**
• The Last Library – Sampson
• The Ink Black Heart – Galbraith*
• The Paper Palace – Heller
• Lucy by the Sea – Strout*
• Lessons in Chemistry – Garmus*
• The Labyrinth – Lohrey
• The Marriage Portrait – O’Farrell*
• The Woman in the Library – Gentill
• Stone Blind – Haynes
• The Birdcage – Chase
• The Long Game – Rowell*
• Galatea – Miller
• The Herd – Edwards*
• Widowland – Carey*
• Carrie Soto is Back – Jenkins Reid*
• The Murder of Mr Wickham – Gray (This was SO good!)
• Lapvona – Moshfegh
• After the Party – Lees
• The Brink – Sheppard
• Three Assassins – Isaka*
• The Snow Laundry – Jakobsen
• The Measure – Erlick*
• Things we bury – Davies
• The Match – Coben
• The Eulogy – Bailey
• The Truth About Faking It – Hamer
• One of Us – Kaden*
• Sunbathing – Beach
• The Bullet that Missed – Osman ******
• The Maid – Prose
• The Collective – Gaylin
• Exiles – Harper

2022 Non-Fiction

• Troy – Fry*
• With My Little Eye – Hogan
• Love Stories – Dalton
• Atomic Habits – Clear
• The Psychology of Money – Hausel*
• Immune – Dettmer
• This Much is True – Margolyes
• Regions of Thick-Ribbed Ice – Garner
• Life in Lashes – the story of a drag superstar – Kita Mean.
• Speaking in Tongues – Tilley

2021 Fiction

• Tidelands – Gregory
• The Duke and I. – Quinn
• The Viscount Who Loved Me – Quinn
• An Offer From a Gentleman – Quinn
• Romancing Mr Bridgerton – Quinn
• To Sir Phillip, With Love – Quinn
• When He Was Wicked – Quinn
• It’s in his Kiss – Quinn
• On the way to the wedding – Quinn
• The Queen’s Gambit – Tevis. (VERY good.)
• First Comes Scandal – Quinn
• Because of Miss Bridgerton – Quinn
• The Other Miss Bridgerton – Quinn
• The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband – Quinn
• The Further Observations of Lady Whistledown – Quinn and 3 others.
• Elevation – King
• Wife After Wife – Hayfield (Henry VIII’s life as a modern-day man. Really quite clever.)
• Find You First – Barclay
• Mexican Gothic – Moreno-Garcia
• The Thursday Murder Club – Osman (Loved this.)
• The Sentinel – Child and Child
• Dark Tides – Gregory
• Playing with Fire – Gerritsen
• Later – King (Really good.)
• The Last Tudor – Gregory
• The Shape of Night – Gerritsen
• Snowdrift – Heyer
• Whistleblower – Gerritsen
• I Know a Secret – Gerritsen
• Where the Crawdads Sing – Owen
• The North Water – McGuire
• Little Fires Everywhere – Ng (Loved this one!)
• You Think it, I’ll Say it – Sittenfield
• Sister to Sister – Hayfield (LOVED this one!)
• The Bridgertons: Happily Ever After – Quinn
• Hamnet – O’Farrell
• The Vanished Man – Deaver
• The Ruin – Dervla McTiernan (audio)
• The Dictionary of Lost Words – Williams (audio)
• The Broken Window – Deaver
• The Steel Kiss – Deaver
• Death of a Cad – Beaton (audio)
• The Empty Chair – Deaver
• Death of an Outsider – Beaton (audio)
• The Burial Hour – Deaver
• The Dressmaker’s Secret – Ham
• The Good Turn – McTiernan (audio)
• There Should be More Dancing – Ham
• Klara and the Sun – Ishiguro
• Circe – Miller
• The Good Sister- Hepworth
• Silver Brumby, Silver Dingo – Mitchell (Audio) (Awful. Just awful.)
• Summer at Mt Hope – Ham
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo – Jenkins Reid
• Right Behind you – Gardner
• The Song of Achilles – Miller
• The Kill Room – Deaver
• Call Me Evie – Pomare
• The Scholar – McTiernan (audio)
• The Store – Patterson & DiLallo (Audio.) (One of the worst books I’ve read.)
• Tell Me Lies – Pomare
• Hannibal Rising – Harris
• The Mother Fault – Mildenhall
• The Retreat – Smith
• Pearl in a Cage – Dettman
• Catch Me – Gardner
• Look For Me – Gardner
• Seven Stones to Stand By – Gabaldon
• Never Tell – Gardner
• When You See Me – Gardner
• Before She Disappeared – Gardner
• Thorn on the Rose – Dettman
• Sword of Fire – Kerr
• Dexter is Dead – Lindsay
• Die Again – Gerritsen
• The Silent Inheritance – Dettman
• Moth to the Flame – Dettman (audio)
• Wind in the wires – Dettman (audio)
• Ripples on a pond – Dettman (audio)
• The Tying of Threads – Dettman (audio)
• Trails in the dust – Dettman (audio)
• The Lost Man – Harper – FANTASTIC
• The Nickel Boys – Whitehead.
• The Survivors – Harper.
• Three Wishes – Moriaty
• Just an Ordinary Family – Lowe
• The 9 Lives of Rose Napolitano- Freitas
• The Fifth Season – Jemisin
• There There – Orange
• Honeybee – Silvey
• The Hope Flower – Dettman
• Boy Swallows Universe – Dalton (Utterly beautiful writing.)
• The Dutch House – Patchett
• Return to Roseglen – Young
• The Man Who died Twice – Osman (Excellent.)
• The Ladies Midnight Swimming Club – Hogan
• All Our Shimmering Skies – Dalton
• The Doll Master – Oates
• The Obsidian Gate – Jemisin
• The Stone Sky – Jemisin
• The Hustler – Tevis
• The Man Who Fell To Earth – Tevis
• Mockingbird – Tevis
• Oter People’s Houses – Hawkins
• And then there were none – Christie
• Fromage – Scott
• Cecily – Garthwaite
• Apples Never Fall – Moriarty
• Dead Man Switch – Moss

2021 Non-fiction

• SAS Operation Storm – Cole and Belfield
• Olive, Mabel and Me; Life and Adventures with 2 very good dogs – Cotter
• Queens of the conquest- England’s medieval queens – Weir
• Queens of the Crusades – England’s medieval queens – Weir
• Creativity – Cleese
• Free Speech and Why it Matters – Doyle
• Gotta Get Theroux This – Theroux
• No Scrap Left Behind – Nyberg.
• Sunday Morning Quilts – Nyberg and Arkison
• Money School – Filipich
• By Sea and Stars- the story of the First Fleet – Dalton

2021 Poetry

• Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series 1.
• Dearly – Atwood
• Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series Two
• Poems by Emily Dickinson, Third Series

2020 Fiction

• The End – Higson
• The Scorch Trials – Dashner
• The Death Cure – Dashner (This series is dreadfully written.)
• Kill Run – Dashner. (It just got worse.)
• Kill Order – Dashner. (Thank God that’s over.)
• A Spool of Blue Thread – Tyler. (Beautiful.)
• The Last Anniversary – Moriarty. (Also very good.)
• The Year of the Farmer – Ham (Excellent!)
• Anna of Kleves – Weir
• The Wall – Lanchester
• The Vanishing Season – Hutchison
• The Tattooist of Auschwitz – Morris
• Clock Dance – Tyler
• The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle – Turton
• The Institute – King
• Vinegar Girl – Tyler
• Dev1at3 – Kristoff
• Lifelik3 – Kristoff
• The Buried Giant – Ishiguro
• I Invited Her In – Parks
• The Family Next Door – Hepworth
• Beautiful Wreck – Brown
• The Mystery of the Yellow Room – Leroux
• World War Z – Brooks (reread.) (audio)
• Veronika Decides to Die _ Coelho
• If Cats Disappeared From The World – Kawamura (audio)
• Olive, Again – Strout
• The Source – Michener
• The Twin – Preston
• All the Birds, Singing – Wyld (audio)
• Bloodchild – Butler
• The Source – Michener
• Ethan Frome – Wharton
• The Secret Runners of New York – Reilly (audio)
• The Tournament – Reilly (audio)
• The October Child – Spence
• Love Story – Segal
• The Beekeeper of Aleppo – Lefteri (audio)
• The Whale Rider – Ihimaera (audio)
• Fleet of Worlds – Niven and Lerner
• The Talisman – King and Straub
• Halic – Macgregor
• The Song of Bernadette – Werfel
• The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes – Collins (audio)
• TRUEL1F3 – Kristoff
• The Owl Service – Garner
• Juggler of Worlds – Niven and Lerner
• Destroyer of Worlds – Niven and Lerner
• Betrayer of Worlds – Niven and Lerner
• Ringworld – Niven
• Ringworld Engineers – Niven
• Sharpe’s Tiger – Cornwell
• Jelly – Rees
• The Rules – Darnton
• The Model Millionaire – Wilde
• The List – Forde
• One of us is lying – McManus (YA – REALLY BLOODY GOOD!)
• My Dad Wrote a Porno (annotated) – Morton, Cooper, Levine and Flintstone
• The Antagonists – Gann
• If it Bleeds – King

2020 Non-Fiction

• The Garden Cottage Diaries – Houston
• Essentialism – living life like a minimalist – Latham (Awful.)
• Tall Tales and Wee Stories – Connolly
• The Simple Path to Wealth – Collins (reread)
• Keys to a Successful Retirement: Staying Happy, Active, and Productive in Your Retired Years – Gilbert
• Reckoning: A Memoir – Szubanski (audio)
• Retirement by Design – Abbott
• Superannuation Made Simple – Whittaker
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle – Kingsolver (re-read.)
• Retirement Made Simple – Whittaker

• 2019 Fiction.
• Less – Greer
• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – Honeyman. (LOVED this.)
• Love You More – Gardner
• Lethal White – Galbraith
• The Outsider – King
• The Silent Girl – Gerritsen
• The Mephisto Club – Gerritsen
• Keeping the Dead – Gerritsen
• The Killing Place – Gerritsen
• Friday Black – Adjei-Brenyah (Extraordinary.)
• MacBeth – Nesbo
• Scandal in Bohemia – Haigh
• This isn’t the sort of thing that happens to someone like you – McGregor
• Mythos – Fry
• Nos4A2 – Hill
• Red Clocks – Zumas
• Heart-shaped Box – Hill
• A Christmas Party – Heyer
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime – Haddon (reread)
• Redshirts – Scalzi
• Undone – Kimball
• I am Watching You – Driscoll
• The Eye of the Tiger – Smith
• The Muse – Burton
• The Edge of Eternity – Follet
• Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry? – McCracken
• The Venetian House – Nickson
• Station 11 – Mandel
• The Woman in the Window – Finn
• Blueback – Winton (YA… for year 7s next year.)
• The Gradual – Priest
• A Place Called Winter – Gale
• Nine Perfect Strangers – Moriarty
• Prince of Thorns – Lawrence
• The Testaments – Atwood
• Cherry – Walker
• After Bathing at Baxters – Taylor
• The Enemy – Higson
• The Dead – Higson
• The Fear – Higson
• The Sacrifice – Higson
• The Fallen – Higson
• The Hunted – Higson
• Maze Runner – Dashner
• Fleabag – Waller-Bridge
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• 2019 Non-Fiction
• Short Black 1: On the decline of love and the rise of non-freedom – Flanagan
• Becoming – Obama
• 12 Rules for Life – Peterson
• How Much is Enough?- Abey and Ford
• A Scandal in Bohemia – Haigh
• Choose FI – Mamula
• Making Money Made Simple – Whittaker
• Your Playbook for Tough Times 1 – Freedman
• Your Playbook for Tough Times 2 – Freedman
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• 2019 Plays
• Sweeney Todd – Sondheim
• Hecuba – Euripedes
• The Madness of King George – Bennet
• How to live on 24 hours a day – Bennet
• Picnic at Hanging Rock – Wright
• Hoods – Betzein
• Cosi – Nowra
• The Encounter – Complicite
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• 2019 Poetry
• By and Large – Wallace-Crabbe
• Blistered Days – Lily Brett
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• 2018 Fiction
• Force of Nature- Harper
• Cousins – Vickers
• Enduring Love – McEwan
• The Minotaur – Vine
• Think of a Number – Verdon
• A Single Man – Isherwood
• The Roses of May – Hutchison
• The Story of a New Name – Ferrante
• 50 Shades of Grey – James (Why all the smirking? WTF’s with the ‘inner goddess?!? Yuck.)
• 50 Shades Darker – James (Stop the eye-rolling and the smirking. UGH!)
• 50 Shades Freed – James. (Such a load of codswallop.)
• Sleeping Beauties – King and King
• Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay – Ferrante
• The Girl in the Red Coat – Hamer
• Before I Go to Sleep – Watson
• The Mandibles: a Family 2029 – 2047 – Shriver
• I, Claudius – Graves
• The Summer Children – Hutchison
• The Story of the Lost Child – Ferrante
• The Underground Railway – Whitehead
• All the conspirators – Isherwood
• Escape From Camp 14 – Harden
• Johnny Got His Gun – Trumbo
• Everything, Everything – Yoon
• Follow Me Home – Edwards
• War Brides – Bryan
• The Dutch Wife – Keith
• The Habits of the House – Weldon
• The Merry Wives of Windsor – Stewart
• Coraline – Gaiman (reread)
• The Outsiders – Hinton (reread)
• Once – Gleitzman (reread)
• 10 short stories you must read this year.
• Baby Teeth – Stage
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• 2018 Non-fiction
• The Quest of the Simple Life – Dawson
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck – Manson
• Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in Nth Korea – Demick
• A River in Darkness; One Man’s Escape from Nth Korea – Ishikawa
• In Order to Live- A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom – Park
• Kim Jong Il, The Great Man. (Should really be classed as fiction…)
• SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome – Beard.
• First-Time Investor: Grow and Protect Your Money – Merriman
• This is Paradise! My North Korean Childhood – Kang
• A Kim Jong-Il Production – Fischer
• The Next Millionaire Next Door – Stanley and Fallaw
• Make Money Simple Again – Kingsley and Holdaway
• The Land Before Avocado – Glover

2018 Poetry

• Mules of Love- Ellen Bass (This is magnificent!)
• The Vigilant Heart – Bateson

2018 Plays

• Falsettos – Finn
• The Woman in Black – Mallatratt
• Ellida, The Lady From the Sea – Ibsen
• Love, Loss and What I Wore – Ephron and Ephron
• The Crocodile – Basden
• The Ferryman – Butterworth
• The Importance of Being Earnest – Wilde
• Letters to Lindy – Valentine
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• 2017 Fiction
• Truly, Madly, Guilty – Moriarty
• The Autumn Republic – McClellan
• My Brilliant Friend – Ferrante
• Ghosts of the Tristan Basin – McClellan
• Servant of the Crown – McClellan
• Forsworn – McClellan
• In the Field Marshall’s Shadow – McClellan
• Murder at the Kinnen Hotel – McClellan
• The Next Accident- Gardner
• Crash and Burn – Gardner
• Drowning Ruth – Schwartz
• Find Her – Gardner
• Nelly Dean – Case
• The Palace of Dreams – Kadare
• The Moor’s Account – Lailami
• Pilcher – Coming Home
• Daughter of Time – Woodbury
• Promises to Keep – Parkinson
• Bartleby, the Scrivener – Melville
• Mud and Gold – Parkinson
• Settling the Account – Parkinson
• A Second Chance – Parkinson
• All I Want- Parkinson
• The Calling (Endgame book 1) – Frey
• Sky Key (Endgame book 2) – Frey
• Rules of the Game (Endgame book 3) – Frey
• Eight Cousins – Alcott
• Gathering Blue – Lowry
• Thirteen – Phelan
• Twelve- Phelan
• Eleven – Phelan
• Ten – Phelan
• Nine- Phelan
• Eight – Phelan
• Seven – Phelan
• Six – Phelan
• Five – Phelan
• Four – Phelan
• Three – Phelan
• Two – Phelan
• One – Phelan
• More than This- Ness
• The Unhappy Medium – Brown
• The Unhappy medium 2 Tom Fool – Brown
• Welcome to Nightvale; a novel – Fink and Cranor
• The Murders of Molly Southbourne – Thompson
• It Devours! – Fink and Cranor
• The Anchoress- Cadwallader
• The Hunger Games- Collins (re-read… teaching it next year)
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• 2017 Non-Fiction
• The Secret Rooms – Bailey
• The Little Book of Commonsense Investing – Bogle
• Mrs Kelly, The Astonishing Life of Ned Kelly’s mother – Kieza
• Financial Security – Bouris (re-read)
• Prairie Fires: the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder – Fraser
• 2017 Poetry
• The Human Line – Ellen Bass
• 2017  Plays
• The Weir – McPherson
• Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike – Durang
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• 2016 Fiction
• The Martian – Weir
• The Good Earth – Pearl s Buck.
• Sons – Pearl S Buck
• A House Divided – Pearl S Buck
• Seven Little Australians – Turner
• Go Set a Watchman – Lee (Liked this one.)
• The Family – Kennerson (YA fiction. meh)
• Look Behind You – Hodge
• End of Watch – King
• All the Light We Cannot See – Doerr
• Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – Rowling etc.
• Jasper Jones – Silvey
• The Children’s Home – Lambert
• When I’m Gone – Bleeker
• The Counselor – McCarthy (screenplay)
• The Retribution – McDermid
• The Silkworm – Galbraith
• Career of Evil – Galbraith
• The Widow’s Breakfast – Hill
• 3 Sisters, 3 Queens – Gregory (Loved this one. )
• Regarding Anna – Osmund
• Olive Kitteridge – Strout
• My name is Lisa Barton – Strout
• The Secret Chord – Brooks
• The Burial at Thebes – Heaney
• The Good People – Kent
• Coraline- Gaiman
• Divergent – Roth
• Insurgent – Roth
• Allegiant – Roth
• The Dry – Harper. (Really good.)
• Promise of Blood – McClellan
• The Crimson Campaign – McClellan

• 2016 Non-fiction:
• Retire Inspired – Hogan
• Your Money or Your Life – Dominguez
• The Index Card – Olen and Pollack
• The Simple Guide to Wealth – Collins. (Really good.)
• Stop Acting Rich… and Start Living Like a Real Millionaire – Stanley
• Paris France – Stein. (meh)
• Early Retirement Extreme – Fisker
• The Barefoot Investor – Pape
• Neither Here Nor There – Bryson
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• 2015 Fiction:
•  The Coldest Girl in Coldtown – Black (Y.A fiction.. meh)
• The Complete Maus – Spiegelman (A student loaned this to me. A graphic novel.)

• Man of Clay – Osborne
• 11.22.63 – King (A really good read.)
• Still Alice – Genova (LOVED this.)
• The End of the Affair- Greene
• Everything I Never Told You – Ng (Wonderful.)
• The Silent History- Horowitz, Moffett and Derby. (Enjoyed this.)
• A God in Ruins – Atkinson (WONDERFUL.)
• The Taming of the Queen – Gregory.
• Desirée – Selinko
• Bring Up The Bodies – Mantel
• Cotillion – Heyer
• The Unknown Ajax – Heyer
• Pistols for Two – Heyer
• Cousin Kate – Heyer
• A Civil Contract – Heyer
• The Nonesuch – Heyer
• Finders Keepers – King

• 2015 Non-Fiction:
• Independence Days- Astyk (re-read).
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle – Kingsolver (re-read.)
• Making Money Made Simple – Noel Whittaker (Really enjoyed this one.)
• She-Wolves – Castor
• Walden on Wheels – Ilgunas (Awful.)
• 2014 Fiction
• Dr Sleep – King
• Room – Donoghue
• The Husband’s Secret – Moriarty (Really good.)
• The Walking Dead – Kirkman (graphic novel)
• The Birthing House – Ransom (Don’t bother…)
• The Boy Under The Table – Trope (Enjoyed this one.)
• The Richest Man in Babylon – Conrad (re-read)
• Cross Stitch (Outlander 1) – Gabaldon (Loved it.)
• Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander 2) – Gabaldon (Addicted.)
• Voyager (Outlander 3) – Gabaldon (Galloping through this series.)
• Drums of Autumn (Outlander 4) – Gabaldon
• The Fiery Cross (Outlander 5) – Gabaldon
• A Breath of Snow and Ashes (Outlander 6) – Gabaldon
• An Echo in the Bone (Outlander 7) – Gabaldon (Now I have to wait till the next one’s released. ARGH!!!!!!)
• A Trail of Fire – Gabaldon (Then I discovered she’s written other novels…)
• Dust – Howey.
• The Plagiarist – Howey
• The Wick Omnibus – Bunker and Await
• Alison Wonderland – Smith
• Written in My Own Heart’s Blood – Gabaldon
• Keep the Aspidistra Flying – Orwell
• A King’s Ransom – Penman
• Life After Life – Atkinson. (Couldn’t put it down.)
• The Cement Garden – McEwen
• Mr Mercedes – King. (A good one.)
• The King’s Curse – Gregory (Really enjoyed this one.)
• Wideacre – Gregory
• The Favoured Child – Gregory
• Meridan – Gregory
• Restoration – Tremain
• Pat of Silver Bush – Montgomery (re read.)
• Mistress Pat – Montgomery (re-read)
• Revival – King
• The Cuckoo’s Calling – Galbraith
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• 2014 Non-Fiction
• When We Remember They Call Us Liars – Covich (Made me glad I had the childhood I did…)
• Gaia’s Garden – Hemenway (Very useful resource)
• The Millionaire Next Door – Stanley and Thomas (Very interesting.)
• The 5 Year Guide to Self Sufficiency – Barrows
• Creating Real Wealth – Kemp
• S.M.A.R.T Goals Made Simple – Scott
• The Way of the Chicken – Webber
• Backyard Self Sufficiency – French (re read)
• Financial Security – Bouris (reread)
• Creating Real Wealth – Kemp (re read)
• Money: Master the Game – Robbins
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• 2013 Fiction
• The Casual Vacancy – Rowling (Liked this one. Some UNlikeable characters though! Christmas present from Tom20)
• The Red Queen – Gregory
• The Hound of the Baskervilles – Conan-Doyle. (Christmas present from David19)
• The Kingmaker’s Daughter – Gregory
• Darkly Dreaming Dexter – Lindsay
• Then – Gleitzman
• After – Gleitzman
• Now – Gleitzman (Just reading what my year 7s will be reading. These books are NOT my cup of tea. Thank God they’re a quick read!)
• The Hypnotist – Kepler (enjoyed this, though the present tense got a little annoying at times.)
• Betrayal – McIntosh
• Revenge – McIntosh
• Destiny – McIntosh (Not the best writing I’ve ever ploughed through, but this trilogy was a quick and easy read.)
• The Forgotten Garden – Morton (Enjoyed this.)
• The Reader – Schlink (Hated this. Found it pretentious)
• Darkly Dreaming Dexter – Lindsay
• Dearly Devoted Dexter – Lindsay
• Dexter in the Dark – Lindsay
• Dexter by Design – Lindsay
• Dexter is Delicious – Lindsay
• Double Dexter- Lindsay
• Black Notice – Cornwell
• The Lady of the Rivers- Gregory ( loved it)
• Zomblog – TW Brown
• The English Orphans – Mary Jane Holmes
• Between Seasons – Brassington
• What Zombies Fear – Allmond
• Lionheart – Penman
• The Blythes Are Quoted  – L.M. Montgomery
• The Blue Castle – L. M. Montgomery (Enjoyed this.)
• The Story Girl – L.M. Montgomery
• The Golden Road – L. M. Montgomery
• The Metamorphosis – Kafka
• The Meowmorphosis – Cook
• Wool – Howey
• Emily of New Moon – Montgomery
• Emily Climbs – Montgomery
• Emily’s Quest – Montgomery
• Shift – Howey.
• Gone – Grant
• Changeling – Gregory
• Stormbringers – Gregory
• Longbourne – Baker (Loved this. Pride and Prejudice told through the servants’ eyes.)
• Foundation – Asimov
• Second Foundation – Asimov
• Foundation and Empire – Asimov
• Foundation’s Edge – Asimov
• Running with Scissors – Burroughs (re read)
• The White Princess – Gregory
• Foundation and Earth – Asimov
• Dexter’s Final Cut – Lindsay (Enjoyed this one.)
• The First Horseman – Wilson
• True Grit – Portis (Surprisingly engaging.)
• UR – King
• Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Capote (Loved this.)
• Wolf Hall – Mantel
• 2013 Non-fiction
• Your Guide to Raw Food – Smith (Free ebook. Not worth the time it took to read.)
• The Ultimate Gardening Guide – Pistorius. (Free ebook. See above.)
• One Acre Homestead – McDonald (Free ebook. Had some good hints scattered through.)
• Save Green while you go green – Kukral (free ebook.)
• Choosing Eden – Langman (re read)
• What Teachers Make – Mali
• In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto – Pollan

• 2013 Poetry
• Threesome – Bentata-Moore/Farrugia/Williams
• Horoscopes for the Dead – Collins
• 2012 Fiction:
• A Passionate Man – Trollope (She’s a fabulous writer. I want to read more of her this year.)
• The Penelopiad : Attwood. (Retelling of the Odysseus legend from his wife’s point of view… very clever.)
• The Leftovers (Perrotta)
• Digging To America – Tyler
• The Lake of Dreams – Edwards
• Malicious Intent – Fox
• The Devil’s Diadem – Douglass
• Troy – Geras
• The Recruit – Muchamore
• Fault Lines – Huston
• The White Queen – Gregory (reread)
• Gone – Kellerman
• The Known World – Jones (Wonderful)
• The Age of Miracles – Thompson Walker
• Early Leaving – Goldman (re read)
• In Cold Blood – Capote (FANTASTIC)
• 2012 Non-Fiction:
• Your Farm in the City – Taylor (Too basic… not very impressed.)
• One Magic Square – Houbein (Very good.)
• My Favourite Teacher – Macklin (ed)
• The Urban Farm Handbook – Cottrell and McNichols (AND AGAIN!)
• Independence Days – Astyk (reread)
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle – Kingsolver (reread)
• Growing Your Own Fruit and Vegetables – Chivers and Canning
• Down to Earth – Hetzel (re read)
• The Bucolic Plague – Kilmer-Purcell
• A Resilient Life – Issa
• Making Home – Astyk
• 2011 Fiction:

• Faro’s Daughter – Heyer (reread)
• Written in Bone – Beckett (meh. Worked out whodunnit half way through…)
• The Killing Place – Gerritsen
• The Lacuna – Kingsolver
• Roots of Evil – Rayne (An Aussie would never have named a book like this!)
• Things We Didn’t See Coming – Amsterdam (Short stories. Good.)
• The Night Ferry – Robotham (Not bad.)
• The Professor’s House – Cather
• The Passage – Cronin
• Legend of a Suicide – Vann
• The Pigeon – Suskind
• The Moon is Down – Steinbeck (Re-read. I love this book.)
• Cashelmara – Howatch (Love this book too. Reread.)
• Plain Truth – Picoult (This is a good one. It’s a bit of a risk with this author but I really enjoyed this one.)
• The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo – Larsson
• The Girl Who Played With Fire – Larsson
• The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets’ Nest – Larsson
• The Hunger Games – Collins (Loved it!)
• The Good Daughter – Darznik
• Catching Fire – Collins
• The Mockingjay – Collins. (Read these books in a day each. Really enjoyed them)
• The Amateur Marriage -Tyler (Loved this one.)
• A Game of Thrones – Martin
• Full Dark, No Stars – King. (Loved this one.)
• A Storm of Swords – Martin
• The Silent Girl – Gerritson
• There Should Be More Dancing – Ham
• A Feast of Crows – Martin
• Lustrum – Harris (Life of Cicero. Wish I read the first one before this one, though.)
• A Dance With Dragons – Martin
• Rocks in the Belly – Bauer (Loved this one)
• A Slipping -down Life – Tyler. (Excellent.)
• 2011 Non Fiction:
• Debt Free For Life – Bach
• $21Challenge – Lippey (reread)
• The Happiest Refugee – Do
• Choosing Eden – Langman
• Choosing Eden – Langman (Yes; I turned right around and read it again!)
• Real Food – Evans (A real book for foodies. Unfortunately, that’s not me.)
• The Urban Homestead – Coyne and Knutzen (Enjoyed this one.)
• The Green Gardener – Byrne
• Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front – Astyk
• Making it – Coyne and Knutzen (Lots of projects; a handbook that I’ll be referring to over the next few years, I’m sure.)
• Backyard Self Sufficiency – French. (Loved this book… it’ll be a useful reference for years to come.)
• Companion Planting – French
• The Permaculture Home Garden – Woodrow  (Fantastic!!!)
• We Took To The Woods – Rich
• Backyard Self Sufficiency – French (Reread)
• The Seed Savers’ Handbook – Fanton
• Choosing Eden – Langman (Yes… I read it again while I was waiting for Adam to finish a book I wanted to read.)
• Organic Gardening: The Natural No-Dig Way – Dowding
• Permaculture in a Nutshell – Whitefield (A good little book.)
• Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front – Astyk (Re-read.)
• At Home – Bryson (Loved this!)
• Urban Homestead – Coyne and Knutzen (reread)
• Making It – Coyne and Knutzen (reread)
• Living the Good Life – Cockburn (Been wanting to read this for a while. Enjoyed it… made me glad Melbourne doesn’t get fruit fly!)
• Cooking With Sunshine – Anderson and Palovic (This came with my new solar cooker)
• Animal Vegetable Miracle – Kingsolver. (Loved this so much I went out and bought it.)
• Vasili’s Garden – Vasili Kanidiadis
• The Great Disruption – Gilding
• Harvest – Kirton (A really good reference for Australian food gardening. I was very impressed.)
• Organic Fruit Growing – McFarlane (A handy reference)
• Backyard Selfsufficiency – French (reread)
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle – Kingsolver (reread. I liked this one so much I went and bought my own copy.)
• 2010 Fiction:
• The White Queen – Gregory. (interesting in that it deals with the people in Richard III, which I teach in year 12 English. It annoyed me that there was so much ‘magic’ in it though.)
• Her Fearful Symmetry – Niffenegger (Really enjoyed this one.)
• The Olive Sisters – Hampson
• Wives and Lovers – Varley (Really enjoyed this one!)
• A Song in the Daylight – Simons. (Loved the first 2/3rds of this. Just loved it. The ending was awful though…. terribly melodramatic and not at all believable. A real disappointment.)
• The Devil Wears Prada – Weisberger  (Didn’t think this was particularly well written. The movie was better… imagine that!)
• The Harrowing – Dinsdale
• The Master of the Book – Moloney. (Young Adult fiction. Evan4 wanted me to read it.)
• Silence – Perry (Really liked this one)
• Fidelity – Perry. (This guy is good. Liked this one as well.)
• Without Consent – Fox. (meh)
• Relentless – Koontz (Quite disappointed by this one, actually. The basic premise of the novel was a good one, but there were so many improbable events that were there just to get the characters out of situations. Really bad writing. I’m amazed by the fact that he’s had so many novels published if this is the calibre of his work.)
• The Dark Tide – Gross (meh)
• A Stack of Stories – Kenny/Housden/Kenny (For year 9 English)
• A Man For All Seasons – Bolt (For year 12 ESL)
• Clara’s War – Kramer (True story of how 18 people hid in a bunker under a house from the Nazis for 2 years. Amazing.)
• The Greengage Summer – Godden
• Spies – Frayn
• The Unknown Ajax – Heyer. (reread)
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Hamid
• Crocodile Tears – Horowitz
• Antony and Cleopatra – McCullough
• The Red Queen – Drabble
• Lady of Quality – Heyer (reread)
• The Story of Edgar Sawtelle – Wroblewski (Interesting. Based on Hamlet.)
• Plan for Chaos – Wyndham. (This was an unpublished manuscript written at the same time as ‘Day of the Triffids.’ Good for curiosity value.)
• And Thereby Hangs a Tale – Archer (Short stories.)
• The Burning Wire – Deaver
• Soul Catcher – White
• The Sunne in Splendour – Penman. (A novel sympathetic to Richard III. I’ve owned this since when I was married and I’ve read it about 6 or 7 times. Just love it.)
• Wish – Goldsworthy (Liked this one.)
• A Member of the Wedding – McCullers. (meh.)
• A Rumor of Dragons – Weis and Hickman (Young Adult. Ryan3 wanted me to read it.)
• Here Be Dragons – Penman. (A re-read. Love this author.)
• Falls the Shadow – Penman (Another re-read)
• Let The Right One In – Lindqvist
• Harbour – Lindqvist
• Little House on the Prarie – Ingalls Wilder (reread)
• These Happy Golden Years – Ingalls Wilder (reread)
• The Tollgate – Heyer (reread)
• Simon The Coldheart – Heyer (reread)
• 2010.  Poetry
• Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes – Collins
• 2010 Non Fiction
• Didn’t You Use To Be Someone? – Hughes
• The Complete Tightwads Gazette – Dacyczyn (Reread)
• The $21 Challenge – Lippey and Gower (Reread)
• How to Pay off Your Mortgage in 5 years (by someone who did it in 3) – Bell (ReRead)
• Dreams From My Father – Obama (I didn’t think I’d like this book, but I was pleasantly surprised. Really enjoyed it, and it got me thinking.)
• Financial Security – Bouris. (Loved this book… particularly the shares part. Borrowed from the library but I’m considering buying it.)
• $0 to Rich – Edwards, (A re-read. (I own this one!))
• The Barefoot Investor % steps to Financial Freedom – Pape. (Again, a re-read.)
• Nice Girls Don’t Get Rich – Frankel (Another re-read.)
• Your Success in 5 Years or Less – Bell
• Running With Scissors – Burroughs
• The Total Money Makeover – Ramsey. (Loved it. Gave me a plan to work to.)
• Recession-proof Your Finances – Dooley. (A guide from ‘Choice’ magazine. Quite good.)
• Women and Money – Orman
• Financial Peace Revisited – Ramsay

• 2oo9.Fiction:
• Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox – Colfer (Always a good romp!)
• Insomnia – King (Not one of his best by a long shot.)
• People of the Book – Brooks. (Loved it. Thoroughly recommended)
• Nightmares and Dreamscapes – (King)
• The Slap – Tsiolkas (This was sent to me by Fifi who thought I’d like it. She was bang on the money. One of the best books I’ve read in a long while.)
• My Enemy’s Cradle – Young
• The Supernaturalists – Colfer (Alright, but it was no Artemis Fowle!)
• The Uncommon Reader – Bennet (Reviewed briefly here)
• Likely to Die – Fairstein (Took too long to get anywhere. )
• Lady of Avalon – Zimmer Bradley
• The Murder Farm – Schenkel
• Firefly Summer – Binchy
• Twilight – Abidi (No, not vampires! Set in Pakistan. I enjoyed this one very much.)
• The Virgin and the Gypsy – Lawrence (I loved this collection of stories. I didn’t expect to, for some reason, but I was immersed in it.)
• Shadow Man – McFadyen (Excellently gory serial killer novel. I enjoyed it a lot.)
• The Face of Death – McFadyen (Also liked this one. Gobbled it up.)
• The Story of a Non-Marrying Man and other stories – Lessing
• Dancing With Eva – Judd (About life in the bunker with Hitler and Eva Braun. Interesting.)
• Die For Me – Rose. (Good. Gory. )
• A Darker Domain – McDermid
• Lady Killer – Scottoline (One of those books that it’s nice to read sometimes, because it makes you think “I can write better than this, and she’s published!!”)
• Legacy of Silence – Plain
• Divine Justice – Baldacci
• Thorn – Cork
• White Tiger – Adiga
• Mallawindy – Dettman (Really excellent. I loved reading this novel.)
• Henry’s Daughter – Dettman (One of the best novels I’ve ever read.)
• Captain of the Caryatid – Woodman
• The Lute Player – Lofts
• Life of Pi – Martel
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies – Austen and Grahame-Smith (An enjoyable romp through Regency bloodbaths.)
• Year of Wonders – Brooks. (This was a re-read. It’s on the list of books for next year’s year 12s, so I refreshed my memory. I liked it better the second time around; the ending bothered me very much the first time.)
• Secrets in the Fire – Mankell (Not bad; about landmines in Mozambique. Young Adult fiction.)
• The 19th Wife – Ebershoff (LOVED this one. Highly recommended.)
• Goodnight Mister Tom – Magorian (Young Adult.)
• The Shadow Isle – Kerr (This is a re-read. The last book in this series is coming out soon and I wanted to refresh my memory. Finally, after 23 years of reading this series…. I can find out how it ends!!!)
• Bare Bones – Reichs.
• The Imposter’s Daughter – Sandell. (My first graphic novel! I won this in a competition on KnotSewCrafty and liked it so much that I decided to pass it on the same way.)
• Way of the Wolf – Grylls. (This is written by the guy on the tv show ‘Man vs Wild’. Ryan3 absolutely loved this show and I borrowed this from the school library for him.)
• Maestro – Goldsworthy. (Reread. I’m teaching it this year to the year 12 ESL class.)
• Richard 111 – Shakespeare. (This is a bit of a cheat… the year 12s read it aloud again this year.)
• Animal Farm – Orwell (Again a cheat… I read it aloud to the year 11 ESLs.)
• The Forsyte Saga Books 1,2 and 3 – Galsworthy. (Loved it. Loved. It.)
• The Other Boleyn girl – Gregory (A reread before I watched the movie. What a let down the movie was!)
• Dogboy – Eva Hornung
• The Thirteenth Tale – Setterfield (Oh how I loved this novel. One of the best books I’ve ever read.)
• Devil’s Brood – Penman (Ahhh, those Plantagenets!)
• Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned – Tower (Collection of short stories. Loved it.. particularly the title story.)
• The Water’s Lovely – Rendell
• The Remains of the Day – Ishiguro (Delicate, beautiful and heartbreaking.)
• The Silver Mage – Kerr. (I have been reading this very long series since the first one was published in the mid 1980s. This is the final volume. It was a fantastic read… I wallowed luxuriously in every word. A wonderful finale.)
• The Grass is Singing – Lessing
• Wide Sargasso Sea – Rhys
• Just after Sunset – King. (Short stories… I don’t read enough of them, and I really should. There’s some good ones tucked away in here.)
• The Dome – King
• ‘Tis – McCourt. (Boring… don’t put yourself through it.)
• The Thief – Rendell
• The Zookeeper’s War – Conte
• The Book Thief – Zusak (Really enjoyed this one.)
• The Stand – King (A re-read. One of the best end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it novels I’ve read.)
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• Non-Fiction:2009
• Shakespeare – Bryson
• Mother Tongue – Bryson (Loved it… fascinating.)
• Mason-Dixon Knitting – Gardiner and Shayne
• Mason-Dixon Knitting Outside the Lines – Gardiner and Shayne
• Bend the Rules Sewing – Karol
• Quilts – Schmit
• Last Minute Patchwork and Quilted Gifts – Hoverson
• Growing Up Asian In Australia – Pung
• Postsecret – Warren
• My Secret – Warren
• The Secret Lives of Men and Women – Warren
• A Lifetime of Secrets – Warren
• Postsecret: Confessions on Life, Death, and God – Warren

Poetry 2009

• The Trouble With Poetry – Billy Collins
• Ballistics – Billy Collins

• Fiction 2008:  (Y.A = Young Adult fiction.)
• Looking for Alibrandi – Marchetti ** (Y.A. Teaching it this year to 11ESL.)
• Nineteen Minutes – Picoult *
• The Crippled Angel – Douglass ****(Last in a trilogy, The Crucible. I loved this series)
• The Bone Garden – Gerritsen (Good, but not as blood splattered as her others.)
• Once – Gleitzman (Y.A. Ryan3 is doing this in Yr 7 English.)
• Minority Report – Dick. * (Collection of short stories/novellas. Great ideas.)
• Boy Overboard – Gleitzman (Y.A. )
• Trouble – Kellerman
• A Stack of Stories. (Y.A. This would be one of the most disappointing collections I’ve read. Only 2 or 3 stories were surprising and interesting. The rest were patronising and predictable. )
• A Thousand Spendid Suns – Hosseini (Fantastic. I’m glad I’m a female in Australia.)
• Voices of Summer – Pearson (I liked this one.)
• The Book of Lies – Moloney (Y.A. Meh… it was a read….)
• Achilles’ Choice – Niven & Barnes. (Interesting concept; dry writing.)
• Saving Francesca – Marchetta (Y.A. Enjoyed it, though I cried when I finished it. If I dropped my bundle like F’s Mum did, there’s no one else around to help my kids cope. )
• Midnight for Charlie Bone – Nimmo (Y.A.  A poor man’s Harry Potter. Just a read.)
• The Reavers – MacDonald Fraser (Ridiculous in a funny and clever way. Made me laugh quite a bit through it.)
• Beneath the Bleeding – McDermid. (Another Wire in the Blood… Good.)
• Hade’s Daughter – Douglass (Troy Game 1. I’m loving this series.)
• God’s Concubine – Douglass (Troy Game 2. There’s someone from Bentleigh library who has #3. Hurry up!!!)
• Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination – Fielding. (By the author of ‘Bridget Jones. This is the biggest heap of tripe I have ever attempted to read. I had to throw it aside half way through, which NEVER happens…. I always have to see how plot lines pan out. Definitely stay away from this one. Life is too short.)
• The Bourne Legacy – Van Lustbader (Ludlum would be turning in his grave. Clumsily written.)
• Darkwitch Rising – Douglass (Troy Game 3. The library bought a new copy just for me…)
• Druid’s Sword – Douglass (Troy Game 4. Really enjoyed this series.)
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Solzenitsyn (I first read this when I was 16… now every 5 years or so I reread it. Love it.)
• The Dressmaker – Ham (Wonderful.)
• The Kabul Beauty School – Rodriguez. (I thought she was a bad mother and a raving lunatic. Interesting story though.)
• This Boy’s Life – Wolff (I really liked this one. An excellent read. Autobiography.)
• The Spare Room – Garner
• Six Days – DuBois
• The Shadow Isle – Kerr (I’ve been following the ‘Daggerspell’ series for 20 years. Only 1 more to go!!!!!)
• The Conspiracy Club – Kellerman
• Waiting – Jin (Fascinating book about a couple in China who had to wait 18 years to be married, because he couldn’t get divorced. Beautiful book.)
• The Colour of Hope – Madison
• The Bombmaker – Leather
• Julie and Romeo – Ray
• Gravity – Gerritsen
• Stories not for the nervous – Alfred Hitchcock (editor)
• The Birth of Venus – Dunant. (Really enjoyed this one.)
• The Dreamstone – Jones. (This developed into a good read… liked it a lot.)
• The Road – McCarthy. (Absolutely loved this. Couldn’t put it down.)
• Richard III – Shakespeare (Not bad…)
• The Magic Army – Thomas
• Devil May Care – Faulks
• The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas – Boyne (Y.A.)
• No Country For Old Men – McCarthy
• The Daughter of Time – Tey (A badly written book vindicating Richard III from killing the princes in the Tower. The historical information was really interesting.)
• The Other Queen – Gregory
• The Almost Moon – Sebold
• The Grave Tattoo – McDermid (Disappointing. It was a bit of a slog to finish.)
• Centennial – Michener
• Say Goodbye – Gardner (I enjoyed this one. Suitably gruesome.)
• Straight – Francis
• The Unquiet – Connolly
• The Ice Age – Drabble
• Twilight – Meyer
• New Moon – Meyer
• Eclipse – Meyer
• Breaking Dawn – Meyer
• In the Dark – Moggach
• Panic – Abbott

Non Fiction:

• Beijing Confidential – Jan Wong (Had to read this for a book review for HarperCollins. Too detailed… every last grain of dirt was talked about.)
• A Left-handed History of the World – Wright. (Short biogs of left handers in history. Ok, but got a little tedious at times.)
• $0 to Rich. The Everyday Woman’s Guide To Getting Wealthy – Edwards. (Loved her first book. This one is a useful guide to getting $$$ organised and setting off in the right direction.)
• It’s my party and I’ll knit if I want to! – Aris. (Now I’m reading about knitting. Do I have a problem?)
• The Lowest Rung… voices of Australian poverty – Peel. (Written by a friend. Interesting, thought provoking stuff. Brought up a lot of things for me from when I lived out in the Western suburbs…)
• The Life & Times of Henry V – Earle
• The Life & Times of Henry VIII – Lacey
• Notes from a Small Island – Bryson (Great. Laughed out loud lots of times. Freaked the kids out…)

2007Fiction:

• The Wounded Hawk – Douglass ***
• The Nameless Day – Douglass ***
• Crusader – Douglass ***
• Sinner – Douglass ***
• Starman – Douglass ***
• Enchanter – Douglass **
• Love and Other Infidelities – ***Townsend
• Delicious – Pelligrino *
• Circle of Flight – Marsden **
• The Boleyn Inheritence – Gregory **** (Ok.. I loved this…)
• Time and Chance – Penman ****
• Rage – Bachman
• The long walk – Bachman *****
• Cell – King **
• The time traveller’s wife – Niffenegger ***** (My favourite book of all time)
• Eleven Hours – Simons
• Prey – Crichton
• These Happy Golden Years – Ingalls Wilder ***** perenial favourite
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Rowling *****
• Battleaxe – Douglass (This is weak, but she steadily improves as the books go on.)
• The Spirit Stone – Kerr ****
• The Gold Falcon – Kerr ****
• Gerald’s Game – King
• Sandworms of Dune – Herbert & Anderson *
• The catcher in the rye – Salinger (Teaching this next year. Year 12 English.)
• The torment of others – McDermid *
• Hamlet – Shakespeare (Taught it to Year 12 English)
• The Andromeda strain – Crichton
• The tenth circle – Picoult
• Vanishing Acts – Picoult
• Oryx and Crake – Atwood
• Artemis Fowl and the lost colony – Colfer *
• State of fear – Crichton
• The ship of brides – Moyes
• The Devil that danced on the water – Forna *** (Sierra Leone… oh my God. I never knew…)
• The Kite Runner – Hosseini **** (Same as above; just substitute Afghanistan)
• 2007, Non Fiction:
• Rich Woman – Kiyosaki
• Nice Girls Don’t Get Rich – Frankel (Let’s see about that!)
• Quilting for Dummies – Fall
• The Encyclopedia of Quilting and Patchwork Techniques – Guerrier
• The Gentle Art of Domesticity – Brocket (Yarnstorm.)
• Your kids’ money: How to earn it, save it, and set them up for life- Bell
• Your money: Starting out and starting over – Bell
• Shopping for Shares – Edwards (My bible for the stockmarket…)
• The barefoot investor – Pape (Loved this, especially for my boys.)
  Top Stocks 2007 – Roth
  Rich Dad’s guide to becoming rich – Kiyosaki
  Trading Secrets – Bedford
  How I made $2,000,000 in the stock market – Darvas
  What is value investing? – Cunningham
  Your mortgage and how to pay it off in five years – Bell (Outdated numbers, but great.)
• The successful investor – O’Neil
• A short history of nearly everything – Bryson (Fascinating.)