Index by Title

Last Updated: 28 May 2026

This is an index of all the books reviewed on this blog with links to the blog posts.

 A
Abide With Me (2006) by Elizabeth Strout
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1886) by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) by Mark Twain
The Age of Innocence (1920) by Edith Wharton 
Agnes Grey (1847) by Anne Bronte
Alias Grace (1996) by Margaret Atwood
All Fours (2024) by Miranda July  
All My Sons (1947) by Arthur Miller
All That I Am (2011) by Anna Funder 
Always Home, Always Homesick (2025) by Hannah Kent
An American Marriage (2018) by Tayari Jones
Amsterdam (1998) by Ian McEwan 
Amy and Isabelle (1998) by Elizabeth Strout
Anna Karenina (1877) by Leo Tolstoy
Anthem (1937) by Ayn Rand
Ariadne (2021) by Jennifer Saint
The Arsonist (2018) by Chloe Hooper 
Atalanta (2023) by Jennifer Saint
Atmosphere (2025) by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Atonement (2001) by Ian McEwan
August is a Wicked Month (1965) by Edna O'Brien
Autocracy Inc (2024) by Anne Applebaum

B
Bad Feminist (2014) by Roxane Gay
Balancing Act (Quarterly Essay 61) by George Megalogenis
The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1960) by Muriel Spark
The Bass Rock (2020) by Evie Wyld
Becoming (2018) by Michelle Obama
Being and Being Bought (2013) by Kajsa Ekis Ekman
The Believer (2021) by Sarah Krasnostein
Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison
Benbecula (2025) by Graeme Macrae Burnet
Between the World and Me (2015) by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Birnam Wood (2023) by Eleanor Catton
Bitter Wash Road (2013) by Garry Disher 
Black River (2022) by Matthew Spencer
Black Widow (2015) by Carol Baxter
Blood Year: Terror and the Islamic State (Quarterly Essay 2015) by David Kilcullen
The Bloody Chamber (1979) by Angela Carter
Blowing the Bloody Doors Off (2018) by Michael Caine 
Bodies of Light (2021) by Jennifer Down
The Body in the Library (1942) by Agatha Christie
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Sex and Science (2008) by Mary Roach
The Book of Negroes (2007) by Lawrence Hill
The Bookseller of Kabul (2002) by Asne Seierstad
Brand New Ancients (2013) by Kate Tempest
A Brief Affair (2022) by Alex Miller 
Bring Up the Bodies (2012) by Hilary Mantel
Broke Road (2025) by Matthew Spencer
Brooklyn (2009) by Colm Toibin
Brother of the More Famous Jack (1982) by Barbara Trapido
Bruny (2019) by Heather Rose 
Bulldozed (2022) by Niki Savva
Bunner Sisters (1916) by Edith Wharton
Burial Rites (2013) by Hannah Kent
The Burrow (2024) by Melanie Cheng

 C
The Candy House (2022) by Jennifer Egan
Career of Evil (2015) by Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling)
A Caribbean Mystery (1964) by Agatha Christie
Case Study (2021) by Graeme Macrae Burnet 
Casino Royale (1953) by Ian Fleming
The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J D Salinger
Catching Fire (2009) by Suzanne Collins
A Clash of Kings (1999) by George R R Martin 
The Children Act (2014) by Ian McEwan 
Circe (2018) by Madeline Miller 
Clear (2024) by Carys Davies
Clivosaurus (Quarterly Essay 56) (2014) by Guy Rundle
Club Dead (2003) by Charlaine Harris 
Clytemnestra (2023) by Costanza Casati 
Cold Enough for Snow (2022) by Jessica Au
Collected Poems (2016) by Clive James
The Collector (1963) by John Fowles 
Conclave (2016) by Robert Harris
Consolation (2020) by Garry Disher
The Correspondent (2025) by Virginia Evans
The Cuckoo's Calling (2013) by Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2004) by Mark Haddon
Cursed Bread (2023) by Sophie Mackintosh

D
The Dark Lake (2017) by Sarah Bailey
Dark Places (2009) by Gillian Flynn
Dark Tales (2016) by Shirley Jackson 
David Copperfield (1850) by Charles Dickens
Day's End (2022) by Garry Disher
Dead Lions (2013) by Mick Herron
Dead to the World (2004) by Charlaine Harris
Dead Until Dark (2001) by Charlaine Harris 
Dearly (2020) by Margaret Atwood
Dear Life (2012) by Alice Munro
Dear Life (Quarterly Essay 57) (2015) by Karen Hitchcock
Death Comes to Pemberley (2011) by PD James
Death in her Hands (2020) by Ottessa Moshfegh
Demon Copperhead (2022) by Barbara Kingsolver
Deep Water (1957) by Patricia Highsmith 
Departure(s) (2026) by Julian Barnes
The Details (2020) by Tegan Bennett Daylight
Devotion (2021) by Hannah Kent
Diary of a Somebody (2019) by Brian Bilston
A Different Kind of Power (2025) by Jacinda Ardern
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982) by Anne Tyler
Dirt Town (2022) by Hayley Scrivenor 
Down by the River (1996) by Edna O’Brien
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004) by David Sedaris
Drive (2009) by Daniel Pink
The Driver's Seat (1970) by Muriel Spark
The Dry (2016) by Jane Harper
Dull Margaret (2018) by Jim Broadbent

 E
Earthquake (2025) by Niki Savva
East of Eden (1952) by John Steinbeck 
The Echoes (2024) by Evie Wyld 
Educated (2018) by Tara Westover
Effi Briest (1895) by Theodor Fontaine
Eggshell Skull (2018) Bri Lee
Elizabeth Macarthur's Letters (2022) by Kate Grenville 
Elizabeth and Elizabeth (2021) by Sue Williams
The Erratics (2018) Vicki Laveau-Harvie
Everywhere I Look (2016) by Helen Garner
Exiles (2022) by Jane Harper
Exit West (2017) by Mohsin Hamid
Explosive Eighteen (2011) by Janet Evanovich
Eventually Everything Connects (2023) by Sarah Firth

F
Faction Mann (Quarterly Essay 59) (2015) by David Marr
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2017) by JK Rowling
A Far-Flung Life (2026) by ML Stedman
Fear: Trump in the White House (2018) by Bob Woodward
Fifth Business (1970) by Robertson Davies
The Fifth Risk (2018) by Michael Lewis
Fight Like a Girl (2016) by Clementine Ford
Finding Flow (1998) by Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi 
Flesh (2025) by David Szalay
Forbidden Notebook (2023) by Alba De Cespedes
Force of Nature (2017) by Jane Harper
Forecast: Turbulence (2012) by Janette Turner Hospital
The Forever War (2024) by Nick Bryant
The Forgotten Children (2007) by David Hill 
Foster (2010) by Claire Keegan
Found in Translation (Quarterly Essay 52) (2013) by Linda Jaivin
488 Rules for Life (2019) by Kitty Flanagan

G
Galatea (2013) by Madeline Miller
The Game (2021) by Sean Kelly
A Game of Thrones (1996) by George R R Martin 
The Gathering (2007) by Anne Enright 
The Ghosts of Paris (2022) by Tara Moss
The Gifts of Imperfection (2010) by Brene Brown
Giovanni's Room (1956) by James Baldwin 
Girl Falling (2024) by Hayley Scrivenor
The Girl on the Page (2018) by John Purcell
The Girl on the Train (2015) by Paula Hawkins
The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2007) by Steig Larsson
The Girl who Played with Fire (2006) by Steig Larsson
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2005) by Steig Larsson
The Girl with the Dogs (2015) by Anna Funder
The Glass Hotel (2020) by Emily St John Mandel 
The God of the Woods (2024) by Liz Moore
The Golden Age (2014) by Joan London
The Goldfinch (2013) by Donna Tartt
Gone Girl (2013) by Gillian Flynn
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ (2009) by Phillip Pullman
The Good Fight (2025) by Sean Kelly
The Good People (2016) by Hannah Kent
The Good Turn (2020) by Dervla McTiernan 
Grand Days (1993) by Frank Moorhouse 
The Graveyard Book (2008) by Neil Gaiman
A Great Act of Love (2025) by Heather Rose
The Green Road (2015) by Anne Enright


 H
H is for Hawk (2014) by Helen Macdonald
The Hallmarked Man (2025) by Robert Galbraith
Hamnet (2020) by Maggie O'Farrell
A Handful of Dust (1934) by Evelyn Waugh
The Handmaid's Tale (1985) by Margaret Atwood
Harlem Shuffle (2021) by Colson Whitehead
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997) by J K Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998) by J K Rowling
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (2016) by J K Rowling 
Heartburn (1983) by Nora Ephron 
Heart the Lover (2025) by Lily King
Heat Wave (1996) by Penelope Lively 
Here Until August (2019) by Josephine Rowe
Highway 13 (2024) by Fiona McFarlane
Hillbilly Elegy (2016) by JD Vance
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick (2020) by Zora Neale Hurston
His Bloody Project (2015) by Graeme Macrae Burnet
The Hobbit (1937) by J R R Tolkien
This House of Grief (2014) by Helen Garner
How Decent Folk Behave (2021) by Maxine Beneba Clarke
How to End a Story (Diaries 1995-1998) by Helen Garner
The Hunger Games (2008) by Suzanne Collins
The Hunter (2024) by Tana French

I
I Like to Watch (2019) by Emily Nussbaum
I'll Be Gone in the Dark (2016) by Michelle McNamara
In a Lonely Place (1947) by Dorothy B Hughes
In Cold Blood (1966) by Truman Capote
Infidel: My Life (2007) by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Injury Time (2018) by Clive James
The Ink Black Heart (2022) by Robert Galbraith
In Memoriam (2023) by Alice Winn
An Isolated Incident (2016) by Emily Maguire
The Italian Secret (2025) by Tara Moss

 J
The Jaguar (2022) by Sarah Holland-Batt
Jamaica Inn (1936) by Daphne Du Maurier 
James (2024) by Percival Everett 
Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Bronte
Janesville: An American Story (2017) by Amy Goldstein
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (2000) by Chris Ware

 K
The Keeper (2026) by Tana French
Killing Floor (2006) by Lee Child
Kin (2026) by Tayari Jones
King Lear (1606) by William Shakespeare
Klara and the Sun (2021) by Kazuo Ishiguro

L
La Belle Sauvage (2017) by Philip Pullman 
The Labours of Hercules (1947) by Agatha Christie
Lady Tan's Circle of Women (2023) by Lisa See
Last One Out (2025) by Jane Harper
Last Woman Hanged (2014) by Caroline Overington
The Learning Challenge (2014) by Nigel Paine
Legacy (2025) by Chris Hammer
Lethal White (2018) by Robert Galbraith
The Letter (1926) by W Somerset Maugham
Letter to My Daughter (2009) by Maya Angelou
Life of Pi (2001) by Yann Martel
Light and Shadow - Memoirs of a Spy's Son (2016) by Mark Colvin
The Light Between Oceans (2012) by ML Steadman
Lincoln in the Bardo (2017) by George Saunders
The Line of Beauty (2004) by Alan Hollinghurst
Living Dead in Dallas (2002) by Charlaine Harris
London Falling (2026) by Patrick Radden Keefe
Long Island (2024) by Colm Tóibín 
The Lost Man (2018) by Jane Harper
Love Objects (2021) by Emily Maguire
Lucky Ticket (2019) by Joey Bui
Luster (2020) by Raven Leilani

M

Macbeth (1611) by William Shakespeare
Madame Bovary (1856) by Gustave Flaubert
The Manticore (1972) by Robertson Davies
The Marriage Portrait (2022) by Maggie O'Farrell
Me Cheeta (2009) by James Lever
Memoirs of a Geisha (1999) by Arthur Golden
Men Explain Things To Me (2014) by Rebecca Solnit
The Midnight Library (2020) by Matt Haig
Milk and Honey (2015) by Rupi Kaur
Mindset (2016) by Carol S Dweck
Mischance Creek (2025) by Garry Disher
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (1938) by Winifred Watson 
Mockingjay (2010) by Suzanne Collins 
Monsters (2023) by Claire Dederer
Moral Panic 101 (Quarterly Essay 67) (2017) by Benjamin Law
Mortality (2012) by Christopher Hitchens
Mother Mary Comes to Me (2025) by Arundhati Roy
Mr Bridge (1969) by Evan S Connell 
Mrs Bridge (1959) by Evan S Connell
Mrs McGinty's Dead (1952) by Agatha Christie
Murder on the Canadian (1976) by Eric Wilson
Murder on the Orient Express (1934) by Agatha Christie
The Murder on the Links (1923) by Agatha Christie
Murder at Myall Creek (2016) by Mark Tedeschi
The Museum of Modern Love (2016) by Heather Rose 
The Mushroom Tapes (2025) by Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein
My Cousin Rachel (1951) by Daphne Du Maurier
My Dark Vanessa (2020) by Kate Elizabeth Russell
My Life on the Road (2016) by Gloria Steinem
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) by Agatha Christie
My Sister, the Serial Killer (2018) by Okinyan Braithwaite
My Story (2014) by Julia Gillard

 N
The Narrow Road to the Deep North (2013) by Richard Flanagan
The Natural Way of Things (2015) by Charlotte Wood
Nesting (2025) by Roisin O'Donnell
The New York Trilogy (1985-1986) by Paul Auster 
Never Let Me Go (2005) by Kazuo Ishiguro 
The Nickel Boys (2019) by Colson Whitehead
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell
Nineteen Minutes (2007) by Jodi Picoult 
The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner (2022) by Grace Tame 
Nobody's Looking at You: Essays (2019) by Janet Malcolm
Normal People (2018) by Sally Rooney
The North Water (2016) by Ian McGuire
Not Now, Not Ever (2022) by Julia Gillard
Not That Kind of Girl (2014) by Lena Dunham
Not My Father's Son (2015) by Alan Cumming
Notes on an Exodus (2016) by Richard Flanagan 
Nothing to See Here (2019) by Kevin Wilson 
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (2015) by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik
Notorious Nineteen (2012) by Janet Evanovich 


 O
The Old Man and The Sea (1951) by Ernest Hemingway
Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived (1994) by Penelope Lively 
Olive Kitteridge (2008) by Elizabeth Strout
The Omnivore's Dilemma (2006) by Michael Pollan 
One Day I'll Remember This (2020) by Helen Garner
One Hundred Years of Dirt (2018) by Rick Morton
One Life: My Mother's Story (2015) by Kate Grenville
One of Us (2015) by Asne Seierstad
Oryx and Crake (2003) by Margaret Atwood  
Orbital (2023) by Samantha Harvey
The (Other) You (2021) by Joyce Carol Oates 
Our Town (1938) by Thornton Wilder
Outline (2014) by Rachel Cusk

P
The Paper Palace (2021) by Miranda Cowley Heller
The Paradox of Choice (2004) by Barry Schwartz 
The Paying Guests (2014) by Sarah Waters
Peace (2019) by Garry Disher
Pheasants Nest (2024) by Louise Milligan
Phosphorescence (2020) by Julia Baird
Piranesi (2021) by Susanna Clarke
Plots and Prayers (2019) by Niki Savva
Political Amnesia (Quarterly Essay 60) (2015) by Laura Tingle
The Price of Salt / Carol (1952) by Patricia Highsmith 
Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) by Muriel Spark
The Prince (Quarterly Essay 51) (2013) by David Marr 
The Princess Diarist (2017) by Carrie Fisher 
The Professor (1857) by Charlotte Bronte
The Pumpkin Eater (1962) by Penelope Mortimer
The Pure in Heart (2005) by Susan Hill

Q
Question 7 (2023) by Richard Flanagan

R
Rapture (2024) by Emily Maguire
The Reader (1995) by Bernhard Schlink
Rebecca (1938) by Daphne Du Maurier 
The Risk of Darkness (2006) by Susan Hill
The Road (2006) by Cormac McCarthy
The Road to Ruin (2016) by Niki Savva
Rodham (2020) by Curtis Sittenfeld
A Room Made of Leaves (2020) by Kate Grenville
The Rose Field (2025) by Philip Pullman
The Ruin (2018) by Dervla McTiernan
The Running Grave (2023) by Robert Galbraith

S
Sabrina (2018) by Nick Drnaso 
The Safekeep (2024) by Yael Van Der Wouden
Sanctuary (2024) by Garry Disher 
The Scholar (2019) by Dervla McTiernan
Scrublands (2018) by Chris Hammer 
Sea of Tranquility (2022) by Emily St John Mandel
The Searcher (2020) by Tana French 
The Season (2024) by Helen Garner
The Secret Commonwealth (2019) by Philip Pullman
Secrets of the Jury Room (2005) by Malcolm Knox 
See What You Made Me Do (2019) by Jess Hill
The Sense of an Ending (2011) by Julian Barnes 
The Seven (2023) by Chris Hammer 
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (2017) by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Sex, Lies and Question Time (2021) by Kate Ellis
Shirley (1849) by Charlotte Bronte
Shrill (2016) by Lindy West
The Signature of All Things (2013) by Elizabeth Gilbert
Silas Marner (1861) by George Eliot
The Silence of the Girls (2018) by Pat Barker
The Silkworm (2014) by Robert Galbraith
Silver (2019) by Chris Hammer
Sister Carrie (1900) by Theodore Dreiser
Six Bedrooms (2015) by Tegan Bennett Daylight
Slow Horses (2010) by Mick Herron
Small Island (2004) by Andrea Levy 
Small Things Like These (2021) by Claire Keegan
Smile or Die (2009) by Barbara Ehrenreich
Smokin' Seventeen (2011) by Janet Evanovich
Snap (2018) by Belinda Bauer
The Social Leadership Handbook (2016) by Julian Stodd  
The Song of Achilles (2011) by Madeline Miller
Songteller (2020) by Dolly Parton 
Sorrow and Bliss (2020) by Meg Mason
So You've Been Publicly Shamed (2015) by Jon Ronson
The Spare Room (2008) by Helen Garner 
Speaking Up (2018) by Gillian Triggs 
The Spirit Level (2009) by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Wicked Bestiary (2011) by David Sedaris
Standing in the Fire (2018) by Larry Dressler
Stasiland (2003) by Anna Funder
State of Wonder (2011) by Ann Patchett 
Station Eleven (2014) by Emily St John Mandel
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (2003) by Mary Roach
Still Life (2021) by Sarah Winman 
Stone Yard Devotional (2023) by Charlotte Wood
Stoner (1965) by John Williams
Storyteller (2021) by Dave Grohl
Stories (2017) by Helen Garner
Stories I Only Tell My Friends (2011) by Rob Lowe
A Storm of Swords - Part 1: Steel and Snow (2000) by George R R Martin
A Storm of Swords - Part 2: Blood and Gold (2000) by George R R Martin
The Strays (2014) by Emily Bitto
Strengths Finder 2.0 (2007) by Tom Rath
The Successor (2023) by Paddy Manning
The Sun and Her Flowers (2017) by Rupi Kaur
Sunrise on the Reaping (2025) by Suzanne Collins
The Survivors (2020) by Jane Harper
The Swimmers (2022) by Julie Otsuka

T
That Sinking Feeling (Quarterly Essay 53) (2014) by Paul Toohey 
The Talented Mr Ripley (1955) by Patricia Highsmith
The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island (2008) by Chloe Hooper
Takedown Twenty (2013) by Janet Evanovich
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (2018) by Heather Morris
The Teal Revolution (2022) by Margot Saville
Tell Me Everything (2024) by Elizabeth Strout 
The Testaments (2019) by Margaret Atwood
Three Women (2019) by Lisa Taddeo
The Tilt (2022) by Chris Hammer
Tinkers (2010) by Paul Harding 
Tom Lake (2023) by Ann Patchett
The Trauma Cleaner (2017) by Sarah Krasnostein
The Tremor of Forgery (1969) by Patricia Highsmith
The Two Faces of January (1964) by Patricia Highsmith
This Sweet Sickness (1960) by Patricia Highsmith
Treasure and Dirt (2021) by Chris Hammer
The Trees (2021) by Percival Everett 
Troubled Blood (2020) by Robert Galbraith
Trust (2020) by Chris Hammer

U
The Uncommon Reader (2007) by Alan Bennett
Unfinished Business (Quarterly Essay 50) (2013) by Anna Goldsworthy
The Unquiet Grave (2025) by Dervla McTiernan
Unsettled (2025) by Kate Grenville

V
The Valley (2024) by Chris Hammer
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (2006) by Maggie O’Farrell
The Various Haunts of Men (2004) by Susan Hill 
Vera (1912) by Elizabeth Von Armin
Victoria: the Queen (2017) by Julia Baird
A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010) by Jennifer Egan
The Vows of Silence (2008) by Susan Hill
The Voyage Home (2024) by Pat Barker

W
Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) by J M Coetzee 
The Wall (2019) by John Lanchester
The Wandering (2020) by Intan Paramaditha
The War Widow (2019) by Tara Moss
Water for Elephants (2006) by Sara Gruen 
The Way it is Now (2021) by Garry Disher
We Are Never Meeting In Real Life (2017) by Samantha Irby 
The Weekend (2019) by Charlotte Wood
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2003) by Lionel Shriver
What Happened (2017) by Hillary Rodham Clinton
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures (2008) by Malcolm Gladwell
When One Person Dies The Whole World Is Over (2019) by Mandy Ord
Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal? (2011) by Jeanette Winterson
The Wife (2003) by Meg Wolitzer
The Wife of Willesden (2021) by Zadie Smith 
Wifedom (2023) by Anna Funder
Wild Dark Shore (2025) by Charlotte McConaghy
Will you please be quiet, please? (1976) by Raymond Carver
Wolf Hall (2009) by Hilary Mantel
Women Talking (2018) by Miriam Toews
The Wood at Midwinter (2024) by Susanna Clarke

Y
The Year of Magical Thinking (2005) by Joan Didion
Yellow Notebook (2019) by Helen Garner
Yes Please (2014) by Amy Poehler
Young Mungo (2022) by Douglas Stuart

Z
QE97 - Losing It (2025) by Jess Hill
QE100 - The Good Fight (2025) by Sean Kelly


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