On the Shelf

Last Updated: 13 January 2025

New Year, New Books (January-February 2025)
  • Helen Garner - The Season (read review) 
  • Liz Moore - The God in the Woods
  • Yael Van Der Wouden - The Safekeep
  • Asako Yuzuki - Butter
  • Carys Davies - Clear

Spring Flings (September - November 2024) 
  • Pat Barker - The Voyage Home (read review)
  • Emily Maguire - Rapture
  • Chris Hammer - The Valley (read review)
  • Hayley Scrivenor - Girl Falling
  • Evie Wyld - The Echoes
  • Miranda July - All Fours (read review)
  • Don Watson - QE95 High Noon (read review)

 Winter Reads (June-August 2024) 
  • Colm Toibin - Long Island (read review) 
  • Clare North - Ithaca 
  • Alice Winn - In Memoriam (read review)
  • Colson Whitehead - Zone One (read review)
  • Fiona McIntosh - Bye Bye Baby
  • Nick Bryant - The Forever War (read review)
  • Doris Lessing - The Golden Notebook
  • Sarah Firth - Eventually Everything Connects (read review)
  • Alecia Simmonds - Courting: An Intimate History of Love and the Law

Autumn Additions (March - May 2024)
  • Anne Enright - The Wren, The Wren (read review)
  • Charlotte Wood - Stone Yard Devotional (read review)
  • Louise Milligan - Pheasants Nest (read review)
  • Michael Cunningham - Day
  • Melissa Lucashenko - Edenglassie 
  • David Grann - The Wager

Holiday Acquisitions (December 2023/January 2024)  
Spring Acquisitions (September/October 2023)
  • Robert Galbraith - The Running Grave (Strike #7) (read review)
  • Ann Patchett - Tom Lake (read review)
  • Ann Petry - The Narrows
  • Ann Petry - The Street
  • Britney Spears - The Woman in Me (read review)
  • Chris Hammer - The Seven (read review)

Winter Reads (June/July/August 2023)
  • Christopher Hitchens - Why Orwell Matters
  • Claire Dederer - Monsters (read review)
  • Brigid Delaney - Reasons not to Worry
  • Julia May Jonas - Vladimir
  • Winifred Watson - Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (read review)
  • Rosamund Lehmann - The Weather in the Streets
  • Rosamund Lehmann - Invitation to the Waltz
  • Sophie Mackintosh - Cursed Bread (read review)
  • Anna Funder - Wifedom (read review)
  • Costanza Casati - Clytemnestra (read review)
  • Shirley Jackson - Dark Tales (read review)
  • Jennifer Egan - Look at Me

SWF2023 Purchases (May 2023)
  • Colson Whitehead - The Nickel Boys (read review) 
  • Sophie Cunningham - This Devastating Fever
  • Peter Frankopan - The Silk Roads
  • Sarah Holland-Batt - The Jaguar (read review)
  • Suzie Miller - Prima Facie
  • Margot Saville - The Teal Revolution (read review)
  • Paddy Manning - The Successor (read review)
  • Helen Garner - Honor and Other People's Children
  • Thomas Mayo and Kerry O'Brien - The Voice to Parliament 
  • Jennifer Robinson - How Many More Women?

Autumn Purchases (March/April 2023)
Summer Reads (Jan/Feb 2023)  
  • Kirstin Ferguson - Head and Heart Leadership
  • Barbara Kingsolver - Demon Copperhead
  • Percival Everett - The Trees (read review)

End of Year Acquisitions (November/December 2022)
  • Alex Miller - A Brief Affair (thanks Mum!)
  • Julia Gillard - Not Now, Not Ever (thanks Mum!) (read review)
  • Elizabeth Von Armin - Vera (read review)
  • Rumer Godden - Black Narcissus
  • Mark Considine - The Careless State (read review)
  • Niki Savva -Bulldozed (read review)

Spring Books (September/October 2022) 
*Preordered

Book Mail (August 2022)    
  • Jennifer Down - Bodies of Light (read review)
  • Penelope Lively - Heat Wave
  • Frank Moorhouse - Dark Palace
  • Frank Moorhouse - In Cold Light
  • Leila Mottley - Nightcrawling
  • Graeme Macrae Burnet - Case Study (read review)

Winter Reads (June-July 2022)    
  • Sulari Gentill - The Woman in the Library
  • Tara Moss - The Ghosts of Paris (read review)
  • Jennifer Saint - Ariadne (read review)
  • Jennifer Saint - Elektra
  • Hugh White - Sleepwalk to War (Quarterly Essay #86)
  • Hayley Scrivener - Dirt Town (read review) 
  • Matthew Spencer - Black River (read review)
Sydney Writers Festival (May 2022)
  • Chloe Hooper - Bedtime Stories
  • Evelyn Araluen - Dropbear
  • Melissa Lucashenko - Too Much Lip
  • Damon Galgut - The Promise
Autumn Books (April 2022) 
  • Margaret Atwood - Burning Questions
  • Miranda Cowley Heller - The Paper Palace (read review)
  • Charlotte Mendelson - The Exhibitionist
  • Jennifer Egan - The Candy House (read review)
  • Meg Mason - Sorrow and Bliss (read review)
  • Douglas Stuart - Young Mungo (read review)
  • Emily St John Mandel - Sea of Tranquility (read review)
  • Sarah Krasnostein - Not Waving, Drowning (Quarterly Essay #85)

New Arrivals (December 2021)
  • Sean Kelly - The Game (read review)
  • Jess Hill - The Reckoning (Quarterly Essay #84)
  • Dave Grohl - The Storyteller (read review)
  • Emily Bitto - Wild Abandon
  • Heather Morris - Three Sisters
  • Annabel Crabb and Leigh Sales - Well Hello
  • Evan S Connell - Mr Bridge (read review)
  • Maxine Beneba Clarke - How Decent Folk Behave (read review)
On Order (October 2021)
More Book Mail (September 2021)
  • Dorothy B Hughes - In a Lonely Place
  • Evan S Connell - Mrs Bridge (read review)
Book Mail (August 2021)
  • Bri Lee - Who Gets to be Smart
  • Claire Thomas - The Performance
  • Sarah Winman - Still Life (read review)
  • Pat Barker - The Women of Troy (read review)

Lockdown Literature (July 2021)
  • Kazuo Ishiguro - Klara and the Sun (read review)
  • Matt Haig - The Midnight Library (read review)
  • Taylor Jenkins Reid - Malibu Rising
  • Jonathan Lee - The Great Mistake
  • Claire Fuller - Unsettled Ground
Recent Acquisitions (April 2021)
  • Kate Ellis - Sex, Lies and Question Time (read review)
  • Sarah Krasnostein - The Believer (read review)
  • Hilary Mantel - Mantel Pieces
  • Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
  • Alexandra Andrews - Who is Maud Dixon?
  • Sue Williams - Elizabeth and Elizabeth
More books (January 2021)
  • Rick Morton - On Money
  • Carly Finlay - Growing Up Disabled in Australia
  • Emily St John Mandel - The Glass Hotel (read review)
  • Tara Moss - The War Widow (read review)
  • Raven Leilani - Luster (read review)
  • Emma Donoghue - The Pull of the Stars
  • Louise Milligan - Cardinal
Christmas Acquisitions (December 2020)

On Their Way (Nov 2020)
  • Helen Garner - One Day I'll Remember This (Diaries 1987-1995) (read review)
  • Barack Obama - A Promised Land (Audible)
  • Margaret Atwood - Dearly (read review)
  • Isabel Wilkerson - Caste
  • Diane Cook - The New Wilderness
Preordered (September 2020)
  • Robert Galbraith - Troubled Blood (out 15 Sep) (read review)
  • Jane Harper - The Survivors (out 22 Sep) (read review)
  • Richard Flanagan - The Living Sea of Waking Dreams (out 29 Sep)
  • Chris Hammer - Trust (out 13 October)

Winter Collection (July-August 2020)
  • Brit Bennett - The Vanishing Half
  • Douglas Stuart - Shuggie Bain
  • Stephen King - If It Bleeds
  • Pat Barker - Regeneration
  • Judith Brett - The Coal Curse (Quarterly Essay 78)
  • Tara June Winch - The Yield (Audible)
  • Malcolm Turnbull - A Bigger Picture (Audible)
  • Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse (Audible)

Pandemic Purchases (May-June 2020)  
  • Maggie O'Farrell - Hamnet (read review)*
  • Kate Elizabeth Russell - My Dark Vanessa (read review)*
  • Bernardine Evaristo - Girl, Woman, Other*
  • Julia Baird - Phosphorescence (read review)*
  • Suzanne Collins - The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
  • Iris Murdoch - The Sea, The Sea
*Because the library is closed and I couldn't wait!

Autumn Collection (April 2020)
  • Jess Hill - See What You Made Me Do (read review)
  • Madeline Miller - The Song of Achilles
  • Emily St John Mandel - Station Eleven (read review)
  • Candice Carty-Williams - Queenie
  • Patricia Highsmith - various
Books on Order from the Library
  • Joey Bui - Lucky Ticket (read review)
  • Josephine Rowe - Here Until August (read review)
  • Kitty Flanagan - 488 Rules for Life (read review)
  • Zora Neale Hurston - Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick (read review)
  • Maggie O'Farrell - Hamnet (read review)
  • Many Ord - When One Person Dies (read review)
  • Julia Baird - Phosphorescence (read review)
  • Bernardine Evaristo - Girl, Woman, Other
  • Kate Elizabeth Russell - My Dark Vanessa  (read review)
Christmas 2019
New Books (October 2019)
  • Heather Rose - Bruny (read review)
  • Ottessa Moshefegh - My Year of Rest and Relaxation
  • Michelle McNamara - I'll be Gone in the Dark (read review)
  • Colson Whitehead - The Nickel Boys

 Spring Acquisitions (September 2019)
  • Gillian Triggs - Speaking Up (read review)
  • Anna Burns - Milkman
  • Elizabeth Gilbert - City of Girls
  • Edna O'Brien - In the Forest
  • Robert Harris - The Second Sleep
  • Malcolm Gladwell - Talking to Strangers
  • Annabel Crabb - Men at Work (QE75) (read review)

Ordered/Received (July 2019)
  • Margaret Atwood - The Testaments (read review)
  • Brian Bilston - Diary of a Somebody (read review)
  • Niki Savva - Plots and Prayers (read review)
  • Emily Nussbaum - I Like to Watch (read review)
  • Taffy Brodesser-Akner - Fleishman is in Trouble
  • Max Porter - Lanny
  • John Lanchester - The Wall (read review)

Sydney Writers' Festival purchases (May 2019)
  • Daisy Johnson - Everything Under
  • Meg Wolitzer - The Female Persuasion
  • Okinyan Braithwaite - My Sister, the Serial Killer (read review)
  • Jane Caro - Accidental Feminists
  • Clare Wright - You Daughters of Freedom
  • Tim Soutphommasane - On Hate

Shopping in Melbourne (February 2019)
  • Susan Orlean - The Library Book
  • Nora Ephron - Heartburn (read review)
  • Janet Malcolm - Nobody's Looking at You
  • Rebecca Solnit - Hope in the Dark

 Holiday Acquisitions (December 2018)
Ooops! I did it again! (October 2018)
Have Gift Voucher, Will Shop (September 2018)
  • Bri Lee - Eggshell Skull (read review)
  • Sinclair Lewis - It Can't Happen Here
  • Rick Morton - One Hundred Years of Dirt (read review)
  • Robert Galbraith - Lethal White (read review)

Shopping Spree (July 2018)
  • Nick Drnaso - Sabrina (read review)
  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - We Should All Be Feminists
  • Kenneth Mikkelsen and Richard Martin - The Neo-Generalist

Holiday Purchases (June 2018)
  • Janet Malcolm - The Journalist and the Murderer
  • Julian Stodd - Social Leadership Handbook (read review)
From Sydney Writers' Festival (May 2018)

  • Helen Garner - The Children's Bach
  • Helen Garner - True Stories
  • Helen Garner - Stories (read review)
  • Sarah Krasnostein - The Trauma Cleaner (read review)
  • Amy Goldstein - Janesville (read review)

April 2018
Out shopping at Bondi Junction today and purchased two books I have wanted for some time:
  • Helen Garner - Cosmo Cosmolino
  • Rachel Cusk - Outline (read review)
Christmas Books (December 2017)
Here is what I got for Christmas:
  • Julia Baird - Victoria The Queen (read review)
  • Jennifer Egan - Manhattan Beach
  • Mohsin Hamid  - Exit West (read review)
  • Samantha Irby - We are never meeting in real life (read review)
  • Celeste Ng - Little Fires Everywhere

Newest purchases (October 2017)
Here are the latest additions to my library:
  • Richard Flanagan - First Person
  • Jane Harper - Force of Nature (read review)
  • Hillary Clinton - What Happened (read review)
  • Penelope Mortimer - The Pumpkin Eater (read review)
  • Karin Slaughter - The Good Daughter

Recent Acquisitions (August 2017)
I know some people find gift vouchers impersonal, but I love them. I recently cashed in some vouchers I had for bookstores and got a stack of books I have long wanted:

  • Mark Colvin - Light and Shadow: Memoirs of a Spy's Son (read review)
  • Rupi Kaur - Milk and Honey (read review)
  • Naomi Klein - No Is Not Enough
  • Michael Ondaatje - In the Skin of a Lion
  • George Saunders - Lincoln in the Bardo (read review)
  • David Sedaris - Theft by Finding (Diaries Vol 1)
  • Colson Whitehead - The Underground Railroad

Holiday Reads for May-June (April 2017)
I am off to Europe for a holiday next month and have loaded up my eReader with a range of titles (200+) so I have plenty to keep me occupied as I plane and train all over Europe. I have got a mix of titles and genres so I can let my mood carry me away. Some of the ones I have been holding on to waiting for this trip are:
  • David Marr - The White Queen (Quarterly Essay 65) (read review)
  • Nancy Isenberg - White Trash
  • Gillian Flynn - Dark Places (read review)
  • Diane Ackerman - The Zookeeper's Wife
  • Robert Harris - Conclave (read review)
  • Ann Patchett - Commonwealth
  • Liane Moriarty - Big Little Lies
  • Amy Schumer - The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
  • Lauren Groff - Fates and Furies
  • Ian McEwan - Nutshell
  • Maria Semple - Today Will Be Different
  • Heather Rose - The Museum of Modern Love (read review)

Plus, I have about a million classics, the Sookie Stackhouse series, all the Harry Potters and various others to keep me out of trouble.

 New Year, New Books (Jan 2017)

Latest acquisitions include:
  • Jane Harper - The Dry (read review)
  • Graham Greene - The Third Man
  • Paul Beatty - The Sellout
  • Lindy West - Shrill (read review)
  • JD Vance - Hillbilly Elegy (read review)

October 2016 
New books to add to my pile include:

 Latest Acquisitions (September 2016)

 Have recently bought a few books without knowing too much about them. Here are my latest additions to my to-be-read pile:
  • Emily Maguire - An Isolated Incident (read review)
  • Graeme Macrae Burnet - His Bloody Project (read review)
  • Philippe LeGrain - Open World - the Truth About Globalisation

Have Coupon, Will Shop (July 2016)
I have had a coupon for a discount from a bookstore for some time now, biding my time and trying to decide what to buy. As my opportunity is about to expire, I went shopping and bought things I have had an eye for a while now, and a couple of things that fell into my cart!

  • Clive James - Collected Poems 1958-2015 (read review)
  • Christina Stead - The Man Who Loved Children
  • Ta-Nehisi Coates - Between the World and Me (read review)
  • Richard Flanagan - Notes on an Exodus (read review)


 Sydney Writers' Festival purchases (May 2016)
  • Frank Moorhouse - Grand Days (read review)
  • Anna Funder - The Girl with the Dogs (read review)
  • Kate Tempest - Brand New Ancients (read review)
  • Kate Tempest - Hold Me Now
  • Peter Garrett - Big Blue Sky
  • Jeanette Winterson - Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal? (read review)
  • Marlon James - A Brief History of Seven Killings
  • Gloria Steinem - My Life on the Road (read review)


 Impulse Buys
This week I bought two books from the Stella Prize shortlist:
  • Elizabeth Harrower - A few days in the country and other stories (2015)
  • Tegan Bennett Daylight - Six Bedrooms (2015) (read review)
All About Women 2016
I picked up the following titles at the All About Women festival on 6 March 2016.

  • Jennifer Clement's Prayers for the Stolen (signed by author)
  • Anne Marie Slaughter's Unfinished Business
  • Tara Moss's The Fictional Woman
These get added to my To Be Read Shelf alongside Charlotte Wood's The Natural Way of Things (read review).



Christmas Books 2015
  • My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante
  • The Story of a New Name, Elena Ferrante
  • Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, Elena Ferrante
  • The Story of the Lost Child, Elena Ferrante
  • The Economics of Inequality, Thomas Piketty
  • Career of Evil, Robert Galbraith (read review)
Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2015 
Here is my list of books which I purchased and had signed by authors at FODI:

  • So You've Been Publicly Shamed (2014) by Jon Ronson (read review)
  • The Rise of the Robots (2015) by Martin Ford
  • This Changes Everything (2014) by Naomi Klein
  • The Challenge of Things (2015) by AC Grayling
  • Knowledge Wars (2015) by Peter Doherty


 August 2015
My latest acquisition is a beautiful hardcover of Women I've Undressed by Orry-Kelly. Kelly was a designer who created some of the most memorable gowns to ever been worn on film by Hepburn, Monroe, Hayworth, Stanwyk and many more. I heard about him because of Gillian Armstrong's new documentary and I am keen to read his memoir.

Long awaited... (July 2015)
I have just received a copy of Harper Lee's long awaited Go Set a Watchman (2015). I am so excited by this book but am trying to decide how to read it. Should I go back and re-read my long held favourite To Kill a Mockingbird first? Or should I get straight in to Watchman? Should I read it now when everyone is talking about it? Or wait until I can read uninfluenced by others? I doubt I will be able to resist for long!

 Sydney Writers Festival and more (May/June 2015)
I picked up the following books at the Sydney Writers' Festival this year and had many of them signed by the authors.
  • Forgotten Children: Fairbridge Farm School and its Betrayal of British Child Migrants to Australia (2007) by David Hill (read review)
  • The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) by Mohsin Hamid
  • One of Us (2015) by Asne Seierstad (read review)
  • The Bookseller of Kabul (2002) by Asne Seierstad  (read review)
  • The Spare Room (2008) by Helen Garner (read review)
  • Not My Father's Son (2015) by Alan Cumming (read review)
  • Farewell Kabul (2015) by Christina Lamb
  • And What Do You Do, Mr Gable? (2011) by Richard Flanagan 
  • Schindler's Ark (1982) by Thomas Keneally
  • The Golden Age (2014) by Joan London (read review)
I also have the following to read:
  • Quarterly Essay 57 - Blood Year Terror and the Islamic State (2015) by David Kilcullen (read review)
  • Black Widow (2015) by Carol Baxter (a loan from my mother) (read review)
  • Carol (1952) by Patricia Highsmith (also known as The Price of Salt) (read review)

More to be read (April 2015)
  • The Girl on the Train (2014) by Paula Hawkins (read review)
  • A Spool of Blue Thread (2014) by Anne Tyler
  • The Strays (2014) by Emily Bitto (read review)

 From the All About Women Festival (8 March 2015)
  • Bad Feminist (2014) by Roxane Gay (read review)
  • An Untamed State (2015) by Roxane Gay
  • Overwhelmed (2014) by Brigid Schulte


Gift (January 2015)
Super excited about a book my uncle gave me. June Wright's Murder in the Telephone Exchange (1948) was a best-seller when published but then the author was forgotten. Her book has recently been republished by Dark Passage. Can't wait to read it!

 Christmas Books (December 2014)
  • This House of Grief (2010) by Helen Garner (read review)
  • All the Birds, Singing (2013) by Evie Wyld
  • My Story (2014) by Julia Gillard (read review)
  • Not That Kind of Girl (2014) by Lena Dunham  (read review)
  • Yes Please (2014) by Amy Poehler (read review)
  • The Paying Guests (2014) by Sarah Waters
  • Capital in the 21st Century (2013) by Thomas Piketty
  • The Sweet Spot (2011) by Peter Hartcher
  • Quarterly Essay 56 - Clivosaurus (2014) by Guy Rundle (read review)

 Yup...More Books (September 2014)
  • Being and Being Bought - Prostitution, Surrogacy and the Split Self (2010) by Kajsa Ekis Ekman (read review)
  • Slavery Inc - The Untold Story of International Child Sex Trafficking  (2010) by Lydia Cacho 
  • Quarterly Essay 55- A Rightful Place (2014) by Noel Pearson

 More books... (July 2014)
  • The Goldfinch (2013) by Donna Tartt (see review)
  • The Silkworm (2014) by Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling) (see review)
  • Top Secret Twenty-One (2014) by Janet Evanovich
  • Quarterly Essay 54 - Dragon's Tail: The Lucky Country After the China Boom (2014) by Andrew Charlton

 Latest purchases (May 2014)
  • A Bigger Prize (2014) by Margaret Heffernan
  • Dear Life (2012) by Alice Munro (see review)
  • Parade's End (1928) by Ford Madox Ford 
  • Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982) by Anne Tyler (see review)

 Happy New Year (January 2014)
  • Found in Translation (2013) by Linda Jaivin (see review)
  • The Oasis (1949) by Mary McCarthy
  • The Narrow Road to the Deep North (2013) by Richard Flanagan (see review)
  • The Walking Dead Compendium (2009) by Robert Kirkman

 New arrivals (November 2013)
  • Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (2003) by Chris Ware (see review)
  • Maddaddam (2013) by Margaret Atwood
  • Takedown Twenty (2013) by Janet Evanovich (see review)
  • Standing in Another Man's Grave (2013) by Ian Rankin


 Impulse Buys (October 2013)
  • Quarterly Essay 50 - Unfinished Business (2013) by Anna Goldsworthy (see review)
  • The Company She Keeps (1942) by Mary McCarthy
  • Quarterly Essay 51 - The Prince (2013) by David Marr (see review)
  • The Bone Season (2013) by Samantha Shannon
  • Quiet (2013) by Susan Cain
  • John Williams - Stoner (read review)
New arrivals (July 2013)
  • Enid Blyton Famous Five 21 book collection
  • The Cuckoo's Calling (2013) by Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling) (read review)
  • Burial Rites (2013) by Hannah Kent (read review)
  • And the Mountains Echoed (2013) by Khaled Hosseini
  • Skagboys (2012) by Irvine Welsh

Christmas Books (December 2012)
  • The Getting of Wisdom (1910) by Henry Handel Richardson
  • The Slap (2008) by Christos Tsiolkas 
  • Notorious Nineteen (2012) by Janet Evanovich (read review)
  • Mortality (2012) by Christopher Hitchens (read review)

 Latest arrivals (October 2012)
The latest books to be added to my e-reader are:
  • JK Rowling, A Casual Vacancy
  • Sam Harris, The Moral Landscape - How science can determine human values 
  • Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall


 E-Books for travelling (May 2012)
In April 2012, while in New York, I bought a Sony e-reader to house my books. I had been reading e-books on my iPad, but was finding it too heavy and not great for my eyes after long periods of reading. The Sony e-reader has been wonderful - light, compact, and easy to read with e-ink technology. I have transferred many of my e-books to this device including:


The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins:

The Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin:
  • A Game of Thrones (read review)
  • A Clash of Kings (read review)
  • A Storm of Swords: Part 1 Steel and Snow (read review)
  • A Storm of Swords: Part 2 Blood and Gold (read review)
  • A Feast for Crows
  • A Dance with Dragons



    • Christmas Books (Dec 2011)
    • Philippa Gregory, Lady of the Rivers
    • Jennifer Egan, A Visit From the Goon Squad (read review)
    • Janette Turner Hospital, Forecast: Turbulence (read review)

     Even Newer Arrivals (Dec 2011)
    • Tom Rath, Strengths Finder 2.0 (read review)
    • Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles
    • Daniel Pink, Drive (read review)
    • John Le Carre, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
    • Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending (read review)
    • Janet Evanovich, Explosive Eighteen (read review)

     Newer Arrivals (Oct 2011)
    • Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy (read review)
    • Anna Funder, All That I Am (read review)
    • Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
    • Christopher Hitchens, Arguably
    • Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
    • Nancy Mitford, Love in a Cold Climate
    • Edna O'Brien, Down by the River  (read review)
    • Michael Ondaatje, The Cat's Table
    • Richard Wright, Native Son
    New Arrivals (Aug 2011)

    • Robertson Davies, The Salteron Trilogy: Tempest-Tost, Leaven of Malice, A Mixture of Frailties
    • James Lever, Me Cheeta (read review)
    • Rob Lowe, Stories I Only Tell My Friends (read review)
    • Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie (read review)

    To Be Read (as at June 2011)
    The following books are at the top of my To Be Read pile...
    • Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce
    • Geraldine Brooks, Caleb's Crossing
    • Robertson Davies, The Manticore (read review)
    • Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood
    • Andrea Levy, The Long Song
    • J.M. Coetzee, Elizabeth Costello
    • Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
    • Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea
    • Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
    • J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    • Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi, Finding Flow (read review)
    • Margaret Heffernan, Wilful Blindness
    • Wangari Maathai, Unbowed
    • Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22
    • Gayle Avery, Honeybees and Locusts


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