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Fiction:
The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis
Hotel Du Lac – Anita Brookner
Eucalyptus – Murray Ball
March – Geraldine Brooks
The Sea – John Banville
The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
Disgrace – J. M. Coetzee
The Accidental – Ali Smith
Daughter of Fortune – Isabel Allende
The Barrytown Trilogy – Roddy Doyle
Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Voss – Patrick White
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love – Oscar Hijuelos
Foreign Affairs – Alison Lurie
The Road – Cormac McCarthy
A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
The Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai
American Pastoral – Philip Roth
Birds Without Wings – Louis de Bernieres
The Man in the High Castle – Philip K. Dick
Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh
A Spy in the House of Love – Anais Nin
Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
The Carpathians – Janet Frame
A Thousand Acres – Jane Smiley
Empire Falls – Richard Russo
A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
The Famished Road – Ben Okri
Gould’s Book of Fish – Richard Flanagan
Summer Lightening and Other Stories – Olive Senior
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain – Robert Olen Butler
The Secret River – Kate Grenville
The Great World – David Malouf
Mister Pip – Lloyd Jones
Franny & Zooey – J. D. Salinger
Family Roundabout – Richmal Crompton
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
Memories of My Melancholy Whore – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding – Frances Partridge
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
The Night Watch – Sarah Waters
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym – Edgar Allen Poe
Therese Raquin – Emile Zola
The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
Pan Tadeusz – Adam Mickiewicz
High Fidelity – Nick Hornby
Naive.Super – Erlend Loe
A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
Baudolino – Umberto Eco
Travel & Adventure:
The Kingdom by the Sea – Paul Theroux
Can-cans, Cats & Cities of Ash – Mark Twain
Piracy, Turtles & Flying Foxes – William Dampier
Hunt for the Great Southern Continent – James Cook
Trawler: A Journey Through the North Atlantic – Redmond O’Hanlon
The Songlines – Bruce Chatwin
New Boots in New Zealand – Gillian Orrell
History & Biography:
Encyclopaedia of an Ordinary Life – Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Bound for Glory – Woody Guthrie
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid – Bill Bryson
Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire – Niall Ferguson
Surviving the Sword: Prisoners of the Japanese – Brian MacArthur
Rising ‘44 – Norman Davies
The Fatal Shore – Robert Hughes
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar – Simon Sebag Montefiore
The Pirate Wars: Pirates vs. the Legitimate Navies of the World – Peter Earle
Peacemakers: Six Months that Changed the World – Margaret MacMillan
The Penguin History of New Zealand – Michael King
If This is Man – Primo Levi
Politics, Philosophy & Economics:
Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
How Proust Can Change Your Life – Alain de Botton
Talking of Love on the Edge of a Precipice – Boris Cyrulnik
Season of Blood – Fergal Keane
The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World – Paul Roberts
Globalisation and its Discontents – Joseph Stiglitz
My Trade – Andrew Marr
Food:
Slow Food Revolution – Carlo Petrini & Gigi Padovani
The Kitchen Diaries – Nigel Slater
Plats du Jour – Patience Gray & Primrose Boyd
Good Things in England – Florence White
Fast Food Nation – Eric Schlosser
Don’t Eat This Book – Morgan Spurlock
Feast – Nigella Lawson
The Art of Polish Cooking – Alina Zeranska
English Food – Jane Grigson
Life Lessons:
In Praise of Slow – Carl Honore
How to Be Free – Tom Hodgkinson
The Quaker Book of Wisdom – Robert Lawrence Smith
Joie de Vivre: Simple French Style for Everyday Living – Robert Arbor
The Gentle Art of Domesticity – Jane Brocket
Voluntary Simplicity – Duane Elgin
A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf
Finding you Inner Mama – Eden Steinberg
Craft:
In Sheep’s Clothing: A Handspinner’s Guide to Wool – Nola & Jane Fournier
Spinning in the Old Way – Priscilla Gibson-Roberts & Jane Fournier
A Handspindle Treasury – Spin-Off Magazine
Bend the Rules Sewing – Amy Karol
The Opinionated Knitter – Elizabeth Zimmerman
