Author Top Reads

• Moreland author: Roger Averill’s top reads

• Visitants by Randolph Stow
• Rock Springs by Richard Ford
• The poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• The art of the engine driver by Steven Carroll
• Collected essays by George Orwell

 

Romance author: Ally Blake’s top reads

• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• The prince in waiting by John Christopher
• The princess bride by William Goldman
• HMS Ulysses by Alistair MacLean
• Confessions of a shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

 

Moreland author: Clare Boyd-Macrae’s top reads

• The feel of steel by Helen Garner
• The secret river by Kate Grenville
• His dark materials trilogy by Philip Pullman
• The poisonwood bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• Any detective fiction by Elizabeth George

 

Author: Simon Capp’s top reads

• Extra virgin by Annie Hawes
• Dreams from my father: a story of race and inheritance by Barack Obama
• Jackson’s Track: memoir of a dreamtime place by Carolyn Landon and Daryl Tonkin
• Futebol: the Brazilian way of life by Alex Bellos
• Dave Barry does Japan by Dave Barry

 

Moreland author and comedian: Catherine Deveny’s top reads

• The God delusion by Richard Dawkins
• Magical thinking: true stories by Augusten Burroughs
• The drama of being a child by Alice Miller
• When you are engulfed in flames by David Sedaris
• God is not great: how religion poisons everything by Christopher Hitchens

 

 Author: Susanna de Vries’ top reads

• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
• Georgette Heyer's Regency world by Jennifer Kloester
• Fortune's daughters: the extravagant lives of the Jerome sisters: Jennnie Churchill, Clara Frewin and Leonie Leslie by Elisabeth Kehoe
• The Villa Diana: travels in post-war Italy by Alan Moorehead
• The Duchess: Georgiana: the Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman

 

Author: Mem Fox’s top reads

• Villette by Charlotte Bronte
• A farewell to arms by Ernest Hemingway
• Schindler’s ark by Thomas Keneally
• A suitable boy by Vikram Seth
• Oranges are not the only fruit by Jeanette Winterson
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Author: Archimede Fusillo’s top reads

• Kill the possum by James Moloney
• M by Peter Robb
• The secret supper by Javier Sierra
• Caravaggio: a novel by Christopher Peachment
• Life is so good by George Dawson with Richard Glaubman

 

Author: Diana Georgeff’s top reads

• Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano
• Landscape of farewell by Alex Miller
• Two lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm
• A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini
• The road by Cormac McCarthy

 

Author: Madeleine Hamilton’s top reads

• Isobel on the way to the corner shop by Amy Witting
• The children's Bach by Helen Garner
• The delinquents by Criena Rohan
• To the Is-land by Janet Frame
• A woman in Berlin: diary 20 April 1945 - 22 June 1945 [Anonymous]

 

Author: Michael Harden’s top reads

• The slap by Christos Tsiolkas
• The dog of the marriage: the collected stories by Amy Hempel
• The architecture of happiness by Alain De Botton
• Out stealing horses by Per Petterson
• Kafka on the shore by Haruki Murakami

 

Author: Narrelle Harris’s top reads

• Snake agent by Liz Williams
• Redback by Lindy Cameron
• Good omens: the nice and accurate prophecies of Agnes Nutter, witch by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
• The code of the Woosters by PG Wodehouse

 

Author: Kate Holden’s top reads

• Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
• Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger
• The dark is rising sequence by Susan Cooper
• The wasteland by TS Eliot
• Anything by Jan Morris

 

Actor and author: William McInnes’ top reads

• Hunting the wild pineapple by Thea Astley
• Watcher on the cast-iron balcony by Hal Porter
• Fly away Peter by David Malouf
• My brilliant career by Miles Franklin

 Author Joel Magarey's top reads

• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• A heartbreaking work of staggering genius by Dave Eggers
• In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
• An instant in the wind by Andre Brink
• The worst journey in the world by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Historian and biographer: Ross McMullin’s top reads

• Any of Shane Maloney’s books  
• As It Happened by John Button
• The Broken Years by  Bill Gammage
• Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
• John Monash by Geoff Serle

 

Moreland author: Joan Nestle’s top reads

• Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
• Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
• The tree of man by Patrick White
• To the lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
• Wild card: an autobiography, 1923-1958 by Dorothy Hewett
• The narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave by Frederick Douglass
• Unfortunately, it was paradise by Mahmoud Darwish

 

Author: Charmaine O’Brien’s top reads

• Food in history by Reay Tannahill
• The famous five series by Enid Blyton
• A taste of India by Madhur Jaffrey
• My brother Jack by George Johnston
• The Alice B. Toklas cookbook by Alice B. Toklas

 

Author: Judith Pugh’s top reads

• Mr Felton's bequests by John Poynter
• Carry me down by M.J. Hyland
• Any book by: Rumer Godden, W. H. Auden, Rudyard Kipling, Ernest Hemingway, A. N. Wilson, Jonathan Franzen or Ann Patchett

 

Author: Leanne Robinson’s top reads

• Autobiography of red: a novel in verse by Anne Carson
• Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• The cinnamon peeler by Michael Ondaatje
• Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
• The passion by Jeanette Winterson

 

Author and comedian: Denise Scott’s top reads

• The stone diaries by Carol Shields
• Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac
• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• Scenes from a revolution: the birth of the new Hollywood by Mark Harris
• Cloudstreet by Tim Winton

 

Actor and audio book narrator: David Tredinnick’s top reads

• Shadowboxing by Tony Birch
• Silences long gone by Anson Cameron
• Pizza features by John Larkin
• Black water by David Metzenthen
• Going home by Archie Weller

 

Author: Lili Wilkinson’s top reads

• Y the last man (graphic novel series) by Brian K. Vaughan
• Buddha (graphic novel series) by Osamu Tezuka
• Town by James Roy
• Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne-Jones
• Love that dog by Sharon Creech
• The last Samurai by Helen Dewitt
• The indigo girls by Penni Russon

 Author Vivienne Ulman’s top reads

• Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow
• Drown by Junot Diaz
• The poisonwood bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• The corrections by Jonathan Franzen 
•  The thousand acres by Jane Smiley

Author: Arnold Zable’s top reads

• The white tiger by Aravind Adiga
• Unaccustomed earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
• Wanting by Richard Flanagan
• Vertigo: a pastoral by Amanda Lohrey
• Istanbul: memories of a city by Orhan Pamuk