Staff top reads

Staff top reads 2016

See a selection of staff top reads in 2015. Think of it as our personal recommendations!

Anne

• Reckoning: a memoir by Magda Szubanski

• Us by David Nicholls

• The inheritance of loss by Kieran Desai

• The Bertie project by Alexander McCall Smith

• Beautiful ruins by Jess Walter 

Silvana

• The light between oceans by M.L. Stedman

• By Grand Central Station I sat down and wept by Elizabeth Smart

• Salt creek by LucyTreloar

• Time and time again by Ben Elton

• The Strays by Emily Bitto

Jeff

• The road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson

• The Strays by Emily Bitto

• Burning down George Orwell’s house by Andrew Ervin

• The hate race by Maxine Beneba Clarke

• Grant and I : inside and outside the Go-Betweens by Robert Forster

Brooke

• A little life by Hanya Yanagihara

• Our souls at night by Kent Haruf

• Tell the truth, shame the devil by Melina Marchetta

Michael

• A little life by Hanya Yanagihara

• Submission by Michel Houellebecq

• My name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout

• The blue guitar by John Banville

• The green road by Anne Enright

Teishan

• The end of San Francisco by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

• Jandamarra & the Bunuba Resistance by Howard Pedersen and Banjo Worrunmurra

• Gifts (Annals of the Western Shore # 1) by Ursula K. Le Guin

• Voices (Annals of the Western Shore # 2) by Ursula K. Le Guin

• Powers (Annals of the Western Shore # 3)  by Ursula K. Le Guin

Ellie

• Disclaimer by Renee Knight

• The carrier by Sophie Hannah

• The eye of the sheep by Sofie Laguna

• Station eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

• The last painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith

Janine 

• Disclaimer by Renee Knight

• Tell the truth, shame the devil by Melina Marchetta

• Reckoning: a memoir  by Magda Szubanksi

• Station eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

• The road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson

Clare

• To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee

• Everything tastes better crumbed : and other big statements by Dave O’Neill

• Prick with a fork by Larissa Dubecki

Jude

• The Cuckoo's calling (Cormoran Strike series) by Robert Galbraith

• Silkworm (Cormoran Strike series) by Robert Galbraith

• Career of evil (Cormoran Strike series) by Robert Galbraith

• Casual vacancy by J.K. Rowling

• Bright lights dark shadows : the real story of ABBA by Carl Magnus Palm

Mike

• Just kids by Patti Smith

• Stoner by John Williams

• I, Partridge; we need to talk about Alan by Alan Partridge

• Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson

• The minotaur takes a cigarette break by Steven Sherril

Justin

• St Kilda blues by Geoff McGeachin

• The heat by Garry Disher

• Ravenspur by Conn Iggulden

• The big short by Michael Lewis

• The keeper by John Lescroart

Ruby

• Love and terror in the howling plains of nowhere by Poe Ballantine

• Our souls at night by Kent Haruf

• The lonely city by Olivia Laing

• Blue nights by Joan Didion

Haylee

• The Paris architect by Charles Belfoure

• The light on the water by Olga Lorenzo

• Scattered pearls by Sohila Zanjani

• Love in the first flight by Tess Woods

• Darkest secret by Alex Marwood

Lachlan

• All that man is by David Szalay

• The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood

• A Murder Without Motive: The Killing of Rebecca Ryle by Martin McKenzie-Murray

• Everywhere I look by Helen Garner

• Magic Beach by Alison Lester

Anne

• Come in Spinner by Florence James and Dympna Cusack

• Noonday by Pat Barker

• His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet 

Sue

• The elegance of the hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (Translated by Alison Anderson)

• The most good you can do : How effective altruism is changing ideas about living ethically by Peter Singer

• The course of love by Alain De Botton

• Sushi and beyond: What the Japanese know about cooking by Michael Booth

• Mortality by Christopher Hitchens

Nicola 

• The year of the runaways by Sunjeev Sahota

• Skellig by David Almond

• Our souls at night by Kent Haruf

• The rise, the fall, and the rise by Brix Start Smith

• Grant and I, inside & outside the Go-Betweens by Robert Forster

Andrea

• A proper family holiday by Chrissie Manby

• Where is bear? by Jonathan Bentley

Zoe

• I'm supposed to protect you from all this by Nadja Spiegelman

• The wicked & the divine (Book one) by Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie

• A climate of fear by Fred Vargas

• Reckoning: a memoir by Magda Szubanski

• When breath becomes air by Paul Kalanithi

Gayle

• The guest cat byTakashi Hiraide

• The one and only Ivan by Katherine Applegate

• Still in the bush by Len Beadell

• Valour confederation series by Tanya Huff

• The amazing tale of Ali Pasha by Michael Foreman

Maryanne

• White gardenia by Belinda Alexandra

• Station eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

• The shining girls by Lauren Beukes

• Next to die by Neil White

• Jack Reacher series by Lee Child