Books I Have Read
This isn’t as comprehensive as I’d like because honestly, I have read prolifically since childhood but have not always been good at keeping records of what I’ve read.
(in alphabetical order by author surname)
A
Sara Nisha ADAMS
The Reading List
Cecelia AHERN
P.S. I Love You
Mitch ALBOM
The Five People you Meet In Heaven
Rev ALFORD
Days of My Life
Robbie ARNOTT
Limberlost
Stephanie ASHER
The Footy Lady: The Trailblazing Story of Susan Alberti
Jane AUSTEN
Pride and Prejudice
B
Julia BAIRD
Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything
Phospherescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things that Sustain You When the World Goes Dark
Victoria
Rosie BATTY
A Mother’s Story
Anya BERGMAN
The Witches of Vardø
Joe BIDEN
Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship and Purpose
Lech BLAINE
Australian Gospel
Bad Cop (A Griffith Review Essay)
Anna Kate BLAIR
The Modern
Latike BOURKE
From India With Love
John BOYNE
All The Broken Places
The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas
Taffy BRODESSER-AKNER
Fleishman is in Trouble
Charlotte BRONTË
Jane Eyre
Brené BROWN
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
Braving The Wilderness
Dare To Lead
George W. BUSH
Decision Points
C
Susan CARLAND
Fighting Hislam: Women, Faith and Sexism
Shankari CHANDRAN
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens
Rabia CHAUDRY
Adnan’s Story
Fatty Fatty Boom Boom
Maxine Beneba CLARKE
The Hate Race
Kerry Max COOK
Chasing Justice: My Story of Freeing Myself After Two Decades on Death Row For a Crime I Did Not Commit
Marianne CRONIN
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
Dave CULLEN
Columbine
D
Robert DALLEK
Camelot’s Court: Inside the Kennedy White House
Trent DALTON
Lola In The Mirror
Jeff DEUTSCH
In Praise of Good Bookstores
Joan DIDION
My Year of Magical Thinking
Jelena DOKIC
Unbreakable
Scott DODSON
The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Jennifer DOWN
Bodies of Light
Glennon DOYLE
Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living
Michelle DUFF
Jacinda Ardern: The Story of an Extraordinary Leader
E
Damien ECHOLS
Life After Death: The shocking true story of an innocent man on death row
Dan ELDON
Safari as a Way of Life
The Journey Is The Destination: The Journals of Dan Eldon
Kate ELLIS
Sex, Lies and Question Time
Tess EVANS
Mercy Street
Kirsty EVERETT
Honey Blood
F
Carly FINDLAY
Say Hello
Victoria FINLAY
Colour: A Natural History of the Palette
Roger FISHER
Getting To yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
Gillian FLYNN
Gone Girl
Antonia FRASER
The Wives of Henry VIII
G
Bonnie GARMUS
Lessons in Chemistry
Helen GARNER
Joe Cinque’s Consolation
The Season
Peter GARRETT
Big Blue Sky: A Memoir
Sulari GENTILL
The Woman In The Library
Elizabeth GILBERT
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
The Signature of All Things
Julia GILLARD
My Story
Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons (co-authored by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala)
Natalie GOLDBERG
Writing Down The Bones: Freeing The Writer Within
Jessica GRANT
Come, Thou Tortoise
Philippa GREGORY
The Constant Princess
The Kings Curse
The Lady of the Rivers
The Other Boleyn Girl
The Other Queen
The Red Queen
The White Queen
Three Sisters, Three Queens
John GRISHAM
A Time To Kill
King of Torts
The Appeal
The Client
The Chamber
The Firm
The Innocent Man
The Partner
The Pelican Brief
The Rainmaker
The Runaway Jury
Dave GROHL
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
Osher GÜNSBERG
Back, After The Break
H
Mark HADDON
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Chris HADFIELD
An Astronaut’s Guide To Life On Earth
Johann HARI
Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention
Jane HARPER
Exiles
The Dry
The Lost Man
Mary HARTNETT
My Own Words
Samantha HARVEY
Orbital
Paula HAWKINS
The Girl on the Train
Ernest HEMINGWAY
A Moveable Feast
Carsten HENN
The Door-to-Door Bookstore
Chloe HIGGINS
The Girls
Anita HILL
Believing: Our Thirty Year Journey to End Gender Violence
Linda HIRSHMAN
Sisters IN Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World
Jeff HOBBS
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
Rachel HOLLIS
Girl, Stop Apologising
Chloe HOOPER
The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire
The Tall Man
Khaled HOSSEINI
And The Mountains Echoed
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Kite Runner
I
Frances ITANI
Deafening
J
Jenny JACKSON
Pineapple Street
Sulieka JAUOAD
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
Honorée Fanonne JEFFERS
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Tayari JONES
An American Marriage
Silver Sparrow
K
Margo KAUFMAN
Clara: The Story of the Pug Who Ruled My Life
Toshikazu KAWAGUCHI
Before The Coffee Gets Cold
Marina KEEGAN
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
Beth KEMPTON
Wabi-Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life
Fiona KILLACKY
Passion Purpose Profit: Sidestep the #Hustle and Build a Business You Love
Lily KING
Writers and Lovers
Lisa KING
Dandelion Wishes: The Untold Story of Coral Maxwell-King
Stephen KING
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Barbara KINGSOLVER
Demon Copperhead
Kath KOSCHEL
Kindness
Sarah KRASNOSTEIN
The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay and Disaster
L
Kylie LADD
I’ll Leave You With This
Last Summer
The Way Back
Danielle LAIDLEY
Don’t Look Away
Kaylene LANGFORD
How To Start A Side Hussle
Bri LEE
Eggshell Skull
Ingrid Fetell LEE
Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness
Harper LEE
To Kill A Mockingbird
Min Jin LEE
Pachinko
Tracey LIEN
All That’s Left Unsaid
Dahlia LITHWICK
Lady Justice: Women, the Law and the Battle to Save America
Sean LUSK
The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudsley
M
Emily MAGUIRE
Love Objects
Hilary MANTEL
Wolf Hall
Jen MARLOWE
I am Troy Davis
Meg MASON
Sorrow and Bliss
Courtney MAUM
I am Having So Much Fun Here Without You
Thomas MAYO and Kerry O’BRIEN
The Voice to Parliament Handbook
Kimberly McCREIGHT
Reconstructing Amelia
Mary MCCORMACK and Melissa Fitzgerald
What’s Next: A Backstage Pass to The West Wing
Ian McEWAN
Atonement
Ami McKAY
The Witches of New York
Michelle McNAMARA
I’ll Be Alone In The Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
Coco MELLORS
Cleopatra and Frankenstein
Hayley MILLS
Forever Young: A Memoir
Shannon MOLLOY
You Made Me This Way
Lucy Maud MONTGOMERY
Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Avonlea
Anne of The Island
Anne of Windy Poplars
Anne’s House of Dreams
Anne of Ingleside
Rainbow Valley
Rilla of Ingleside
Chronicles of Avonelea
Further Chronicles of Avonlea
Kilmeny of the Orchard
Michael MORI
In The Company of Cowards
Liane MORIARTY
Big Little Lies
Michael MORTON
Getting Life: An Innocent Man’s Journey from Prison to Peace
Tara MOSS
Speaking OutL A 21st Century Handbook for Women and Girls
Bob MURPHY
Leather Soul
N
Indira NAIDOO
The Space Between The Stars
Sam NEILL
Did I Ever Tell You This?
David NEIWART
Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump
Caleb Azumah NELSON
Open Water
Airana NGAEREWA
The Bone Tree
O
Barack OBAMA
A Promised Land
Dreams of My Father
Michelle OBAMA
BecomingThe Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
Christian O’CONNELL
No One Listens To Your Dad’s Show
Delia OWENS
Where the Crawdads Sing
P
Scott PAPE
The Barefoot Investor
Ann PATCHETT
Bel Canto
Commonwealth
Taft
The Dutch House
Tom Lake
Fiona PATTEN
Sex, Drugs and the Electoral Roll
Matthew PERRY
Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing
Jodi PICOULT
My Sister’s Keeper
Leah PURCELL
The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson
Q
Susan QUINN
Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady
R
Amy REMEIKIS
On Reckoning
Holly RINGLAND
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
The House That Joy Buikt
Ben RHODES
The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House
Hannah ROBERT
Baby Lost
Ken ROBINSON
Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That’s Transforming Education
The Element
Finding Your Element
Out of Our minds: Learning To Be Creative
Fred ROGERS
A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood: Neighbourly Words from Mister Rogers
Megan ROGERS
The Heart Is A Star
Heather ROSE
Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here
S
Leigh SALES
Any Ordinary Day
Molly SCHMIDT
Salt River Road
Stuart SCOTT
Every Day I Fight
Ruth SHAW
The Bookseller at the End of the World
Martin SHEEN (and Emilio ESTEVEZ)
Along the Way
Margaret SIMONS
Tanya Plibersek: On Her Own Terms
Curtis SITTENFELD
Rodham
Won-pyung SOHN
Almond
Clive Stafford SMITH
The Injustice System: A Murder in Miami and a Trial Gone WRONG
Will SMITH
Will
Sonia SOTOMAYOR
My Beloved World
Scott STABILE
Big Love: The Power of Living with a Wide-Open Heart
Bryan STEVENSON
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Kathryn STOCKETT
The Help
Cynthia D’Aprix SWEENEY
The Nest
T
Grace TAME
The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner: A Memoir
Twyla THARP
The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It For Life
Jennifer THOMPSON-CANNINO
Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
Holly THROSBY
Clarke
Nina TOTENBERG
Dinners With Ruth
Jeffrey TOOBIN
The Nine: Inside the World of the Supreme Court
Amor TOWLES
A Gentleman in Moscow
Rules of Civility
Stanley TUCCI
Taste
Brook TURNER
Independents’ Day
U
V
Hugh VAN CUYLENBERG
Let Go
The Resilience Project
Jonathan VAN NESS
Over The Top
Katherena VERMETTE
The Break
The Strangers
The Circle
W
Karen WALROND
The Lightmaker’s Manifesto
The Beauty of Different
Colin WALSH
Kala
Elizabeth WARREN
A Fighting Chance
Kate WEINBERGThere’s Nothing Wrong With Her
Alison WEIR
Anna of Kleve: The Princess in the Portrait
Anne Boleyn: A King’s Obsession
Henry VIII: The King and his Court
Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen
Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen
Katherine Parr: The Sixth Wife
Katheryn Howard: The Scandalous Queen
The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Pip WILLIAMS
The Dictionary of Lost Words
The Bookbinder of Jericho
Sarah WINMAN
Tin Man
Still Life
When God Was a Rabbit
X
Y
Rusty YOUNG
Colombiano
Marching Powder
Z
Gabriell ZEVIN
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Jock ZONFRILLO
Last Shot