Some Other Country(Assorted short stories from NZ.)
Malcolm Bradbury, The History Man
The Existential Imagination (Picador compilation, Satre, Kafka, Moravia - read all except the boring bits and excerpts from books I may want to read in full one day.)
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
J.K.Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
J.K.Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Salman Rushdie, Step Across This Line(Essays)
J.K.Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Joseph Conrad, The N- of the Narcissus
(this book was written in the 1800s by the author of Heart of Darkness, on which Apocalypse Now was partly based. I'm sorry about the title.)
William Gibson,Count Zero
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Living to Tell the Tale (vol 1 of his biography)
Frank McCourt Angela's Ashes (should really be reading this one aloud so A. knows how lucky he is!
Salman Rushdie, Fury
Martin Amis, NightTrain
Keith Laumer, The Galaxy Builder (sci-fi slosh)
The Picador Book of Contemporary New Zealand Fiction (ed. Fergus Barrowman)(the short stories only, not the extracts which bug me)
Neal Stephenson, Snowcrash
Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March (second time.)
Andrew McGahan, The White Earth (much overrated, imho)
Cynthia Ozick, The Puttermesser Papers
The Travels of Marco Polo
Will Self, How the Dead Live
Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
Vladimir Nabokov, Ada
Christopher Green, Toddler Taming
Yann Martel, Life of Pi
Janette Turner Hospital, Due Preparations for the Plague
R. Evans, The Pyjama Girl
Books read while recovering from breast cancer
DBC Pierre, Vernon God Little
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
My Year of Meat, Ruth Ozeki
The Vivisector, Patrick White
William Gibson, Idoru
Martin Flanagan, The sound of one hand clapping
Lance Armstrong, It’s not about the bike
Murray Bail, Eucalyptus
Spike Milligan, The Looney
and literary mags:
Going Down Swinging
Overland
Island
Westerly
Heat
Meanjin
Griffith Review
Alice Walker, The Color Purple
Alexi Sayle, Overtaken
Richard Dawkins, Climbing Mt Improbable
Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Raymond Carver, What we talk about when we talk about love
Marion Halligan, The Fog Garden
Philip K. Dick, Flow my tears, the Policeman said
Peter Carey, My Life as a Fake
J.D.Salinger, Raise High The Roof Beam, Carpenters
Various, The Sleepers Almanac, 2005
JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince.
Various authors, Space, Verandah, Island, Meanjin, etc, etc etc(literary magazines)
Alexander McCall Smith, Tears of the Giraffe
Gail Bell, The Worried Well (Quarterly Essay)
Murakami HarukiThe Wind-up Bird Chronicle
Marion Halligan Wishbone
Lonely Planet's guide to Paris
Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
Judah Waten, Alien Son
McSweeney's 2005
More journals: Wet Ink, Total Cardboard, Litmus, Westerly, Islan, Meanjin...
Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Vol. 1
Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies
Marion Halligan, The Apricot Colonel
Tony Birch, Shadowboxing
Best Australian Short Stories 2005
Truman Capote, In Cold Blood
Jonathan Safran Foer Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Kate Grenville, The Secret River
Verandah 21 (various)
Peter Temple, The Broken Shore
Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs, Gerald Murnane
Gerald Murnane, The Plains
Jonathon Franzen, The Corrections
J.M. Coetzee, Elizabeth Costellowhich is terribly clever but ultimately is a series of lectures set as short stories, not a proper novel. so there. I don't care if he has a Nobel prize or not. )
Cate Kennedy, Dark Roots
Will Elliot, The Pilo Family Circus
Elizabeth Jolley, Woman in a Lampshade
Marie Darrieussecq, Pig Tales
J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Annie Proulx, Close Range (Wyoming Stories) (with Brokeback Mountain
Raimond Gaita, Romulus, My Father
Marisa Acocella Marchetto, Cancer Vixen
David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day
Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers
Don De Lillo, Falling Man
Henry Handel Richardson Australia Felix
Steven Hall The Raw Shark Texts
Sei Shonagon The Pillow Book
(trans. Meredith McKinney)
Sophie Cunningham Bird
Salman Rushdie, The Enchantress of Florence
J.G. Ballard, Kingdom Come
Geraldine Brooks, People of The Book,
Tim Winton, Breath
Aravind Adiga The White Tiger
Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
Dave Eggers, How We are Hungry
David Sedaris, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Shane Maloney, Stiff
Martin Boyd, The Cardboard Crown & A Difficult Young Man
Jenny Lee, Making Modern Melbourne
Lisa Lang, G.W Cole: Chasing the Rainbow
Christos Tsiolkas, The Slap
A.L. McCann, Subtopia
Michelle de Kretser, The Lost Dog
Jacob Rosenberg, East of Time
Frank Moorhouse, The Americans, Baby
Matt Condon, The Trout Opera
Robert Drewe, The Rip
Toni Jordan, Addition
L.M.Robinson, This Moral Pandemonium
Martin Boyd, Outbreak of Love
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun
Helen Garner,Honour and Other People's Children.
Dave Eggers, Short Short Stories
Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road
David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster
James Baldwin, Go Tell It On the Mountain
Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
Readings and Writings, various.
The book of other people,various, ed. Zadie Smith
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
New Australian Stories
Catherine Deveny, It's not my fault they print them
Peter Temple, Truth
Ampersand magazine 2008-11
Haruki Murakami, After Dark
The Sleepers Almanac #4.
Cate Kennedy, The world Beneath
Barry Dickins, Unparalleled Sorrow
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Stamping Ground (anthology)
Haruki Murakami After Dark and What I talk about when I talk about running
David Thorne, The Internet is a Playground
Gerald Murnane, Barley Patch
Best Australian Stories 2007 (anthology)
Torpedo 6 (anthology)
Tony Birch, Father's Day
Louis Nowra, Ice
Andrew McGahan, Wonders of a Godless World
Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
Kate Grenville, Lilian's Story
Jessica Pallington WestWhat would Keith Richards do?
HemingwayThe Essential Hemingway(assorted stories and novels)
Bret Easton Ellis, Less than Zero
Patrick White, The Cockatoos
Robert Dessaix, (and so forth)
Phillipp Meyer, American Rust
Best Australian Stories 2007
Junot Diaz, Drown
Kill Your Darlings, issue one and two
The Norseman's Song, Joel Deane
Below the Styx, Michael Meehan
This is Shyness, Leanne Hall.
Ampersand Vol 2
Overheard Oslo Davis
Meanjin vol 69
Rocks in the Belly Jon Bauer
The Patron Saint of Eeels and Ron McCoy's Sea of Diamonds both Gregory Day
The Grand Hotel Gregory Day
The Great Gatsby F.Scott Fitzgerald.
Having Cried Wolf, Gretchen Shirm
Nineteen Seventy Something, Barry Divola.
Come Inside, G.L. Osborne
1001 Australian nights, Dave Graney.
The Life, Malcolm Knox
Freedom,Jonathan Franzen
Capricornia Xavier Herbert
Blood, Tony Birch.
The Outlander, Gil Adamson.
The Door Into Summer Robert A. Heinlein
Capricornia, Xavier Herbert.
Theft, Peter Carey.
Griffith Review 34 and 26 (fiction editions)
Can-cans, Cats and Cities of Ash Mark Twain
Our Lady of Alice Bhatti Mohammed Hanif
Granta, India
The Chemistry of Tears, Peter Carey.
Wanting, Richard Flanagan.
Midnight's Children Salman Rusdhie
Pattern Recognition William Gibson
A tiger in Eden Chris Flynn
The Commandant Jessica Anderson
Hand Me Down World Lloyd Jones
Disasters that Changed Australia Richard Evans
Sufficient GraceAmy Espeseth
Sentinel Chickens Peter Doherty
Manhattan Transfer John Dos Passos
The Hanging of Minnie Thwaites Judith Rodriguez
Bullet Park John Cheever
Bossypants Tina Fey
1835 James Boyce
Beyond Black Hilary Mantel
Queen of The Night Leanne Hall
It Chooses You Miranda July
The Hobbit Tolkein
I am Alive and you are Dead emmanuel carrere
Stories from the Warm Zone Jessica Anderson
The Watch Tower Elizabeth Harrower
Griffith Review: The Tipping Point (Tasmania)
Griffith Review: Such is Life.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
The Secret Pulse of Time, Stefan Klein
Governor Bligh and the Short Man, Peter Cochrane
Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
The Newspaper of Claremont Street, Elizabeth Jolley.
Dr Woorreddy's Prescription for Enduring the End of the World Mudrooroo/Colin Johnson
The Lieutenant,, Kate Grenville
Scarp, Nick Papadimitriou
A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James
Benang, Kim Scott.
Kayang and Me, Kim Scott.
That Deadman Dance,Kim Scott
>Pompeii, Mary Beard
Rome, Robert Hughes (audio).
The Underground Railroad, Coulson Whitehead.
Explore Everything Bradley L. Garrett
Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward
Griffith Review, First Things First
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion(
I am Pilgrim, Terry Hayes
The Dreaming and Other Essays, WEH Stanner
The Journal of Southern History, August 1989.
12 years a slave, Solomon Northrup
H is for Hawk, Helen McDonald
Dark Emu, Bruce Pascoe
Griffith Review, Writing the Country
Granite and Rainbow, Virginia Woolf
The other Side of the Frontier, Henry Reynolds
Fate of a Free People, Henry Reynolds
Creativity, Kevin Brophy
Taboo, Kim Scott
Some Tests, Wayne Macauley
The Sympathiser,Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Railwayman's Wife, Ashley Hay. (audio)
The Killing Floor, Lee Child (audio)
The Shepherd's Hut Tim Winton. (audio)
Barbarian Days (audio) William Finnegan
Bring up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel.
The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow. (third read)
The Timeless Land, Eleanor Dark.
The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel.
The Promise, Tony Birch
The Shepherd's Hut (audio), Tim Winton
The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead.
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad.
Black Rock White City, A.S.Patric
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
The Essex Serpent, Sarah Perry
Yassmin's Story,Yassmin Abdel-Magied
Oryx and Crake, Margaret Attwood.
Wittgenstein's Mistress, David Markson.
In Moonland, Miles Allinson
The Committed, Viet Thanh Nguyen
Still going on or unfinished:
Geoff Dyer, Yoga for People who can't be bothered to do it (probably abandoned)
The New Yorker (always)
Ulysses James Joyce (440 pages in!)
Best Australian Essays 2001
Saul Bellow, Him with His Foot in His Mouth
Antonio Damasio, The Feeling of What Happens
William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (another I may will not finish. I tried him again on G.G. Marquez's say-so, and he's technically wonderful at description, but I still don't really grok the stories.)
Ned Kelly,The Jerilderie Letter(ed. by Alex McDermott)
Modern Poets One (ed. Jim Hunter)
W.Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up (may well will! not finish this one)
