Louise's Library
Here’s a peek at my reading list since 1997.
Books are listed by author under the following categories:
B (return to top)
Louise Bagshawe
Career Girls
Venus Envy
The Movie
A Kept Woman
When She Was Bad
The Devil You Know
Monday’s Child
Glamour
Julian Barnes
Arthur and George
The Sense of an Ending
Melanie Benjamin
The Autobiography of Mrs Tom Thumb: A Novel
John Boyne
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Ann Brashares
The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants
Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre (read several times)
Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights (read several times)
Geraldine Brooks
People of the Book
Year of Wonders
Caleb's Crossing
Dan Brown
The Da Vinci Code
Angels and Demons
The Lost Symbol
Candace Bushnell
Sex and the City
4 Blondes
Trading Up
Lipstick Jungle
One Fifth Avenue
The Carrie Diaries
Summer and the City
A.S. Byatt
Possession
C (return to top)
Truman Capote
In Cold Blood
Peter Carey
True History of the Kelly Gang
My Life as a Fake
Oscar and Lucinda
Tracy Chevalier
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Agatha Christie
Death on the Nile
Michael Crichton
Prey
Paul Coelho
The Alchemist
J.M. Coetzee
Disgrace
Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games
Catching Fire
Mockingjay
Kaz Cooke
Living With Crazy Buttocks
Bryce Courtenay
The Power of One
The Potato Factory
D (return to top)
Kiran Desai
The Inheritance of Loss
Joy Dettman
Henry’s Daughter
Pearl in a Cage
Emma Donoghue
Room
Maria Duenas
The Seamstress (also published as The Time in Between)
E (return to top)
Kim Edwards
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
Jennifer Egan
A Visit From The Goon Squad
Ben Elton
Dead Famous
Chart Throb
High Society
Inconceivable
Anne Enright
The Gathering
Jeffrey Eugenides
Middlesex
The Marriage Plot
Janet Evanovich
One for the Money
Colin Falconer
When We Were Gods: A Novel of Cleopatra
Sebastian Faulks
Birdsong
Julian Fellowes
Past Imperfect
Snobs
Helen Fielding
Bridget Jones’ Diary
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Cause Celeb
Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby (read several times)
Allan Folsom
The Day After Tomorrow
Ken Follett
The Pillars of the Earth
World Without End
Fall of Giants
Jonathan Franzen
Freedom
The Corrections
Marianne Fredriksson
Hanna’s Daughters
Inge and Mira
Kimberley Freeman
Duet
Anna Funder
All That I Am
Diana Gabaldon
Cross Stitch
Dragonfly in Amber
Voyager
Drums of Autumn
The Fiery Cross
Alex Garland
The Beach
The Tesseract
The Coma
Elizabeth Gaskell
North and South
Lisa Genova
Still Alice
Arthur Golden
Memoirs of a Geisha
William Golding
Lord of the Flies
Graham Greene
The Quiet American
Kate Grenville
The Secret River
Searching for The Secret River
Philippa Gregory
The Other Boleyn Girl
The Boleyn Inheritance
The Queen's Fool
The Virgin’s Lover
The Other Queen
Alice Hartley’s Happiness
The White Queen
Sara Gruen
Water for Elephants
Mark Haddon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (read several times)
Charlaine Harris
True Blood / Sookie Stackhouse Series:
Dead Until Dark
Living Dead in Dallas
Club Dead
Dead to the World
Dead as a Doornail
Definitely
Dead All Together Dead
From Dead to Worse
Dead and Gone A Touch of Dead
Dead in the Family
Dead Reckoning
Deadlocked
Joanne Harris
Three Quarters of the Orange
Blackberry Wine
Coastliners
Gentlemen and Players
Sleep, Pale Sister
Elizabeth Haynes
Into the Darkest Corner
Alan Hollingshurst
The Stranger's Child
The Line of Beauty
Khaled Hosseini
The Kite Runner
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Rona Jaffe
The Best of Everything
EL James
Fifty Shades of Grey
Fifty Shades Darker
Fifty Shades Freed
K (return to top)
Daniel Kehlmann
Fame
Erin Kelly
The Poison Tree
Marian Keyes
Rachel’s Holiday
Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married
Last Chance Saloon
Sushi for Beginners
Watermelon
No Dress Rehearsal
Postcards From The Bed
Angels
The Other Side of the Story
Further Under the Duvet
Is Anybody Out There?
This Charming Man
The Brightest Star in the Sky
The Mystery of Mercy Close
Barbara Kingsolver
The Poisonwood Bible (read twice)
Herman Koch
The Dinner
Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin
The Nanny Diaries
Wally Lamb
I Know This Much is True
She’s Come Undone
Stieg Larsson
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl Who Played with Fire
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird
Kathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey
Puberty Blues
Marina Lewycka
A Short History of Tractors In Ukranian
Penelope Lively
Moon Tiger
M (return to top)
Hilary Mantel
Wolf Hall
Yan Mantel
Life of Pi
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love in the Time of Cholera
John Marsden
Tomorrow, When the War Began
Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca
Alexander McCall Smith
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
44 Scotland Street
Ian McEwan
Enduring Love
Atonement
Sweet Tooth
Grace Metalious
Peyton Place
Stephanie Meyer
Twilight (read twice)
New Moon (read twice)
Eclipse (read twice)
Breaking Dawn (read twice)
The Host
Rohinton Mistry
A Fine Balance
David Mitchell
Cloud Atlas
Margaret Mitchell
Gone With the Wind
Sue Monk Kidd
The Secret Life of Bees
Erin Morgenstern
The Night Circus (read twice)
Kate Morton
The Shifting Fog
The Forgotten Garden
The Distant Hours
The Secret Keeper
Kate Mosse
Labyrinth
Sepulchre
The Winter Ghosts
O (return to top)
Maggie O’Farrell
After You’d Gone
The Hand That First Held Mine
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
George Orwell
Animal Farm
Nineteen Eighty-Four
R (return to top)
Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead (read twice)
Atlas Shrugged
We The Living
Anne Rice
Interview With The Vampire
Lucinda Riley
Hothouse Flower
Deborah Rodriguez
The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul
J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
The Casual Vacancy
Arundhati Roy
The God of Small Things
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Shadow of the Wind
Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children
Edward Rutherfurd
London
Russka
Sarum
New York
S (return to top)
Vita Sackville-West
The Edwardians
Antione de Saint-Exupery
The Little Prince
JD Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
Alice Sebold
The Lovely Bones
Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (read twice)
Mary Sheldon
Resolutions
Sidney Sheldon
Bloodline
Master of the Game
Rage of Angels
Lionel Shriver
We Need to Talk About Kevin
The Post-Birthday World
Craig Silvey
Jasper Jones
Paullina Simmons
Tully (read twice)
Eleven Hours
Red Leaves
The Bronze Horseman (read twice)
The Bridge to Holy Cross
The Girl in Times Square
Road to Paradise
The Summer Garden
A Song in the Daylight (read twice)
Children of Liberty
Curtis Sittenfeld
American Life
Prep
The Man of My Dreams
Samantha Sotto
Before Ever After
Rebecca Sparrow
The Girl Most Likely
John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men
Kathryn Stockett
The Help
Mari Strachan
The Earth Hums in B Flat
Julia Stuart
The Tower, the Zoo and the Tortoise
Patrick Suskind
Perfume
Beverly Swerling
City of Dreams
T (return to top)
Donna Tartt
The Secret History
The Little Friend
J.R. Tolkein
Lord of the Rings
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
Paige Toon
Lucy in the Sky
Amor Towles
Rules of Civility
Jonathan Tropper
This is Where I Leave You
Christos Tsiolkas
The Slap
V (return to top)
Penny Vincenzi
No Angel
Something Dangerous
Into Temptation
Sheer Abandon
Wicked Pleasures
Forbidden Places
Another Woman
Old Sins
The Decision
Autobiographies, biographies and memoirs (return to top)
Denise Chong
The Girl in the Picture
Richard Branson
Losing My Virginity
Maynard Close transcribed by Sarah Close and Jo Close
World War II diary
Li Cunxin
Mao’s Last Dancer
George Dawson and Richard Glaubman
Life is so Good
Julie Gregory
Sickened
John Grogan
Marley and Me
Le Ly Hayslip
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places
Tony Hsieh
Delivering Happiness
Stephen King
On Writing
Frank McCourt
Angela’s Ashes
‘Tis
Vicki Myron
Dewey: The Small Town Library Cat Who Touched The World
Azar Nafisi
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Simon Nasht
The Last Explorer Hubert Wilkins
Travelling tales (return to top)
Bill Bryson
Neither Here Nor There
Notes From A Big Country
Down Under
Captain FD Colaabavala
Hippie Dharma
Patrick French
India: A Portrait
Tibet, Tibet
Tony Hawkes
Round Ireland With A Fridge
Clive James
Flying Visits
Doug Lansky (compiled by)
There’s No Toilet Paper on the Road Less Travelled
Claire Scobie
Last Seen in Lhasa
Manjushree Thapa
Forget Kathmandu
Sarah Turnbull
Almost French
Rusty Young
Marching Powder
The world around us and the way we live (return to top)
Alain de Botton
Status Anxiety
Sasha Cagen
Quirkyalone
Cindy Chupak
The Between Boyfriends Book
Jake Falpern
Fame Junkies
Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider
The Rules
Simon Garfield
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
Malcolm Gladwell
Blink
The Tipping Point
Outliers: The Story of Success
What The Dog Saw
Steve Johnson
Everything Bad is Good for You
Martin Lindstrom
Buyology
Rebecca Mead
One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding
Palash Krishna Mehrota
The Butterfly Generation
William Poundstone
Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value and How to Take Advantage of It
Richard Robinson
Why the Toast Always Lands Butter Side Down – The Science of Murphy’s Law
Jerry Seinfeld
Sein Language
Lynne Truss
Eats Shoots and Leaves
Ethan Watts
Urban Tribes
Historical non-fiction (return to top)
Alex Boese
The Museum of Hoaxes
Sara Gay Forden
The House of Gucci
Barbara Freese
Coal: A Human History
Tom Mangold and John Penycate
The Tunnels of Cu Chi
Mitchell Pacelle
Empire
Bette Reddin
My Mother Said
Douglas Starr
Blood
Business (return to top)
Scott Belsky
Making Ideas Happen
Chris Doudle and Karen Baldwin
State of Mind
Seth Godin
Purple Cow
Thomas Friedman
The World is Flat
Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Made to Stick
Switch: How to change things when change is hard
Dr Spencer Johnson
Who Moved My Cheese?
David H Maister, Charles H Green and Robert M Galford
The Trusted Advisor
Al Reis and Laura Reis
The Fall of Advertising and The Rise of PR
Emily Ross and Angus Holland
100 Great Businesses and the Minds Behind Them
Bob Seelert, Chairman Saatchi & Saatchi
Start With The Answer
David Shipley and Will Schwalbe
Send
Peter Switzer
Made in Australia
Gary Vaynerchuk
The Thank You Economy
Books are listed by author under the following categories:
- Recent reads – my 10 most recent reads
- Literary and popular fiction
- Autobiographies, biographies and memoirs
- Travelling tales
- The world around us and the way we live
- Historical non-fiction
- Live a better life
- Business
Please note that if a book sits across genres, I use my own interpretation to decide where it should go.
Recent reads (return to top)
Still Alice - Lisa Genova
All That I Am - Anna Funder
Children of Liberty - Paullina Simons
The Mystery of Mercy Close - Marian Keyes
The Casual Vacancy - JK Rowling
What the Dog Saw - Malcolm Gladwell
The Dinner - Herman Koch
Sweet Tooth - Ian McEwan
City of Dreams - Beverly Swerling
Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy - EL James
Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
Recent reads (return to top)
Still Alice - Lisa Genova
All That I Am - Anna Funder
Children of Liberty - Paullina Simons
The Mystery of Mercy Close - Marian Keyes
The Casual Vacancy - JK Rowling
What the Dog Saw - Malcolm Gladwell
The Dinner - Herman Koch
Sweet Tooth - Ian McEwan
City of Dreams - Beverly Swerling
Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy - EL James
Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
Literary and popular fiction (return to top)
By author surname: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
By author surname: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A (return to top)
Megan Abbott
The End of Everything
Douglas Adams
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Aravind Adiga
The White Tiger
Cecilia Ahern
P.S. I Love You
Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
For One More Day
Have a Little Faith
Naomi Alderman
The Lessons
Maggie Alderson
Shoe Money
Pants on Fire
Mad About the Boy
Jeffrey Archer
As the Crow Flies
Kane and Abel
The Prodigal Daughter
Shall We Tell the President
Honour Among Thieves
Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
A Twist in the Tale
Twelve Red Herrings
A Quiver Full of Arrows
False Impression
Only Time Will Tell
The Sins of the Father
Margaret Atwood
The Blind Assassin
Alias Grace
Bodily Harm
The Robber Bride
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Emma
Sense and Sensibility
Megan Abbott
The End of Everything
Douglas Adams
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Aravind Adiga
The White Tiger
Cecilia Ahern
P.S. I Love You
Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
For One More Day
Have a Little Faith
Naomi Alderman
The Lessons
Maggie Alderson
Shoe Money
Pants on Fire
Mad About the Boy
Jeffrey Archer
As the Crow Flies
Kane and Abel
The Prodigal Daughter
Shall We Tell the President
Honour Among Thieves
Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
A Twist in the Tale
Twelve Red Herrings
A Quiver Full of Arrows
False Impression
Only Time Will Tell
The Sins of the Father
Margaret Atwood
The Blind Assassin
Alias Grace
Bodily Harm
The Robber Bride
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Emma
Sense and Sensibility
B (return to top)
Louise Bagshawe
Career Girls
Venus Envy
The Movie
A Kept Woman
When She Was Bad
The Devil You Know
Monday’s Child
Glamour
Julian Barnes
Arthur and George
The Sense of an Ending
Melanie Benjamin
The Autobiography of Mrs Tom Thumb: A Novel
John Boyne
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Ann Brashares
The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants
Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre (read several times)
Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights (read several times)
Geraldine Brooks
People of the Book
Year of Wonders
Caleb's Crossing
Dan Brown
The Da Vinci Code
Angels and Demons
The Lost Symbol
Candace Bushnell
Sex and the City
4 Blondes
Trading Up
Lipstick Jungle
One Fifth Avenue
The Carrie Diaries
Summer and the City
A.S. Byatt
Possession
C (return to top)
Truman Capote
In Cold Blood
Peter Carey
True History of the Kelly Gang
My Life as a Fake
Oscar and Lucinda
Tracy Chevalier
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Agatha Christie
Death on the Nile
Michael Crichton
Prey
Paul Coelho
The Alchemist
J.M. Coetzee
Disgrace
Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games
Catching Fire
Mockingjay
Kaz Cooke
Living With Crazy Buttocks
Bryce Courtenay
The Power of One
The Potato Factory
D (return to top)
Kiran Desai
The Inheritance of Loss
Joy Dettman
Henry’s Daughter
Pearl in a Cage
Emma Donoghue
Room
Maria Duenas
The Seamstress (also published as The Time in Between)
E (return to top)
Kim Edwards
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
Jennifer Egan
A Visit From The Goon Squad
Ben Elton
Dead Famous
Chart Throb
High Society
Inconceivable
Anne Enright
The Gathering
Jeffrey Eugenides
Middlesex
The Marriage Plot
Janet Evanovich
One for the Money
Colin Falconer
When We Were Gods: A Novel of Cleopatra
Sebastian Faulks
Birdsong
Julian Fellowes
Past Imperfect
Snobs
Helen Fielding
Bridget Jones’ Diary
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Cause Celeb
Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby (read several times)
Allan Folsom
The Day After Tomorrow
Ken Follett
The Pillars of the Earth
World Without End
Fall of Giants
Jonathan Franzen
Freedom
The Corrections
Marianne Fredriksson
Hanna’s Daughters
Inge and Mira
Kimberley Freeman
Duet
Anna Funder
All That I Am
Diana Gabaldon
Cross Stitch
Dragonfly in Amber
Voyager
Drums of Autumn
The Fiery Cross
Alex Garland
The Beach
The Tesseract
The Coma
Elizabeth Gaskell
North and South
Lisa Genova
Still Alice
Arthur Golden
Memoirs of a Geisha
William Golding
Lord of the Flies
Graham Greene
The Quiet American
Kate Grenville
The Secret River
Searching for The Secret River
Philippa Gregory
The Other Boleyn Girl
The Boleyn Inheritance
The Queen's Fool
The Virgin’s Lover
The Other Queen
Alice Hartley’s Happiness
The White Queen
Sara Gruen
Water for Elephants
Mark Haddon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (read several times)
Charlaine Harris
True Blood / Sookie Stackhouse Series:
Dead Until Dark
Living Dead in Dallas
Club Dead
Dead to the World
Dead as a Doornail
Definitely
Dead All Together Dead
From Dead to Worse
Dead and Gone A Touch of Dead
Dead in the Family
Dead Reckoning
Deadlocked
Joanne Harris
Three Quarters of the Orange
Blackberry Wine
Coastliners
Gentlemen and Players
Sleep, Pale Sister
Elizabeth Haynes
Into the Darkest Corner
Alan Hollingshurst
The Stranger's Child
The Line of Beauty
Khaled Hosseini
The Kite Runner
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Rona Jaffe
The Best of Everything
EL James
Fifty Shades of Grey
Fifty Shades Darker
Fifty Shades Freed
K (return to top)
Daniel Kehlmann
Fame
Erin Kelly
The Poison Tree
Marian Keyes
Rachel’s Holiday
Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married
Last Chance Saloon
Sushi for Beginners
Watermelon
No Dress Rehearsal
Postcards From The Bed
Angels
The Other Side of the Story
Further Under the Duvet
Is Anybody Out There?
This Charming Man
The Brightest Star in the Sky
The Mystery of Mercy Close
Barbara Kingsolver
The Poisonwood Bible (read twice)
Herman Koch
The Dinner
Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin
The Nanny Diaries
Wally Lamb
I Know This Much is True
She’s Come Undone
Stieg Larsson
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl Who Played with Fire
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird
Kathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey
Puberty Blues
Marina Lewycka
A Short History of Tractors In Ukranian
Penelope Lively
Moon Tiger
M (return to top)
Hilary Mantel
Wolf Hall
Yan Mantel
Life of Pi
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love in the Time of Cholera
John Marsden
Tomorrow, When the War Began
Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca
Alexander McCall Smith
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
44 Scotland Street
Ian McEwan
Enduring Love
Atonement
Sweet Tooth
Grace Metalious
Peyton Place
Stephanie Meyer
Twilight (read twice)
New Moon (read twice)
Eclipse (read twice)
Breaking Dawn (read twice)
The Host
Rohinton Mistry
A Fine Balance
David Mitchell
Cloud Atlas
Margaret Mitchell
Gone With the Wind
Sue Monk Kidd
The Secret Life of Bees
Erin Morgenstern
The Night Circus (read twice)
Kate Morton
The Shifting Fog
The Forgotten Garden
The Distant Hours
The Secret Keeper
Kate Mosse
Labyrinth
Sepulchre
The Winter Ghosts
N (return to top)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
Half of a Yellow Sun
David Nicholls
One Day
Audrey Niffenegger
The Time Traveller’s Wife (read twice)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
Half of a Yellow Sun
David Nicholls
One Day
Audrey Niffenegger
The Time Traveller’s Wife (read twice)
O (return to top)
Maggie O’Farrell
After You’d Gone
The Hand That First Held Mine
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
George Orwell
Animal Farm
Nineteen Eighty-Four
P (return to top)
Ann Patchett
State of Wonder
Jodi Picoult
My Sister’s Keeper
The Pact
Picture Perfect
Plain Truth
Salem Falls
The Tenth Circle
Vanishing Act
Change of Heart
Nineteen Minutes
Keeping Faith
Perfect Match
Sing You Home
Annie Proulx
Brokeback Mountain
Mario Puzo
The Godfather
Ann Patchett
State of Wonder
Jodi Picoult
My Sister’s Keeper
The Pact
Picture Perfect
Plain Truth
Salem Falls
The Tenth Circle
Vanishing Act
Change of Heart
Nineteen Minutes
Keeping Faith
Perfect Match
Sing You Home
Annie Proulx
Brokeback Mountain
Mario Puzo
The Godfather
R (return to top)
Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead (read twice)
Atlas Shrugged
We The Living
Anne Rice
Interview With The Vampire
Lucinda Riley
Hothouse Flower
Deborah Rodriguez
The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul
J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
The Casual Vacancy
Arundhati Roy
The God of Small Things
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Shadow of the Wind
Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children
Edward Rutherfurd
London
Russka
Sarum
New York
S (return to top)
Vita Sackville-West
The Edwardians
Antione de Saint-Exupery
The Little Prince
JD Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
Alice Sebold
The Lovely Bones
Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (read twice)
Mary Sheldon
Resolutions
Sidney Sheldon
Bloodline
Master of the Game
Rage of Angels
Lionel Shriver
We Need to Talk About Kevin
The Post-Birthday World
Craig Silvey
Jasper Jones
Paullina Simmons
Tully (read twice)
Eleven Hours
Red Leaves
The Bronze Horseman (read twice)
The Bridge to Holy Cross
The Girl in Times Square
Road to Paradise
The Summer Garden
A Song in the Daylight (read twice)
Children of Liberty
Curtis Sittenfeld
American Life
Prep
The Man of My Dreams
Samantha Sotto
Before Ever After
Rebecca Sparrow
The Girl Most Likely
John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men
Kathryn Stockett
The Help
Mari Strachan
The Earth Hums in B Flat
Julia Stuart
The Tower, the Zoo and the Tortoise
Patrick Suskind
Perfume
Beverly Swerling
City of Dreams
T (return to top)
Donna Tartt
The Secret History
The Little Friend
J.R. Tolkein
Lord of the Rings
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
Paige Toon
Lucy in the Sky
Amor Towles
Rules of Civility
Jonathan Tropper
This is Where I Leave You
Christos Tsiolkas
The Slap
V (return to top)
Penny Vincenzi
No Angel
Something Dangerous
Into Temptation
Sheer Abandon
Wicked Pleasures
Forbidden Places
Another Woman
Old Sins
The Decision
W (return to top)
Sarah Waters
Fingersmith
Lauren Weisberger
The Devil Wears Prada
Kevin Wilson
The Family Fang
Jenny Wingfield
The Homecoming of Samuel Lake
Sarah Winman
When God Was a Rabbit
Tim Winton
Cloudstreet
Breath
Dirt Music
Tom Wolf
I am Charlotte Simmons
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Charlotte Wood
Sarah Waters
Fingersmith
Lauren Weisberger
The Devil Wears Prada
Kevin Wilson
The Family Fang
Jenny Wingfield
The Homecoming of Samuel Lake
Sarah Winman
When God Was a Rabbit
Tim Winton
Cloudstreet
Breath
Dirt Music
Tom Wolf
I am Charlotte Simmons
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Charlotte Wood
Autobiographies, biographies and memoirs (return to top)
Denise Chong
The Girl in the Picture
Richard Branson
Losing My Virginity
Maynard Close transcribed by Sarah Close and Jo Close
World War II diary
Li Cunxin
Mao’s Last Dancer
George Dawson and Richard Glaubman
Life is so Good
Julie Gregory
Sickened
John Grogan
Marley and Me
Le Ly Hayslip
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places
Tony Hsieh
Delivering Happiness
Stephen King
On Writing
Frank McCourt
Angela’s Ashes
‘Tis
Vicki Myron
Dewey: The Small Town Library Cat Who Touched The World
Azar Nafisi
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Simon Nasht
The Last Explorer Hubert Wilkins
Travelling tales (return to top)
Bill Bryson
Neither Here Nor There
Notes From A Big Country
Down Under
Captain FD Colaabavala
Hippie Dharma
Patrick French
India: A Portrait
Tibet, Tibet
Tony Hawkes
Round Ireland With A Fridge
Clive James
Flying Visits
Doug Lansky (compiled by)
There’s No Toilet Paper on the Road Less Travelled
Claire Scobie
Last Seen in Lhasa
Manjushree Thapa
Forget Kathmandu
Sarah Turnbull
Almost French
Rusty Young
Marching Powder
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Alain de Botton
Status Anxiety
Sasha Cagen
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The Between Boyfriends Book
Jake Falpern
Fame Junkies
Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider
The Rules
Simon Garfield
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
Malcolm Gladwell
Blink
The Tipping Point
Outliers: The Story of Success
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Steve Johnson
Everything Bad is Good for You
Martin Lindstrom
Buyology
Rebecca Mead
One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding
Palash Krishna Mehrota
The Butterfly Generation
William Poundstone
Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value and How to Take Advantage of It
Richard Robinson
Why the Toast Always Lands Butter Side Down – The Science of Murphy’s Law
Jerry Seinfeld
Sein Language
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Eats Shoots and Leaves
Ethan Watts
Urban Tribes
Historical non-fiction (return to top)
Alex Boese
The Museum of Hoaxes
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The House of Gucci
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Coal: A Human History
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The Tunnels of Cu Chi
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Empire
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My Mother Said
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Blood
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Rhonda Byrne
The Secret
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The Power of Nice
Gordon Livingstone
Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart
James Redfield
The Celestine Prophecy
Siimon Reynolds
Become Happy in Eight Minutes
Better Than Chocolate – 50 Proven Ways to Feel Happier
Brian Tracy
Eat That Frog
Peter Walsh
It’s All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff
Rhonda Byrne
The Secret
Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval
The Power of Nice
Gordon Livingstone
Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart
James Redfield
The Celestine Prophecy
Siimon Reynolds
Become Happy in Eight Minutes
Better Than Chocolate – 50 Proven Ways to Feel Happier
Brian Tracy
Eat That Frog
Peter Walsh
It’s All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff
Business (return to top)
Scott Belsky
Making Ideas Happen
Chris Doudle and Karen Baldwin
State of Mind
Seth Godin
Purple Cow
Thomas Friedman
The World is Flat
Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Made to Stick
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Dr Spencer Johnson
Who Moved My Cheese?
David H Maister, Charles H Green and Robert M Galford
The Trusted Advisor
Al Reis and Laura Reis
The Fall of Advertising and The Rise of PR
Emily Ross and Angus Holland
100 Great Businesses and the Minds Behind Them
Bob Seelert, Chairman Saatchi & Saatchi
Start With The Answer
David Shipley and Will Schwalbe
Send
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Made in Australia
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