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Reading lists, 2011 and before

December 2012 "Christmas Stories" by Charles Dickens

November 2012 "The Road to Wigan Pier" by George Orwell

October 2012 "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson

September 2012 "Canada" by Richard Ford

July 2012 "I for Isobel" by Amy Witting

June 2012 " The getting of Wisdom" by Henry Handel
Richardson

March 2012 - "A Long, Long Way" by Sebastian Barry

February 2012 - "The Real Story of Ah-Q and other Tales of China: the Complete Fiction of Lu Xun"

December 2011 - "The Land of Spices" by Kate O'Brien

November 2011 - "Tirra Lirra by the River" by Jessica Anderson

October 2011 - The Icelandic Saga "Njals Saga"

September 2011 - "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck

June 2011- "Mad World : Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead" by Paula Byrne

May 2011 - "The Secret River" by Kate Grenville

April 2011 - "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad

February/March 2011 - "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

December 2011 - "The Finkler Question" by Howard Jacobsen

November 2010 - "Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austen

October 2010 - "Little Dorrit" by Charles Dickens

August 2010 - "Running in the Family" by Michael Ondaatje

July 2010 - "Coonardoo" by Katharine Susannah Prichard

June 2010 - "The quiet American" by Graham Greene

May 2010 - "Gone with the wind" by Margaret Mitchell

March 2010 - "Truth" by Peter Temple

February 2010 - "Wolf Hall" by Hilary Mantel

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December 2009 - "The member of the wedding" by Carson McCullers

November 2009 "Portrait of an artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce

October 2009 "Good-Bye to all that" by Robert Graves

August 2009 - Reader contributions

September 2009 - "Half a yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

July 2009 - "Wuthering heights" by Emily Bronte

June 2009 - "The Makioka Sisters" by Junichiro Tanizaki

May 2009 - "The Plot against America" by Philip Roth

April 2009 - "Sister Carrie" by Theodore Drieser

March 2009 - "Breath" by Tim Winton

February 2009 - "The Time We have Taken" by Steven Carroll

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December 2008 - "Northanger Abbey" by Jane Austen OR "Father and Son" by Edmund Gosse

November 2008 - "Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie

October 2008 - "The Brief Wondrous life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz

Bookclub links

  • Australian Libraries Gateway
  • First Tuesday Book Club (ABC TV)
  • Libraries Australia
  • Penguin Classic Reading Guides
  • Project Gutenberg

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