The Garden Party and Other Stories, Katherine Mansfield, 1922
- New Zealand, #3
- Kindle edition, free from amazon.com
- Read April 2015
- Rating: 4/5
- Recommended for: Tragic loners and the unhappily married
The Garden Party
On the List
Polynesian Mythology
Polynesian Mythology, Sir George Grey, 1854 (full title: Polynesian Mythology and Ancient Traditional History of the New Zealand Race, as Furnished by Their Priests and Chiefs … the man obviously could have used a good editor)
- New Zealand, # 1
- Free at sacredtexts.com
- Read April 2015
- Rating: 2/5
- Recommended for: Patient cultural anthropologists
Oceanic Mythology (Polynesia section)
Oceanic Mythology, Roland B. Dixon, 1916
- New Zealand, #2
- Free at sacred-texts.com
- Read April 2015
- Rating: 1/5
- Recommended for: Miserable pedants
Carpentaria
Carpentaria, Alexis Wright, 2006
- Australia, #24
- Hardcover, Alibris.com, $0.99
- Read December 2014
- Rating: 5/5
- Recommended for: Vengeful ghosts, ancient mariners, environmentalists
The Shark Net
The Shark Net, Robert Drewe, 2000
- Australia, #23
- Paperback, Alibris.com, $0.99
- Read January 2015
- Rating 2.5/5
- Recommended for: Amateur historians with an insatiable curiosity about mid-century Western Australia
Death of a River Guide
Death of a River Guide, Richard Flanagan, 1994
- Australia, #22
- Paperback, Alibris.com, $0.99
- Read January 2015
- Rating: 3.5/5
- Opening line: As I was born the umbilical cord tangled around my neck and I came into the world both arms flailing, unable to scream and thereby take in the air necessary to begin life outside of the womb, being garrotted by the very thing that had until that time succoured me and given me life.
- Recommended for: Reading breaks between fever dreams
Tomorrow, When the War Began
Tomorrow, When the War Began, John Marsden, 1993
- Australia, #21
- Paperback, Alibris, $0.99
- Read December 2014
- Rating: 2/5
- Recommended for: teenagers, as long as they are fairly naïve and not sensitive to being talked down to.
Cloudstreet
Cloudstreet, Tim Winton, 1991
- Australia, #20
- Kindle, £4.19
- Read January 2015
- Rating: 4.5/5
- Recommended for: daydreamers, homebodies, fishers of men
The Great World
The Great World, David Malouf, 1990
- Australia, #19
- Paperback, alibris.com, $0.99
- Read: November 2014
- Rating: 3/5
- Recommended for: War enthusiasts, very serious white men (or are these even distinct categories?)
Oscar and Lucinda
Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey, 1988
- Australia, #18
- Paperback, price unknown (it was on my shelf when I started the project, having been bought, started, and abandoned at some point in the past)
- Read July 2014
- Rating: 3/5
- Recommended for: timid agnostics and unlucky poker players
Around the World in 2000 Books 