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?)
The Great World
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
My Place
My Place, Sally Morgan, 1987
- Australia, #17
- Paperback, $0.99, Alibris.com
- Read November 2014
- Rating 3/5
- Recommended for: People who value substance over style
Schindler’s Ark
Schindler’s Ark (aka Schindler’s List), Thomas Kenneally, 1982
- Australia, #16
- Paperback, Alibris.com, $0.99
- Read October 2014
- Rating 3.5/5
- Recommended for: Human beings
The Thorn Birds
The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough, 1977
- Australia, #15
- Kindle, £2.99 from Amazon
- Read June 2014
- Rating: 1/5
- Recommended for: Lapsed Catholics and hysterical neo-Victorians
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Picnic at Hanging Rock, Joan Lindsay, 1967
- Australia, #14
- Kindle, £4.37
- Read March 2014
- Rating 4/5
- Opening line: “Everyone agreed that the day was just right for the picnic to Hanging Rock – a shimmering summer morning warm and still, with cicadas shrilling all through breakfast from the loquat trees outside the dining-room windows and bees murmuring above the pansies bordering the drive.”
- Recommended for: proper young ladies who read Patricia Highsmith and Daphne du Maurier, have a secret love of Unsolved Mysteries, and appreciate the pathos of the opening scene of Carrie but find the rest of the movie lacking in subtlety
My Brother Jack
My Brother Jack, George Johnston, 1964
- Australia, #13
- Bought from Alibris for $3.00
- Read October 2014
- Rating: 4.5/5
- Recommended for: Fans of Graham Greene and other mid-century realists
Voss
Voss, Patrick White, 1957
- Australia, #12
- Kindle, £4.68 from Amazon
- Read May 2014
- Rating: 5/5
- Recommended for: Fans of Faulkner and Virginia Woolfe (who are looking for something different, of similar quality); lovers of literary fiction who are up for a challenge
The Shiralee
The Shiralee, D’Arcy Niland, 1955
- Australia, #11
- Paperback, bought from Alibris.com for $0.99
- Read October 2014
- Rating: 2.5/5
- Recommended for: light reading, transparent emotional manipulation
The Harp in the South
The Harp in the South, Ruth Park, 1947
- Australia, #10
- Kindle, £4.35 for the trilogy (I only read the first book)
- Read October 2014
- Rating: 3/5
- Recommended for: People who like both John Steinbeck and Roddy Doyle
Around the World in 2000 Books 