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ANZLL 2004 Top Tens for the Year

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Narelle    Sally    Lisa     Julie    Jenny    Kate

Narelle's Top Ten

Title Author
Old School Tobias Wolff
The Pursuit of Happiness Douglas Kennedy
Fires in the Dark Louise Doughty
The Piano Tuner Daniel Mason
The Book of Illusions Paul Auster
Seven Types of Ambiguity Eliot Perlman
The Gypsy Man Robert Bausch
The Final Confessions of Mabel Stark Robert Hough
English Passengers Matthew Kneale
Cloud Atlas David Mitchell

 Sally's Top Ten

Title Author
The Clearing Tim Gautreaux
The Samurai's Garden Gail Tsukiyama
Paris Trout Pete Dexter
The Kite Runner  Khaled Hosseini
A Fine Balance  Rohinton Mistry
Tess of the D'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
That Old Ace in the Hole by Annie Proux
Buddha Da Anne Donovan
Bangkok 8 John Burdett
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time Mark Haddon

Lisa's Top Ten

Title Author
Australia Felix, The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney Henry Handel Richardson
Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides
Hotel du Lac Anita Brookner
Have the Men Had Enough Beryl Bainbridge
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time Mark Haddon
A Sunday in the Pool in Kigali Gil Courtemanche
The Other Side of Silence Andre Brink
Felicia's Journey William Trevor
Anthem Tim Binding

Julie's Top Five

Title Author
The Kite Runner  Khaled Hosseini
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time  Mark Haddon
The Reader Bernhard Schlink
Names for Nothingness Georgia Blain
Disreputable People  Penelope Rowe

Jenny's Top Ten

Title Author
The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time  Mark Haddon
Joe Cinque's Consolation Helen Garner
Scribbling the Cat Alexander Fuller
The Dig Tree Sarah Murgatroyd
Too Many Books So Little Time Sara Nelson
Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood
Our Lady of the Forest David Guterson
The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold
Maestro Peter Goldsworthy

Kate's Top Ten

Title Author
The Namesake Jhumpa Lahim
Plainsong Kent Haruf
Buddha Da Ann Donovan
Old School Tobias Wolffe
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
Anthem Tim Binding
Out of the Deep I Cry Julia Spencer Fleming
Spies Michael Frayn
A Hole in the Universe Mary McGarry Morris
The Way the Crow Flies Ann-Marie MacDonald

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