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ANZLL 2006 Top Tens for the Year
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Recommendations are not in any particular order, and can include
international as well as ANZ authors.
Chris
Heather
Jenny Kate Lisa Lurline Narelle
Sally
Margaret
Cathy
Julie
Narelle's Top Ten
Title |
Author |
Suite Francaise |
Irene Nemirovsky |
Black Swan Green
|
David Mitchell |
A War Against Truth |
Paul William Roberts |
The Testament of Gideon
|
Mack James Robertson |
The Secret River |
Kate Grenville |
Arthur and George |
Julian Barnes |
A Thread of Grace
|
Mary Doria Russell |
Notes on a Scandal |
Zoe Heller |
The Age of Innocence
|
Edith Wharton |
If Nobody Speaks of
Remarkable Things |
Jon McGregor |
Lisa's Top Ten
Title |
Author |
The Secret River
|
Kate Grenville |
The Heart of the Matter |
Graham Greene |
A Woman in Berlin |
Anonymous |
Self |
Yann Martel |
Slow Water |
Anna Marie Jagose |
The Tree of Man |
Patrick White |
The Age of Innocence |
Edith Wharton |
The Rules of Perspective |
Adam Thorpe |
A Fringe of Leaves |
Patrick White |
Astonishing Splashes of
Colour |
Clare Morrall |
Chris's Top 10
Title |
Author |
Fingersmith
|
Sara Waters
|
The Life of Pi |
Yann Martel
|
Salvation Creek
|
Susan Duncan
|
The Travelling Hornplayer |
Barbara Trapido |
The Turning |
Tim Winton |
The Secret River
|
Kate Grenville |
In the Country of Men
|
Hisham Matar |
Old Filth
|
Jane Gardam |
We Need to Talk about Kevin
|
Lionel Shriver |
Candy |
Luke Davies |
Jenny's Top Ten
Title |
Author |
Geography |
Sophie Cunningham |
Judgement Rock |
Joanna Murray Smith |
A Woman in Berlin |
Anonymous |
In My Skin |
Kate Holden |
Candy |
Luke Davies |
How the Light Gets In |
M.J. Hyland |
Black Swan Green |
David Mitchell |
Eve Green |
Susan Fletcher |
The Line of Beauty |
Allan Hollinghurst |
A Short History of
Tractors in Ukrainian |
Marina Lewycka |
Heather's Top Ten
Title |
Author |
The Line of Beauty |
Alan Hollinghurst |
Fly Away Peter |
David Malouf |
Close change: Brokeback
Mountain and other stories |
Annie Proulx |
The Secret River |
Kate Grenville |
March |
Geraldine Brooks |
The Other side of You
|
Sally Vickers |
The Shadow of the Wind |
Carlos Ruiz Zafon |
Arthur and George |
Julian Barnes |
Cloud Atlas |
David Mitchell |
Girl with a Pearl Earring |
Tracey Chevalier |
Lurline's Top Ten
Title |
Author |
Black Swan Green |
David Mitchell |
Arthur and George |
Julian Barnes |
The Turning |
Tim Winton |
The Secret River |
Kate Grenville |
Gallipoli |
Les Carlyon |
Old Filth |
Jane Gardam |
The Blind Assassin |
Margaret Atwood |
Such a Long Journey |
Rohinton Mistry |
Judy Cassab |
Brenda Niall |
Night Watch |
Sarah Waters |
Kate's Top Ten
Title |
Author |
In the Line of Beauty |
Hollinghurst, Alan |
The Boy Who Loved Anne
Frank |
Feldman, Ellen |
On Beauty |
Smith, Zadie |
The Human Season |
Dean, Louise |
Fingersmith |
Waters, Sarah |
The Space Between Us |
Umrigar, Thrity |
Such a Long Journey |
Mistry, Rohinton |
Joe Cinque's Consolation |
Garner, Helen |
If Nobody Speaks of
Remarkable Things |
McGregor, Jon |
The Secret River |
Grenville, Kate |
Sally's Top Ten
Title |
Author |
A Long, Long
Way |
Sebastian
Barry |
The Turning
|
Tim Winton |
The Mindless
Ferocity of Sharks |
Brett D'Arcy |
Furies |
John
Charalambous |
Old School
|
Tobias Wolff |
On Beauty |
Zadie Smith |
A Short
History of Nearly Everything |
Bill Bryson |
The Boy in the
Striped Pyjamas |
John Boyne |
Summer at Mt
Hope |
Rosalie Ham |
My Name is
Asher Lev |
Chaim Potok |
Margaret's Top Ten
If Nobody
Speaks of Remarkable things |
Jon McGregor |
The Dark Room |
Rachel
Seiffert |
Arthur and
George |
Julian Barnes |
Don't Lets Go
to the Dogs Tonight |
Alexandra
Fuller |
Secret River |
Kate Grenville |
Spectator Bird |
Walter Stegner |
Fingersmith |
Sarah Waters |
Secret Life of
Bees |
Sue Monk Kidd |
Black Swan
Green |
David Mitchell |
Prodigal
Summer |
Barbara
Kingsolver |
Cathy's Top Ten
The Curious Incident of
the Dog in the Nighttime |
John Hadden |
The Secret Life of Bees |
Sue Monk Kidd
|
The Broken Book |
Susan Johnson
|
The Dark Room |
Rachael Seiffert
|
The Secret River
|
Kate Grenville
|
The Turning |
Tim Winton |
The Life of Pi
|
Yann Martel |
Such a Long Journey |
Rohinton Mistry |
Tuesdays with Morrie |
Mitch Albom
|
Night Watch |
Sarah Waters |
Julie's Top Ten
The Sea |
John Banville |
The Secret River |
Kate Grenville |
Cloud Atlas |
David Mitchell |
Prodigal Summer |
Barbara Kingsolver |
The Grave at Thu Le |
Catherine Cole |
What I Loved |
Siri Hustvedt |
The Great Fire |
Shirley Hazzard |
Buddhism for Mothers (non fiction) |
Sarah Napthali |
The Corner of Your Eye |
Kate Lyons |
Black Swan Green |
David Mitchell |
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