The 30 Second Book List - compliled by friends & family

CATHY,

1. Tenderness of Wolves

2. To Kill a Mockingbird

3. ?

CLAIRE,

1. Bone People - Keri Hulme

2. Self - Yamm Martel

3. Lucky - Alice Seabald

ROSALIE,

1. Song of Solomon

2. Dirt Music

3. ?

TIM,

1. Tirra Lirra By the River, Jessica Anderson

2. The Bridge to Terabithia, Kathrine Paterson

3. The Eye of the Storm, Patrick White (his best by a long shot).

BRUCE

1. Lust for Life, Irving Stone

2. Gay Soul, Mark Thompson

KATE,

Felt much relieved knowing she'd packed:
1. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
2. Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. Master & Commander, Patrick O'Brien

JULIA,
inspired by Marcus Mc, and a quiet bevvy, and stashing a few extra tomes under her jumper, grabbed:
1. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
2. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
3. 100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
4. The Story of Lucy Gault - William Trevor
5. The Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
6. Stasiland - Anna Funder
7. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
8. The Road - Cormac McCarthy

MARCUS Mc
will be troubled at customs when he is forced to throw away all but three of these, but Kirsty will be delighted with another Australian added to the list:
1. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
2. Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
3. Eye of the World - Robert Jordan (for pure escapist fantasy, and as there are 12 books to date in the series, it will keep you going for a while)
4. The Time Travellers Wife - Audrey Niffeneger
5. Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion - Dan Simmons
6. We need to talk about Kevin - Lionel Shriver
7. Abaza - Louis Nowra
8. The Deverry Series - Katherine Kerr

MARKUS Z,
1. Bible
2. Godel Escher Bach - Hofstadter (haven't read it meself but this would
be the time to read a fat book)
3. Another I haven't read that is sitting in storage: The 7 Basic Plots by
Christopher Booker which is a summary of all stories (there are only 7)
4. Camus' The Plague
5. And I will cheat a bit with the collected works of the finest writer
going around - Ian McEwan

MARK G
Family ties; Michael Cunningham
The line of beauty; Alan Hollinghurst
Existential Psychotherapy; Irvin Yalom...yeah I know, but hey I'd be alone
on an island!
A Passage to India; Forster

JUDITH,
grabbed everything in reach:
1. Anna Karenina Tolstoy
2. A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry
3. I capture the Castle Dodie Smith
4. Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
5. Middlemarch George Eliot
6. A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh
7. Stories of William Trevor
8. Crime and Punishment Dostoyevsky
9. The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov
10. Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
and of course the Bible and Shakespeare will already be there with the Koran and the Mahabharata I trust.
Voss, Patrick white

Then, realising she could only take 3 kept:

1. The Fatal Shore, Robert Hughes
2. The Alexandrian Quartet, Lawrence Durrell.
.... With the proviso that someone brings Austen Tolstoy & Eliot.


MARK & KIRSTY brought extra to trade
1. The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas
2. Perfume - Patrick Suskind
3. Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
4. My Brother Jack - George Johnston (and the 2 subsequent books)
5. Cloudstreet - Tim Winton
6. Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen

a joint effort from Mark & Kirsty (in almost 30 seconds)
with another late addition
7. For the term of his natural life - Manning Clarke

RACHEL
couldn't be without....
1. Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay. Michael Chabon.
2. Guns Germs and Steel. Jared Diamond.
3 The Road and the Border Trilogy. Cormac McCarthy
4. Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars. Kim Stanley-Robinson
5. First Abolish the Customer. Bob Ellis.
6. Twilight series. Meyer.
7. Midnight's Children. Rushdie.

COLM,
also having problems with da counting took...
1. A Second Life - Dermot Bolger
2. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
3. East of Eden - John Steinbeck
4. The Audacity of Hope - Barack Obama
5. The Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde

IAN M
had to have...
1. The Poisonwood Bible
2. The Death of Ivan Illyich
3. Howard's End

4. Rose Boys - Peter Rose

PAUL
was in such a hurry he dropped a book but brought...
1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. Mr God this is Anna

But then realised he had packed another....
3. Cardboard Crown" by Martin Boyd

SHARON
had to have...
1. Dreams of my Father
2. Middlesex
3. The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier & Clay
4. A Fine Balance
5. Midnights Children

J.R.
ever resourceful...OK Johno,
1. (OMIT: Survival guide I've loved since I'm 6 for the air force if the plane crashes and you have nothing haha)
2. Images of Hope; Imagination As Healer of the Hopeless - William F Lynch
3. On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy - Carl Rogers
4. The Alchemist - paulo coelho
5. Holding the Man - Tim Conigrave
6. man in high castle - phillip dick
7. Father Joe-Tony Hendra
And if you like psychologist ethic filled mystery murder fiction books, Steven White novels

SHIRLEY
said that being a virgo she needed research...
1. Roger Thesaurus, the songwriters bible
2. Larousse Gastronomique, the cooking bible
3. Awakening the Buddha Withing, Llama Surya Das, a buddhist bible so I can accept that I may have taken the wrong books .

RUTH
laughed, cried, and thought about these for years....
1) An Answer From Limbo by Brian Moore
2) The Road by Cormack McCarthy
3) The Rider by Tim Winton

LOU,
After bringin iPhone google earth and 101 Wonderful Ways with Coconuts, brought;
1. Dirt Music, Tim Winton
2. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
3. Eucalyptus, Murray Bail
4. Oh, the Places You'll Go, Dr Seuss
5. Long Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela
6. God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy

GERALD
needs....
1. Man's Search for Meaning, Frankl
2. Quiet American, Graeme Greene
3. Crime & Punishment,

MICHAEL
brought:
1. On the Road, Kerouac
2. Infinite Jest, DavidFoster Wallace
3. Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess

DEBBIE
Wouldnt be without:
1. Heart of Darkness
2. Valley of Grace, Marion Halligan
3. Surfacing, Margaret Atwood

IAN C
Deliberated long, but decided on:
1. The Inner Journey Home, Almaas
2. Fine Balance
3. Harry Potter, entire catalogue