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

The Classic 100 List

1. Man's Search for Meaning, Fankl Victor
2. Love in a Cold Climate, Mitford Nancy
3. Lady Chatterley’s Lover,Lawrence D.H.
4. The Invisible Man, Wells H.G.
5. The Wild Swans of Coole, Yeats William
6. Native Son, Wright Richard
7. Mrs Dalloway, Woolf Virginia
8. To the Lighthouse, Woolf Virginia
9. Winnie the Pooh, Wilne A A
10. Night, Wiesel Elie
11. Leaves of Grass, Whitman Walt
12. Charlotte's Web, White E.B.
13. The Age of Innocence, Wharton Edith
14. Day of the Locusts, West Nathanael
15. Scoop, Waugh Evelyn
16. A Handfull of Dust, Waugh Evelyn
17. Brideshead Revisited, Waugh Evelyn
18. The Double Helix: A Personal Account of Discovery, Watson James
19. All the Kings Men, Warren Robert Penn
20. Rabbit, Run, Updike John
21. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain Mark
22. Beloved, Morrison Toni
23. Anna Karenina, Tolstoy Leon
24. War and Peace, Tolstoy
25. The History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides
26. Gulliver's Travels, Swift Jonathan
27. Eminent Victorians, Strachey Lytton
28. East of Eden, Steinbeck John
29. Tender Buttons, Stein Gertrude
30. Confessions, St Augustine
31. Of Human Bondage, Maughan Somerset
32. Frankenstein, Shelly Mary
33. Sonnets, Shakespeare William
34. Othello, Shakespeare William
35. King Lear, Shakespeare William
36. Hamlet, Shakespeare William
37. Portnoy's Complaint, Roth Phillip
38. Wild Sargasso Sea, Rhys Jean
39. Remembrance of Things Past, Proust Marcel
40. The Fight, Mailer Norman
41. A House for Mr Biswas, Naipaul V.S.
42. Lolita, Nabokov Vladimir
43. King of Solomon, Morrison Toni
44. Tropic of Cancer, Miller Henry
45. Moby Dick, Melville Herman
46. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, McCullers Carson
47. Blood Meridian, McCarthy Cormack
48. Buddenbrook, Mann Thomas
49. The Prince, Machiavelli Niccolo
50. The Golden Notebook, Lessing Doris
51. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee Harper
52. The Rainbow, Lawrence D.H.
53. Sons and Lovers, Lawrence D.H.
54. Kim, Kipling Rudyard
55. The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money, Keynes John Maynard
56. On the Road, Kerouac Jack
57. The Metamorphosis, Kafka Franz
58. The Trial, Kafka Franz
59. Ulysees, Joyce James
60. The Social Contract, Rousseau Jean-Jacques
61. Wings of the Dove, James Henry
62. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study of Human Nature, William James
63. Berlin Stories, Isherwood Christopher
64. A Dolls House, Ibsen
65. Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hugo Victor
66. The Illiad and Odyssey, Homer
67. Leviathan, Hobbes Thomas
68. The Histories Herodotus
69. The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway Ernest
70. For Whom the Bell Tolls Hemingway, Ernest
71. The Maltese Falcon, Hammett Dashiell
72. The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Haley Alex & Malcolm X
73. The Power and the Glory, Greene Graham
74. The Heart of the Matter, Greene Graham
75. I Claudius, Graves Robert
76. Wind in the Willows, Grahame Kenneth
77. Growing up Absurd, Goodman Paul
78. The Affluent Society, Galbraith John
79. Tender is the Night, Fitzgerald F. Scott
80. The Interpretation of Dreams, Freud Sigmumd
81. The Magus, Fowles John
82. A Passage to India, Forster E M
83. Madam Bovary, Flaubert Gustav
84. Absalom, Absalom, Faulkner William
85. Light in August, Faulkner William
86. As I lay Dying, Faulkner William
87. Sound and the Fury, Faulkner William
88. Invisible Man, Ellison Ralph
89. The Wasteland, Eliot T.S.
90. The Meaning of Relativity, Einstein Albert
91. Crime and Punishment, Dosoyevsky Fyodor
92. On the Origin of the Species, Darwin Charles
93. Heart of Darkness, Conrad Jospeph
94. Nostromo, Conrad Jospeh
95. Lord Jim, Conrad Joseph
96. The Second World War, Churchill Winston
97. The Big Sleep, Chandler Raymond
98. Don Quixote, Cervantes Miguel
99. Naked Lunch, Burroughs William
100. The Adventures of Augie March, Bellow Saul

GLBT Top 100

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