ANZ LitLovers LitBlog

Complete list of titles reviewed on this blog since 19/7/08

Click the links to go to the review.  All reviews by Lisa Hill unless otherwise noted by * , # , or + (see bottom of page)

Fiction

1. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
2. 8 States of Catastrophe by Karen Lee Thompson
3. 88 Lines about 44 Women by Steven Lang
4. The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
5. The Accident by Ismail Kadare
6. The Acolyte by Thea Astley
7. After Cleo Came Jonah, by Helen Brown
8. After the Darkness, by Honey Brown
9. After the Fire, A Still Small Voice by Evie Wyld
10. After Love, by Subhash Jaireth
11. The Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre
12. Alice, by Judith Hermann, translated by Margot Bettauer Dembo
13. All Our Worldly Goods by Irene Nemirovsky
14. All That I Am by Anna Funder
15. Almayer’s Folly by Joseph Conrad
16. Almost French by Sarah Turnbull*
17. Alva’s Boy by Alan Collins
18. The Amateur Science of Love by Craig Sherborne
19. Amy’s Children by Olga Masters
20. The Anatomy of Wings by Karen Foxlee
21. Ancient Light, by John Banville
22. Anguli Ma: A Gothic Tale by Chi Vu
23. Animal People by Charlotte Wood
24. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
25. Anne Hereford, by Ellen (Mrs Henry) Wood
26. Another Country, by Anjali Joseph
27. Antipodes by David Malouf **
28. As the Earth Turns Silver by Alison Wong
29. At Swim – Two Birds by Flann O’Brien
30. The Australian Long Story, edited by Mandy Sayer
31. Auto-da-Fé by Elias Canetti
32. Autumn Laing, by Alex Miller
33. A Body of Water by Beverley Farmer
34. The Barracks by John McGahern
35. The Bath Fugues by Brian Castro
36. The Battlers by Kylie Tennant, read by Jacklyn Kelleher
37. The Bay of Noon by Shirley Hazzard
38. Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga
39. The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
40. The Blind Eye by Georgia Blain
41. The Believers, by Zoe Heller
42. Belonging by Isabel Huggan
43. Beloved by Toni Morrison
44. Benang by Kim Scott
45. Beneath the Darkening Sky, by Majok Tulba
46. Bereft by Chris Womersley
47. Berlin Syndrome, by Melanie Joosten
48. Beside the Sea by Veronica Olmi
49. Between Clay And Dust, by Musharraf Ali Farooqi
50. Between Sky and Sea by Herz Bergner
51. The Big Fellow, by Vance Palmer
52. Bird by Sophie Cunningham
53. Black Glass by Meg Mundell
54. Black Mountain, by Venero Armanno
55. Blindness, by José Saramago, translated by Giovanni Pontiero
56. Blood, by Tony Birch
57. Blooms of Darkness, by Aharon Appelfeld, translated by Jeffrey M Green
58. The Boat by Nam Le
59. The Book of Emmett by Deborah Forster
60. The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
61. The Book of Rachael by Leslie Cannold
62. Border Crossing by Pat Barker*
63. Boy on a Wire by Jon Doust
64. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, Narrated by Michael York
65. Breath by Tim Winton
66. Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
67. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
68. The Briefcase, by Hiromi Kawakani, translated by Allison Markin Powell
69. Bright and Distant Shores by Dominic Smith
70. Bring Larks and Heroes, by Thomas Keneally
71. Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
72. Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
73. Bulibasha, by Witi Ihimaera
74. Bush Studies by Barbara Baynton
75. Butterfly by Sonya Hartnett
76. Cairo Paris Melbourne, by Maher Abou Elsaoud
77. Campaign Ruby by Jessica Rudd
78. Capricornia by Xavier Herbert
79. Carry Me Across the Water by Ethan Canin
80. The Captain and the Enemy by Graham Greene
81. A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif
82. Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
83. The Cellist of Sarajevo by Stephen Galloway
84. The Changing Forms of Clouds by Dalia Millingen**
85. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Thomas Keneally
86. Cheating at Canasta by William Trevor
87. The Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey
88. The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
89. Child’s Play by David Malouf
90. The Children, by Ida Jessen, translated by Don Bartlett
91. The Children by Charlotte Wood
92. The Children’s Book by A.S. Byatt
93. The China Garden by Kristina Olssen
94. City of God by E.L. Doctorow
95. Closer to Stone, by Simon Cleary
96. The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant
97. Cold Light, by Frank Moorhouse
98. The Colonel by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, translated by Tom Patterdale
99. Come Inside by G.L. (Glenys) Osborne
100. The Comfort of Figs by Simon Cleary*
101. A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
102. The Concert Ticket by Olga Grushin
103. The Concubine, by Elechi Amadi
104. The Conductor, by Sarah Quigley
105. The Confidential Agent, by Graham Greene, narrated by Tim Piggott-Smith
106. The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer
107. The Conversation, by David Brooks
108. The Cook by Wayne Macauley
109. Cousin Bette, by Honoré de Balzac
110. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
111. Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
112. The Cry of Winnie Mandela, by Njabulo Ndebele
113. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F Scott Fitzgerald
114. A Dance to the Movement of Time, by Anthony Powell
115. Dancer by Colum McCann
116. Daniel Stein, Interpreter, by Ludmila Ulitskaya  ++
117. Dark Clouds on the Mountain by John Tully
118. The Dark Tide by Vera Brittain
119. The Darkest Little Room, by Patrick Holland
120. Day, by A.L. Kennedy
121. The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave#
122. Death of a River Guide by Richard Flanagan
123. Death of a Whaler by Nerida Newton, read by Christopher Brown
124. The Detour, by Gerbrand Bakker
125. The Devil’s Advocate by Morris West
126. Dirt, by David Vann
127. Disquiet by Julia Leigh
128. Dissection, by Jacinta Halloran
129. Dissonance, by Stephen Orr
130. Distant Music by Lee Langley
131. Doctor Wooreddy’s Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World, by Mudrooroo a.k.a. Colin Johnson
132. Document Z by Andrew Croome
133. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
134. Dog Boy by Eva Hornung
135. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
136. The Double by José Saramago
137. Dream of Ding Village by Yan Lianke
138. Dreams of Joy by Lisa See
139. Dressing up for the Carnival by Carol Shields**
140. Drift, by Brian Castro
141. Drop City by T C Boyle *
142. The Edge of Bali, by Inez Baranay
143. Ekaterinburg by Helen Rappaport
144. The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens
145. The Emperor of Lies, by Steve Sem-Sandberg, translated by Sarah Death
146. The End of Longing by Ian Reid
147. End of the Night Girl by Amy Mathews
148. Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
149. The Engagement, by Chloe Hooper
150. The English Class by Ouyang Yu
151. The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje
152. Escape by Anna Fienberg
153. Even the Dogs by Jon McGregor
154. The Evening of the Holiday by Shirley Hazzard
155. Everything I Knew by Peter Goldsworthy
156. An Exclusive Love by Joanna Adorján, translated by Anthea Bell
157. The Eye of the Storm by Patrick White
158. The Factory, by Paddy O’Reilly
159. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
160. Falling Man by Don DeLillo
161. The Family Law by Benjamin Law
162. Fall Girl by Toni Jordan
163. Fanny Hill by John Cleland
164. The Far Road by George Johnson
165. Fateless, by Imre Kertész
166. Fathers and Sons, by Ivan Turgenev
167. Figurehead by Patrick Allington
168. Finders and Keepers by Catrin Collier, read by Kate Jarman
169. The Fine Colour of Rust, by P.A. Reilly
170. Fly Away Peter, by David Malouf
171. Foal’s Bread by Gillian Mears
172. The Folded Earth by Anuradha Roy
173. (For the Term of) His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke##
174. (For the Term of) His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke
175. Forecast: Turbulence, by Janette Turner Hospital
176. A Fraction of the Whole, by Steve Toltz
177. The Free World by David Bezmozgis
178. The French Tutor by Judith Armstrong
179. From the Mouth of the Whale by Sjón, translated by Victoria Cribb
180. Fugitive Blue by Claire Thomas
181. The Funeral Party, by Ludmila Ulitskaya
182. G by John Berger
183. The Gathering by Anne Enright
184. Generals Die in Bed by Charles Yale
185. Germinal by Émile Zola
186. The Girl from the Coast by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
187. The Girl You Left Behind, by Jojo Moyes +
188. The Glass Canoe, by David Ireland
189. The Glass Room by Simon Mawer, read by Jefferson Mays
190. Glissando by David Musgrave
191. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Phillip Pullman
192. The Good Muslim by Tahmina Anam
193. Goodbye Mr Chips by James Hilton
194. Godiva by Nerys Jones
195. Gone by Jennifer Mills
196. The Good Parents by Joan London
197. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
198. Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott
199. Great Western Highway, by Anthony Macris
200. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
201. Hand Me Down World by Lloyd Jones
202. The Hanged Man in the Garden by Marion Halligan**
203. Hannah and Emil, by Belinda Castles
204. Happy Valley, by Patrick White
205. The Harp in the South by Ruth Park
206. Hate, a Romance by Tristan Garcia, translated by Marion Duvert and Lorin Stein
207. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
208. A History of Books, by Gerald Murnane
209. Hokitika Town by Charlotte Randall
210. A Hologram for the King, by Dave Eggers
211. The Homecoming by Bernard Schlink
212. Homer and Langley by E.L.Doctorow
213. Hotel du Lac, by Anita Brookner
214. The Hours by Michael Cunningham
215. The House of the Mosque by Kader Abdolah
216. The Household Guide to Dying by Debra Adelaide (see also)*
217. How It Feels by Brendan Cowell
218. How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Sasa Stanisic
219. The Hum of Concrete, by Anna Solding
220. The Hut Builder, by Laurence Fearnley
221. I Do Not Come to You By Chance by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
222. I for Isobel by Amy Witting
223. I Hate Martin Amis et al by Peter Barry
224. Ice by Louis Nowra
225. If I Should Lose You, by Natasha Lester
226. If on a Winter’s Night A Traveller, by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver
227. The Iliad by Homer, translated by Robert Fagan
228. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (more fiction than NF, though a bit of both)
229. In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul
230. In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield
231. In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut
232. In the Kitchen by Monica Ali
233. In Pursuit by Joanna Fitzpatrick
234. In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
235. Indelible Ink by Fiona McGregor
236. The Inheritance of Ivorie Hammer, by Edwina Preston
237. An Imaginary Life by David Malouf
238. The Infinities by John Banville
239. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
240. Inland by Gerald Murnane
241. An Innocent Gentleman by Elizabeth Jolley
242. The Impostor by Damon Galgut, read by Humphrey Bower
243. The Irishman, by Elizabeth O’Conner
244. The Italian Girl, by Rebecca Huntley
245. It’s Fine by Me, by Per Petterson, translated by Don Bartlett
246. Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
247. Jennie Gerhardt by Theodore Dreiser
248. Joe Wilson and His Mates by Henry Lawson
249. The King of Tuzla by Arnold Hoop de Haar
250. La Rochelle’s Road by Tanya Moir
251. The Lake by Banana Yoshimoto, translated by Michael Emmerich
252. Landscape of Farewell by Alex Miller
253. Lantana Lane, by Eleanor Dark
254. Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay
255. Legacy by Larissa Behrendt
256. The Legacy by Kirsten Tranter
257. Legend of a Suicide by David Vann
258. Lenin’s Kisses, by Yan Lianke, translated by Carlos Rojas
259. Letters of Two Brides by Honore de Balzac
260. The Liberator’s Birthday by Jill Blee, read by Stanley McGeagh
261. The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville
262. Life and Fate, by Vasily Grossman
263. The Life of an Unknown Man by Andrei Makine
264. Life in Seven Mistakes by Susan Johnson
265. The Light Between Oceans by M.L.Stedman
266. Like Being a Wife by Catherine Harris
267. The Little Hotel by Christina Stead
268. Little People by Jane Sullivan
269. The Longing by Candice Bruce
270. Loose by Ouyang Yu
271. The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser
272. Lost Illusions Part 1: The Two Poets, by Honore de Balzac
273. Love Like Water, by Meme McDonald
274. Lovesong by Alex Miller
275. Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland
276. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
277. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
278. Man Overboard by Tim Binding, read by Stephen Crossley
279. The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
280. Mansfield, A Novel by C.K. Stead, read by Helen Morse
281. The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories by Rudyard Kipling
282. Mandarin Summer, by Fiona Kidman
283. The Map of Time by Felix Palma, translated by Nick Caistor
284. Mateship with Birds by Carrie Tiffany
285. Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson
286. Mazin Grace, by Dylan Coleman
287. Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann
288. Meet Me in Venice by Elizabeth Adler
289. Memoirs of a Suburban Girl by Deb Kandelaars
290. The Memory Room by Christopher Koch
291. The Memory of Salt, by Alice Melike Ulgezer
292. The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre by Dominic Smith
293. The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna
294. Merry-go-round in the Sea by Randolph Stow
295. Milk Fever by Lisa Reece-Lane
296. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
297. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
298. The Mountain by Drusilla Modjeska
299. Mr Midshipman Hornblower by C.S. Forester
300. Mr Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore, by Robin Sloan
301. Mr Shakespeare’s Bastard by Richard B. Wright
302. Mrs Miniver by Jan Struther
303. Murder on the Apricot Coast by Marion Halligan
304. The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk
305. Musk and Byrne, by Fiona Capp
306. My Hundred Lovers, by Susan Johnson (Combined reviews)
307. The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
308. My Crowded Solitude by Jack McLaren
309. The Mystery of Mercy Close by Marion Keyes +
310. Napoleon’s Double by Antoni Jach (see also)*
311. New Finnish Grammar, by Diego Marani, translated by Judith Landry
312. A New Map of the Universe by Annabel Smith
313. The New Moscow Philosophy, by Vyacheslav Pyetsukh
314. Next World Novella, by Matthias Politycki, translated by Anthea Bell
315. The Night Before Christmas by Nikolai Gogol
316. Night Street by Kristel Thornell
317. Nine Days, by Toni Jordan
318. No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe
319. Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not) by José Rizal, translated by Harold Augenbraum
320. The Northern Clemency, by Phillip Hensher, narrated by Carole Boyd
321. The Nose, by Nikolai Gogol, translated by Claud Field
322. Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley
323. Notes from an Exhibition by Patrick Gale
324. Nourishment by Gerard Woodward
325. Novel about My Wife by Emily Perkins
326. Oh Lucky Country by Rosa Cappiello
327. Omega Park by Amy Barker
328. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
329. On Our Selection by Steele Rudd
330. One Foot Wrong by Sofie Laguna
331. Opportunity by Charlotte Grimshaw
332. The Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith
333. Orpheus Lost by Janet Turner Hospital*
334. The Other Hand by Chris Cleave
335. Owls Do Cry by Janet Frame, read by Heather Bolton
336. The Pages by Murray Bail
337. The Painted Veil by W Somerset Maugham
338. Painter of Silence, by Georgina Harding
339. Paper Nautilus by Nicholas Jose, read by Paul English
340. The Paperbark Shoe by Goldie Goldbloom, read by Taylor Owynns
341. Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
342. Passarola Rising by Azhar Abidi
343. The Passport by Herta Muller
344. Past the Shallows by Favel Parrett
345. The Patience Stone by Atiq Rahimi
346. The Patron Saint of Eels by Gregory Day
347. The Peastick Girl, by Susan Hancock
348. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
349. Petersburg, by Andrei Bely
350. The Philanthropist by John Tesarsch
351. The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelenik
352. Pickle to Pie by Glenice Whitting
353. Pictures of Us by Todd Alexander, read by Deidre Rubenstein
354. A Pigeon and a Boy by Meir Shalev
355. The Place at Whitton, by Thomas Keneally, Narrated by Geoff Hiscock
356. The Plains by Gerald Murnane
357. Perfume by Patrick Suskind
358. Pilgrimage, by Jacinta Halloran
359. Please Look After Mother by Kyung-Sook Shin, translated by Chi-young Kim
360. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
361. The Poet by Alex Skovron
362. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth, read by Ron Silver
363. Potiki by Patricia Grace
364. The Prague Cemetery, by Umberto Eco, translated by Robert Dixon
365. The Precipice, by Virginia Duigan
366. The Pregnant Widow, by Martin Amis, read by Steven Pacey
367. The Prisoner of Heaven, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
368. The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft by George Gissing
369. Prochownik’s Dream by Alex Miller, read by Paul English
370. Professor Andersen’s Night by Dag Solstad, translated by Agnes Scott Langeland
371. Prohibited Zone by Alistair Sarre
372. A Promised Land? by Alan Collins
373. Provenance by Jane Messner *
374. Purple Threads, by Jeanine Leane
375. The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit
376. The Rainy Season by Myfanwy Jones
377. Ransom by David Malouf
378. Reading Madam Bovary by Amanda Lohrey
379. Rebirth by Jahnavi Barua
380. The Recluse, by Evelyn Juers
381. The Red and the Black by Stendhal
382. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
383. Red Dirt Talking, by Jacqueline Wright
384. The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
385. The Remains of the Day, by Kasuo Ishiguro
386. Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
387. The Rest is Weight: Stories, by Jennifer Mills **
388. Resurrection, by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Louise Maude
389. Reunion by Andrea Goldsmith
390. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
391. River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh
392. The Road Home by Rose Tremain
393. Robbery Under Arms by Rolf Boldrewood
394. Rocks in the Belly by Jon Bauer
395. Room by Emma Donaghue
396. The Roving Party by Rohan Wilson
397. Ruby Blues by Jessica Rudd
398. Rules for Old Men Waiting by Peter Pouncey
399. Running Dogs, by Ruby J Murray
400. Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant
401. Sanditon by Jane Austen
402. Sarah Thornhill by Kate Grenville
403. The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
404. The Scapegoat by Daphne du Maurier
405. Scenes from Village Life, by Amos Oz, translated by Nicholas de Lange
406. Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot
407. Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
408. The Second-Last Woman in England by Maggie Joel
409. The Secret of Lost Things, by Sheridan Hay (see also) *
410. The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
411. The Sense of an Ending, by Julian Barnes
412. A Separate Peace by John Knowles, read by Matthew Modine
413. Seven Houses in France by Bernardo Atxaga, translated by Margaret Jull Costa
414. Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie, read by Aasif Mandvi
415. Shadow Lines by Stephen Kinnane
416. The Shiralee by D’Arcy Niland, read by Ivor Kants
417. The Shot, by Alexander Pushkin
418. Shroud by John Banville
419. Siddon Rock by Glenda Guest
420. The Siege by Ismail Kadare
421. Silent House, by Orhan Pamuk, translated by Robert Finn
422. The Silver Wattle by Belinda Alexander, read by Caroline Lee
423. The Sinkings by Amanda Curtin
424. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
425. Six Impossible Things by Fiona Wood
426. Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
427. The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
428. Slow Water by Annamarie Jagose
429. The Sly Company of People Who Care by Rahul Bhattachariya
430. Small World by David Lodge *
431. Snake by Kate Jennings
432. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See, read by Janet Song
433. Snowdrops by A.D. Miller
434. A Soldier’s Tale by M. K. Joseph
435. Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill
436. Song for Night by Chris Abani
437. Songs from the Violet Cafe by Fiona Kidman**
438. The Song of Achilles, by Madeline Miller
439. The Solid Mandala by Patrick White
440. Solo by Rana Dasgupta
441. Sons of the Rumour by David Foster
442. The Sorrows of Young Werther, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
443. Spadework by Timothy Findlay
444. The  Spare Room by Helen Garner, read by Heather Bolton
445. Spinner by Ron Elliot
446. Spirit House, by Mark Dapin
447. Spirit of Progress, by Steven Carroll
448. The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
449. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
450. Street to Street, by Brian Castro
451. The Street Sweeper by Eliot Perlman
452. Summer Crossing by Truman Capote, read by Lorelei King
453. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
454. Sunscreen and Lipstick, by Liz Byrski  **
455. Sustenance, by Simone Lazaroo
456. Swallow the Air by Tara June Winch
457. The Swarm, by Andy Kissane  **
458. Sweet Old World by Deborah Robertson
459. Swimming by Enza Gandolfo
460. The Sword and the Miracle by Melvyn Bragg*
461. Swords and Crowns and Rings by Ruth Park
462. The Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift
463. Tales of the Austral Tropics by Ernest Favenc
464. The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott
465. Tamarisk Row, by Gerald Murnane
466. Tarcutta Wake, Stories by Josephine Rowe
467. The Taxi Queue by Janet Davey
468. The Tea Lords, by Hella S. Haasse
469. Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
470. That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott
471. There Should be More Dancing, by Rosalie Ham
472. These Foolish Things, by Deborah Moggach
473. Things That are Found in Trees & other stories, edited by Richard Rossiter
474. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
475. A Thousand Nights at the Ritz and other Stories by Alan Collins**
476. Three Sisters by Bi Feiyu, translated by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin
477. A Tiger in Eden, by Chris Flynn **
478. The Time in Between, by David Berger
479. Time’s Long Ruin by Stephen Orr
480. Tirra Lirra by the River by Jessica Anderson
481. To the Highlands, by Jon Doust
482. To the Islands by Randolph Stow
483. Touch by Adania Shibli
484. Tourmaline, by Randolph Stow, narrated by Francis Greenslade
485. The Tower Mill, by James Moloney
486. Traitor by Stephen Daisley
487. Trap by Peter Mathers
488. Treasures of Time by Penelope Lively
489. Trespass by Valerie Martin
490. The Trout Opera by Matthew Condon
491. The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker
492. Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka *
493. The Twyborn Affair by Patrick White
494. Ulysses by James Joyce #1#2 #3 #4#5#6#7#8#9#10#11 #12#13#14#15#16#17#18
495. The Umbrella Club by David Brooks
496. Unaccountable Hours by Stephen Scourfield
497. The Unfortunates by B.S. Johnson
498. Utopian Man by Lisa Lang
499. Valley of Masks by Tarun J Tejpal
500. Varamo, by Cesar Aira, translated by Chris Andrews
501. The Verge Practice by Barry Maitland*
502. Vertigo by Amanda Lohrey
503. The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
504. Vicky Swanky is a Beauty, by Diane Williams
505. The Vintage and the Gleaning by Jeremy Chambers
506. Virtuoso by Sonia Orchard, narrated by Humphrey Bower
507. Voss by Patrick White
508. The Voyage, by Murray Bail
509. Wandering Falcon by Jamil Ahmad
510. Wandering Star by J.M.G. Le Clézio
511. Wanting by Richard Flanagan
512. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
513. War and Peace and Sonya by Judith Armstrong
514. The Wasted Vigil by Nadeem Aslam
515. Watch Out for Me, by Sylvia Johnson
516. Water Mirrors, by Nicholas Powell
517. Water Wahala by Isaac Neequaye
518. Ways of Escape by Hugh Mackay
519. We All Fall Down, by Peter Barry
520. We of the Never-Never by Mrs Aeneus Gunn
521. The Wedding Shroud by Elizabeth Storrs
522. What the Family Needed, by Steven Amsterdam
523. When Colts Ran by Roger McDonald
524. While I Have Pedro by John Chesterman
525. Whisky Charlie Foxtrot, by Annabel Smith
526. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
527. The Widow and Her Hero by Thomas Keneally
528. Winter Journey by Diane Armstrong, narrated by Deirde Rubenstein
529. Wish You Were Here by Graham Swift
530. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
531. The Women in Black by Madeleine St John
532. The World Beneath by Cate Kennedy
533. Wulf by Hamish Clayton
534. Wyatt by Garry Disher#
535. The Yalda Crossing, by Noel Beddoe
536. The Zookeeper’s War by Steven Conte

Non Fiction

1. 1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia by James Boyce
2. After Such Knowledge by Eva Hoffman
3. After Words by Paul Keating
4. Agent Garbo, by Stephan Talty
5. Ancient Shore, Despatches from Naples by Shirley Hazzard
6. The Apple by Penelope Holt
7. Appo, Recollections of a Member of the Sydney Push by Richard Appleton
8. At the Very Heart by Storry Walton
9. An Awkward Truth by Peter Grose
10. Bad Hair Days, by Pamela Bone
11. Bad News, Murdoch’s Australian and the Shaping of the Nation by Robert Manne
12. Barcelona by Robert Hughes
13. Beatrix Potter by Linda Lear
14. Bold Palates: Australia’s Gastronomic Heritage, by Barbara Santich
15. The Book is Dead by Sherman Young
16. Brief Encounters, Literary Travellers in Australia 1836-1939 by Susannah Fullerton
17. Brief Lives: E.M.Forster by Richard Canning
18. The Burning Library, by Geordie Williamson
19. By the Book, A Reader’s Guide to Life, by Ramona Koval
20. The Cambridge History of Australian Literature, edited by Peter Pierce
21. Chefs of the Margaret River Region, by Sue-Lyn Aldrian-Moyle and Lisa Hanley
22. The Cello Suites by Eric Siblin
23. The Complete Book of Heroic Australian Women, by Susanna de Vries
24. The Corpse Walker by Liao Yiwu
25. Creme de la Phlegm, Unforgettable Australian Reviews by Angela Bennie
26. Dampier’s Monkey: The South Seas Voyages of William Dampier by Adrian Mitchell
27. Dogs in Australian Art, by Steven Miller
28. Double Native, by Fiona Wirrer-George Oochunyung
29. Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
30. Encountering Terra Australis: The Australian Voyages of Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders by Jean Fornasiero, Peter Monteath and John West-Sooby
31. Enlightenment, Discovering the World in the  Eighteenth Century, edited by Kim Sloan
32. Europe @2.4km/h by Ken Haley
33. Exile: the Lives and Hopes of Werner Pelz, by Roger Averill
34. Fabled Shore, from the Pyrenees to Portugal by Rose Macauley
35. Fairweather by Murray Bail
36. The Fanfrolico Press by John Arnold
37. Fishing in the Styx by Ruth Park, read by Anna Volska
38. Five Days in London by John Lukacs
39. Flavours of Melbourne by Charmaine O’Brien
40. Flavours of Melbourne, by Jonette George, Daniele Wilton, and Brad Hill
41. Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage by Hazel Rowley
42. Fred Williams by Patrick McCaughey
43. Galileo, Antichrist by Michael White
44. The Ghost at the Wedding by Shirley Walker
45. Ghosts of Spain by Giles Tremlet
46. The Good, The Bad and the Unlikely by Mungo MacCallum
47. Grand Obsessions: The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin, by Alasdair McGregor
48. Great Central State The Foundation of the Northern Territory by Jack Cross
49. The Great Race, by David Hill
50. Heaven Where the Bachelors Sit by Gerard Windsor
51. The Henson Case, by David Marr
52. Her Father’s Daughter by Alice Pung**
53. The Home of the Blizzard by Douglas Mawson
54. House of Exile by Evelyn Juers
55. A House Unlocked by Penelope Lively
56. I Am Melba by Ann Blainey
57. The Ice Beneath My Feet by Diana Patterson
58. Icons, Masterpieces of Russian Art, by Olga A. Polyakova
59. Images of the Interior: Seven Central Australian Photographers by Philip Jones
60. Into the Woods, by Anna Krien*
61. Joseph Banks, A Life, by Patrick O’Brian
62. The Judgement of Paris by Ross King
63. Katherine Mansfield The Storyteller by Kathleen Jones
64. The Landmark Herodotus, edited by Robert B. Strassler
65. Larrikins, a History, by Melissa Bellanta
66. The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer
67. Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, edited by Anita Heiss and Peter Minter
68. The Man Who Lost Himself by Robyn Annear
69. Margaret Olley, Far From a Still Life by Meg Stewart
70. Mary Poppins She Wrote by Valerie Lawson
71. Meerreeng-an – Here is My Country, edited by Chris Keeler and Vicki Couzens
72. The Messenger by Yannick Haenel
73. Michael Kirby, Law, Love & Life, by Daryl Dellora
74. The Mish: Childhood Memories of Framlingham Aboriginal Station by Robert Lowe
75. Montebello, A Memoir, by Robert Drewe
76. My Blood’s Country by Fiona Capp
77. My Place, by Sally Morgan, read by Melodie Reynolds
78. Not Going to Vietnam by Garrie Hutchinson
79. Nothing but Gold, the Diggers of 1852 by Robyn Annear
80. Nothing Like a Dame, Phyllis Frost by Bernadette Clohesy
81. Obsessive Genius, The Inner World of Marie Curie by Barbara Goldsmith
82. Ochre and Rust by Philip Jones
83. On Beauty by Susan Johnson
84. On Experience by David Malouf
85. Out of the Well, by Lisa Eskinazi
86. Over There with the Australians by R. Hugh Knyvett
87. Oxygen City-Guides: Paris, Berlin and St Petersburg
88. Peggy Guggenheim, by Laurence Tacou-Rumney, translated by Ralph Rumney
89. The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman, read by Stephen Greif
90. Piano Lessons by Anna Goldsworthy
91. The Place for a Village by Gary Presland
92. Plenty by Gay Bilson
93. Popeye Never Told You: Childhood Memories of the War by Rodney Hall
94. The Possessed, Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, by Elif Batuman
95. The Pride of Prahran : a History of the Prahran Library, 1860-2010, by Stella M Barber
96. Produce to Platter: Yarra Valley & the Dandenongs by Jonette George
97. Radical Melbourne, a Secret History by Jeff Sparrow and Jill Sparrow
98. Reading by Moonlight by Brenda Walker, read by Jane Nolan
99. Reading the OED by Ammon Shea
100. Resistance, Memoirs of Occupied France, by Agnes Humbert
101. Riding the Trains in Japan by Patrick Holland
102. A Russian Journal by John Steinbeck
103. Searching for the Secret River by Kate Grenville
104. Seduced by Logic, by Robyn Arianrhod
105. The Shell Country Alphabet by John Grigson
106. A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby
107. Sideshow by Lindsay Tanner
108. Slow Journeys by Gillian Souter
109. Smythe’s Theory of Everything by Robert Hollingworth**
110. Stalingrad, by Antony Beevor
111. Staying Alive by Alexander Fullerton, read by Nicolette McKenzie
112. Stella Miles Franklin, A  Biography by Jill Roe
113. The Tall Man by Chloe Hooper
114. Tasmanian Aborigines: A History since 1803, by Lyndall Ryan
115. Tears in the Darkness by Michael Normal and Elizabeth M. Norman
116. Time Without Clocks by Joan Lindsay
117. The Translator by Daoud Hari
118. A Traveller’s History of Russia, by Peter Neville
119. Travels with Epicurus, by Daniel Klein
120. Trouble in Lotus Land by Charmian Clift
121. Ulysses and Us by Declan Kiberd
122. An Unlikely Leader by Robert Barnes
123. Us and Them, On the Importance of Animals, by Anna Krien
124. A Very Rude Awakening, by Peter Grose
125. Walking the Camino by Tony Kevin
126. The Well at the World’s End by A.J. Mackinnon
127. Wicked But Virtuous, by Mirka Mora
128. With Stendhal by Simon Leys
129. Women of the Long March by Lily Xiao Hong and Sue Wiles, read by Stephanie Daniel
130. Yulyurlu Lorna Fencer Naparrurla, edited by Margie West

Complete List of Opening Lines from Miles Franklin winners and reviews on this blog so far

(Years with missing links are titles I don’t have a copy of, yet, or have not yet posted their opening lines.  The titles in bold are the ones I’ve read.)

1957  Voss by Patrick White, see my review
1958  To the Islands by Randolph Stow, see my review
1959  The Big Fellow by Vance Palmer, see my review
1960  The Irishman by Elizabeth O’Connor, see my review
1961  Riders in the Chariot by Patrick White
1962  The Well Dressed Explorer by Thea Astley and The Cupboard Under the Stairs by George Turner
1963  Careful He Might Hear You by Sumner Locke Eliot
1964  My Brother Jack by George Johnston
1965  The Slow Natives by Thea Astley
1966  Trap by Peter Mathers, see my review
1967  Bring Larks and Heroes by Thomas Keneally
1968  Three Cheers for the Paraclete by Thomas Keneally
1969  Clean Straw for Nothing by George Johnston
1970  A Horse of Air by Dal Stivens
1971  The Unknown Industrial Prisoner by David Ireland
1972  The Acolyte by Thea Astley, see my review
1973  No award
1974  The Mango Tree by Ronald McKie
1975  Poor Fellow My Country by Xavier Herbert
1976  The Glass Canoe by David Ireland
1977  Swords and Crowns and Rings by Ruth Park, see my review
1978  Tirra Lirra by the River by Jessica Anderson, see my review
1979  A Woman of the Future by David Ireland
1980  The Impersonators by Jessica Anderson (This post is entitled Vale Jessica Anderson)
1981  Bliss by Peter Carey
1982  Just Relations by Rodney Hall
1983  No award
1984  Shallows by Tim Winton
1985  The Doubleman by Christopher Koch
1986  The Well by Elizabeth Jolley
1987  Dancing on Coral by Glenda Adams
1988  No award (Date changed from year of publication to year of announcement)
1989  Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
1990  Oceana Fine by Tom Flood
1991  The Great World by David Malouf
1992  Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
1993  The Ancestor Game by Alex Miller
1994  The Grisly Wife by Rodney Hall
1995  The Hand That Signed the Paper by Helen Demidenko
1996  Highways to a War by Christopher Koch
1997  The Glade Within the Grove by David Foster
1998  Jack Maggs by Peter Carey
1999  Eucalyptus by Murray Bail
2000 Drylands by Thea Astley and Benang by Kim Scott, see my review
2001  Dark Palace by Frank Moorhouse
2002  Dirt Music by Tim Winton
2003  Journey to the Stone Country by Alex Miller
2004  The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
2005  The White Earth by Andrew McGahan
2006  The Ballad of Desmond Kale by Roger McDonald
2007  Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
2008  The Time We Have Taken by Stephen Carroll
2009  Breath by Tim Winton, see my review
2010 Truth by Peter Temple
2011 That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott, see my review
2012 All That I Am by Anna Funder, see my review

*      Guest review by Sally Cripps.
#     Guest review by Helen Rutten
**   Guest review by Karen Lee Thompson
##  Guest Review by Dr Lurline Stuart
+     Guest review by Marg Bates
++ Guest review by Subhasn Jaireth

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