Complete list of titles reviewed on this blog since 19/7/08, alphabetically by title, listed under Fiction or Non-Fiction.
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Fiction
- 1915, A Novel, by Roger McDonald
- 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
- 8 States of Catastrophe by Karen Lee Thompson
- 88 Lines about 44 Women by Steven Lang
- The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
- The Accident by Ismail Kadare
- The Acolyte by Thea Astley
- Aquarium, by David Vann
- Admiring Silence, by Abdulrazak Gurnah
- After Cleo Came Jonah, by Helen Brown
- After Darkness, by Christine Piper (2014 Vogel winner)
- After the Darkness, by Honey Brown
- After the Fall, by Kylie Ladd
- After the Fire, A Still Small Voice by Evie Wyld
- After Love, by Subhash Jaireth
- The Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre
- Alice, by Judith Hermann, translated by Margot Bettauer Dembo
- All Our Worldly Goods by Irene Nemirovsky
- All That I Am by Anna Funder
- All That Is, by James Salter
- All the Green Year, by Don Charlwood
- Almayer’s Folly by Joseph Conrad
- The Almond Picker, by Simonetta Agnello Hornby, translated by Alastair McEwen
- Almost French by Sarah Turnbull*
- The Aloe, by Katherine Mansfield
- Alone in Berlin, by Hans Fallada, translated by Michael Hofman
- Alva’s Boy by Alan Collins
- The Amateur Science of Love by Craig Sherborne
- Americana, by Don DeLillo
- Amok and Other Stories, by Stefan Zweig, translated by Anthea Bell
- Amy’s Children by Olga Masters
- The Anatomy of Wings by Karen Foxlee
- Anchor Point, by Alice Robinson
- Ancient Light, by John Banville
- And the War is Over, by Ismail Marahimin, translated by John H. McGlynn
- Anne of the Iron Door, by Alan Loney
- Anguli Ma: A Gothic Tale by Chi Vu
- Animal People by Charlotte Wood
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Anne Hereford, by Ellen (Mrs Henry) Wood
- Another Country, by Anjali Joseph
- Antipodes by David Malouf **
- Ariel, by Sylvia Plath
- The Ark, by Annabel Smith
- As the Earth Turns Silver by Alison Wong
- As the River Runs, by Stephen Scourfield
- L’Assommoir (The Dram Shop), by Émile Zola, translated by Margaret Mauldon
- At Swim – Two Birds by Flann O’Brien
- The Australian Long Story, edited by Mandy Sayer
- Australian Love Stories, edited by Cate Kennedy, guest review by Karenlee Thompson **
- Auto-da-Fé by Elias Canetti
- The Automobile Club of Egypt by Alla Al Aswany, translated by Russell Harris
- Autumn Laing, by Alex Miller
- Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis
- Baby No-eyes, by Patricia Grace
- The Back of His Head, by Patrick Evans
- The Ballad of Desmond Kale, by Roger McDonald
- The Barracks by John McGahern
- The Bath Fugues by Brian Castro
- The Battlers by Kylie Tennant, read by Jacklyn Kelleher
- The Bay of Noon by Shirley Hazzard
- A Beautiful Place to Die, by Malla Nunn, narrated by Humphrey Bower
- Beauty is a Wound, by Eka Kurniawan, translated by Annie Tucker
- The Believers, by Zoe Heller
- The Belly of Paris, by Émile Zola, translated by Brian Nelson
- Belomor, by Nicolas Rothwell
- Belonging by Isabel Huggan
- The Beloved, by Annah Faulkner
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Benang by Kim Scott
- Beneath the Darkening Sky, by Majok Tulba
- Bereft by Chris Womersley
- Berlin Syndrome, by Melanie Joosten
- Beside the Sea by Veronica Olmi
- La Bete Humaine (The Beast in Man) by Émile Zola, translated by Roger Pearson
- The Betrayal, by Liam Davison
- Between Enemies, by Andrea Molesini, translated by Antony Shugaar and Patrick Creagh
- Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga
- Between Clay And Dust, by Musharraf Ali Farooqi
- Between Sky and Sea by Herz Bergner
- The Big Fellow, by Vance Palmer
- Bird by Sophie Cunningham
- The Birds of the Air, by Alice Thomas Ellis
- The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
- Black Glass by Meg Mundell
- The Black Lake, by Hella S Haasse, translated by Ina Rilke
- Black Mountain, by Venero Armanno
- Black Rock White City, by A.S. Patrić
- A Blade of Grass, by Lewis DeSoto
- The Blind Eye by Georgia Blain
- Blindness, by José Saramago, translated by Giovanni Pontiero
- Blood, by Tony Birch
- Blooms of Darkness, by Aharon Appelfeld, translated by Jeffrey M Green
- The Blue Guitar, by John Banville
- Blue Skies, by Helen Hodgman
- Blueprints for a Barbed-wire Canoe, by Wayne Macauley
- The Boat, by Clara Salaman
- The Boat by Nam Le
- The Boatman by John Burbidge
- Bodies of Light, by Sarah Moss
- The Body in the Clouds, by Ashley Hay
- A Body of Water by Beverley Farmer
- The Book of Emmett by Deborah Forster
- The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
- The Book of Rachael by Leslie Cannold
- The Book of Strange New Things, by Michel Faber
- The Bookman’s Tale, by Charlie Lovett
- Border Crossing by Pat Barker*
- Boy on a Wire by Jon Doust
- Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, Narrated by Michael York
- The Break, by Deb Fitzpatrick
- The Breaker, by Kit Denton
- Breath by Tim Winton
- Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
- Bridget Jones’s Diary, by Helen Fielding
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
- The Briefcase, by Hiromi Kawakani, translated by Allison Markin Powell
- Bright and Distant Shores by Dominic Smith
- Brigid, by Jill Blee
- The Bright Side of My Condition, by Charlotte Randall
- Bring Larks and Heroes, by Thomas Keneally
- Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
- Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
- The Buddha of Suburbia, by Hanif Kureishi
- Bulibasha, by Witi Ihimaera
- Bundu, by Chris Barnard, translated by Michiel Heyns
- The Burial, by Courtney Collins
- Burnt Shadows, by Kamila Shamsie, narrated by Jane McDowell
- Bush Studies by Barbara Baynton
- Butterfly by Sonya Hartnett
- Cairo, by Chris Womersley
- Cairo Paris Melbourne, by Maher Abou Elsaoud
- Caleb’s Crossing, by Geraldine Brooks
- Calypso Summer, by Jared Thomas
- Campaign Ruby by Jessica Rudd
- Capricornia by Xavier Herbert
- Captives, by Angela Meyer
- Carol, by Patricia Highsmith
- Carry Me Across the Water by Ethan Canin
- The Captain and the Enemy by Graham Greene
- A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif
- Castle Rackrent, by Maria Edgeworth
- Cat and Fiddle, by Lesley Jorgensen
- Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
- Caught in Two Winds, by Monika Pant
- The Cellist of Sarajevo by Stephen Galloway
- Changes, by Ama Ata Aidoo
- The Changing Forms of Clouds by Dalia Millingen**
- The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Thomas Keneally
- Chappy, by Patricia Grace
- Charades, by Janette Turner Hospital
- Cheating at Canasta by William Trevor
- The Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey
- The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
- Child of the Twilight, by Carmel Bird
- Child’s Play by David Malouf
- The Children, by Ida Jessen, translated by Don Bartlett
- The Children by Charlotte Wood
- The Children’s Book by A.S. Byatt
- The Chimes, by Anna Smaill
- The China Factory, by Mary Costello **
- The China Garden by Kristina Olssen
- Chinaman The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, A Novel by Shehan Karunatilaka
- Christmas Pudding, by Nancy Mitford
- City of God by E.L. Doctorow
- Claustrophobia, by Tracy Ryan
- Closer to Stone, by Simon Cleary
- The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant
- Cloudstreet, by Tim Winton (Folio Society Edition)
- Coal Creek, by Alex Miller
- Coda, by Thea Astley
- Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons
- Cold Light, by Frank Moorhouse
- The Colonel by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, translated by Tom Patterdale
- Come Inside by G.L. (Glenys) Osborne
- The Comfort of Figs by Simon Cleary*
- Coming Rain, by Stephen Daisley
- A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
- The Concert Ticket by Olga Grushin
- Concrete, by Thomas Bernhard
- The Concubine, by Elechi Amadi
- The Conductor, by Sarah Quigley
- The Confidential Agent, by Graham Greene, narrated by Tim Piggott-Smith
- The Conquest of Plassans, by Emile Zola, translated by Helen Constantine
- The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer
- The Conversation, by David Brooks
- The Cook by Wayne Macauley
- Cousin Bette, by Honoré de Balzac
- Cousins, by Patricia Grace
- Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
- The Crocus Hour, by Charlotte Randall.
- Crome Yellow, by Aldous Huxley
- Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
- Crow Mellow, by Julian Davies
- The Cry of Winnie Mandela, by Njabulo Ndebele
- The Cupboard Under the Stairs, by George Turner
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F Scott Fitzgerald
- A Dance to the Movement of Time, by Anthony Powell
- Dancer by Colum McCann
- Dancing in My Dreams, confronting the spectre of polio, by Kerry Highley
- Daniel Stein, Interpreter, by Ludmila Ulitskaya ++
- Dark Clouds on the Mountain by John Tully
- The Dark Tide by Vera Brittain
- The Darkest Little Room, by Patrick Holland
- Darkness of the Edge of Town, by Jessie Cole
- The Daughters of Mars, by Thomas Keneally
- Daughters Who Walk this Path, by Yejide Kilanko
- Day, by A.L. Kennedy
- Dead Souls, by Nikolai Gogol, narrated by Gordon Griffin
- Death by Water, by Kenzaburo Oe, translated by Deborah Boliver Boehm
- Death Fugue, by Sheng Keyi, translated by Shelly Bryant
- A Death in the Family, by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated by Don Bartlett
- The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave#
- Death of a River Guide by Richard Flanagan
- Death of a Whaler by Nerida Newton, read by Christopher Brown
- Deeper Water, by Jessie Cole
- A Delicate Truth, by John le Carre
- Demons, by Wayne Macauley
- A Descant for Gossips, by Thea Astley
- Desert, by J M G Le Clezio, Translated by C. Dickson
- The Detour, by Gerbrand Bakker
- The Devil’s Advocate by Morris West
- Dining Alone, Stories from the Table for One, edited by Barbara Santich
- Dirt, by David Vann
- Disquiet by Julia Leigh
- Dissection, by Jacinta Halloran
- Dissonance, by Stephen Orr
- Distant Music by Lee Langley
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 3, by Philip K. Dick and illustrated by Tony Parker
- Doctor Wooreddy’s Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World, by Mudrooroo a.k.a. Colin Johnson
- Document Z by Andrew Croome
- Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
- Dog Boy by Eva Hornung
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- Don’t Leave Home: A travel Guide by Timothy Morrell
- The Double by José Saramago
- The Double, by Maria Takolander **
- Dream of Ding Village by Yan Lianke
- The Dream, by Emile Zola, translated by Andrew Brown
- Dreams of Joy by Lisa See
- Dressing up for the Carnival by Carol Shields**
- Drift, by Brian Castro
- The Drinker, by Hans Fallada, translated by Charlotte and A.L. Lloyd
- The Driver’s Seat, by Muriel Spark, read by Judi Dench
- Drop City by T C Boyle *
- The Drunken Buddha, by Ian Fairweather
- Dublinesque, by Enrique Vila-Matas, translated by Rosalind Harvey and Anne Mclean
- Earth, by Bruce Pascoe
- Earth (La Terre) by Emile Zola, translated by Brian Nelson and Julie Rose
- The Edge of Bali, by Inez Baranay
- Ekaterinburg by Helen Rappaport
- The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens
- Elemental, by Amanda Curtin
- The Emperor of Lies, by Steve Sem-Sandberg, translated by Sarah Death
- The Empress Lover, by Linda Jaivin
- The End of Longing by Ian Reid
- The End of Seeing, by Christy Collins
- The End of the World, poems by Maria Takolander, Guest review by Karenlee Thompson **
- End of the Night Girl by Amy Mathews
- Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
- The Engagement, by Chloe Hooper
- The English Class by Ouyang Yu
- The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje
- Escape by Anna Fienberg
- The Essence of the Thing, by Madeleine St John
- Even the Dogs by Jon McGregor
- The Evening of the Holiday by Shirley Hazzard
- The Ever After of Ashwin Rao, by Padma Viswanathan
- Every Day is for the Thief, by Teju Cole
- Every Day is Mother’s Day, by Hilary Mantel, narrated by Sandra Duncan
- Every Secret Thing, by Marie Munkara
- Everything I Knew by Peter Goldsworthy
- An Exclusive Love by Joanna Adorján, translated by Anthea Bell
- The Eye of the Storm by Patrick White
- The Factory, by Paddy O’Reilly
- Faceless, by Amma Darko
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Fair Game by Carmel Bird
- Fairyland, by Sumner Locke Elliott
- Falling Man by Don DeLillo
- The Family Law by Benjamin Law
- The Family Men, by Catherine Harris
- Family Room, by Lily Yulianti Farid, Translated by John H. McGlynn
- The Fall and the Heart, by S. Rukiah, translated John, H. McGlynn
- Fall Girl by Toni Jordan
- The Fall of the Stone City, by Ismail Kadare, translated by John Hodgson
- Fanny Hill by John Cleland
- The Far Road by George Johnson
- Fateless, by Imre Kertész
- Fathers and Sons, by Ivan Turgenev
- Fear is the Rider, by Kenneth Cook
- The Female Quixote, by Charlotte Lennox
- Fever at Dawn, by Péter Gárdos, translated by Elizabeth Szász
- Fever of Animals, by Miles Allinson
- Figurehead by Patrick Allington
- Finders and Keepers by Catrin Collier, read by Kate Jarman
- The Fine Colour of Rust, by P.A. Reilly
- Fire, a collection of stories, poems and visual images, edited by Delys Bird **
- The First Week, by Margaret Merrilees
- The Fishermen, by Chigozie Obioma
- Flood of Fire, by Amitav Ghosh
- Floundering, by Romy Ash
- Fly Away Peter, by David Malouf
- Foal’s Bread by Gillian Mears
- The Folded Earth by Anuradha Roy
- The Following, by Roger McDonald
- (For the Term of) His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke##
- (For the Term of) His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke
- For Someone I Love, a collection of writing by Arapera Blank
- Forecast: Turbulence, by Janette Turner Hospital
- Forever Young, by Steven Carroll
- The Fortune of the Rougons, by Emile Zola, translated by Brian Nelson
- The Foundling Boy, by Michel Deon, translated by Julian Evans
- The Foundling’s War, by Michel Déon, translated by Julian Evans
- The Four Books, by Yan Lianke, translated by Carlos Rojas
- A Fraction of the Whole, by Steve Toltz
- Fugitive Pieces, by Anne Michaels
- The Free World by David Bezmozgis
- The French Tutor by Judith Armstrong
- From Now On Everything Will Be Different, by Eliza Vitri Handayani
- From the Mouth of the Whale by Sjón, translated by Victoria Cribb
- Fugitive Blue by Claire Thomas
- The Funeral Party, by Ludmila Ulitskaya
- G by John Berger
- Game, by Trevor Shearston
- The Garden of Evening Mists, by Tan Twan Eng
- The Garden of Sorrows, by John Hughes, with artwork by Marco Luccio
- Gasoline, by Quim Monzo, translated by Mary Ann Newman
- The Gathering by Anne Enright
- Generals Die in Bed by Charles Yale
- Germinal by Émile Zola
- Ghost River, by Tony Birch
- Gifted by Patrick Evans
- The Girl from the Coast by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
- The Girl Who Fell from the Sky, by Simon Mawer
- The Girl You Left Behind, by Jojo Moyes +
- The Girls of Slender Means, by Muriel Spark
- The Glass Canoe, by David Ireland
- The Glass Kingdom, by Chris Flynn, guest review by Karenlee Thompson
- The Glass Room by Simon Mawer, read by Jefferson Mays
- Glissando by David Musgrave
- A God in Every Stone, by Kamila Shamsie
- Godiva by Nerys Jones
- God’s Dog by Diego Marani, translated by Judith Landry
- The Golden Age, by Joan London
- The Golden Dice, by Elisabeth Storrs
- The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Phillip Pullman
- The Good Muslim by Tahmina Anam
- Goodbye Mr Chips by James Hilton
- Goodbye Sweetheart, by Marion Halligan
- Gone by Jennifer Mills
- Good on Paper, by Andrew Morgan **
- The Good Parents by Joan London
- The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
- Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott
- Gotland, by Fiona Capp
- The Great Unknown, Edited by Angela Meyer
- Great Western Highway, by Anthony Macris
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
- A Guinea Pig Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, Alex Goodwin & Tess Gammell
- Hand Me Down World by Lloyd Jones
- The Hand of Fatima, by Ildefonso Falcones, translated by Nick Caistor
- A Handful of Sand, by Marinko Koscec, translated by Will Firth
- The Hands, by Stephen Orr
- The Hanged Man in the Garden by Marion Halligan**
- Hannah and Emil, by Belinda Castles
- Happy Valley, by Patrick White
- Harmless, by Julienne Van Loon
- Harland’s Half Acre, by David Malouf
- The Harp in the South by Ruth Park
- Hate, a Romance by Tristan Garcia, translated by Marion Duvert and Lorin Stein
- The Haunted Hotel, by Wilkie Collins
- The Heaven I Swallowed, by Rachel Hennessy
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- Hergesheimer in the Present Tense, by Morris Lurie
- HHhH, by Laurent Binet, translated by Sam Taylor
- The Hidden, by Candida Baker
- Hill of Grace, by Stephen Orr
- His Excellency Eugene Rougon, by Emile Zola, Translated by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
- A History of Books, by Gerald Murnane
- History of the Rain, by Niall Williams
- Hokitika Town by Charlotte Randall
- A Hologram for the King, by Dave Eggers
- The Homecoming by Bernard Schlink
- Homer and Langley by E.L.Doctorow
- Honour, by Elif Shafak, translated by Omca A. Korugan
- A Horse of Air, by Dal Stivens
- Hotel du Lac, by Anita Brookner
- The Hours by Michael Cunningham
- The House in Smyrna, by Tatiana Salem Levy, translated by Alison Entrekin
- The House of the Mosque by Kader Abdolah
- The Household Guide to Dying by Debra Adelaide (see also)*
- How It Feels by Brendan Cowell
- How Late It Was, How Late, by James Kelman
- How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Sasa Stanisic
- The Hum of Concrete, by Anna Solding
- Human Traces, by Sebastian Faulks
- Hunger Town, by Wendy Scarfe
- The Hut Builder, by Laurence Fearnley
- I Do Not Come to You By Chance by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
- I for Isobel by Amy Witting
- I Hate Martin Amis et al by Peter Barry
- I Refuse, by Per Petterson, translated by Don Bartlett
- Ice by Louis Nowra
- If I Should Lose You, by Natasha Lester
- If on a Winter’s Night A Traveller, by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver
- The Iliad by Homer, translated by Robert Fagan
- Imago, by Francesca Rendle-Short
- In Certain Circles, by Elizabeth Harrower
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (more fiction than NF, though a bit of both)
- In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul
- In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield
- In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut
- In My Father’s House, by Jane Mundy
- In Pursuit by Joanna Fitzpatrick
- In the Company of the Courtesan, by Sarah Dunant
- In the Fog of a Seasons’ End, by Alex La Guma
- In the Kitchen by Monica Ali
- In the Memorial Room, by Janet Frame
- In the Night of Time, by Antonio Muñoz Moline, translated by Edith Grossman
- In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
- Indelible Ink by Fiona McGregor
- Inez, by Carlos Fuentes, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
- The Infinite Air, by Fiona Kidman (and My God, It’s a Woman, by Nancy Bird)
- The Inheritance of Ivorie Hammer, by Edwina Preston
- The Interpreter, by Diego Marani, translated by Judith Landry
- An Imaginary Life by David Malouf
- The Impostor by Damon Galgut, read by Humphrey Bower
- The Infinities by John Banville
- The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
- Inland by Gerald Murnane
- An Innocent Gentleman by Elizabeth Jolley
- The Invisible Man, by H.G. Wells, read by James Adams
- The Irishman, by Elizabeth O’Conner
- Isabelle of the Moon and Stars, by S.A. Jones
- Island of a Thousand Mirrors, by Nayomi Munaweera
- The Italian Girl, by Rebecca Huntley
- It’s Fine by Me, by Per Petterson, translated by Don Bartlett
- Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
- Jennie Gerhardt by Theodore Dreiser
- Joe Wilson and His Mates by Henry Lawson
- Julia Paradise, by Rod Jones
- Just_a_girl, by Kirsten Krauth
- Kayang and Me, by Kim Scott and Hazel Brown
- The Kill, by Emile Zola, translated by Brian Nelson
- The Kindness of Your Nature, by Linda Olsson
- A King in Hiding, by Fahim, translated by Barbara Mellor
- The King of Tuzla by Arnold Hoop de Haar
- Knitting and Other Stories, Edited by Richard Rossiter **
- Kulurdu Marni Ngathaitya! A Kaurna Learner’s Guide, by Rob Amery and Jane Simpson
- Kusamakura, by Natsume Sōseki, translated by Meredith McKinney
- La Rochelle’s Road by Tanya Moir
- The Ladies’ Paradise, by Emile Zola, translated by Brian Nelson
- The Lake by Banana Yoshimoto, translated by Michael Emmerich
- Lady Oracle, by Margaret Atwood, read by Lorelei King
- The Landing, by Susan Johnson
- Landscape of Desire, by Kevin Rabalais
- Landscape of Farewell by Alex Miller
- Lantana Lane, by Eleanor Dark
- Last Day in the Dynamite Factory, by Annah Faulkner
- The Last Illusion, by Porochista Khakpour
- The Last of the Vostyachs, by Diego Marani, translated by Judith Landry
- The Last Warner Woman, by Kei Miller
- Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay
- Leap, by Myfanwy Jones
- Legacy by Larissa Behrendt
- The Legacy by Kirsten Tranter
- Legend of a Suicide by David Vann
- Lenin’s Kisses, by Yan Lianke, translated by Carlos Rojas
- Let Me Sing You Gentle Songs by Linda Olsson, narrated by Edwina Wren
- Let the Games Begin, by Niccolo Ammaniti, translated by Kylee Doust
- Letters of Two Brides by Honore de Balzac
- Letters to the End of Love, by Yvette Walker, Guest Review by Karenlee Thompson
- Levels of Life, by Julian Barnes
- The Liberator’s Birthday by Jill Blee, read by Stanley McGeagh
- The Lie, by Helen Dunmore
- The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville
- Life and Fate, by Vasily Grossman
- The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt, by Tracy Farr
- Life Drawing, a novel, by Robin Black
- Life of a Counterfeiter, by Yasushi Inoue, translated by Michael Emmerich
- The Life of an Unknown Man by Andrei Makine
- The Life of Houses, by Lisa Gorton
- Life in Seven Mistakes by Susan Johnson
- The Light Between Oceans by M.L.Stedman
- Like Being a Wife by Catherine Harris
- Limassol, by Yishai Sarid, translated by Barbara Harshaw
- Liquid Nitrogen, by Jennifer Maiden, ***
- The List of My Desires, by Grégoire Delacourt, translated by Anthea Bell
- The Little Hotel by Christina Stead
- Little Jewel, by Patrick Modiano, translated by Penny Hueston
- Little Man, What Now? by Hans Fallada, translated by Susan Bennett
- Little People by Jane Sullivan
- Locust Girl, by Merlinda Bobis
- The Longing by Candice Bruce
- Loose by Ouyang Yu
- Lost and Found, by Brooke Davis, Guest review by Karenlee Thompson **
- The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser
- The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, by Heinrich Boll, translated by Leila Vennewitz
- Lost Illusions Part 1: The Two Poets, by Honore de Balzac
- Lost Illusions Part 2: A Distinguished Provincial at Paris, by Honore de Balzac
- Lost Illusions Part 3: Eve and David, by Honore de Balzac
- Lost River, four albums, by Simone Lazaroo
- Lost Voices, by Christopher Koch
- A Love Affair (Une page d’amour), by Emile Zola, translated by Jean Stewart
- Love and Summer, by William Trevor
- Love in a Fallen City, by Eileen Chang, translated by Karen S Kingsbury and Eileen Chang
- Love Like Water, by Meme McDonald
- Lovesong by Alex Miller
- Loving, by Henry Green
- Loving Daughters, by Olga Masters
- The Lowland, by Jhumpa Lahiri
- The Luminaries, by Eleanor Catton
- Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- The Magic Mountain, by Thomas Mann, translated by John E. Woods
- Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
- Man Overboard by Tim Binding, read by Stephen Crossley
- The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
- Mansfield, A Novel by C.K. Stead, read by Helen Morse
- The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories by Rudyard Kipling
- Mandarin Summer, by Fiona Kidman
- The Map of Time by Felix Palma, translated by Nick Caistor
- The Marriage Game, by Alison Weir
- The Masterpiece, by Émile Zola, translated by Thomas Walton
- Mateship with Birds by Carrie Tiffany
- Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson
- Mazin Grace, by Dylan Coleman
- Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann
- Meatloaf in Manhattan, by Robert Power, Guest review by Karenlee Thompson **
- Meet Me in Venice by Elizabeth Adler
- Memoirs of a Suburban Girl by Deb Kandelaars
- The Memory of Salt, by Alice Melike Ulgezer
- The Memory Room by Christopher Koch
- The Memory Trap, by Andrea Goldsmith
- The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre by Dominic Smith
- The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna
- Merry-go-round in the Sea by Randolph Stow
- The Middle Parts of Fortune, by Frederic Manning
- The Midnight Dress, by Karen Foxlee
- Milk Fever by Lisa Reece-Lane
- A Million Windows, by Gerald Murnane
- The Mind’s Own Place, by Ian Reid
- The Mirror of Beauty, by Shamsur Rahman Faruqi
- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
- Miss Carter’s War, by Sheila Hancock
- Miss Peabody’s Inheritance, by Elizabeth Jolley, read by Deirdre Rubenstein
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- Mona, by Dan Selberg, translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles, Guest review by Karenlee Thompson **
- Money, by Emile Zola, translated by Valerie Minogue
- Monsieur Linh and His Child, by Philippe Claudel, translated by Euan Cameron
- The Mothers, by Rod Jones
- Mothers’ Boys, by Margaret Forster, narrated by Susan Jameson
- The Mountain by Drusilla Modjeska
- Mr Mac and Me, by Esther Freud
- Mr Midshipman Hornblower by C.S. Forester
- Mr Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore, by Robin Sloan
- Mr Shakespeare’s Bastard by Richard B. Wright
- Mr Wigg, by Inga Simpson
- Mrs Engels, by Gavin McCrae
- Mrs Miniver by Jan Struther
- Mud map: Australian Women’s Experimental Writing, edited by Moya Costello, Barbara Brooks, Anna Gibbs and Rosslyn Prosser
- Murder on the Apricot Coast by Marion Halligan
- Mullumbimby, by Melissa Lucashenko
- The Murderess, by Alexandros Papadiamantis, translated by Peter Levi
- The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk
- Musk and Byrne, by Fiona Capp
- Musth, an African Thriller, by Fred Guilhaus
- My Beautiful Enemy, by Cory Taylor
- My Brilliant Friend, by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein
- My Hundred Lovers, by Susan Johnson (Combined reviews)
- The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
- My Crowded Solitude by Jack McLaren
- My Father’s Den, by Maurice Gee, narrated by Humphrey Bower
- The Mystery of Mercy Close by Marion Keyes +
- N, by John A Scott
- Nana, by Émile Zola, translated by Douglas Parmée
- Napoleon’s Double by Antoni Jach (see also)*
- Narcopolis, by Jeet Thayil
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North, by Richard Flanagan
- Navigatio, by Alison Croggon
- Navigatio, by Patrick Holland
- The Neighbour, by Julie Proudfoot
- Nemesis, by Philip Roth
- New Finnish Grammar, by Diego Marani, translated by Judith Landry
- A New Map of the Universe by Annabel Smith
- The New Moscow Philosophy, by Vyacheslav Pyetsukh
- Next World Novella, by Matthias Politycki, translated by Anthea Bell
- The Night Before Christmas by Nikolai Gogol
- The Night Guest, by Fiona McFarlane
- Night Street by Kristel Thornell
- Nightwalkers, by Siv Parker
- Nine Days, by Toni Jordan
- No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe
- Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not) by José Rizal, translated by Harold Augenbraum
- Noonday, by Pat Barker
- Noontide Toll, by Romesh Gunesekera
- Nora Webster, by Colm Tóibín
- The Northern Clemency, by Phillip Hensher, narrated by Carole Boyd
- Northern Girls, by Sheng Keyi, translated by Shelly Bryant
- The Nose, by Nikolai Gogol, translated by Claud Field
- Not the Same Sky, by Evelyn Conlon
- Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley
- Notes from an Exhibition by Patrick Gale
- Notes from the Underground, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, narrated by Simon Vance
- Nothing, by Henry Green
- Nourishment by Gerard Woodward
- Novel about My Wife by Emily Perkins
- The Novella Project (Griffith Review 8, Annual Fiction Edition) **
- NW by Zadie Smith
- Oblomov, by Ivan Goncharov, translated by C. J. Hogarth
- Oh Lucky Country by Rosa Cappiello
- Omega Park by Amy Barker
- On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
- On Our Selection by Steele Rudd
- One Boy Missing, by Stephen Orr
- One Foot Wrong by Sofie Laguna
- One of the Wattle Birds, by Jessica Anderson
- Opportunity by Charlotte Grimshaw
- The Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith
- Orlando, by Virginia Woolf
- Orpheus Lost by Janet Turner Hospital*
- The Other Hand by Chris Cleave
- The Other Side of the World, by Stephanie Bishop
- The Other Wife, by Manfred Jurgensen
- Our Lady of Alice Bhatti, by Mohammed Hanif
- The Outsider, by Albert Camus, read by Kenneth Branagh, translated by Joseph Laredo
- Over the Water, by William Lane
- Owls Do Cry by Janet Frame, read by Heather Bolton
- The Pages by Murray Bail
- The Painted Veil by W Somerset Maugham
- Painter of Silence, by Georgina Harding
- The Pale North, by Hamish Clayton
- Paper Nautilus by Nicholas Jose, read by Paul English
- The Paperbark Shoe by Goldie Goldbloom, read by Taylor Owynns
- Paris Nocturne, by Patrick Modiano, translated by Phoebe Weston-Evans
- Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
- A Partisan’s Daughter, by Louis de Bernières
- Passarola Rising by Azhar Abidi
- The Passenger, by Maryam Sachs, translated by Gael Schmidt-Cleach
- The Passport by Herta Muller
- The Past Ahead, by Gilbert Gatore, translated by Marjolijn de Jager
- Past the Shallows by Favel Parrett
- The Patience Stone by Atiq Rahimi
- The Patron Saint of Eels by Gregory Day
- The Peastick Girl, by Susan Hancock
- The People’s Train, by Tom Keneally
- Perfume by Patrick Suskind
- Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
- Personal Effects, by Carmel Macdonald Grahame
- Petersburg, by Andrei Bely
- The Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
- The Philanthropist by John Tesarsch
- The Piano Cemetery by José Luís Peixoto, translated by Daniel Hahn
- The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelenik
- Pickle to Pie by Glenice Whitting
- Pictures of Us by Todd Alexander, read by Deidre Rubenstein
- A Pigeon and a Boy by Meir Shalev
- Pilgrimage, by Jacinta Halloran
- The Place at Whitton, by Thomas Keneally, Narrated by Geoff Hiscock
- The Plains by Gerald Murnane
- Please Look After Mother by Kyung-Sook Shin, translated by Chi-young Kim
- The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
- The Poet by Alex Skovron
- Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth, read by Ron Silver
- Pot Luck by Emile Zola, translated by Brian Nelson
- Potiki by Patricia Grace
- The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene, narrated by Andrew Sachs
- The Prague Cemetery, by Umberto Eco, translated by Robert Dixon
- The Precipice, by Virginia Duigan
- The Pregnant Widow, by Martin Amis, read by Steven Pacey
- La Première Gorgée de Biere [The Small Pleasures of Life] by Phillipe Delerm
- The Prisoner of Heaven, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft by George Gissing
- Prochownik’s Dream by Alex Miller, read by Paul English
- Professor Andersen’s Night by Dag Solstad, translated by Agnes Scott Langeland
- The Profilist, by Adrian Mitchell
- Prohibited Zone by Alistair Sarre
- A Promised Land? by Alan Collins
- Provenance by Jane Messner *
- Public Enemies, by Michel Houellebecq and Bernard-Henri Lévy, translated by Miriam Rachel Frendo and Frank Wynne
- The Pumpkin Eater, by Penelope Mortimer
- The Pure Gold Baby, by Margaret Drabble
- Purple Threads, by Jeanine Leane
- The Queen of the Tambourine, by Jane Gardam
- The Queue, by Vladimir Sorokin, translated by Sally Laird
- Questions of Travel, by Michelle de Kretser
- Quicksand, by Steve Toltz
- The Radiant Way, by Margaret Drabble
- The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit
- The Rainbow Troops, by Andrea Hirata, translated by Angie Kilbane
- The Railwayman’s Wife, by Ashley Hay
- The Rainy Season by Myfanwy Jones
- Raised from the Ground, by José Saramago, translated by Margaret Jull Costa
- Rangatira, by Paula Morris
- Ransom by David Malouf
- Reach, by Laurence Fearnley
- Reading Madam Bovary by Amanda Lohrey
- Rebirth by Jahnavi Barua
- The Recluse, by Evelyn Juers
- The Red and the Black by Stendhal
- The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
- Red Dirt Talking, by Jacqueline Wright
- The Reef, by Edith Wharton, narrated by Eleanor Bron
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
- The Remains of the Day, by Kasuo Ishiguro
- Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
- The Rest is Weight: Stories, by Jennifer Mills **
- Resurrection, by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Louise Maude
- The Return, by Silvia Kwon
- Reunion by Andrea Goldsmith
- Revenge, by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder
- Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
- Riders in the Chariot, by Patrick White
- Rift Breaker, by Tristan Michael Savage
- Right at Last, by Elizabeth Gaskell, narrated by Harriet Walker
- River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh
- The Road Home by Rose Tremain
- Robbed of Every Blessing, by John Tully
- Robbery Under Arms by Rolf Boldrewood
- Rocks in the Belly by Jon Bauer
- The Romantics, by Pankaj Mishra
- Room by Emma Donaghue
- A Room with a View, by E.M. Forster, read by Joanna David
- The Rosie Project, by Graeme Simsion
- The Roving Party by Rohan Wilson
- Ruby Blues by Jessica Rudd
- Rules for Old Men Waiting by Peter Pouncey
- Running Dogs, by Ruby J Murray
- Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant
- The Sailor from Gibraltar, by Marguerite Duras, translated by Barbara Bray
- Salt Story, by Sarah Drummond
- Sanditon by Jane Austen
- Sarah Thornhill by Kate Grenville
- The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
- The Scapegoat by Daphne du Maurier
- The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Scatter Here is Too Great, by Bilal Tanweer
- Scenes from Village Life, by Amos Oz, translated by Nicholas de Lange
- Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot
- Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
- The Seaglass Spiral, by Alan Gould
- The Second-Last Woman in England by Maggie Joel
- The Secret Chord, by Geraldine Brooks
- The Secret of Lost Things, by Sheridan Hay (see also) *
- The Secret Lives of Men, by Georgia Blain, Guest review by Karenlee Thompson
- The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
- The Secret Son, by Jenny Ackland
- The Sense of an Ending, by Julian Barnes
- A Separate Peace by John Knowles, read by Matthew Modine
- Seven Houses in France by Bernardo Atxaga, translated by Margaret Jull Costa
- Seven Terrors, by Selvedin Avdic, translated by Coral Petkovich
- Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie, read by Aasif Mandvi
- Shame and the Captives, by Thomas Keneally
- Shadow Lines by Stephen Kinnane
- Shifting Colours, by Fiona Sussman
- The Shiralee by D’Arcy Niland, read by Ivor Kants
- A Short History of Richard Kline, by Amanda Lohrey
- The Shot, by Alexander Pushkin
- Shroud by John Banville
- Siddon Rock by Glenda Guest
- The Siege by Ismail Kadare
- Silent House, by Orhan Pamuk, translated by Robert Finn
- The Silver Wattle by Belinda Alexander, read by Caroline Lee
- The Sin of Father Mouret, by Emile Zola, translated by Sandy Petrey
- The Singapore Grip, by J.G. Farrell
- The Sinkings by Amanda Curtin
- Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
- Sister Kate, by Jean Bedford
- Six, short stories by John Clanchy, Guest review by Mairi Neil +++
- Six Impossible Things by Fiona Wood
- Skin, by Ilka Tampke
- Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
- Skios, by Michael Frayn
- The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
- The Slap, by Roger McDonald
- The Slow Natives, by Thea Astley
- Slow Water by Annamarie Jagose
- The Sly Company of People Who Care by Rahul Bhattachariya
- Small World by David Lodge *
- Snake by Kate Jennings
- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See, read by Janet Song
- Snowdrops by A.D. Miller
- A Soldier’s Tale by M. K. Joseph
- Soldiers of Salamis, by Javier Cercas, translated by Anne McLean
- Some Here Among Us, by Peter Walker
- Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill
- Song for Night by Chris Abani
- Songs from the Violet Cafe by Fiona Kidman**
- The Song of Achilles, by Madeline Miller
- The Solid Mandala by Patrick White
- Solo by Rana Dasgupta
- Sons of the Rumour by David Foster
- The Sorrows of Young Werther, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The Sorrow of War, by Bao Ninh, translated by Phan Thanh Hao & Frank Palmos
- Soundings, by Liam Davison
- Sovereign, by C.J. Sansom
- Spadework by Timothy Findlay
- The Spare Room by Helen Garner, read by Heather Bolton
- Spinner by Ron Elliot
- The Spinning Heart, by Donal Ryan
- Spirit House, by Mark Dapin
- Spirit of Progress, by Steven Carroll
- Springtime, by Michelle de Kretser
- A Spy in the House of Love, by Anais Nin
- A Stairway to Paradise, by Madeleine St John
- Starlight Peninsula, by Charlotte Grimshaw
- Steeplechase, by Krissy Kneen
- Stella’s Sea, by Sally-Ann Jones
- The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
- Stoner, by John Williams
- The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
- The Story of My Teeth, by Valeria Luiselli, translated by Christina MacSweeney
- The Story of a New Name, by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein
- The Storyteller of Marrakesh, by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya
- The Strays, by Emily Bitto
- Street to Street, by Brian Castro
- The Street Sweeper by Eliot Perlman
- Sula, by Toni Morrison, narrated by Lynne Thigpen
- The Sugar Mother, by Elizabeth Jolley
- Summer Crossing by Truman Capote, read by Lorelei King
- Summer’s Gone, by Charles Hall
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- Sunnyside, by Joanna Murray-Smith
- Sunscreen and Lipstick, by Liz Byrski **
- Sustenance, by Simone Lazaroo
- Swallow the Air by Tara June Winch
- The Swallows of Kabul, by Yasmina Khadra, translated by John Cullen
- The Swan Book, by Alexis Wright
- The Swarm, by Andy Kissane **
- Sweet Old World by Deborah Robertson
- Sweet Water, Stolen Land, by Philip McLaren
- Swimming by Enza Gandolfo
- Swimming Home, by Deborah Levy
- The Sword and the Miracle by Melvyn Bragg*
- Swords and Crowns and Rings by Ruth Park
- Taking Shelter, by Jessica Anderson
- The Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift
- The Talented Mr Ripley, by Patricia Highsmith
- Tales of the Austral Tropics by Ernest Favenc
- The Taliban Cricket Club, by Timeri N Murari
- The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott
- Tamarisk Row, by Gerald Murnane
- Tarcutta Wake, Stories by Josephine Rowe
- The Taxi Queue by Janet Davey
- The Tea Lords, by Hella S. Haasse
- Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
- The Testament of Mary, by Colm Tóibín
- That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott
- That Devil’s Madness, by Dominique Wilson
- There Should be More Dancing, by Rosalie Ham
- Therese Raquin, by Emile Zola, translated by Andrew Rothwell
- These Foolish Things, by Deborah Moggach
- Thicker than Water, by Judith Colquhoun
- Things That are Found in Trees & other stories, edited by Richard Rossiter
- The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
- The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, by David Mitchell
- A Thousand Nights at the Ritz and other Stories by Alan Collins**
- A Thousand Peaceful Cities, by Jerzy Pilch, translated by David Frick
- A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini, narrated by Atossa Leoni.
- Three Cheers for the Paraclete, by Thomas Keneally
- Three Sisters by Bi Feiyu, translated by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin
- A Tiger in Eden, by Chris Flynn **
- Tightrope, by Simon Mawer
- The Time in Between, by David Berger
- Time’s Long Ruin by Stephen Orr
- Tirra Lirra by the River by Jessica Anderson
- To Light Attained, by Morris Lurie
- To Name Those Lost, by Rohan Wilson
- To the Highlands, by Jon Doust
- To the Islands by Randolph Stow
- Touch by Adania Shibli
- Tourmaline, by Randolph Stow, narrated by Francis Greenslade
- The Tower Mill, by James Moloney
- Train to Pakistan, by Khushwant Singh
- Traitor by Stephen Daisley
- Trap by Peter Mathers
- Tram 83, by Fiston Mwanza Mujila, translated by Roland Glasser
- The Travel Writer, by Simone Lazaroo
- Traveller of the Century, by Andrés Neuman, translated by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia
- Treasures of Time by Penelope Lively
- Trespass by Valerie Martin
- The Tribe, by Michael Mohammed Ahmad
- Trieste, by Dasa Drndic, translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac
- Trio, by Geraldine Wooller
- The Trout Opera by Matthew Condon
- Truth and Consequences, by Alison Lurie
- The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker
- Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka *
- Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty-eight Nights, by Salman Rushdie
- The Twyborn Affair by Patrick White
- Ulysses by James Joyce #1#2 #3 #4#5#6#7#8#9#10#11 #12#13#14#15#16#17#18
- The Umbrella Club by David Brooks
- Unaccountable Hours by Stephen Scourfield
- Under the Hawthorn Tree, by Ai Mi, translated by Anna Holmwood
- The Undertaking, by Audrey Magee
- The Unfortunates by B.S. Johnson
- The Unknown Bridesmaid, by Margaret Forster
- The Unknown Industrial Prisoner, by David Ireland
- An Unknown Sky, by Susan Midalia, **
- Utopian Man by Lisa Lang
- Valley of Grace, by Marion Halligan
- Valley of Masks by Tarun J Tejpal
- Vanessa and Her Sister, by Priya Parmar
- Varamo, by Cesar Aira, translated by Chris Andrews
- The Velodrome, by Liam Davison
- The Verge Practice by Barry Maitland*
- Vertigo by Amanda Lohrey
- The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
- Vicky Swanky is a Beauty, by Diane Williams
- The Vintage and the Gleaning by Jeremy Chambers
- Virtuoso by Sonia Orchard, narrated by Humphrey Bower
- Voice Over, by Céline Curiol, translated by Sam Richard
- Voss by Patrick White
- The Voyage, by Murray Bail
- Waiting for an Angel, by Helon Habila
- The Waiting Room, by Leah Kaminsky
- Wandering Falcon by Jamil Ahmad
- Wandering Star by J.M.G. Le Clézio
- Wanting by Richard Flanagan
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- War and Peace and Sonya by Judith Armstrong
- The Wasted Vigil by Nadeem Aslam
- The Watch, by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya
- Watch Out for Me, by Sylvia Johnson
- The Watch Tower, by Elizabeth Harrower
- Water Mirrors, by Nicholas Powell
- Water Wahala by Isaac Neequaye
- Ways of Dying, by Zakes Mda
- Ways of Escape by Hugh Mackay
- We All Fall Down, by Peter Barry
- We Are All Made of Molecules, by Susin Neilsen
- We of the Never-Never by Mrs Aeneus Gunn
- The Weaver Fish, by Robert Edeson
- The Wedding Shroud by Elizabeth Storrs
- The Well-dressed Explorer, by Thea Astley
- What the Family Needed, by Steven Amsterdam
- When Blackbirds Sing, by Martin Boyd
- When Colts Ran by Roger McDonald
- When the Night Comes, by Favel Parrett
- When the Sky Fell Apart, by Caroline Lea
- When There’s Nowhere Else to Run, by Murray Middleton
- While I Have Pedro by John Chesterman
- Whisky Charlie Foxtrot, by Annabel Smith
- The White Castle, by Orhan Pamuk, translated by Victoria Holbrook
- The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
- The White Woman, by Liam Davison
- The Whole of My World, by Nicole Hayes, Guest review by Karenlee Thompson
- The Widow and Her Hero by Thomas Keneally
- The Wild Goose, by Mori Ogai, translated by Meredith McKinney
- Winter Journey by Diane Armstrong, narrated by Deirde Rubenstein
- A Winter’s Tale, by Jon Godden
- Wish You Were Here by Graham Swift
- Wittgenstein Jr, A Novel, by Lars Iyer
- Wolf Among Wolves, by Hans Fallada, translated by Philip Owens
- Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
- Wolfspeer, by Richard Falkinger
- The Women in Black by Madeleine St John
- The Wonders, by Paddy O’Reilly
- The World Beneath by Cate Kennedy
- The Words in My Hand, by Guinevere Glasford
- Worstward Ho, by Samuel Beckett
- Writing is Easy, by Gert Loveday
- A Wrong Turn at the Office of Unmade Lists, by Jane Rawson
- Wulf by Hamish Clayton
- Wyatt by Garry Disher#
- The Yalda Crossing, by Noel Beddoe
- Year of Wonders, by Geraldine Brooks
- The Yellow Papers, by Dominique Wilson
- Yevgeny Onegin, by Alexander Pushkin, translated by Anthony Briggs
- Zest for Life (La Joie de vivre), by Émile Zola, translated by Jean Stewart
- The Zookeeper’s War by Steven Conte
Non Fiction
- 1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia by James Boyce
- Acute Misfortune, by Erik Jensen
- After Such Knowledge by Eva Hoffman
- After This, by Alice Nelson
- After Words by Paul Keating
- Agent Garbo, by Stephan Talty
- The Aitch Factor, Adventures in Australian English, by Susan Butler
- Am I Black Enough For You? by Anita Heiss
- Ancient Shore, Despatches from Naples by Shirley Hazzard
- Anzac’s Long Shadow, by James Brown
- The Apple by Penelope Holt
- Appo, Recollections of a Member of the Sydney Push by Richard Appleton
- An Armenian Sketchbook, by Vasily Grossman, translated by John and Elizabeth Chapman
- Art in History, by Martin Kemp
- The Art of Science, Remarkable natural history illustrations from Museum Victoria, by John Kean
- At Home with Sous Vide, by Dale Prentice
- At the Very Heart by Storry Walton
- Awakening, Four Lives in Art, by Eileen Chanin and Steven Miller
- An Awkward Truth by Peter Grose
- Bad Hair Days, by Pamela Bone
- Bad News, Murdoch’s Australian and the Shaping of the Nation by Robert Manne
- Barcelona by Robert Hughes
- Battarbee and Namatjira, by Martin Edmond
- Beatrix Potter by Linda Lear
- Beethoven, Triumph and Anguish, by Jan Swafford
- Black Sheep, Journey to Borroloola, by Nicholas Jose
- Bold Palates: Australia’s Gastronomic Heritage, by Barbara Santich
- The Book is Dead by Sherman Young
- A Botanical Life: Robert David Fitzgerald, by Penny Olsen
- Both Flesh and Not, Essays by David Foster Wallace
- Bottersnikes and Other Lost Things: A Treasury of Australian Children’s Literature, by Juliet O’Conor
- Brief Encounters, Literary Travellers in Australia 1836-1939 by Susannah Fullerton
- Brief Lives: E.M.Forster by Richard Canning
- Brush with Gondwana, by Janda Gooding and the Botanical Artists Group of Western Australia
- The Burning Library, by Geordie Williamson
- By the Book, A Reader’s Guide to Life, by Ramona Koval
- The Cambridge History of Australian Literature, edited by Peter Pierce
- Can a Duck Swim? by June Porter
- Cape Arid, by Philippa and Alex Nikulinsky
- Catch and Kill, the Politics of Power, by Joel Deane
- Chefs of the Margaret River Region, by Sue-Lyn Aldrian-Moyle and Lisa Hanley
- Chinese Lives, The People Who Made a Civilization, by Victor H Mair, Sanping Chen and Frances Wood
- Christina Stead, a Biography, by Hazel Rowley
- The Cello Suites by Eric Siblin
- The Censor’s Library, by Nicole Moore
- City Walks, Paris, by Christina Henry De Tessan
- Clay Gully, Stories from an Apple Orchard, by Sally Van Gent
- Collecting Ladies, Ferdinand Von Mueller and Women Botanical Artists, by Penny Olsen
- The Complete Book of Heroic Australian Women, by Susanna de Vries
- The Corpse Walker by Liao Yiwu
- Creme de la Phlegm, Unforgettable Australian Reviews by Angela Bennie
- Curious Minds, The Discoveries of Australian Naturalists, by Peter Macinnis
- Dampier’s Monkey: The South Seas Voyages of William Dampier by Adrian Mitchell
- Dangerous Allies, by Malcolm Fraser
- Dangerous Games, Australia at the 1936 Nazi Olympics, by Larry Writer
- Dark Emu, Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident? by Bruce Pascoe
- Dogs in Australian Art, by Steven Miller
- Doing Life, a Biography of Elizabeth Jolley, by Brian Dibble
- Don Dunstan, Intimacy & Liberty, by Dino Hodge
- Double Native, by Fiona Wirrer-George Oochunyung
- Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
- Empathy, A Handbook for Revolution, by Roman Krznaric
- Emile, or On Education, by Jean-Jaques Rousseau, translated by Barbara Foxley
- Encountering Terra Australis: The Australian Voyages of Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders by Jean Fornasiero, Peter Monteath and John West-Sooby
- Enjoyed for Generations, The History of Haigh’s Chocolates, by Barbara Santich
- Enlightenment, Discovering the World in the Eighteenth Century, edited by Kim Sloan
- Europe @2.4km/h by Ken Haley
- Exile: the Lives and Hopes of Werner Pelz, by Roger Averill
- Fabled Shore, from the Pyrenees to Portugal by Rose Macauley
- Fairweather by Murray Bail
- The Fanfrolico Press by John Arnold
- Firewood Banksia, by Philippa Nikulinsky
- Fishing in the Styx by Ruth Park, read by Anna Volska
- Five Days in London by John Lukacs
- Flavours of Melbourne by Charmaine O’Brien
- Flavours of Melbourne, by Jonette George, Daniele Wilton, and Brad Hill
- For a Song and a Hundred Songs, by Liao Yiwu, translated by Wenguang Huang
- Foreign Correspondence, by Geraldine Brooks, read by the author
- The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, by Clare Wright
- Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage by Hazel Rowley
- Fred Williams by Patrick McCaughey
- French Kitchen, Classic Recipes for Home Cooks, by Serge Dansereau
- From India with Love, by Latika Bourke
- Galileo, Antichrist by Michael White
- Game of Scones, All Men Must Dine, by Jammy Lannister
- Gardening Year, by Shirley Stackhouse
- The Ghost at the Wedding by Shirley Walker
- Ghosts of Spain by Giles Tremlet
- Ginger for Pluck, The Life and Times of Miss Georgina King, by Jennifer M T Carter and Roger Cross
- A Good Place to Hide, by Peter Grose
- The Good, The Bad and the Unlikely by Mungo MacCallum
- Grand Obsessions: The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin, by Alasdair McGregor
- Great Central State The Foundation of the Northern Territory by Jack Cross
- The Great Race, by David Hill
- The Handbook: Surviving and living with climate change, by Jane Rawson and James Whitmore
- The Heart of the Plate, by Mollie Katzen
- Heaven Where the Bachelors Sit by Gerard Windsor
- The Henson Case, by David Marr
- Her Father’s Daughter by Alice Pung**
- His Stupid Boyhood, by Peter Goldsworthy
- Historic Heston, by Heston Blumenthal
- A History of Southeast Asia: Critical Crossroads, by Anthony Reid
- The Home of the Blizzard by Douglas Mawson
- House of Exile by Evelyn Juers
- A House Unlocked by Penelope Lively
- I Am Melba by Ann Blainey
- The Ice Beneath My Feet by Diana Patterson
- Icons, Masterpieces of Russian Art, by Olga A. Polyakova
- Images of the Interior: Seven Central Australian Photographers by Philip Jones
- Interestingly Enough, the life of Tom Keneally, by Stephany Evans Steggall
- The Intervention, an Anthology, edited by Rosie Scott and Anita Heiss
- Into the Woods, by Anna Krien*
- Jessie Street, a Revised Autobiography, edited by Lenore Coltheart, narrated by Fiona Press
- Joseph Banks, A Life, by Patrick O’Brian
- Journeys with My Mother, by Halina Rubin
- Joyful Strains, Making Australia Home, edited by Kent MacCarter and Ali Lemer
- The Judgement of Paris by Ross King
- Katherine Mansfield The Storyteller by Kathleen Jones
- Kitty’s War, by Janet Butler
- Kokoda, by Paul Ham, narrated by Peter Byrne
- Kylie Tennant, a life, by Jane Grant
- The Landmark Herodotus, edited by Robert B. Strassler
- Land’s Edge, A Coastal Memoir, by Tim Winton
- Laptops (Teach Yourself Visually) by Sherry Kinkoph Gunter
- Larrikins, a History, by Melissa Bellanta
- The Last Protector, by Cameron Raynes
- The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer
- LIMA the Cookbook, by Virgilio Martinez
- Lion Hearts: A Family Saga of Refugees and Asylum Seekers, by Henry R. Lew
- Listening to Country, by Ros Moriarty
- The Local Wildlife, by Robert Drewe
- Love’s Obsession: the Lives and Archaeology of Jim and Eve Stewart, by Judy Powell
- Madeleine, A Life of Madeleine St John, by Helen Trinca
- Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, edited by Anita Heiss and Peter Minter
- The Magnificent Life of Miss May Holman, by Lekkie Hopkins
- The Man Who Lost Himself by Robyn Annear
- Mannix, by Brenda Niall
- Margaret Olley, Far From a Still Life by Meg Stewart
- Mary Poppins She Wrote by Valerie Lawson
- Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking, by Anya von Bremzen
- Meerreeng-an – Here is My Country, edited by Chris Keeler and Vicki Couzens
- Melbourne Dreaming, by Meyer Eidelson
- The Messenger by Yannick Haenel
- Michael Kirby, Law, Love & Life, by Daryl Dellora
- Midnight in Siberia, by David Greene
- The Mish: Childhood Memories of Framlingham Aboriginal Station by Robert Lowe
- Molecule-R, an Introduction to the Science Behind 40 Spectacular Recipes, by Molecule-R Flavors Inc
- Montebello, A Memoir, by Robert Drewe
- More to the Story, by Rosemary Sayer
- The Most Good You Can Do, by Peter Singer
- Mug Shots: A Memoir, by Barry Oakley
- Mulga’s Magical Colouring Book, by Joel Moore a.k.a. Mulga
- My Blood’s Country by Fiona Capp
- My History, a memoir of growing up, by Antonia Fraser
- My Mother, My Writing and Me: a memoir, by Iola Mathews **
- My Place, by Sally Morgan, read by Melodie Reynolds
- Not Going to Vietnam by Garrie Hutchinson
- Not Just Black and White, by Lesley Williams and Tammy Williams
- Notebooks, by Betty Churcher
- Nothing but Gold, the Diggers of 1852 by Robyn Annear
- Nothing Like a Dame, Phyllis Frost by Bernadette Clohesy
- The Novel Cure, by Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin
- Obsessive Genius, The Inner World of Marie Curie by Barbara Goldsmith
- Ochre and Rust by Philip Jones
- Old Man’s Story, the last thoughts of Kakadu Elder Bill Neidjie, by Bill Neidjie as told to Mark Lang
- On Beauty by Susan Johnson
- On Experience by David Malouf
- On Radji Beach, by Ian W. Shaw
- The Orpheus Clock, by Simon Goodman
- Out of the Well, by Lisa Eskinazi
- Over There with the Australians by R. Hugh Knyvett
- Oxygen City-Guides: Paris, Berlin and St Petersburg
- Paris Under Water, by Jeffrey H. Jackson
- Peggy Guggenheim, by Laurence Tacou-Rumney, translated by Ralph Rumney
- Penguin and the Lane Brothers, by Stuart Kells
- The People Smuggler, by Robin de Crespigny
- The Philosophy Book, edited by Sam Atkinson
- The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman, read by Stephen Greif
- Piano Lessons by Anna Goldsworthy
- The Place for a Village by Gary Presland
- Places Women Make, by Jane Jose
- Plein Airs and Graces: The Life and Times of George Collingridge, by Adrian Mitchel
- Plenty by Gay Bilson
- Popeye Never Told You: Childhood Memories of the War by Rodney Hall
- The Possessed, Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, by Elif Batuman
- Post-war Lies, Germany and Hitler’s Long Shadow, by Malte Herwig, translated by Jamie Lee Searle and Shaun Whiteside
- The Pride of Prahran : a History of the Prahran Library, 1860-2010, by Stella M Barber
- Produce to Platter: Yarra Valley & the Dandenongs by Jonette George
- Quarterly Essay: Found in Translation, in Praise of a Plural World, by Linda Jaivin
- Radical Melbourne, a Secret History by Jeff Sparrow and Jill Sparrow
- Reading by Moonlight by Brenda Walker, read by Jane Nolan
- Reading the OED by Ammon Shea
- Real Modern, Everyday New Zealand in the 1950s and 1960s, by Bronwyn Labrum
- Resistance, Memoirs of Occupied France, by Agnes Humbert
- Riding the Trains in Japan by Patrick Holland
- Romps, Tots and Boffins, by Robert Hutton
- Russell Drysdale, Defining the Modern Australian Landscape, by Christopher Heathcote
- A Russian Journal by John Steinbeck
- Searching for the Secret River by Kate Grenville
- Seduced by Logic, by Robyn Arianrhod
- Shakespeare’s Wife, by Germaine Greer
- Shearer’s Motel, by Roger McDonald
- The Shell Country Alphabet by John Grigson
- A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby
- Sideshow by Lindsay Tanner
- Sir Henry Parkes, the Australian Colossus, by Stephen Dando-Collins
- Sister, Sister, by Anna Rosner Blay
- Slow Journeys by Gillian Souter
- Smythe’s Theory of Everything by Robert Hollingworth**
- Solly’s Girl, by Ros Collins
- Something for the Pain, A Memoir of the Turf, by Gerald Murnane
- The Songlines, by Bruce Chatwin
- Stalingrad, by Antony Beevor
- Staying Alive by Alexander Fullerton, read by Nicolette McKenzie
- Stella Miles Franklin, A Biography by Jill Roe
- Storyteller, by Zoe Daniel
- Surviving Year Zero, by Sovannora Ieng and Greg Hill
- The Tall Man by Chloe Hooper
- Tasmanian Aborigines: A History since 1803, by Lyndall Ryan
- Tears in the Darkness by Michael Normal and Elizabeth M. Norman
- Thea Astley, Inventing her own weather, by Karen Lamb
- They Hosed Them Out, by John Bede Cusack
- Thirty Years in Australia, by Ada Cambridge (1903)
- Time Without Clocks by Joan Lindsay
- Tolerance: the Beacon of the Enlightenment, an anthology compiled by the French Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, translated by students and tutors of French at Oxford University.
- The Town Grew Up Dancing, by Wenten Rubuntja, with Jenny Green
- The Translator by Daoud Hari
- A Traveller’s History of Russia, by Peter Neville
- Travels with Epicurus, by Daniel Klein
- Trouble in Lotus Land by Charmian Clift
- Twelve Years a Slave, by Solomon Northup
- Two Futures, Australia at a Critical Moment, by Clare O’Neil and Tim Watts
- Two with Nature, by Ellen Hickman and John Ryan
- Ulysses and Us by Declan Kiberd
- Under the Microscope, by Professor Earl Owen
- Under Cover, Adventures in the Art of Editing, by Craig Munro
- An Unlikely Leader by Robert Barnes
- The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow, by A.J. Mackinnon
- Us and Them, On the Importance of Animals, by Anna Krien
- A Very Rude Awakening, by Peter Grose
- Visions of Colonial Grandeur, John Twycross at Melbourne’s International Exhibitions, by Charlotte Smith and Benjamin Thomas
- Walking Free by Munjed Al Muderis, with Patrick Weaver
- Walking the Camino by Tony Kevin
- Warning, The Story of Cyclone Tracy, by Sophie Cunningham
- Warrior, by Libby Connors
- The Well at the World’s End by A.J. Mackinnon
- What’s Wrong with Anzac? by Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds
- Wicked But Virtuous, by Mirka Mora
- With Just One Suitcase, by Cheryl Koenig
- With Stendhal by Simon Leys
- A Woman in the Polar Night, by Christiane Ritter, translated by Jane Degras
- Women of the Long March by Lily Xiao Hong and Sue Wiles, read by Stephanie Daniel
- Wotan’s Daughter, by Richard Davis
- Yami, the autobiography of Yami Lester, by Yami Lester
- Yarra, A Diverting History of Melbourne’s Murky River, by Kristin Otto
- 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, see my review
1962 The Well Dressed Explorer by Thea Astley, see my review and co-winner The Cupboard Under the Stairs by George Turner, see my review
1963 Careful He Might Hear You by Sumner Locke Eliot
1964 My Brother Jack by George Johnston
1965 The Slow Natives by Thea Astley, see my review
1966 Trap by Peter Mathers, see my review
1967 Bring Larks and Heroes by Thomas Keneally, see my review
1968 Three Cheers for the Paraclete by Thomas Keneally, see my review
1969 Clean Straw for Nothing by George Johnston
1970 A Horse of Air by Dal Stivens, see my review
1971 The Unknown Industrial Prisoner by David Ireland, see my review
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, see my review
1976 The Glass Canoe by David Ireland, see my review
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, see my review
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, see my review
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
2013 Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser, see my review
2014 All the Birds Singing, by Evie Wyld, abandoned
2015 The Eye of the Sheep by Sofie Laguna, abandoned
Poetry
Limited Cities, by Lachlan Brown ***
* Guest review by Sally Cripps.
** Guest review by Karen Lee Thompson
*** Guest review by Amber Beilharz
# Guest review by Helen Rutten
## Guest Review by Dr Lurline Stuart
+ Guest review by Marg Bates
++ Guest review by Subhash Jaireth
+++Guest review by Mairi Neil
Thanks so much for this lovely blog–It keeps me up to date with Australian lit, since I live in the States. I have been keeping up a blog about my mother, Glenda Adams, and her writing, since she died in 2007: http://readglendaadams.blogspot.com/. It has a much more personal scope than yours, but I am reminded of my mother, her peers and friends when I read your blog.
By: Caitlin Adams on December 6, 2010
at 3:10 am
Hello Caitlin, I am looking forward to reading your mother’s novel. I had been hunting for Dancing on Coral for a while when I came across it in a bookshop in country NSW, and was delighted to add it to my collection of Miles Franklin first editions. I am gradually reading my way through the winners list in more or less chronological order and expect to get to it some time in the next year or so – so I hope you visit again:)
Lisa
By: Lisa Hill on December 6, 2010
at 10:14 pm