CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE

Kirstin Krauth on Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Sara Foster on Toni Morrison’s Beloved

Yvette Walker on Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping

Dawn Barker on Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient

Donna Ward on Jon McGregor’s If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

Terri-ann White on Alice Munro’s The Love of a Good Woman

Jeremy Earl on Roberto Bolano’s The Savage Detectives

Kiri Falls on Alan Bennett’s The Uncommon Reader

 

 CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS

Antony Loewenstein on George Orwell’s 1984

Lisa Hill on James Joyce’s Ulysses

Jenny Ackland on Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera

Kim Forrester on John McGahern’s The Barracks

 

AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE

Emily Paull on Craig Silvey’s Jasper Jones

Georgia Richter on Helen Garner’s The Children’s Bach

Jill Eddington on Thea Astley’s A Kindness Cup

Iris Lavell on Chris McLeod’s The Crying Room

Anita Heiss on Terri Janke’s Butterfly Song

 

 CLASSICS

SA Jones on Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights

Mel Campbell on Anthony Trollope’s The Way We Live Now

Michelle McLaren on EM Forster’s A Room with a View

Kate Whelan on Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass

Will Yeoman on John Milton’s Paradise Lost

 

 EXPERIMENTAL LITERATURE

Ryan O’Neill on Gilbert Sorrentino’s Mulligan Stew

Connor Tomas O’Brien on Erlend Loe’s Naive. Super

 

SCI_FI/FANTASY

Tonile Wortley on Stephen King’s Under the Dome

Robin Pen on William Gibson’s Neuromancer

Robyn Mundy on Meg Rosoff’s How I Live Now

Estelle Tang on Tamora Pierce’s Song of the Lioness

 

HISTORICAL

Lynnhe Leonhardt on AS Byatt’s Possession

 

GRAPHIC NOVELS

Laurie Steed on Mirranda Burton’s Hidden

 

YOUNG ADULT FICTION

Liz Newell on Markus Zusak’s When Dogs Cry