Visiting authors top reads

Some of our visiting authors have provided their top reads.

Moreland author: Roger Averill’s top reads

• Visitants by Randolph Stow

• Rock Springs by Richard Ford

• The poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

• The art of the engine driver by Steven Carroll

• Collected essays by George Orwell

Romance author: Ally Blake’s top reads

• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

• The prince in waiting by John Christopher

• The princess bride by William Goldman

• HMS Ulysses by Alistair MacLean

• Confessions of a shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

Moreland author: Clare Boyd-Macrae’s top reads

• The feel of steel by Helen Garner

• The secret river by Kate Grenville

• His dark materials trilogy by Philip Pullman

• The poisonwood bible by Barbara Kingsolver

• Any detective fiction by Elizabeth George

Author: Simon Capp’s top reads

• Extra virgin by Annie Hawes

• Dreams from my father: a story of race and inheritance by Barack Obama

• Jackson’s Track: memoir of a dreamtime place by Carolyn Landon and Daryl Tonkin

• Futebol: the Brazilian way of life by Alex Bellos

• Dave Barry does Japan by Dave Barry

Moreland author and comedian: Catherine Deveny’s top reads

• The God delusion by Richard Dawkins

• Magical thinking: true stories by Augusten Burroughs

• The drama of being a child by Alice Miller

• When you are engulfed in flames by David Sedaris

• God is not great: how religion poisons everything by Christopher Hitchens

Author: Susanna de Vries’ top reads

• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

• Georgette Heyer's Regency world by Jennifer Kloester

• Fortune's daughters: the extravagant lives of the Jerome sisters: Jennnie Churchill, Clara Frewin and Leonie Leslie by Elisabeth Kehoe

• The Villa Diana: travels in post-war Italy by Alan Moorehead

• The Duchess: Georgiana: the Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman

Author: Mem Fox’s top reads

• Villette by Charlotte Bronte

• A farewell to arms by Ernest Hemingway

• Schindler’s ark by Thomas Keneally

• A suitable boy by Vikram Seth

• Oranges are not the only fruit by Jeanette Winterson

Author: Archimede Fusillo’s top reads

• Kill the possum by James Moloney

• M by Peter Robb

• The secret supper by Javier Sierra

• Caravaggio: a novel by Christopher Peachment

• Life is so good by George Dawson with Richard Glaubman

Author: Diana Georgeff’s top reads

• Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano

• Landscape of farewell by Alex Miller

• Two lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm

• A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini

• The road by Cormac McCarthy

Author: Madeleine Hamilton’s top reads

• Isobel on the way to the corner shop by Amy Witting

• The children's Bach by Helen Garner

• The delinquents by Criena Rohan

• To the Is-land by Janet Frame

• A woman in Berlin: diary 20 April 1945 - 22 June 1945 [Anonymous]

Author: Michael Harden’s top reads

• The slap by Christos Tsiolkas

• The dog of the marriage: the collected stories by Amy Hempel

• The architecture of happiness by Alain De Botton

• Out stealing horses by Per Petterson

• Kafka on the shore by Haruki Murakami

Author: Narrelle Harris’s top reads

• Snake agent by Liz Williams

• Redback by Lindy Cameron

• Good omens: the nice and accurate prophecies of Agnes Nutter, witch by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

• The code of the Woosters by PG Wodehouse

Author: Kate Holden’s top reads

• Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels

• Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger

• The dark is rising sequence by Susan Cooper

• The wasteland by TS Eliot

• Anything by Jan Morris

Actor and author: William McInnes’ top reads

• Hunting the wild pineapple by Thea Astley

• Watcher on the cast-iron balcony by Hal Porter

• Fly away Peter by David Malouf

• My brilliant career by Miles Franklin

Author Joel Magarey's top reads

• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

• A heartbreaking work of staggering genius by Dave Eggers

• In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin

• An instant in the wind by Andre Brink

• The worst journey in the world by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Historian and biographer: Ross McMullin’s top reads

• Any of Shane Maloney’s books

• As It Happened by John Button

• The Broken Years by Bill Gammage

• Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby

• John Monash by Geoff Serle

Moreland author: Joan Nestle’s top reads

• Carpentaria by Alexis Wright

• Perdido Street Station by China Mieville

• The tree of man by Patrick White

• To the lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

• Wild card: an autobiography, 1923-1958 by Dorothy Hewett

• The narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave by Frederick Douglass

• Unfortunately, it was paradise by Mahmoud Darwish

Author: Charmaine O’Brien’s top reads

• Food in history by Reay Tannahill

• The famous five series by Enid Blyton

• A taste of India by Madhur Jaffrey

• My brother Jack by George Johnston

• The Alice B. Toklas cookbook by Alice B. Toklas

Author: Judith Pugh’s top reads

• Mr Felton's bequests by John Poynter

• Carry me down by M.J. Hyland

• Any book by: Rumer Godden, W. H. Auden, Rudyard Kipling, Ernest Hemingway, A. N. Wilson, Jonathan Franzen or Ann Patchett

Author: Leanne Robinson’s top reads

• Autobiography of red: a novel in verse by Anne Carson

• Remembering Babylon by David Malouf

• Beloved by Toni Morrison

• The cinnamon peeler by Michael Ondaatje

• Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre

• The passion by Jeanette Winterson

Author and comedian: Denise Scott’s top reads

• The stone diaries by Carol Shields

• Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac

• Middlemarch by George Eliot

• Scenes from a revolution: the birth of the new Hollywood by Mark Harris

• Cloudstreet by Tim Winton

Actor and audio book narrator: David Tredinnick’s top reads

• Shadowboxing by Tony Birch

• Silences long gone by Anson Cameron

• Pizza features by John Larkin

• Black water by David Metzenthen

• Going home by Archie Weller

Author: Lili Wilkinson’s top reads

• Y the last man (graphic novel series) by Brian K. Vaughan

• Buddha (graphic novel series) by Osamu Tezuka

• Town by James Roy

• Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne-Jones

• Love that dog by Sharon Creech

• The last Samurai by Helen Dewitt

• The indigo girls by Penni Russon

Author Vivienne Ulman’s top reads

• Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow

• Drown by Junot Diaz

• The poisonwood bible by Barbara Kingsolver

• The corrections by Jonathan Franzen

• The thousand acres by Jane Smiley

Author: Arnold Zable’s top reads

• The white tiger by Aravind Adiga

• Unaccustomed earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

• Wanting by Richard Flanagan

• Vertigo: a pastoral by Amanda Lohrey

• Istanbul: memories of a city by Orhan Pamuk