Current Reads: 2000 - ?
2006
The Cockatoos (Patrick White)
The Drowned and the Saved (Primo, Levi)
Greek and Roman Myths and Legends
The Year Nick McGowan Came to Stay (Rebecca Sparrow)
The Eleventh Hour : re-read
Tintin in the Congo (Herge)
The Solid Mandala (Patrick White)
Shrodinger's Cat Trilogy (Robert Anton Wilson)
Pygmalion (Bernard Shaw)
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)*
The Horse Whisperer (Nicholas Evans)
Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
2005
The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
The Fellowship of the Ring (JRR Tolkien)
Everything's Eventual (Stephen King)
Down and Out in Paris and London (George Orwell)*
The Man Who Loved Children (Christina Stead)
Written on the Body (Jeanette Winterson)*
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Patricia Highsmith)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (J.K Rowling)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Alexander Solzhenitsyn)*
Maigret and the Hotel Majestic (Georges Simenon)
The Chrysalids (John Wyndham)*
Monstrous Regiment (Terry Pratchett)
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Soul Music (Terry Pratchett)
Night Watch (Terry Pratchett)
Mort (Terry Pratchett)
The Day of the Triffids (John Wyndham)*
Wyrd Sisters (Terry Pratchett)
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Terry Pratchett)*
The Accidental Tourist (Anne Tyler)
Breathing Lessons (Anne Tyler)*
The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Dave Eggers)*
The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
The Testament (John Grisham)*
2004
The Lies that Bind (Edward DeAngelo)
Deception Point (Dan Brown)
Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
How Late It Was, How Late (James Kelman)
The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes-And Its Implications (David Deutsch)
Middlesex: A Novel (Jeffrey Eugenides)
The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)*
The Rescuer (Dee Henderson)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon)
The Girl Most Likely (Rebecca Sparrow)*
The Thompson Gunner (Nick Earls)
The Healer (Dee Henderson)
The Protector (Dee Henderson)
The Truth Seeker (Dee Henderson)
The Guardian (Dee Henderson)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (Truman Capote)
Goodnight Mister Tom (Michelle Magorian)
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (Roddy Doyle)*
Perfect Strangers (Robyn Sisman)
Lost and Found (Jane Sigaloff)
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Mitch Albom)
The Education of Mrs Bemis (John Sedgwick)
Burmese Days (George Orwell)*
The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing (Melissa Bank)
Bridget Jones's Diary (Helen Fielding)
The Negotiator (Dee Henderson)
The Time Traveler's Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)*
Danger in the Shadows (Dee Henderson)
My Legendary Girlfriend (Mike Gayle)
White Apples (Jonathan Carroll)
Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)*
The Sound of One Hand Clapping (Richard Flanagan)
Dinner For Two (Mike Gayle)*
Spadework (Timothy Findley)
Blackie (Stephen Downes)
The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)*
Life of Pi (Yann Martel)*
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things (Jon McGregor)
To the Nines (Janet Evanovich)
A Thing (or Two) About Curtis and Camilla (Nick Fowler)
The Monk Downstairs (Tim Farrington)*
Little Women - complete version (Louisa May Alcott)
Zigzag Street : re-read (Nick Earls)
Serpentine (Thomas Thomson)
The Meaning of Things (A.C. Grayling)
Little Women - incomplete versio n (Louisa May Alcott)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (JK Rowling)
Cancer Ward (Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn)
Dog Stories (Richard Olsenius)*
Pet Owner's Guide to the Golden Retriever (Bernard Bargh)
The Marriage of Sticks (Jonathan Carroll)
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother (James McBride)
End
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
Lies of Silence (Brian M oore)
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Mother of Pearl (Melinda Haynes)
Alexandria: In Which the Extraordinary Corresponde nce of Griffin & Sabine Unfolds (Nick Bantock)
Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in 12 Fish (Richard Flanagan)
On Green Dolphin Street (Sebastian Faulks)
The Mayne Inheritance (Rosamond Siemon)
The Meaning of Things (A.C Grayling) : re-read
Th e Corrections (Jonathan Franzen)
The Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison)
The Short Story of a Prince (Jane Hamilton)
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
Life's Lottery (Kim Newman)
Golden Lads and Girls (Angela Lambert)
You Shall Know Our Velocity (Dave Eggers)*
The Real ER (Dr Mark Brown)
First Person Plural (Cameron West)*
The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman (Bruce Robinson)*
About a Boy (Nick Hornby)
Queen Kat, Carmel & St Jude Get a Life (Maureen McCarthy)
Gideon (Russel Andrews)
The Meaning of Things (A.C Grayling)
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales (Oliver Sacks)
The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint (Brady Udall)*
The Parrot's Theorum (Denis Guedj)*
I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)*
Of Love and War (Vanessa Alexander)
Pay it Forward (Catherine Ryan Hyde)*
Chateau Ella (Hilary Norman)
Bachelor Kisses (Nick Earls)
Passion (Nick Earls)
Perfect Skin (Nick Earls)*
Headgames (Nick Earls)
Zigzag Street (Nick Earls)
48 Shades of Brown (Nick Earls)
World of Chickens (aka Two to Go: A Novel)
Making Laws for Clouds (Nick Earls)
After January (Nick Earls)
2006
The Cockatoos (Patrick White)
The Drowned and the Saved (Primo, Levi)
Greek and Roman Myths and Legends
The Year Nick McGowan Came to Stay (Rebecca Sparrow)
The Eleventh Hour : re-read
Tintin in the Congo (Herge)
The Solid Mandala (Patrick White)
Shrodinger's Cat Trilogy (Robert Anton Wilson)
Pygmalion (Bernard Shaw)
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)*
The Horse Whisperer (Nicholas Evans)
Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
2005
The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
The Fellowship of the Ring (JRR Tolkien)
Everything's Eventual (Stephen King)
Down and Out in Paris and London (George Orwell)*
The Man Who Loved Children (Christina Stead)
Written on the Body (Jeanette Winterson)*
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Patricia Highsmith)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (J.K Rowling)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Alexander Solzhenitsyn)*
Maigret and the Hotel Majestic (Georges Simenon)
The Chrysalids (John Wyndham)*
Monstrous Regiment (Terry Pratchett)
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Soul Music (Terry Pratchett)
Night Watch (Terry Pratchett)
Mort (Terry Pratchett)
The Day of the Triffids (John Wyndham)*
Wyrd Sisters (Terry Pratchett)
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Terry Pratchett)*
The Accidental Tourist (Anne Tyler)
Breathing Lessons (Anne Tyler)*
The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Dave Eggers)*
The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
The Testament (John Grisham)*
2004
The Lies that Bind (Edward DeAngelo)
Deception Point (Dan Brown)
Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
How Late It Was, How Late (James Kelman)
The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes-And Its Implications (David Deutsch)
Middlesex: A Novel (Jeffrey Eugenides)
The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)*
The Rescuer (Dee Henderson)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon)
The Girl Most Likely (Rebecca Sparrow)*
The Thompson Gunner (Nick Earls)
The Healer (Dee Henderson)
The Protector (Dee Henderson)
The Truth Seeker (Dee Henderson)
The Guardian (Dee Henderson)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (Truman Capote)
Goodnight Mister Tom (Michelle Magorian)
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (Roddy Doyle)*
Perfect Strangers (Robyn Sisman)
Lost and Found (Jane Sigaloff)
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Mitch Albom)
The Education of Mrs Bemis (John Sedgwick)
Burmese Days (George Orwell)*
The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing (Melissa Bank)
Bridget Jones's Diary (Helen Fielding)
The Negotiator (Dee Henderson)
The Time Traveler's Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)*
Danger in the Shadows (Dee Henderson)
My Legendary Girlfriend (Mike Gayle)
White Apples (Jonathan Carroll)
Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)*
The Sound of One Hand Clapping (Richard Flanagan)
Dinner For Two (Mike Gayle)*
Spadework (Timothy Findley)
Blackie (Stephen Downes)
The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)*
Life of Pi (Yann Martel)*
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things (Jon McGregor)
To the Nines (Janet Evanovich)
A Thing (or Two) About Curtis and Camilla (Nick Fowler)
The Monk Downstairs (Tim Farrington)*
Little Women - complete version (Louisa May Alcott)
Zigzag Street : re-read (Nick Earls)
Serpentine (Thomas Thomson)
The Meaning of Things (A.C. Grayling)
Little Women - incomplete versio n (Louisa May Alcott)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (JK Rowling)
Cancer Ward (Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn)
Dog Stories (Richard Olsenius)*
Pet Owner's Guide to the Golden Retriever (Bernard Bargh)
The Marriage of Sticks (Jonathan Carroll)
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother (James McBride)
End
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
Lies of Silence (Brian M oore)
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Mother of Pearl (Melinda Haynes)
Alexandria: In Which the Extraordinary Corresponde nce of Griffin & Sabine Unfolds (Nick Bantock)
Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in 12 Fish (Richard Flanagan)
On Green Dolphin Street (Sebastian Faulks)
The Mayne Inheritance (Rosamond Siemon)
The Meaning of Things (A.C Grayling) : re-read
Th e Corrections (Jonathan Franzen)
The Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison)
The Short Story of a Prince (Jane Hamilton)
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
Life's Lottery (Kim Newman)
Golden Lads and Girls (Angela Lambert)
You Shall Know Our Velocity (Dave Eggers)*
The Real ER (Dr Mark Brown)
First Person Plural (Cameron West)*
The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman (Bruce Robinson)*
About a Boy (Nick Hornby)
Queen Kat, Carmel & St Jude Get a Life (Maureen McCarthy)
Gideon (Russel Andrews)
The Meaning of Things (A.C Grayling)
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales (Oliver Sacks)
The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint (Brady Udall)*
The Parrot's Theorum (Denis Guedj)*
I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)*
Of Love and War (Vanessa Alexander)
Pay it Forward (Catherine Ryan Hyde)*
Chateau Ella (Hilary Norman)
Bachelor Kisses (Nick Earls)
Passion (Nick Earls)
Perfect Skin (Nick Earls)*
Headgames (Nick Earls)
Zigzag Street (Nick Earls)
48 Shades of Brown (Nick Earls)
World of Chickens (aka Two to Go: A Novel)
Making Laws for Clouds (Nick Earls)
After January (Nick Earls)
