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Tell us about your favourite book, something you've recently read or about an author you love. The review may include not only whether you liked or disliked a book, but also why. Your review or summary of a great read may interest and inspire other people to read that same book.
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Australian Fiction
This list contains recently published books written by Australian authors.
(Updated 4 September 2009)
Books recently made into films
This includes both those based on true stories such as Black Hawk Down, and those from novels such as Lord of the Rings.
(Updated 16 December 2008)
- Blindness, by Jose Saramago
- Body of Lies, by David Ignatius
- Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
- Casino Royale, by Ian Fleming
- Charlotte's Web, by E.B.White
- Children of Men, by P.D. James
- Choke, by Chuck Palahniuk
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Defiance, by Nechama Tiec
- 'The Duchess' - Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, by Amanda Foreman
- Eragon, by Christopher Paolini
- Flicka, by Mary O'Hara
- Fugitive Pieces, by Anne Michaels
- How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, by Toby Young
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- Journey to the Centre of the Earth, by Jules Verne
- Marley and Me, by John Grogan
- The Memory Keeper's Daughter, by Kim Edwards
- Miracle at St Anna, by James McBride
- Nights in Rodanthe, by Nicholas Sparks
- The Other Boleyn Girl, by Philippa Gregory
- Perfume: the story of a murder, by Patrick Suskind
- The Prestige, by Christopher Priest
- Revolutionary Road, by Richards Yates
- The Ruins, Scott B. Smith
- Snow Angels, by Stewart O'Nan
- Then She Found Me, by Elinor Lipman
- Tenth Circle, by Jodi Picoult
- Towelhead, by Alicia Erian
- Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer
- Yes Man, by Danny Wallace
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 Chick Lit
Books that are mainly written by women for women. The books range from having twentysomething and thirtysomething women characters who are dealing with that time in life when a woman looks for the perfect guy, apartment, or a job. There is usually a personal, light, and humorous tone to the books.
(Updated 4 September 2009)
Detective and Mystery Stories
Includes recently published classic-style mysteries, police and detective stories.
(Updated 4 September 2009)
Fantasy Stories
This link includes a range of recent titles from the fantasy genre. You'll find some of your old favourites as well as some new authors you may enjoy sampling.
(Updated 4 September 2009)
Horror
Try these if you enjoy stories intended to scare, unsettle or horrify the reader. Stories about with a morbid, gruesome, surreal, suspenseful or frightening theme.
(Updated 4 September 2009)
Legal Thrillers
Stories either set in a courtroom, involving a legal case, lawyer, barrister, or solicitor where solving a crime is paramount to the theme of the story.
(Updated 4 September 2009)
Science Fiction
For people who enjoy stories of imagined science and technology in societies of imagined worlds.
(Updated 4 September 2009)
Talking Books (Books on CD)
Recently acquired best sellers and popular fiction as talking books.
(Updated 4 September 2009)
Thrillers
If you enjoy exciting stories with a fast-moving story line this is the list for you
(Updated 4 September 2009)
Westerns
If you enjoy stories about the mountain men, outlaws, settlers and lawmen of the West, try these.
(Updated 4 September 2009)
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