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12 books

Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughterhouse-Five
Cat's Cradle
Breakfast of Champions
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Welcome to the Monkey House
Player Piano
Jailbird

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65 books

Miles Franklin

My Brother Jack
Cloudstreet
The Great World
Dark palace: The companion novel to Grand days
The Unknown Industrial Prisoner
The Glass Canoe

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35 books

Music

Positively George Street
Uptight : The Story of the 'Velvet Undergound
The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Scream: The Music, Myths, and Misbehavior of Primal Scream
All Yesterdays' Parties: The Velvet Underground in Print, 1966-1971
Pig City
Inside Out

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11 books

New Zealand

First Pass Under Heaven: One man's 4000-kilometre trek along the Great Wall of China
In Love With These Times: My Life With Flying Nun Records
The Penguin History of New Zealand
Betrayal in high places
Positively George Street
Glory Days: From Gumboots to Platforms

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29 books

Owned

Voice of War: The Second World War Told By Those Who Fought
Lord of Light
The Coming of the Third Reich: How the Nazis Destroyed Democracy and Seized Power in Germany
A Brief History of Venice
The Idiot
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
Tirra Lirra by the River

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8 books

Patrick Leigh Fermor

The Broken Road
Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
Roumeli : Travels in Northern Greece
Patrick Leigh Fermor An Adventure
A Time of Gifts
Between the Woods and the Water
Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete

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9 books

Peter Carey

True History of the Kelly Gang
Oscar and Lucinda
Jack Maggs
Bliss
My Life as a Fake
Parrot and Olivier in America
The Tax Inspector

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14 books

Peter Pinney

The road to anywhere: The travel writings of Peter Pinney
Dust on My Shoes
The Barbarians
Anywhere But Here
To catch a crocodile: Hunting in Papua New Guinea
The Devils' Garden: Solomon Islands War Diary 1945
Restless Men

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13 books

Pulitzer

The Pope and Mussolini
The Goldfinch
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
All the Light We Cannot See
Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years
Life of Pi
Olive Kitteridge

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9 books

Reviews Of The Year

2018 on Goodreads
2022 on Goodreads

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8 books

Richard Flanagan

The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Gould's Book of Fish: a Novel in Twelve Fish
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams
The Sound of One Hand Clapping
The Unknown Terrorist
Wanting
Death Of A River Guide

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17 books

Science

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
A Brief History of Science
Never Mind The Bullocks, Here's The Science
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air: An Unconventional History of Ballooning
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

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42 books

Sci Fi

Foundation
Rendezvous with Rama
Chapterhouse: Dune
Heretics of Dune
Dune Messiah
God Emperor of Dune
Dune

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10 books

Scotland

My Heart Is My Own
Celtic Britain
A History of Scotland
The Highland Clearances
Scotland: History of a Nation
Culloden
This Seat of Mars: War and the British Isles, 1485-1746

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14 books

Sport

Stand Your Ground: Life and Football
Soccer at the top;: My life in football
A Lot of Hard Yakka : Cricketing Life on the County Circuit
Red
Murder on the Darts Board
Get Her Off the Pitch! How sport took over my life

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9 books

Steven Carroll

The Art of the Engine Driver
The Gift of Speed
Spirit of Progress
Forever Young
The Year of the Beast
A World of Other People

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18 books

Thea Astley

It's Raining in Mango
A Kindness Cup
Reaching Tin River
A boat load of home folk
Beachmasters
A Descant for Gossips

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33 books

The Classics Or Deserve To Be

From Here to Eternity
1984
The Lord of the Rings
Animal Farm
Lord of the Flies
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
Catch-22

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62 books

Travel

Patrick Leigh Fermor An Adventure
From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East
Roumeli : Travels in Northern Greece
Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
A Time of Gifts
The Broken Road
Between the Woods and the Water

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5 books

William Dalrymple

The Age of Kali
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
White Mughals
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East

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87 books

Wish List Australia Fiction

A Horse of Air
The Impersonators
Shallows
The Getting of Wisdom
The Darkest Little Room
The End of It All

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93 books

Wish List Australia Non Fiction

Who Wanders Alone
The Lawless and the Lotus
The Last Man: A British Genocide in Tasmania
Tall Man : The Death of Doomadgee
Six Australian Battlefields
After the Celebration: Australian Fiction 1989-2007
The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia

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183 books

Wish List Fiction

Men at Arms
The Pillow Book
Malevil
Then
Traveler of the Century
To Die In Spring
Anna

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305 books

Wish List Non Fiction

The Library at Night
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor
John Cale
What's Welsh for Zen: The Autobiography of John Cale
Sedition and Alchemy: A Biography of John Cale
The Story of George Loveless and the Tolpuddle Martyrs

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15 books

World War 1

Beneath Hill 60
Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914
The First World War
Somme Mud: The war experiences of an Australian infantryman in France, 1916–1919
The War that Ended Peace: How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World War
A Brief History of 1917: Russia's Year of Revolution
Three Soldiers
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