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If you are looking for some reading recommendations, I have handpicked 55 of my favourite books. As a book lover, this was a very difficult list to compile and naturally contains a lot of well-known classics, but I’ve tried to restrict my choices to books that I still emotionally connect with, either through laughter, tears, anger or wonder.
- The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton
2. A Fortunate Life by A.B. Facey
3. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
4. Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller
5. A Song for Issy Bradley by Carys Bray
6. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
7. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
8. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
9. 1984 by George Orwell
10. Watership Down by Richard Adams
11. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by DH Lawrence
12. 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
13. Milly Molly Mandy by J. L. Brisley
14. House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
15. History of a Pleasure Seeker by Richard Mason
16. Just Kids by Patty Smith
17. The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
18. The Collected Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
19. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
20. My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff
21. All My Puny Sorrows by Mirian Toews
22. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
23. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
24. Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
25. The Collected Verse of A.B. Paterson
26. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
27. Speeches that Changed the World
28. The Conversations at Curlow Creek by David Malouf
29. Carnivale by MR Lovric
30. The End of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas
31. Couldn’t Keep it to Myself by Wally Lamb
32. My Brother Donald by Gwen Friend
33. The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche
34. The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
35. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
36. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
37. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
38. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
39. The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
40. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
41. The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
42. The Diary of a Young Girl by Ann Frank
43. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
44. Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
45. Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski
46. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
47. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
48. Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
49. My Place by Sally Morgan
50. My Country by Dorothea McKellar
51. Halfway up the Mountain by Dorothy Wright
52. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
53. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
54. True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
55. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
