To celebrate The National Year of Reading, ABC TV’s First Tuesday Book Club lsearched out by popular vote the 10 Aussie Books to Read Before You Die – the great Australian reading list. And here is the result:-
1. Cloudstreet - Tim Winton
2. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
3. A Fortunate Life - A.B. Facey
4. The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay
5. The Harp in the South - Ruth Park
6. Jasper Jones - Craig Silvey
7. The Magic Pudding - Norman Lindsay
8. The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas
9. The Secret River - Kate Grenville
10. Picnic at Hanging Rock - Joan Lindsay
2. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
3. A Fortunate Life - A.B. Facey
4. The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay
5. The Harp in the South - Ruth Park
6. Jasper Jones - Craig Silvey
7. The Magic Pudding - Norman Lindsay
8. The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas
9. The Secret River - Kate Grenville
10. Picnic at Hanging Rock - Joan Lindsay
The
Blue Room’s Top 10 Aussie Books to Read before You Die 2012
1. Dirt
Music – Tim Winton
2. The
Riders – Tim Winton
3. Journey
into Stone Country – Alex Miller
4.
The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas
5.
The Secret River
– Kate Grenville
6.
Jasper Jones – Craig Silvey
7.
The Fatal Shore – Robert Hughes
8.
Unreliable Memoirs – Clive James
9.
The River Baptists – Belinda
Castles
10. Struggle of Memory – Joan Dugdale
Link to First Tuesday’s Book Club's Top 10 Australian Books to Read before You Die - http://www.abc.net.au/arts/aussiebooks/
My Top Ten
ReplyDelete1. Ethel Turner – Seven Little Australians
2. Robin Klein – The Enemies
3. Maureen McCarthy Queen Kat, Carmel and St Jude Get a Life
4. Nick Earls - Zigzag Street
5. Tim Winton - Cloudstreet
6. Monica McInerney - At Home With The Templetons
7. Steven Herrick – Black Painted Fingernails
8. Emily Rodda – Finders Keepers
9. Melina Marchetta - Saving Francesca
10. Shaun Tan - The Arrival
As you know, I detest The Slap and am not a huge Courtenay fan. The rest of the list was worthy, if predictable. And, as I told Marieke from my high horse last night, I think she's wondrous but she needs to read more YA fiction if she thinks it's all saccharin and simple!