Book+Recommendations

As well as reading our set books it would be great if we could share other books we have read that we have really enjoyed and would recommend to others. You don't need to write anything about the book - although feel free to do so. I have used some subheadings to get us started. If you have a book to recommend that falls under another category feel free to add it in. Write your name before the name of the book so that we know where the recommendation came from. Also - feel free to agree or disagree with others recommendations.

__Melanie Wilson__ Shantaram: Gregory David-Roberts (ditto - Sharyn) Infidel: Ayaan Hirsi Ali In My Skin: Kate Holden
 * BIOGRAPHY**

__Sharyn__ The Long Walk to Freedom: Nelson Mandela Hillary Clinton: John Murray

__Melanie__ Wanting & The Unknown Terrorist: Richard Flanagan Jasper Jones: Craig Silvery (ditto - Sharyn) The Broken Shore & Truth : Peter Temple Highways to a War: Christopher J Kosh Cloudstreet & Breathe: Tim Winton The Secret River: Kate Grenville Lovesong: Alex Miller All That I Am - Anna Funder
 * AUSTRALIAN FICTION**

__Sharyn__ The Riders & Dirt Music: Tim Winton Journey to the Stone Country: Alex Miller Just Like That - Lilly Brett

__Melanie__ Dark Victory: David Marr and Marian Wilkinson Half the Sky: Nicholas D Kristoff & Sheryl Wudunn The Tall Man: Chloe Hooper How to be a Woman: Cailtin Moran The Justice Game: Geoffrey Robertson All books by journalist John Simpson The Female Brain: Louann Brizendine M.D The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: Rebecca Skloot Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures - Kenneth Cain, Heidi Postlewait and Andrew Thomson Joe Chinque's Consolation - Helen Gardner
 * NON-FICTION**

__Sharyn__ A Very Short History of the World: Geoffrey Blainey Stasiland: Anna Funder Affluenza: Oliver James Wonder Woman: Virginia Hausseger

__Melanie__ American Wife - Curtis Sittenfeld Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamnda Ngozi Adichie (ditto - Sharyn) A Prayer for Own Meany: John Irving A Visit From the Goon Squad: Jennifer Egan The Guernsey Literacy Potato Peel Pie Society: Mary Ann Shaffer & Anne Burrows White Teeth: Zadie Smith The Quiet American: Graeme Greene Mother's Milk: Edward St. Aubyn To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee (ditto - Sharyn) People of the Book: Geraldine Brooks Lost Horizon: James Hilton The Book Thief: Marcus Zusak The Reluctant Fundermentalist - Mushin Hamid A Passage to India - E. M. Forster The Great Fire - Shirley Hazzard The Glass Palace - Amitav Ghosh The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver Birdsong - Sebastion Faulks The Map of Love - Adhaf Soueif The Secret History - Donna Tarratt
 * OTHER FICTION**

__Jane__ Oracle Night: Paul Auster Sense of an Ending: Julian Barnes (ditto - Sharyn) Snowdrops: A.D. Miller Middlesex: Jeffrey Eugenides Leviathan: Paul Auster The Handmaid's Tale: Margaret Atwood The Book Thief: Marcus Zusak The Sea: John Banville Brooklyn: Colm Toibin Two Lives: William Trevor I Capture the Castle: Dodie Smith The Book of Illusions: Paul Auster Never Let Me Go: Kazuo Ishiguro Song of Achilles: Madeleine Miller

__Sharyn__ Disgrace: J.M Coetzee Wolf Hall: Hillary Mantel The God of Small Things: Arundhati Roy Norweigan Wood: Haruki Murakami Never Let Me Go & When We Were Orphans: Kazuo Ishiguro The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: Mark Haddon One Day: David Nichols When God Was a Rabbit: Sarah Winman We Need to Talk About Kevin: Lionel Shriver The Great Gatsby: F. Scott Fitzgerald I Capture the Castle: Dodie Smith

__Melanie__ Queen Bees and Wanta Bees - Rosalind Wiseman Why Gender Matters - Leonard Sax MD PhD Why First Borns Want to Rule the World and Last Borns Want to Change it - Michael Grose How Not to F%$* Them Up - Oliver James (ditto - Sharyn, together with Affluenza)
 * PARENTING**