Last updated: 12th January 2011
Unless I've already agreed to, I will not be sending books overseas. Please do not ask.
Join the Australian Bookcrossing group on Yahoo!
Join the Sydney Bookcrossing group on Yahoo!
Come along to a Sydney meetup!
Bookrings/rays I am currently running:
RAY:
Mary Roach's Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Australia/NZ only.
RAY:
Pankaj Mishra's The Romantics - a 1001 book! International.
RAY:
Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome - a 1001 book! International.
RAY:
Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory - a 1001 book! International.
RAY:
Italo Cavalino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveller - a 1001 book! International.
RAY:
Richard Flanagan's Wanting - part of DrCris's 2009 Miles Franklin Shortlist Reading Challenge. Australia only. Still open, PM me (or DrCris!) to join!
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World of Love , Elizabeth Bowen - a 1001 book! International.
Miles Franklin Reading Challenge 2010
Want to read some quality Australian literature? Then sign up! We'll be reading & passing along the winner & shortlisted books of the
2010 Miles Franklin Literary Award .
Truth , Peter Temple - WINNER
Lovesong , Alex Miller
The Bath Fugues , Brian Castro
Jasper Jones , Craig Silvey
The Book of Emmett , Deborah Forster
Butterfly , Sonya Hartnett
Participants are (so far): myself (tqd), Jubby, goodthinkingmax, and Fleebo.
What I've been reading:
Currently reading:
The Long song , Andrea Levy.
Recently finished reading:
The Invention of Curried Sausage , Uwe Timm.
Dog Boy , Eva Hornung.
Missus , Ruth Park.
Next bookcrossing book to read (in roughly planned order, although it's not set in stone):
Currently obsessed about:
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (not that there's any pressure, no...).
I've also joined the
Set It Yourself Reading Challenge , and will be reading 20 books this quarter, 5 of which will be previously registered by another bookcrosser, and 5 of which will be "1001" titles.
Bookrings/rays I have joined:
Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventures, Dave Gorman
Mother Love, Martine Oborne
Portrait in Sepia, Isabel Allende A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
The Complete Autobiography, Janet Frame
Bibliotherapy : The Girl's Guide to Books for Every Phase of Our Lives, Nancy Peske
Rain, Kirsty Gunn
84 Charing Cross Road, Helene Hanff
A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
Intimacy, Hanif Kureishi The Cat Who Covered the World, Christopher S. Wren
Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs
The White Hole: a Jim Long Space Adventure, Robin G. Howard
Good in Bed, Jennifer Weiner
It's a Slippery Slope, Spalding Gray
Popcorn, Ben Elton
Stark, Ben Elton
The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
Eats, Shoots and Leaves, Lynne Truss
Confessions of a Shopaholic, Sophie Kinsella
The Australian slanguage: a look at what we say and how we say it, Bill Hornadge
Knowledge of Angels, Jill Paton Walsh
The Body Artist, Don DeLillo
WAS, Geoff Ryman Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
Are You Dave Gorman?, Dave Gorman & Danny Wallace
See Jane Run, Joy Fielding
What Dreams May Come, Richard Matheson
Mad About the Boy, Maggie Alderson
Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks
The Virgin Blue, Tracy Chevalier
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Jean-Dominque Bauby
Wind, Sand and Stars, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Just Ella, Margaret Peterson Haddix
A Hero of Our Time, Mikhail Lermontov
Spring Torrents, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Tea From An Empty Cup, Pat Cadigan
The Lady and the Unicorn, Tracy Chevalier
Unreliable Memoirs, Clive James
Jennifer Government, Max Barry
Rough Music, Patrick Gale
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
Underdog, William Johnston
Handbag Heaven, Maggie Alderson
Leviathan, Paul Auster
Dan Leno & The Limehouse Golem, Peter Ackroyd
The Reading Group, Elizabeth Noble
The Man in My Basement: A Novel, Walter Mosely
A Baby in a Backpack to Bhutan, Bunty Avieson
Geisha of Gion: The Memoir of Mineko Iwasaki, with Rande Brown
The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom
Thai Die, Greg Fleet
Not Happy, John! Defending our Democracy, Margo Kingston
Worst First Sentence of a Novel, Brian Edwards
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas, James Patterson
The Dilbert Principle, Scott Adams
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
Man and Boy: A Novel, Tony Parsons
Man and Wife, Tony Parsons
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S Thompson
Dark Victory, David Marr & Marian Wilkinson
Sellevision: A Novel, Augusten Burroughs
100 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature, Nicholas J. Karolides
Falling Leaves, Adeline Yen Mah
Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom
Exodus, Julie Bertagna
The Colour: A Novel, Rose Tremain The Book of Night with Moon, Diane Duane
The Gods Themselves, Isaac Asimov
Syrup, Maxx Barry
Enchantment, Orson Scott Card
The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1), Lemony Snicket
The Light of Day, Graham Swift
Shade's Children, Garth Nix
The Neverending Story, Michael Ende
Swahili for the Broken-hearted, Peter Moore
The Wrong Way Home, Peter Moore
Recipe Journal, Various Australian Bookcrossers
Elegance, Kathleen Tessaro
Watson's Dictionary of Weasel Words, Don Watson
The Story of the British Museum, Marjorie Caygill
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Laurence Sterne
The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides
Orson Welles: A Biography, Barbara Leaming
The Wish List, Melanie La'Brooy
Lady Chatterley's Lover, D.H. Lawrence
An Insular Possession, Timothy Mo Death at the Priory, James Ruddick
You Shall Know Our Velocity, Dave Eggers
A Million Little Pieces, James Frey
Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down, Nicey & Wifey
Gastronaut, Stefan Gates
The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Kim Edwards
Time on My Hands, Peter Delacorte
No! I Don't Want to Join a Bookclub, Virginia Ironside
The Hungry Tide, Amitav Ghosh
Drop City, T Coraghessan Boyle
Triumph of the Airheads and the Retreat from Commonsense, Shelley Gare
Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain
Dead Air, Iain Banks
Ophelia, Lisa M Klein
The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: The Hidden World of a Paris Atelier, T.E. Carhart
Germinal, Emile Zola
In the Forest, Edna O'Brien
Australia Only Surprise Fiction Bookbag
The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien
The Book of Illusions, Paul Auster
The Rules of Attraction, Bret Easton Ellis
Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
The Tin Drum, Gunter Grass
Orpheus Lost, Janette Turner Hospital
Beloved, Toni Morrison
The Alchemist, Paul Coelho
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Alan Sillitoe
The Virgin in the Garden, A.S. Byatt
Steal You Away, Niccolo Ammanati
Silas Marner, George Eliot
Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
The Bell, Iris Murdoch
The Gathering, Anne Enright
The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Moshin Hamid
Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones
Animal's People, Indra Sinha
The Gift of Rain, Tan Twan Eng
Gifted, Nikita Lawani
The Welsh Girl, Peter Ho Davies
Darkmans, Nicola Barker
Brighton Rock, Graham Greene
The Quiet American, Graham Greene
The Blue-eyed Salaryman: From World Traveller to Lifer at Mitsubishi, Niall Murtagh
Case Histories, Kate Atkinson
Corelli's Mandolin, Louis De Bernieres
Timbuktu, Paul Auster
The Diary of a Nobody, George & Weedon Grossmith
Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin
The Devil and Miss Prym, Paul Coelho
Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters
Bonjour Tristesse, Francoise Sagan
Dearly Devoted Dexter, Jeff Lindsay
Tomaree, Debbie Robson
The Lover, Marguerite Duras
The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
The Collector, John Fowles
The Last Temptation, Nikos Kazantzakis
The Player of Games, Iain M. Banks
Antic Hay, Aldous Huxley
London Orbital, Iain Sinclair
The Talk of the Town, Ardal O'Hanlon
Will the Vampire People Please Leave the Lobby?, Allyson Beatrice
Love Without Hope, Rodney Hall
Sorry, Gail Jones
The Fern Tattoo, David Brooks
Landscape of Farewell, Alex Miller
The Memory Room, Christopher Koch
Naked, David Sedaris
Goodbye to Berlin, Christopher Isherwood
Burmese Days, George Orwell
The Invention of Curried Sausage, Uwe Timm
Passing, Nella Larsen
A Fraction of the Whole, Steven Toltz
Sea of Poppies, Amitav Ghosh
The Secret Scripture, Sebastian Barry A Case of Exploding Mangoes, Mohammed Hanif
The Enchantress of Florence, Salman Rushdie
The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
The Iron Heel, Jack London
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
Breath, Tim Winton
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
Child 44, Tom Rob Smith
Summertime, J.M. Coetzee
The Quickening Maze, Adam Foulds
Quicksand, Nella Larsen
Not Untrue, And Not Unkind, Ed O'Loughlin
The Book of Emmett, Deborah Forster
Butterfly, Sonya Hartnett
If you want to know how to do these drop-down menus,
I've written up some instructions .
I'm also participating in the Sue Grafton Alphabet bookring (organised by
Hawkette ):
Sue Grafton Alphabet Ring
A is for Alibi B is for Burglar
C is for Corpse
D is for Deadbeat E is for Evidence
F is for Fugitive
G is for Gumshoe H is for Homicide
I is for Innocent
J is for Judgement K is for Killer
L is for Lawless
M is for Malice N is for Noose
O is for Outlaw
P is for Peril Q is for Quarry
R is for Ricochet
S is for Silence
I''ve done DrCris's 2008 and 2009 Miles Franklin Award shortlist reading challenges. See
DrCris's bookshelf for more information. (Go Aussie literature!) Plus, I've signed up for Fleebo's 2008, 2009 and 2010 Man Booker Prize shortlist reading challenge. You can visit
Fleebo's bookshelf for more information.