Reading 2012

13. Undercurrents: A Therapist's Reckoning with Her Own Depression by Martha Manning.

12. Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir by Mark Vonnegut.

11. The Rules of Inheritance: A Memoir by Claire Bidwell Smith. (R)

10. Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama by Yayoi Kusama.

9. The Writer's Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House. (R)

8. Speech Matters: Getting Free Speech Right by Katharine Gelber. (R)

7. How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing by Paul J Silva.

6. Sex Drive: In pursuit of female desire by Dr Bella Ellwood-Clayton. (R)

5. Woolgathering by Patti Smith.

4. Phantom by Jo Nesbo. (R)

3. Irrepressible: The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford. (R)

2. A Gift for My Sister by Ann Pearlman. (R)

1. Currawalli Street by Christopher Morgan. (R)
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2011 Reading

77. Why Orwell Matters by Christopher Hitchens.

76. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen.

75. Mawson's Forgotten Men edited by Heather Rossiter.

74. Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas.

73. Your Voice in My Head by Emma Forrest.

72. Tony Abbott: A Man's Man by Susan Mitchell.

71. If You Want to Write: A book about Art, Independence and Spirit by Brenda Ueland.

70. Making a Literary Life by Carolyn See.

69. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson.

68. All About Love: Anatomy of an unruly emotion by Lisa Appignanesi.

67. The Forest for the Trees by Betsy Lerner.

66. Blue Nights by Joan Didion.

65. Perfect People by Peter James.

64. Understanding Troubled Minds by Sidney Bloch.

63. Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier.

62. Americana by Don DeLillo.

61. Desert Boys by Peter Rees.

60. The Naked Eye by Yoko Tawada.

59. The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman.

58. One Matchless Time: A Life of William Faulkner by Jay Parini.

57. Soldiers' Pay by William Faulkner.

56. Lettah's Gift by Graham Lang.

55. Cambridge by Caryl Phillips.

54. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller.

53. In My Time by Dick Cheney.

52. The Enigma of Arrival by V S Naipaul.

51. The Long Goodbye: a memoir by Meghan O'Rourke.

50. Words by Jean-Paul Sartre.

49. Mountains Belong to the People Who Love Them by Lesley Synge.

48. Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson.

47. Stepping Out by Catherine Rey.

46. India India. Southerly Volume 70, Number 3, 2010.

45. Life with Picasso by Françoise Gilot.

44. Trumpet by Jackie Kay.

43. A Gap in the Records by Jan McKemmish.

42. Split Second by Catherine Coulter.

41. The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett.

40. Greene on Capri:A Memoir by Shirley Hazzard.

39. Nine Simple Patterns for Complicated Women: Stories by Mary Rechner.

38. The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennet.

37. Madre: Perilous Journeys with a Spanish Noun by Liza Bakewell.

36. Erasing Iraq: The Human Costs of Carnage by Michael Otterman and Richard Hil with Paul Wilson.

35. Bento's Sketchbook by John Berger

34. A Deniable Death by Gerald Seymour

33. A Man You Can Bank On by Derek Hansen

32. That Paris Year by Joanna Biggar

31. The Map of Time by Félix J Palma

30. By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham

29. Madness: An American History of Mental Illness and Its Treatment by Mary de Young

28. Generation X: Tales for an accelerated culture by Douglas Coupland

27. The Dog Who Came In From the Cold by Alexander McCall Smith

26. Nothing To Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes

25. Player One: What is to Become of Us by Douglas Coupland

24. The Chronology of Water: A Memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch

23. The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey

22. Proust was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer

21. A Train of Powder by Rebecca West

20. Obesity: The Biography by Sander L Gilman

19. Where the Bodies are Buried by Chris Brookmyre

18. Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives by Brian Dillon

17. Past the Shallows by Favel Parrett

16. The Redeemed by M R Hall

15. Gatherers and Hunters by Thomas Shapcott

14. Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult

13. True You by Janet Jackson

12. An Exclusive Love by Johanna Adorján

11. Toys by James Patterson

10. Mia Culpa by Mia Freedman

9. The Forgotten Son by Diane Chamberlain

8. Barbara Hanrahan: A Biography by Annette Stewart

7. Silencing the Self Across Cultures: Depression and Gender in the Social World by Dana Crowley Jack and Alisha Ali

6. Hand Me Down World by Lloyd Jones

5. 13, rue Thérèse by Elena Mauli Shapiro

4. Beneath the Shadows by Sara Foster

3. Gone by Jennifer Mills

2. How Fiction Works by James Wood

1. The Secret Lives of Dresses by Erin McKean