Book Reviews
| # | Author | Title | Category | Rating | Comment | Publication date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A M Homes | Music for Torching | Novel | Unread | - | 2020 |
| 2 | A Stendhal | The Red and the Black | Novel | Unread | - | 1998 |
| 3 | A. E. Van Vogt | Mission to the Stars | SF | 2 | - | - |
| 4 | A. E. Van Vogt | Moonbeast | SF | 2 | - | 1993 |
| 5 | A. E. Van Vogt | Planets for Sale | SF | 3.5 | Fast-paced, superman-style | 2017 |
| 6 | A. E. Van Vogt | The Book of Ptath | SF | 4 | Very imaginative, despite magic | 2020 |
| 7 | Adam Kerezsy | Desert Fishing Lessons | Novel | Unread | - | 2020 |
| 8 | Adolfo Aranjuez (Ed) | Award Winning Australian Writing | Novel | Unread | - | 2020 |
| 9 | Aechylus | Prometheus Bound, etc | Novel | - | - | 2019 |
| 10 | Afsaneh Knight | Slaughterhouse Heart | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 11 | After Love | Sabhash Jaireth | - | Unread | - | - |
| 12 | Agatha Christie | The Murder of Roger Ackroyd | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 13 | Aifric Campbell | The Loss Adjustor | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 14 | Alan Brown | Audrey Hepburn's Neck | Novel | Unread | - | 1967 |
| 15 | Alan Furst | Spies of the Balkans | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 16 | Alan Lightman | Einstein's Dreams | Novel | 4 | Fascinating | - |
| 17 | Alex Bellow | Alex's Adventures in Numberland | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 18 | Alex Miller | Autumn Laing | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 19 | Alex Miller | Lovesong | Novel | 4 | - | - |
| 20 | Alexander Maksik | A Marker to Measure Drift | - | Unread | - | - |
| 21 | Alexander Solzhenitsyn | Cancer Ward | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 22 | Alexandra Harris | Virginia Woolf | - | Unread | - | - |
| 23 | Alexis Wright | The Swan Book | Novel | 2 | Discursive, florid writing style. Couldn't finish it | - |
| 24 | Ali Smith | Summer | Novel | 3.5 | - | - |
| 25 | Alice McDermott | Someone | - | Unread | - | 2020 |
| 26 | Alice Munro | Runaway | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 27 | Alice Sebold | The Almost Moon | Novel | 2 | Feeble | - |
| 28 | Alisom MacLeod | Unexploded | - | Unread | - | - |
| 29 | Alistair MacLean | The Satan Bug | SF | 3 | - | - |
| 30 | Allan Bloom | The Closing of the American Mind | - | Unread | - | - |
| 31 | Almudena Grandes | The Frozen Heart | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 32 | Amal Awad | Beyond Veiled Cliches | Investigative reporting | 4 | Offers significant insight into Arab womens' thinking. (Arab/Islam/Muslim) | - |
| 33 | Amanda Craig | Hearts and Minds | Novel | 3 | - | 2017 |
| 34 | Amanda Curtin | Elemental | - | Unread | - | - |
| 35 | Amanda Dunn | The New Puberty | - | Unread | - | - |
| 36 | Amanda Hocking | Switched | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 37 | Amanda Lohrey | Camille's Bread | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 38 | Amanda Lohrey | The Reading Group | Novel | 1 | - | - |
| 39 | Amanda Lohrey | Vertigo | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 40 | Amartya Sen | Collective Choice and Social Welfare | - | Unread | - | 2017 |
| 41 | Amin Maalouf | Ports of Call | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 42 | Aminatta Forna | The Memory of Love | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 43 | Amitav Ghosh | River of Smoke | Novel | 1 | Could not finish it | - |
| 44 | Amity Gaige | Schroder | - | Unread | - | - |
| 45 | Amoz Oz | A Tale of Love and Darkness | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 46 | Amy Espeseth | Sufficient Grace | - | Unread | - | - |
| 47 | Amy Hatuany | Heart Like Mine | - | Unread | - | - |
| 48 | Amy T Matthews | End of the Night Girl | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 49 | Anbara Salam Khalidi | Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist | - | Unread | - | - |
| 50 | Andrea Goldsmith | The Memory Trap | - | Unread | - | - |
| 51 | Andrea Mayes | Shearwater | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 52 | Andrea Wulf | The Invention of Nature | Science | 4 | Amazing story about Alexander von Humboldt | - |
| 53 | Andrei Makine | La Testament Francis | Novel | 2 | - | 2015 |
| 54 | Andrew Croome | Midnight Empire | - | Unread | - | - |
| 55 | Andrew Jennings | Lord of the Rings | About Olympics Committee corruption? | Unread | - | - |
| 56 | Andrew Miller | Oxygen | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 57 | Andrew Miller | The Optimists | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 58 | Andrew Parker | Seven Deadly Colours | Science | 4 | - | - |
| 59 | Andrew Robinson | Lost Languages | Report | 4 | A great book but he refuses to acknowledge Fischer's successful decoding of the Phaistos Disc and Rongorongo script | - |
| 60 | Andrew Robinson | The Story of Writing | Report | 4.5 | Fascinating | 2015 |
| 61 | Andrew Weil | The Natural Mind | Report | 3 | Good and odd | 1997 & 2007 |
| 62 | Angela Pippos | Breaking the Mould | Investigative reporting | 4.5 | Marvellous | - |
| 63 | Angie Thomas | The Hate U Give | YA Fiction | 4 | Powerful expose of US racism | 2017 |
| 64 | Anita Desai | The Artist of Disappearence | Novel | Unread | - | 2017 |
| 65 | Anita Shreve | A Change in Altitude | Novel | 4 | - | - |
| 66 | Anita Shreve | A Wedding in December | Novel | 4 | Very sophisticated. Some characters are intensely perceptive | - |
| 67 | Anita Shreve | Body Surfing | Novel | 4 | - | 2009 |
| 68 | Anita Shreve | Sea Glass | Novel | 4 | - | 1997 & 2007 |
| 69 | Anita Shreve | Testimony | Novel | 4 | - | - |
| 70 | Anita Shreve | The Last Time They Met | Novel | 4 | - | 2017 |
| 71 | Ann Leckie | Provenance | Science Fiction | 4 | Complex. Very well done | 2017 |
| 72 | Ann Patchett | Bel Canto | Novel | Unread | - | 2017 |
| 73 | Ann Patchett | State of Wonder | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 74 | Ann Stanford | The Bhagavad Gita | Poetry | - | Could not get into it | - |
| 75 | Anna Funder | All That I Am | Novel | 4 | - | - |
| 76 | Anna Gavalda | Breaking Away | Novel | Unread | - | 2011 |
| 77 | Anna Goldsworthy | Piano Lessons | - | Unread | - | - |
| 78 | Anna Krien | Into the Woods | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 79 | Anna Krien | Night Games | - | Unread | - | 2017 |
| 80 | Anna Solding | The Hum of Concrete | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 81 | Anne Enright | The Gathering | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 82 | Anne Michaels | Fugitive Pieces | Novel | 3 | - | - |
| 83 | Anne Michaels | The Winter Vault | Report | 3 | Building the Aswan Dam | 2011 |
| 84 | Anne Sexton | Transformations | Poetry | 3 | Based on fairy tales | - |
| 85 | Anonymous | A Woman in Berlin | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 86 | Anthony Burgess | A Dead Man in Deptford | History | 4 | About Christopher Marlow | - |
| 87 | Antonia Tabucchi | Pereira Maintains | Novel | Unread | - | 1993 |
| 88 | Any Hempel | The Dog of the Marriage | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 89 | Any Waldham | The Submission | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 90 | Aravind Adiga | The White Tiger | Novel | 1 | - | - |
| 91 | Aristophanes | The Wasps, etc | Novel | - | - | - |
| 92 | Ashley Hay | The Body in the Clouds | - | Unread | - | - |
| 93 | Ashley Hay | The Railway Man's Wife | - | Unread | - | - |
| 94 | Audrey Niffeneggar | Her Fearful Symmetry | Novel | - | Feeble | 1993 |
| 95 | Audrey Niffeneggar | The Time Traveller's Wife | Novel | 4 | - | - |
| 96 | Aviva Tuffield (Ed) | New Australian Stories | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 97 | Barbara Arrowsmith | The Woman Who Changed Her Brain | Novel | 4 | - | - |
| 98 | Barbara Gowdy | The White Bone | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 99 | Barbara Graziosi | The Gods of Olympus - A History | History | 3.5 | Detailed look at (basically) Greek god myths, but no Freudian understading | 2014 |
| 100 | Barbara Kingsolver | Flight Behaviour | - | Unread | - | - |
| 101 | Barbara Kingsolver | The Lacuna | Novel | 2 | Crime | - |
| 102 | Barbara Vine | A Dark-Adapted Eye | Novel | 4 | - | - |
| 103 | Barbara Vine | The Birthday Present | Novel | 3.5 | Gothic | - |
| 104 | Barbara Vine | The Blood Doctor | Novel | 4 | Very well written. Very clever | 2002 |
| 105 | Barbara Vine | The Brimstone Wedding | Novel | 3 | - | - |
| 106 | Benjamin Black | The Silver Swan | Crime | 2 | See John Banfield | - |
| 107 | Bernhard Schlink | Guilt about the Past | Novel | Unread | - | 2014 |
| 108 | Bianca Nogvady | The End: The Human Experience of Death | - | Unread | - | - |
| 109 | Bill Bryson | Shakespeare | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 110 | Bill Laws | Fifty Plants that Changed the Course of History | Science | Unread | - | - |
| 111 | Bjorn Lomborg | The Skeptical Environmentalist | Report | 3 | Thought | - |
| 112 | Bob Burton | Inside Spin | Novel | 4 | Research | 2002 |
| 113 | Bob Connolly | Marking Black Harvest | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 114 | Brenda Maddox | Freud's Wizard | Biography | 3 | - | - |
| 115 | Brenda Walker | Reading by Moonlight | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 116 | Brewster Kneen | Invisible Giant | Report | 5 | - | - |
| 117 | Bruce Schneier | Data and Goliath | Privacy and the Law | 4 | Not as powerful as expected | 2015 |
| 118 | Bruno Bettelheim | Freud and Man's Soul | Psychoanalysis | 5 | Eye-popping | - |
| 119 | Bruno Bettelheim | Love is not Enough | Report | 3 | Psychoanalysis | - |
| 120 | Bruno Bettelheim | Symbolic Wounds | Psychoanalysis | 5 | Fascinating | - |
| 121 | Bruno Bettelheim | The Uses of Enchantment | Report | 5 | Psychoanalysis of Fairy Tales | - |
| 122 | Bryan Sykes | Adam's Curse | Science | 4 | - | - |
| 123 | C K Stead | South West of Eden | Unread | Unread | - | - |
| 124 | C. J. Koch | The Doubleman | Novel | 3 | - | - |
| 125 | Caleb Carr | The Alienist | Crime | 4 | Very well written. Very clever | 2015 |
| 126 | Caleb Carr | The Angel of Darkness | Novel | 4 | Well written but a bit too long | 1997 |
| 127 | Cally Black | In the Dark Spaces | YA Fiction | 4 | Marvellous story set in spaceships | 2017 |
| 128 | Candida Baker | The Hidden | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 129 | Carl Schorske | Fin de Siecle Vienna | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 130 | Carol Kaesuk Yoon | Naming Nature | Science | 3 | - | - |
| 131 | Carol Off | Bitter Chocolate | Report | 5 | A history of chocolate | - |
| 132 | Carol Shields | Dressing Up for the Carnival | Novel | 1 | - | - |
| 133 | Carol Shields | Larry's Party | Novel | 1 | - | 1994 |
| 134 | Carol Shields | The Stone Diaries | Novel | Unread | - | 1997 |
| 135 | Carola Hicks | The Bayeaux Tapestry | Report | 4 | - | 2017 |
| 136 | Caroline Overington | Bantam | - | Unread | - | - |
| 137 | Caroline Overington | Matilda is Missing | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 138 | Caroline Overington | Sisters of Mercy | - | Unread | - | - |
| 139 | Caroline Taggart | A Classical Education | Language | 4 | Potted history of linguistic stuff | - |
| 140 | Carrie Tiffany | Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 141 | Carson McCullers | Clock without Hands | Novel | 1 | - | - |
| 142 | Carson McCullers | Collected Stories of Carson McCullers | Novel | 1 | - | - |
| 143 | Cassandra Golds | Pureheart | YA Fiction | 4 | A re-imagining of a fairy story | 2013 |
| 144 | Cassandra Golds | The Museum of Mary Child | Novel | 3 | Odd | - |
| 145 | Cat and Fiddle | Lesley Jorgensen | - | Unread | - | - |
| 146 | Cate Kennedy | Like a House on Fire | - | Unread | - | - |
| 147 | Cate Kennedy | Sing and Don't Cry | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 148 | Cate Kennedy | The World Beneath | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 149 | Catherine O'Flynn | What Was Lost | Novel | 2 | - | 2016 |
| 150 | Catherine de Saint Phalle | Poum and Alexandre | Novel | 4 | About her parents. Intriguing! Stella Prize Short List 2017 | 2016 |
| 151 | Ceridwen Dovey | In the Garden of the Fugitives | Novel | 3 | Well-written but author has no empathy for the characters | 2018 |
| 152 | Ceridwen Dovey | Only the Animals | Fantasy Series | 3.5 | Viewing history from the point of view of various animals | 2014 |
| 153 | Chandani Lokuge | Softly, As I Leave You | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 154 | Charles Dickens | The Christmas Books Vol 1 | Novel | - | - | - |
| 155 | Charles Frazier | Nightwoods | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 156 | Charles McCarry | Christopher's Ghosts | Novel | 2 | Embarrassing attempt to imitate John le Carré | - |
| 157 | Charles McCarry | Old Boys | Novel | - | - | - |
| 158 | Charles McCarry | The Tears of Autumn | Novel | - | - | 2016 |
| 159 | Charles Nicholl | The Lodger | Novel | Unread | - | 2018 |
| 160 | Charles Seife | Decoding the Universe | Science | 2 | - | 2014 |
| 161 | Charlotte Roche | Wrecked | - | Unread | - | - |
| 162 | Charlotte Rogan | The Lifeboat | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 163 | Charlotte Wood | The Children | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 164 | Cherise Saywell | Desert Fish | - | Unread | - | - |
| 165 | Cherise Saywell | Twitcher | - | Unread | - | - |
| 166 | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Half of a Yellow Sun | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 167 | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Purple Hibiscus | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 168 | Chris Ayers | War Reporting for Cowards | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 169 | Chris McDougall | Born to Run | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 170 | Chris McManus | Right Hand, Left Hand | Science | 4 | - | - |
| 171 | Chris Morgan Jones | An Agent of Deceit | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 172 | Christine Darcas | Spinning Out | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 173 | Christine Piper | After Darkness | - | Unread | - | - |
| 174 | Christine Stinson | It Takes a Village | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 175 | Claire Christian | Beautiful Mess | YA Fiction | 4 | A great story about coping with suicide and powerful emotions | 2017 |
| 176 | Claire Messud | The Emperor's Children | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 177 | Claire Messud | The Woman Upstairs | - | Unread | - | - |
| 178 | Clare Morrall | The Roundabout Man | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 179 | Clare Wright | The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka | - | Unread | - | - |
| 180 | Clive Hamilton and Sarah Maddison | Silencing Dissent | Report | 4 | - | - |
| 181 | Clive Hamilton | Silent Invasion | Policital commentary | 4.5 | Sickening discussion of intellectual and political betrayal re Chinese influence here | 2018 |
| 182 | Colette | Chéri/The Last of Chéri | Novel | - | Drivel | - |
| 183 | Colin Batrouncy | Creative Writing for Beginners | - | Unread | - | 2017 |
| 184 | Colm Tóibín | Brooklyn | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 185 | Colm Tóibín | The Empty Family | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 186 | Colm Tóibín | The South | Novel | 3 | - | - |
| 187 | Cordwainer Smith | Norstralia | SF | 4 | - | - |
| 188 | Cordwainer Smith | The Rediscovery of Man | SF | 4 | - | 2018 |
| 189 | Cory Doctorow | Walkaway | Science Fiction | 4 | Made me think a lot about the structure of society | 2017 |
| 190 | Cory Taylor | Dying: A Memoi | Autobiography | 4 | Unsentimental discussion. Stella Prize Short List 2017 | 2016 |
| 191 | Dan Morgan | Merchants of Grain | Report | 5 | A history of grain and capitalism | - |
| 192 | Daniel Domscheit | Inside WikiLeaks | Report | 4 | Intriguing | - |
| 193 | Daniel J. Flynn | Intellectual Morons | Social analysis | 4.5 | Superb demolition job of various famous weirdos | 2004 |
| 194 | Daniel J. Solove | Nothing to Hide | Privacy and the Law | 4.5 | Extremely well thought out | 2011 |
| 195 | Danielle Wood | Mothers Grimm | YA Fiction | 3.5 | A re-imagining of a fairy story, but not pleasant | - |
| 196 | Dava Sobel | Longitude | Novel | 4 | - | - |
| 197 | David Bellow | Is That a Fish in Your Ear? | Novel | Unread | - | 2017 |
| 198 | David Brooks | The Conversation | - | Unread | - | 2016 |
| 199 | David Crystal | Words Words Words | Novel | - | - | - |
| 200 | David Eggers | What is the What | - | Unread | - | - |
| 201 | David Graeber | The Utopia of Rules | Bureauocracy | 4 | Thought-provoking | 2015 |
| 202 | David Guterson | Snow Falling on Cedars | Novel | 4 | - | 2011 |
| 203 | David Halberstam | The Best & The Brightest | - | Unread | - | - |
| 204 | David Halberstam | The Fifties | - | Unread | - | - |
| 205 | David Kilcullen | The Accidental Guerilla | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 206 | David Lenson | On Drugs | Report | 4 | Thought | - |
| 207 | David Malouf | Antipodes | Anthology | 4 | Impressive | - |
| 208 | David Malouf | Dream Stuff | Anthology | 4 | Fine work | - |
| 209 | David Malouf | Ransom | Novel | Unread | - | 2015 |
| 210 | David Miller and Willian Dinan | A Century of Spin | Novel | 4 | Research | - |
| 211 | David Mitchell | Cloud Atlas | - | Unread | - | - |
| 212 | David Mitchell | The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 213 | David Sacks | Letter Perfect | Language | 4.5 | Much more detailed than I expected | 2003 |
| 214 | David Vann | Caribou Island | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 215 | David Vann | Dirt | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 216 | David Vann | Legend of a Suicide | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 217 | David W. Anthony | The Horse the Wheel and Language | Science | 5 | Fascinating | - |
| 218 | Deborah Forster | The Meaning of Grace | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 219 | Deborah Robertson | Careless | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 220 | Deborah Robertson | Proudflesh | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 221 | Deborah Robertson | Sweet Old World | Novel | Unread | - | 2003 |
| 222 | Debra Adelaide | Hotal Albatross | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 223 | Debra Adelaide | Serpent Dust | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 224 | Debra Adelaide | The Household Guide to Dying | Novel | 3 | A bit feeble | - |
| 225 | Delia Falconer | The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 226 | Denis Johnson | Train Dreams | - | Unread | - | - |
| 227 | Denise Leith | What Remains | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 228 | Di Morrissey | Monsoon | Novel | 1 | - | - |
| 229 | Di Morrissey | Tears of the Moon | Novel | 1 | - | - |
| 230 | Diego Marani | The Last of the Vostyachs | - | Unread | - | - |
| 231 | Dirk Draulans | The Red Queen | Novel | 3 | SF | - |
| 232 | Don DeLillo | The Names | Novel | - | Egocentric gay crap | - |
| 233 | Donal Ryan | The Spinning Heart | - | Unread | - | - |
| 234 | Donal Ryan | The Thing About December | - | Unread | - | - |
| 235 | Donna Tartt | The Goldfinch | - | Unread | - | - |
| 236 | Dostoyevsky | Crime and Punishment | Novel | 3 | - | - |
| 237 | Dr NIna Brockmann and Ellen Støkken Dahl | The Wonder Down Under | Medical | 5 | A user's guide to the vagina | 2018 |
| 238 | Drusilla Modjeska | The Mountain | Novel | Unread | Set in New Guinea | - |
| 239 | E. O. Parrott | How to Become Absurdly Well-informed about the Famous and Infamous | Biography | 3 | About 50 biographies set in short verse form. Dip into it perhaps | 1987 |
| 240 | Ed O'Loughlin | Not Untrue and Not Unkind | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 241 | Edmund de Waal | The Hare with Amber Eyes | Family history | 4 | - | - |
| 242 | Eduardo Galeano | Open Veins of Latin America | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 243 | Edward Glover | Freud or Jung | Psychoanalysis | 4.5 | Fascinating | 1950 |
| 244 | Edward Glover | The Technique of Psycho-Analysis | Psychoanalysis | 4 | - | 1955 |
| 245 | Edward Glover | War, Sadism and Pacifism | Psychoanalysis | 4.5 | Fascinating | 1945 |
| 246 | Edward St Aubyn | Mother's Milk | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 247 | Eleanor Catton | The Luminaries | - | Unread | - | 1987 |
| 248 | Eleanor Catton | The Rehersal | - | Unread | - | - |
| 249 | Eleanor Limprecht | What Was Left | - | Unread | - | - |
| 250 | Elena Ferrante | My Brilliant Friend | Novel | 4 | - | 2015 |
| 251 | Elena Ferrante | The Story of a New Name | Novel | 4.5 | Excellent | 2012 |
| 252 | Eliot Weinberger | Wildlife | Novel | Unread | - | 1955 |
| 253 | Eliz Kostova | The Historian | Novel | Unread | - | 1945 |
| 254 | Elizabeth Finkel | The Genome Generation | Science | 4 | - | - |
| 255 | Elizabeth Flock | Everything Must Go | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 256 | Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey | Joanna's Husband and David's Wife | Novel | 4 | A brave story about their marriage | 1986 |
| 257 | Elizabeth Gilbert | Committed | - | Unread | - | - |
| 258 | Elizabeth Gilbert | Eat Pray Love | - | Unread | Might be worth reading | 2015 |
| 259 | Elizabeth Gilbert | The Signature of All Things | - | Unread | - | 2012 |
| 260 | Elizabeth Harrower | The Watch Tower | Novel | 2 | Could not finish it | - |
| 261 | Elizabeth Jane Howard | The Cazalet Series | - | Unread | # 5: All Change | - |
| 262 | Elizabeth Kostova | The Shadow Land | - | Unread | Author is American. Book set in Bulgaria. Gave talk at MWF | - |
| 263 | Elizabeth McCracken | Thunderstruck and Other Stories | - | Unread | - | - |
| 264 | Elizabeth Strout | Amy and Isabelle | - | Unread | - | 1986 |
| 265 | Elizabeth Strout | Anything is Possible | Anthology | 4 | Fine fiction about people who know Lucy Barton | 2017 |
| 266 | Elizabeth Strout | My Name is Lucy Barton | - | Unread | - | - |
| 267 | Elizabeth Strout | Olive Kitteridge | - | Unread | - | - |
| 268 | Elizabeth Strout | The Burgess Boys | - | Unread | - | - |
| 269 | Elliot Perlman | The Street Sweeper | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 270 | Elspeth Baker | O Caledonia | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 271 | Emily Anthes | Frankenstein's Cat | Science | 4.5 | Fascinating | - |
| 272 | Emily Bitto | The Strays | Novel | 3.5 | Very well written, but in the end a bit emotionless | 2017 |
| 273 | Emily Bronte | Wuthering Heights | Novel | 5 | Classic | - |
| 274 | Emily Mackie | And This Is True | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 275 | Emily Maguire | An Isolated Incident | Novel | 2.5 | Couldn't finish it. Distasteful story of pitiable people. Stella Prize Short List 2017 | 2016 |
| 276 | Emily Perkins | Novel About My Wife | Novel | 4 | Weird but clever | - |
| 277 | Emily Perkins | The Forrests | - | Unread | - | - |
| 278 | Emma Donoghue | Room | Novel | 4 | Very clever | 2011 |
| 279 | Eowyn Ivey | The Snow Child | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 280 | Eric Chaline | Fifty Animals that Changed the Course of History | Science | Unread | - | 2014 |
| 281 | Erin Morgenstern | The Night Circus | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 282 | Ernest Jones | Essays in Applied Psycho-analysis No. 40 | Psychoanalysis | 5 | Fascinating | - |
| 283 | Ernest Jones | Essays in Applied Psycho-analysis No. 41 | Psychoanalysis | 5 | Fascinating | - |
| 284 | Ernest Jones | Hamlet and Oedipus | Psychoanalysis | 5 | Marvellous | - |
| 285 | Ernest Jones | On the Nightmare | Psychoanalysis | 5 | Marvellous. Includes grammatical analysis | - |
| 286 | Ernest Jones | Papers on Psycho-Analysis | Psychoanalysis | 5 | Marvellous, as always | 1912 |
| 287 | Ernest Jones | Social Aspects of Psycho-Analysis | Psychoanalysis | 5 | Fascinating | 1924 |
| 288 | Ernest Jones | The Theory of Symbolism | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 289 | Erving Goffman | Stigma | Psychotherapy | 3 | - | - |
| 290 | Eugenia Cheng | How to Bake π | Mathematics | 3 | Disappointing. Not the depth I expected | 2015 |
| 291 | Euripides | Alcestis and other plays | Novel | - | - | - |
| 292 | Eva Hornung | The Last Garden | Novel | 4 | Impressively imagined | 2017 |
| 293 | Evelyn Juers | House of Exile | - | Unread | - | - |
| 294 | Evgeny Morozov | The Net Delusion | Media | 4 | Very well argued | 1912 |
| 295 | Evgeny Morozov | To Save Everything, Click Here | Media | 4.5 | Expose of technological solutionism | 1924 |
| 296 | Evie Wyld | After the Fire, a Still Small Voice | - | Unread | - | - |
| 297 | Evie Wyld | All the Birds, Singing | - | Unread | - | - |
| 298 | F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Beautiful and Damed | Novel | 2 | - | 2015 |
| 299 | Favel Parrett | Past the Shadows | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 300 | Fethiye Cetin | My Grandmother | Novel | Unread | - | 2017 |
| 301 | Fiona Capp | Gotland | - | Unread | - | - |
| 302 | Fiona Capp | Musk and Burne | Novel | 2 | Too Simple | - |
| 303 | Fiona McFarlane | The Night Guest | - | Unread | - | - |
| 304 | Fiona McGregor | Indelible Ink | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 305 | Fiona McIntosh | The Perfumer's Secret | - | Unread | - | - |
| 306 | Francesca Kay | An Equal Stillness | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 307 | Francine Drose | Goldengrove | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 308 | Fred Hoyle | The Black Cloud | SF | 4 | Very clever | - |
| 309 | Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth | Wolfbane | SF | 4 | About the human spirit | 1959 |
| 310 | Frederik Pohl | Outnumbering the Dead | SF | 4 | - | 1990 |
| 311 | G L Osborne | Come Inside | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 312 | G Willow Wilson | The Butterfly Mosque | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 313 | Gabrielle Reid | The Things We Can't Undo | YA Fiction | 4.5 | Very impressive portrayal of teen angst about sex | 2018 |
| 314 | Gail Jones | Dreams of Speaking | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 315 | Gail Jones | Five Bells | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 316 | Geling Yan | The Flowers of War | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 317 | Genevieve von Petzinger | The First Signs | - | 3.5 | Good, but just not enough interpretation of the signs | 2016 |
| 318 | George Eliot | Amos Barton | Novel | 3 | - | 1959 |
| 319 | George Eliot | Middlemarch | Novel | 3 | - | - |
| 320 | George Eliot | Silas Marner | Novel | 3 | - | - |
| 321 | George Meredith | The Egoist | Novel | 4 | A study in egotism | 1877 |
| 322 | George Saunders | Tenth of December | - | Unread | - | - |
| 323 | George Turner | The Sea and Summer | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 324 | Georgia Blain | Between a Wolf and a Dog | Novel | 3.5 | Lead male hard to believe. Stella Prize Winner 2017 | 2016 |
| 325 | Georgia Blain | Close to Home | Novel | Unread | - | 2016 |
| 326 | Gerbrand Bakker | The Detour | Novel | 3.5 | - | - |
| 327 | Gilbert Waldbauer | Fireflies, Honey and Silk | Report | 3 | How humans interact with insects | - |
| 328 | Gill Schierhout | The Shape of Him | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 329 | Gillian Flynn | Gone Girl | - | Unread | - | 1877 |
| 330 | Gillian Mears | Foal's Bread | Novel | 3.5 | - | 2011 |
| 331 | Gillian Mears | The Grass Sister | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 332 | Gillian Mears | The Mint Lawn | Novel | Unread | - | 2016 |
| 333 | Gillian Triggs | Speaking Up | Autobiography | 4.5 | Deep insight into human rights activities | 2018 |
| 334 | Giuseppe di Lampedusa | Childhood Memories and Other Stories | - | Unread | - | - |
| 335 | Glenn Greenwald | No Place to Hide | - | Unread | About Edward Snowden | - |
| 336 | Gordon M Shepherd | Neurogastronomy | Science | 3 | - | - |
| 337 | Graham Greene | The End of the Affair | Novel | 3 | - | - |
| 338 | Graham Greene | The Heart of the Matter | Novel | 3 | - | 2011 |
| 339 | Granta Magazine | Ten Years Later | Anthology | 4 | - | - |
| 340 | Gregory Day | Ron McCoy's Sea of Diamonds | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 341 | Gregory Day | The Grand Hotel | Novel | Unread | - | 2018 |
| 342 | Gregory Day | The Patron Saint of Eels | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 343 | Gretchen Shirm | Having Cried Wolf | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 344 | H. G. Wells | The Food of the Gods | SF | 3 | - | - |
| 345 | H. G. Wells | The War of the Worlds | SF | 4 | - | - |
| 346 | Hanan al | One Thousand and One Nights | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 347 | Hannah Arendt | The Human Condition | Philosophy | - | Unreadable | - |
| 348 | Hannah Kent | Burial Rites | Historical Reporting | 4 | Very impressive | - |
| 349 | Hannah Kent | The Good People | Novel | 4 | Beautifully written. Set in 1825 Ireland | 2017 |
| 350 | Hannah Richell | Secrets of the Tides | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 351 | Hannah Richell | The Shadow Year | - | Unread | - | - |
| 352 | Hari Kunzru | White Tears | Novel | 4 | Very clever but male-centric | 2017 |
| 353 | Harper Lee | To Kill a Mockingbird | Novel | 4 | - | - |
| 354 | Haruki Murakami | Kafka on the Shore | Novel | - | Rubbish | - |
| 355 | Heather Rose | The Museum of Modern Love | Biography | 4 | Well-deserved Stella Prize Winner 2017 | 2016 |
| 356 | Heather Taylor Johnson | Jean Harley was here | Novel | 4 | Beautifully written | 2017 |
| 357 | Heidi Majer | The Visitors | - | Unread | - | 2017 |
| 358 | Helen Garner | Everywhere I look | Short stories | 4 | Interesting, with some beautiful writing in some stories | 2016 |
| 359 | Helen Garner | The Children's Bach | Novel | 3 | - | - |
| 360 | Helen Garner | the first stone | - | 4 | About sexism at Melbourne Uni | 2017 |
| 361 | Helen Gordon | Landfall | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 362 | Helen Hodgman | Blue Skies | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 363 | Helen Hodgman | Jack and Jill | Novel | Unread | - | 2016 |
| 364 | Helen MacInnes | I and My True Love | Novel | 3.5 | Dated but very well written | 1953 |
| 365 | Helen MacInnes | Ride a Pale Horse | Novel | 3.5 | - | 1985 |
| 366 | Helen MacInnes | The Double Image | Novel | 3.5 | - | 2016 |
| 367 | Helen MacInnes | The Hidden Target | Novel | 3.5 | - | 1980 |
| 368 | Helen MacInnes | The Salzburg Connection | Novel | 3.5 | Set after WW II, in the Alps | - |
| 369 | Helen Oyeyemi | The Icarus Girl | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 370 | Helen Slavin | The Extra Large Medium | Novel | 1 | - | - |
| 371 | Helene Gremillon | The Confidant | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 372 | Henry James | The Europeans | Novel | 3 | - | 1953 |
| 373 | Henry James | The Portrait of a Lady | Novel | 3 | Later novels use very convoluted syntax | 1985 |
| 374 | Henry James | What Maisie Knew | Novel | 2 | - | 1966 |
| 375 | Henry Petroski | The Evolution of Useful Things | Science | Unread | - | 1980 |
| 376 | Herman Melville | Billy Budd | Novel | 4 | Also contains various short stories | 1924 |
| 377 | Herodotus | The Histories | Novel | - | - | - |
| 378 | Herta Muller | The Land of Green Plums | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 379 | Hilda Lawrence | Duet of Death | Novel | 4 | Very imaginative | 1949 |
| 380 | Hillary Bonney | The Society Murders | Research | 2 | Report of murders in Melbourne | - |
| 381 | Hillary Mantel | Beyond Black | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 382 | Hillary Mantel | Bring Up the Bodies | Part 2 | 4 | - | 2012 |
| 383 | Hillary Mantel | Wolf Hall | Part 1 | 4 | - | - |
| 384 | Iain Banks | Dead Air | Novel | 2 | I read about 20 pages | 2002 |
| 385 | Ian Banks | Transition | Novel | 1 | - | - |
| 386 | Ian McDonald | The Dervish House | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 387 | Ian McEwan | Atonement | Novel | 4 | - | 1949 |
| 388 | Ian McEwan | Enduring Love | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 389 | Ian McEwan | On Chesil Beach | Novel | 3 | - | - |
| 390 | Ian McEwan | SweetTooth | - | Unread | - | 2012 |
| 391 | Ian McEwan | The Child in Time | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 392 | Ian Pears | The Dreams of Scipio | Novel | 1 | Gay crap | 2002 |
| 393 | Iona and Peter Opie | The Classic Fairy Tales | Report | 5 | - | - |
| 394 | Iris Lavel | Elsewhere in Success | - | Unread | - | - |
| 395 | Isabel Allende | Island Beneath the Sea | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 396 | Isobello Carmody | Metro Winds | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 397 | J. A. C. Brown | Freud and the Post-Freudians | Report | 1 | Psychoanalysis | - |
| 398 | J. M. Coetzee | Three Stories | - | Unread | - | - |
| 399 | J. P. Davidson | Plant Word | Science | 3 | A bit bland | - |
| 400 | Jack Cox | Dodge Rose | - | Unread | Plays with Language | - |
| 401 | Jackie French | Diary of a Wombat | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 402 | James B. Lieber | Rats in the Grain | Report | 5 | A history of grain and capitalism | - |
| 403 | James Essinger | A Female Genius | Biography | 3.5 | Pity is wasn't written by a woman | 2014 |
| 404 | James Gleick | Chaos | Novel | 1 | - | - |
| 405 | James Hamilton-Paterson | Gerontius | - | Unread | - | - |
| 406 | James Hogg | The Private Memoirs & Confessions of a Justified Sinner | - | Unread | - | - |
| 407 | James MacManus | Black Venus | - | Unread | - | - |
| 408 | James Meek | The Heart Broke In | - | Unread | - | - |
| 409 | James Moloney | Silvermay | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 410 | James Salter | All That Is | - | Unread | - | - |
| 411 | James Salter | Augustus | - | Unread | - | 2014 |
| 412 | James Salter | Burning Days | - | Unread | - | - |
| 413 | James Salter | Butcher's Crossing | - | Unread | - | - |
| 414 | James Salter | Stoner | - | Unread | - | - |
| 415 | James Shapiro | 1599 | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 416 | Jan Bauer | The Salty River | - | Unread | - | - |
| 417 | Jane Austin | Emma | Classic | 4 | Very well constructed | - |
| 418 | Jane Gardam | A Long Way from Verona | Novel | 4 | - | - |
| 419 | Jane Gardam | Crusoe's Daughter | Novel | 4 | - | - |
| 420 | Jane Gardam | God on the Rocks | Novel | 3.5 | - | - |
| 421 | Jane Gardam | The People on Penelope Hill | Short stories | 3 | - | 2007 |
| 422 | Jane Gardam | The Sidmouth Letters | Novel | 3 | - | - |
| 423 | Jane Hamilton | A Map of the World | Novel | 4 | High standard | - |
| 424 | Jane Hamilton | The Book of Ruth | Novel | 4 | High standard | - |
| 425 | Jane Hamilton | True History of a Prince | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 426 | Jane Hamilton | When Madeline Was Young | Novel | 4 | Wonderful | - |
| 427 | Jane Messer | Provenance | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 428 | Jane Rawson | From the Wreck | Novel | 4 | Very imaginative. Once upon a time this was called SF | 2017 |
| 429 | Jane Smiley | A Thousand Acres | Novel | 2 | - | 2007 |
| 430 | Jane Smiley | Private Life | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 431 | Janet Frame | Faces in the Water | Novel | 3 | - | - |
| 432 | Janet Frame | Living in Manitoto | Novel | 4 | - | - |
| 433 | Janet Frame | To The Is-Land | Novel | 3 | - | - |
| 434 | Janet Turner Hospital | Orpheus Lost | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 435 | Jason Webster | Andalus: Unlocking the Secrets of Moorish Spain | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 436 | Javier Marias | Dance and Dream | Part 2 | Unread | - | 2017 |
| 437 | Javier Marias | Fever and Spear | Part 1 | Unread | - | - |
| 438 | Javier Marias | Your Free Tomorrow | Part 3 | Unread | - | - |
| 439 | Jay Winter | Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning | History | 4 | About the 1st World War. Very sophisticated | 2014 |
| 440 | Jean Thorton | Parcel Parcel | Novel | 1 | - | - |
| 441 | Jed Rubenfeld | The Interpretation of Murder | Novel | 4 | - | - |
| 442 | Jeff Sparrow | Overland | Literary Journal | 3 | Issue 211 - Disappointing | - |
| 443 | Jenn Ashworth | A Kind of Intimacy | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 444 | Jenn Ashworth | Cold Light | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 445 | Jennifer Egan | A Visit from the Goon Squad | Novel | 2 | Feeble | - |
| 446 | Jennifer Johnston | How Many Miles to Babylon | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 447 | Jennifer Miller | The Year of the Gadfly | - | Unread | - | 2014 |
| 448 | Jenny Herbet | In The Shadow of a Hero | Historical Reporting | 4 | About Victorian history | 2014 |
| 449 | Jenny Lawson | Let's Pretend this Never Happened | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 450 | Jenny Offill | Dept. of Speculation | - | Unread | - | - |
| 451 | Jenny Spense | No Safe Place | - | Unread | - | - |
| 452 | Jenny Woods | More Lives Than One | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 453 | Jenny Woolf | The Mystery of Lewis Carroll | Biography | 3.5 | Avoids questions re existence of god | 2010 |
| 454 | Jeremy Chambers | The Vintage and the Gleaning | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 455 | Jerusha McCormack (ed) | Wilde The Irishman | Biography | 3 | - | - |
| 456 | Jessica Au | Cargo | Novel | Unread | - | 2014 |
| 457 | Jessica Burton | The Miniatureist | - | Unread | - | - |
| 458 | Jessie Tu | A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing | Novel | 3 | Morbid story of child prodigy violinist. At end, begins to reconcile with her mother | - |
| 459 | Jhumpa Lahiri | Unaccustomed Earth | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 460 | Jim Al | Pathfinders | History | 4 | A history of Arabian Mathematicians | - |
| 461 | Jim Crace | Being Dead | Novel | 1 | - | 2020 |
| 462 | Jo Riccioni | The Italians at Cleat's Corner Shop | - | Unread | - | - |
| 463 | Jo-Ann Mapson | Finding Casey | - | Unread | - | - |
| 464 | Jo-Ann Mapson | Soloman's Oak | - | Unread | - | - |
| 465 | Joan London | The Good Parents | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 466 | Joanna Briscoe | You | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 467 | Joel Glenn Brenner | The Emperors of Chocolate | Report | 5 | A history of chocolate | - |
| 468 | John Banfield | The Sea | Novel | 4 | - | - |
| 469 | John Bayley | Iris | Biography | 1 | Biography of his wife | - |
| 470 | John Berendt | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | Historical Reporting | 3 | A bit feeble | 1995 |
| 471 | John Blackburn | A Scent of New-Mown Hay | SF | 3 | - | - |
| 472 | John Bunyan | The Pilgrim's Progress | Morality allegory | 1 | Too much of a slog | - |
| 473 | John Clanchy | Six | - | Unread | - | - |
| 474 | John Cooper | The Queen's Agent | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 475 | John Dale | Leaving Suzie Pye | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 476 | John Donne | The Poems of John Donne | Poetry | 1 | Difficult. Only read 1 poem | - |
| 477 | John Dover Wilson | What Happens in Hamlet | Drama | 4.5 | Very detailed analysis of Shakespeare's intentions | 1995 |
| 478 | John Harrey | Gone to Ground | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 479 | John Lister | At the Water's Edge | Novel | Unread | - | 1957 |
| 480 | John Locke | An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | - | Unread | - | - |
| 481 | John Long | Swimming in Stone | Archeology | 4 | - | - |
| 482 | John Montgomery | How to Read Maya Hieroglyphs | Science | 4 | - | - |
| 483 | John Rickman | Selected Contributions to Psychoanalysis | Psychoanalysis | 4.5 | - | 1957 |
| 484 | John Tesarsch | The Philanthopist | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 485 | John Wyndham (John Benyon Smith) | The Chrysalids | SF | 5 | Brilliant and powerful. Crown of Creation speech pp 182, 196 | 1979 |
| 486 | John Wyndham (John Benyon Smith) | The Day of the Triffids | SF | 4 | - | - |
| 487 | John Wyndham (John Benyon Smith) | The Midwich Cuckoos | SF | 4 | - | - |
| 488 | John Wyndham (John Benyon Smith) | Trouble with Lichen | SF | 4 | - | - |
| 489 | John Wyndham (John Benyon Smith) | Web | Science Fiction | 3.4 | Slight. Published after his death | 1979 |
| 490 | John le Carré | A Most Wanted Man | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 491 | John le Carré | A Perfect Spy | Novel | - | - | - |
| 492 | John le Carré | Absolute Friends | Novel | - | - | - |
| 493 | John le Carré | Château Leamon | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 494 | John le Carré | Smiley's People | Novel | - | - | 1957 |
| 495 | John le Carré | The Little Drummer Girl | Novel | - | - | 1935 |
| 496 | John le Carré | The Looking-glass War | Novel | - | - | - |
| 497 | John le Carré | The Mission Song | Novel | - | - | - |
| 498 | John le Carré | The Night Manager | Novel | - | - | - |
| 499 | John le Carré | The Secret Pilgrim | Novel | - | - | - |
| 500 | John le Carré | Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy | Novel | - | - | 1979 |
| 501 | Jonathan Franzan | Farther Away | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 502 | Jonathan Franzan | Freedom | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 503 | Jonathan Littel | The Kindly Ones | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 504 | Jorge Luis Borges | Labryinths | Fantasy Series | 3.4 | Intriguing but the details are not memorable | 1964 |
| 505 | Joseph Conrad | Heart of Darkness | Novel | 4 | Marvellous language | - |
| 506 | Joseph Stiglitz | Golbalization and it Discontents | Report | 3 | - | - |
| 507 | Josephine Tey | The Daughter of Time | - | 4 | About Richard III | - |
| 508 | Josephine Wilson | Extinctions | Novel | 4 | Poignant character study | 2016 |
| 509 | Joumana Haddad | I Killed Schererazade | - | Unread | - | - |
| 510 | Judith Armstrong | War and Peace and Sonya | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 511 | Judith Schakinsky | The Giraffe's Neck | - | Unread | - | 1964 |
| 512 | Judy Duffy | Bad Mothers | Novel | 1 | - | - |
| 513 | Juilenne van Loon | Harmless | - | Unread | - | - |
| 514 | Juilenne van Loon | Road Story | - | Unread | - | - |
| 515 | Jules Verne | Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea | Science Fiction | 4 | Wonderful imagination | 1869 |
| 516 | Julian Barnes | The Sense of an Ending | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 517 | Julian Fellowes | Pat Imperfect | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 518 | Julian Randolf Stow | The Girl Green as Elderflower | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 519 | Julian Randolf Stow | The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 520 | Julianne Schultz | GriffithREVIEW37 | Anthology | 4 | Extremely high standard | - |
| 521 | Julianne Schultz | GriffithREVIEW38 | Anthology | 4 | Extremely high standard | - |
| 522 | Julianne Schultz | GriffithREVIEW39 | Anthology | 4 | A Tasmania special - Very interesting | 1869 |
| 523 | Junot Diaz | This is How You Lose Her | - | Unread | - | - |
| 524 | K. M. Kruimink | A Treacherous Country | Novel | 2 | Set around 1840 in Tasmania. Gothic | - |
| 525 | Kader Abdolah | The House of the Mosque | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 526 | Kamila Shamsie | Broken Verses | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 527 | Kamila Shamsie | Burnt Shadows | Novel | 3 | - | - |
| 528 | Karen Armstrong | A Short History of Myth | History | 3 | Slightly interesting | - |
| 529 | Karen Joy Fowler | We are all Completely Beside Ourselves | - | Unread | - | 1948 |
| 530 | Karl Abraham | Selected Papers on Psycho-Analysis | Psychoanalysis | 5 | Fascinating and very, very broad | 1948 |
| 531 | Karl Ove Knausgaard | A Death in the Family | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 532 | Kate Atkinson | Started Early, Took My Dog | Crime | 4 | Corrupt cops in a very complex plot | - |
| 533 | Kate Atkinson | When Will There Be Good News? | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 534 | Kate Grenville | The Secret River | Novel | 2 | Too Simple | - |
| 535 | Kate Holden | In My Skin | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 536 | Kate McCann | Madeleine | Report | 4 | Madeleine was kidnapped in Portugal | 2016 |
| 537 | Kate Mildenhall | Skylarking | Novel | 4 | Very good first novel | 1948 |
| 538 | Kate Mosse | Citadel | Novel | 4 | Powerful story | - |
| 539 | Kate Mosse | Labyrinth | Novel | 4 | Great read | - |
| 540 | Kate Mosse | Sepulchre | Novel | 3.5 | Great read | - |
| 541 | Kate Veitch | Listen | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 542 | Katherine Scholes | Make Me an Idol | Novel | 3 | - | - |
| 543 | Katherine Scholes | The Rain Queen | Novel | 3 | - | - |
| 544 | Katherine Scholes | The Stone Angel | Novel | 3 | - | 2016 |
| 545 | Katherine Sussanah Prichard | Coonardoo | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 546 | Kathryn Harrison | Envy | Novel | - | - | 2015 |
| 547 | Katrine Marçal | Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? | Economics | 4 | Very insightful | 2015 |
| 548 | Kazuo Ishiguro | An Artist of the Floating World | Novel | 2 | Odd | - |
| 549 | Kazuo Ishiguro | Never Let Me Go | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 550 | Kazuo Ishiguro | The Remains of the Day | Novel | 4 | About loyalty. Marvellous film | - |
| 551 | Kazuo Ishiguro | When We Were Orphans | Novel | 2 | Odd | 1994 |
| 552 | Keith Windschuttle | The Killing of History | Social analysis | 4.5 | Extremely well argued rebuttal of Postmodernism | 1994 |
| 553 | Kerin MacNeil | The Stornoway Way | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 554 | Kerry Link | The Wrong Grave | Novel | Unread | - | 2015 |
| 555 | Khaled Hosseini | The Kite Runner | Autobiography | 3 | - | - |
| 556 | Kij Johnson | At the Mouth of the River of Bees | - | Unread | - | 2015 |
| 557 | Kim Stanley Robinson | Aurora | Science Fiction | 4 | Well-imagined flight to another solar system | 2015 |
| 558 | Kim Westwood | The Daughters of the Moab | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 559 | Kiran Desai | The Influence of Loss | Novel | 3 | - | 1994 |
| 560 | Krissy Kneen | Affection | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 561 | Krissy Kneen | Triptych | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 562 | Kristina Olsson | Boy, Lost | - | Unread | - | - |
| 563 | L A Larkin | The Genesis Flaw | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 564 | LLoyd Jones | Mister Pip | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 565 | Lalita Tadamy | Red River | Novel | 2 | - | 2015 |
| 566 | Lars Schoultz | Beneath the United States | Politics | 4.5 | Impressive and disconcerting | - |
| 567 | Laura Lippman | What the Dead Know | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 568 | Laura van den Berg | What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 569 | Lauren Fox | Still Life with Husband | Novel | 2 | Boring | - |
| 570 | Lee Billings | Five Billion Years of Solitude | Science | 4.5 | - | - |
| 571 | Leila Aboukla | Lyrica Alley | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 572 | Leila Aboulela | The Kindness of Enemies | - | Unread | - | - |
| 573 | Lilliann Hellman | Pentimento | Novel | 1 | - | - |
| 574 | Linda Jaivin | The Empress Lover | - | Unread | - | - |
| 575 | Lionel Shriver | The Post-Birthday World | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 576 | Lionel Shriver | We Need to Talk About Kevin | Novel | 4 | - | - |
| 577 | Lisa Merrifield | Mrs Feather and the Aesthetics of Survival | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 578 | Lisa Seachrist Chiu | When a Gene Makes You Smell Like a Fish | Novel | 4 | - | - |
| 579 | List Tucker | Once Upon a Day | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 580 | Lord Braybrooke (ed) | The Diary of Samuel Pepys | History | - | Too much about politicians | - |
| 581 | Lori Baker | The Glass Ocean | - | Unread | - | - |
| 582 | Louis Sachar | Holes | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 583 | Louise Erdich | The Painted Drum | - | Unread | - | - |
| 584 | Louise Erdich | The Plague of Doves | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 585 | Louise Erdich | The Round House | - | Unread | - | - |
| 586 | Louise Penny | A Trick of the Light | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 587 | Louise Welsh | Naming the Bones | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 588 | Louise Welsh | Tamburlaine Must Die | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 589 | Louise Welsh | The Cutting Room | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 590 | Lucy Neave | Who We Were | - | Unread | - | - |
| 591 | Lucy Wadham | The Secret Life of France | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 592 | Lucy Wood | Diving Belles | Novel | Unread | - | 1971 |
| 593 | Luke Rhinehart | The Dice Man | Novel | - | I read 1 page before giving up | 1971 |
| 594 | Lynne Reid Banks | My Darling Villian | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 595 | Lynne Reid Banks | The Warning Bell | Novel | 3 | - | 2017 |
| 596 | László Krasznahorkai | The Last Wolf | Novellas | 3.5 | Winner of Man Booker. More a soliloquy | 2017 |
| 597 | M L Stedman | The Light Between Oceans | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 598 | Madeleine St John | The Woman in Black | - | Unread | - | - |
| 599 | Madeleine Thien | Do Not Say We Have Nothing | Novel | 4 | A deep view of China around the Tien An Men massacre | 2016 |
| 600 | Madeleine Tobert | The Sea in Our Skin | Novel | Unread | - | 1971 |
| 601 | Maeve Binchy | Scarlet Feather | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 602 | Maggie O'Farrell | After You'd Gone | Novel | - | Gothic (i.e. puerile) | - |
| 603 | Maggie O'Farrell | Instructions for a Heat Wave | - | Unread | - | 2017 |
| 604 | Maggie O'Farrell | My Lover's Lover | Novel | - | Feeble | - |
| 605 | Maggie O'Farrell | The Distance Between Us | Novel | - | Gothic (i.e. puerile) | - |
| 606 | Maggie O'Farrell | The Vanishing Act of Emse Lennox | Novel | 5 | - | 2016 |
| 607 | Maggie O'Farrell | The hand that first held mine | Novel | 4 | Great writing | 2010 |
| 608 | Maile Meloy | (Not) A Family Daughter | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 609 | Maile Meloy | Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 610 | Maile Meloy | Liars and Saints | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 611 | Majok Tulba | Beneath the Darkening Sky | - | Unread | - | - |
| 612 | Marc Reisner | Cadillac Desert | Investigative reporting | 5 | Brilliant and frightening | 1993 |
| 613 | Margaret Drabble | The Pure Gold Baby | - | Unread | - | - |
| 614 | Margaret Scott | Collected Poems | Poetry | 4 | Moving, with great imagery | 2010 |
| 615 | Margarita Duras | Outside | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 616 | Margarita Duras | The Lover | - | Unread | - | - |
| 617 | Margarita Duras | The Sea Wall | Novel | - | - | - |
| 618 | Margo Lanagan | Tender Morsels | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 619 | Maria Dueñas | The Seamstress | Novel | Unread | - | 1993 |
| 620 | Maria Takolander | The Double and Other Stories | - | Unread | - | - |
| 621 | Maria Talar | Enchanted Hunters | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 622 | Marian Keyes | This Charming Man | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 623 | Mariapia Veladiano | A Life Apart | - | Unread | - | - |
| 624 | Marie Cardinal | The Words to Say It | Psychoanalysis | 5 | Classic | - |
| 625 | Marie Darrieussecq | Tom is Dead | Novel | Unread | Don't bother | - |
| 626 | Marija Peričić | The Lost Pages | Novel | 4 | Extremely imaginative | 2017 |
| 627 | Marika Cobbold | Drowning Rose | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 628 | Marika Cobbold | Guppies for Tea | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 629 | Marilyn French | From Eve to Dawn | Psychotherapy | 2 | Weak | - |
| 630 | Marilynne Robinson | Gilead | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 631 | Marilynne Robinson | Housekeeping | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 632 | Marilynne Robinson | When I was a Child, I Read Books | - | Unread | - | - |
| 633 | Marina Endicott | Good to a Fault | Novel | 2 | - | 2017 |
| 634 | Marina Warner | From the Beast to the Blond | Novel | 1 | - | - |
| 635 | Marion Van Dyk | Under the Skin | - | Unread | - | - |
| 636 | Mark Darrieussecq | A Brief Stay with the Living | Novel | 1 | - | - |
| 637 | Mark Griffiths | The Lotus Quest | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 638 | Mark Haddon | The Red House | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 639 | Mark Monmorier | No Dig, No Fly, No Go | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 640 | Mark O'Flynn | The Last Days of Ava Langdon | Novel | 4 | Distressingly accurate portrayal of dementia | 2016 |
| 641 | Mark Van Stone | See co-author Michael Coe | Novel | - | - | - |
| 642 | Marlene Van Niekerk | The Way of the Women | Novel | 3 | Set in Africa | - |
| 643 | Martha Lea | The Speciman | - | Unread | - | - |
| 644 | Martha Wells | All Systems Red | SF | 4 | Simplistic characters but clever story | 2017 |
| 645 | Martin Davies | The Unicorn Road | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 646 | Mary Alice Monroe | Sweetgrass | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 647 | Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society | Historical Reporting | 4 | A great read | 2016 |
| 648 | Mary Henderson | The Holy City | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 649 | Mary Shelley | Frankenstein | SF | 4 | - | - |
| 650 | Mary Webb | Gone to Earth | Novel | 3 | - | - |
| 651 | Matt Ridley | Genome | Novel | 4 | - | - |
| 652 | Matt Ridley | Nature via Nuture | Science | 4 | - | - |
| 653 | Matthew Richardson | The West and the Map of the World | - | Unread | - | 2008 |
| 654 | Maurice Pope | The Story of Decipherment | Crypto | 5 | Revised Edition | 1999 |
| 655 | Maxine Benebe Clarke | Foreign Soil | - | Unread | - | - |
| 656 | Maxine Benebe Clarke | The Hate Race | Autobiography | 4 | Racism towards her while growing up in Oz. Stella Prize Short List 2017 | 2016 |
| 657 | Meaghan Delahunt | The Red Book | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 658 | Medbh McGuckian | Selected Poems | Poetry | - | Did not appeal | - |
| 659 | Meg Henderson | Bloody Mary | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 660 | Meg Mitchell Moore | The Arrivals | Novel | Unread | - | 1999 |
| 661 | Meg Rosoff | How I Live Now | Young Adult Fiction | Unread | - | - |
| 662 | Megan Abbot | The End of Everything | Novel | Unread | - | 2016 |
| 663 | Melanie Cheng | Australia Day | Anthology | 4 | High standard. Cool eye but 'Muse' and 'A Good and Pleasant Thing' much kinder | 2017 |
| 664 | Melanie Klein | The Writings of Melanie Klein Vols I .. IV | Psychoanalysis | 5 | - | - |
| 665 | Melvyn Bragg | A Son of War | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 666 | Melvyn Bragg | The Hired Man | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 667 | Merce Rodoreda | In Diamond Square | - | Unread | - | - |
| 668 | Mette Jakobsen | The Vanishing Act | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 669 | Michael Blanding | The Coke Machine | Report | 4.5 | Facinating and shocking | 2017 |
| 670 | Michael D. Coe | Breaking the Maya Code | Science | 4 | - | - |
| 671 | Michael D. Coe | Mexico (Olmecs to Aztecs) | Science | 4 | With Rex Koontz | - |
| 672 | Michael D. Coe | Reading the Maya Glyphs | Science | 4 | With Mark Van Stone | - |
| 673 | Michael D. Coe | The Maya | Science | 4 | - | - |
| 674 | Michael Gazzaniga | Human | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 675 | Michael Jecks | The Leper's Return | Novel | 3.5 | Set in 1320 | 1998 |
| 676 | Michael Ondaatje | Anil's Ghost | Novel | 4 | Horrifying account of the Sri Lankan civil war | 2000 |
| 677 | Michael Ondaatje | Coming Through Slaughter | Biography | 3.5 | Very imaginatively structured | 1979 |
| 678 | Michael Ondaatje | Handwriting | Poetry | 3 | - | - |
| 679 | Michael Ondaatje | In the Skin of a Lion | Novel | 3.5 | Written as observer, not participant | 1987 |
| 680 | Michael Ondaatje | Running in the Family | Autobiography | 3.5 | Idiosyncratic writing style | 1983 |
| 681 | Michael Ondaatje | The Cat's Table | Novel | Unread | - | 1998 |
| 682 | Michael Pollan | Cooked | - | Unread | - | 2000 |
| 683 | Michael Pollan | In Defence of Food | Science | 4 | - | 1979 |
| 684 | Michael Pollan | The Botany of Desire | Novel | 3 | - | - |
| 685 | Michaela McGuire & Marieke Hardy | Signed, Sealed, Delivered | Anthology | 4 | A collection of contemporary letters. Very impressive | 2016 |
| 686 | Michel Houllebecq | The Map and the Territory | Novel | Unread | - | 1983 |
| 687 | Michelle Aung Thin | The Monsoon Bride | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 688 | Michelle de Kretser | Questions of Travel | Novel | 4 | Excellent | - |
| 689 | Michelle de Kretser | The Hamilton Case | - | Unread | - | 2017 |
| 690 | Michelle de Kretser | The Life to Come | Novel | 2 | Managed 50 pages. Authors seems heartless (as always) | 2017 |
| 691 | Michèle Roberts | The Walworth Beauty | Novel | 2.5 | Gothic in its redundant detail but ultimately superficial | 2017 |
| 692 | Mike Dash | Tulipomania | History | 4 | - | - |
| 693 | Mohsin Hamid | The Reluctant Fundamentalist | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 694 | Moira Watson | Razzle Dazzle | Novel | 3 | - | - |
| 695 | Moira Watson | The Keeper of the Nest | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 696 | Monica Ali | In the Kitchen | Novel | 1 | - | 2017 |
| 697 | Monique Roffey | The White Woman on the Green Bicycle | Novel | Unread | - | 2017 |
| 698 | Morgan Callan Rogers | Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 699 | Muriel Barbery | The Elegance of the Hedgehog | Novel | 4.5 | Marvellous | 2006 |
| 700 | Muriel Spark | The Driver's Seat | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 701 | Murray Bail | Eucalyptus | Novel | 2 | Pedestrian | - |
| 702 | Nadine Gordimer | Six Feet of the Country | Novel | 3 | - | - |
| 703 | Nadine Gordimer | The Conservationist | Novel | 3 | - | - |
| 704 | Nadine Gordimer | The Lying Days | Autobiography | 4 | - | - |
| 705 | Nam Le | The Boat | Novel | 4 | - | 2006 |
| 706 | Nancy Forbes | Imitation of Life | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 707 | Nancy Friday | Jealousy | Psychotherapy | 4 | - | - |
| 708 | Nancy Huston | Fault Lines | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 709 | Nancy Huston | Infrared | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 710 | Nancy Kress | Beggars in Spain | Novel | SF | 4 | A disconcerting study of genetic manipulation of humans |
| 711 | Naomi Mitchison | Travel Light | Novel | 3.5 | - | 1952 |
| 712 | Naomi Novak | Black Powder War | SF | 3 | - | - |
| 713 | Naomi Novak | Empire of Ivory | SF | 3 | - | - |
| 714 | Naomi Novak | Temeraire | SF | 3 | - | - |
| 715 | Naomi Novak | Throne of Jade | SF | 3 | - | - |
| 716 | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | The Black Swan | Statistics | 3.5 | A bit verbose | - |
| 717 | Natasha Lester | What is Left Over, After | Novel | Unread | - | 1952 |
| 718 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | The House of Seven Gables | Novel | 4 | Classic | - |
| 719 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Scarlet Letter | Novel | 4 | Blunt | - |
| 720 | Neil Cross | Captured | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 721 | Neil Cross | Heartland | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 722 | Nicci French | The Memory Game | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 723 | Nicci French | The Red Room | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 724 | Nicholas Jose | The Rose Crossing | Novel | 3 | - | - |
| 725 | Nicola Griffith | Ammonite | SF | 4 | A very superior type of SF | 1993 |
| 726 | Nicola Griffith | Hild | Novel | 4 | Set in 7th C Britain. Magnificent | 2014 |
| 727 | Nicola Griffith | Slow River | SF | 4 | Sophisticated story of a woman trying to control her own life | - |
| 728 | Nicola Griffith | So Lucky | Autobiography | 4 | Griffith has MS and this is an amazing portrayal of living with MS | - |
| 729 | Nicola Griffith | The Blue Place | Novel | 4 | Sophisticated detective story | 1998 |
| 730 | Nicola Upson | The Death of Lucy Kyte | - | Unread | - | - |
| 731 | Nicole Hayes | The Whole of my World | - | Unread | - | - |
| 732 | Nicole Krauss | Great House | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 733 | Nikki Gemmel | The Bride Stripped Bare | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 734 | Nikki Gemmel | With My Body | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 735 | Nina Sutton | Bettelheim - A Life and A Legacy | Biography | 4.5 | Excellent | - |
| 736 | Ninette Dutton | A Passionate Gardener | Report | 3 | Gardening Journal | - |
| 737 | Noel Kingsbury | Hybrid: The History and Science of Plant Breeding | Novel | - | - | - |
| 738 | Norman Doidge | The Brain that Changes Itself | Science | 4 | Very conservative man | - |
| 739 | Norman Rush | Subtle Bodies | - | Unread | - | - |
| 740 | Omar Khayyam | The Rubaiyat | Poetry | 4 | A homage to wine | - |
| 741 | Orphan Pamuk | My Name is Red | Novel | 1 | - | - |
| 742 | Ovid | Metamorphoses | Classic | 3 | Sort of interesting but ultimately disappointing. 720 pages | 2004 |
| 743 | P A O'Reilly | The End of the World | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 744 | P A O'Reilly | The Fine Color of Rust | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 745 | Padma Viswanathan | The Toss of a Lemon | Novel | Unread | - | 2004 |
| 746 | Park Honan | Shakespeare: A Life | History | 4 | Very detailed but doesn't elucidate | 1998 |
| 747 | Parker and Hart | The Wizard of Id Vols 1 .. 4, 6 | Comix | 4.5 | - | 1987 |
| 748 | Patrick Cullen | What Came Between | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 749 | Patrick Fenmore | A Time of Gifts | Novel | Unread | - | 1998 |
| 750 | Patrick Fenmore | Betweenn the Woods and the Water | Novel | Unread | - | 1987 |
| 751 | Paul Berman | The Passion of Joschka Fischer | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 752 | Paul Bloom | Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil | - | Unread | - | - |
| 753 | Paul Davies | The Eerie Silence | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 754 | Paul McAuley | Quiet War | SF | Unread | A series | - |
| 755 | Paul Potts | Dante Called You Beatrice | Autobiography | 3 | - | - |
| 756 | Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt | Higher Superstition | Social analysis | 4.5 | Superb demolition job on Postmodernism | 1994 |
| 757 | Paul Simpson | The Rough Guide to Philip Pullmans' His Dark Materials | Report | 2 | - | - |
| 758 | Paula McLain | The Paris Wife | - | Unread | - | - |
| 759 | Pauline Melville | Shape-shifter | Novel | 2 | - | 1994 |
| 760 | Penelope Lively | How It All Began | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 761 | Per Olov Enquist | Blanch and Marie | Science | 3 | Biography of Marie Curie | - |
| 762 | Peter Doherty | Sentinel Chickens | Science | 4.5 | - | - |
| 763 | Peter Grose | A Good Place to Hide | - | Unread | About Jews in WW II | - |
| 764 | Peter Hessler | Country Driving | - | Unread | - | - |
| 765 | Peter Hoeg | Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow | Novel | 4 | - | - |
| 766 | Peter Hoeg | The Quiet Girl | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 767 | Peter K Austin | 1000 Languages | - | Unread | - | - |
| 768 | Peter Macinnus | Bittersweet: The Story of Sugar | Report | 5 | - | - |
| 769 | Peter Mathiessen | Far Tortuga | - | Unread | - | - |
| 770 | Peter Mathiessen | Shadow Country | - | Unread | - | - |
| 771 | Peter Robinson | In a Dry Season | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 772 | Peter Temple | The Broken Shore | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 773 | Peter Watson | The German Genius | Report | 4 | The many contributions of German scientists | - |
| 774 | Peter Wohlleben | The Hidden Life of Trees | Nature | 4.5 | Amazing. It's about the way trees communicate | 2016 |
| 775 | Philip Nitschke | Damned if I do | Euthenasia | 4 | - | - |
| 776 | Philip Pullman | Northers Lights Vols 1 .. 3 | SF | 5 | - | - |
| 777 | Philip Pullman | The Tiger in the Well | Novel | 3 | - | 2016 |
| 778 | Philip Salom | Waiting | Novel | 1.5 | I managed to read 33 pages before it defeated me | 2016 |
| 779 | Phillip Ball | Unnatural: The Heretical Idea of Making People | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 780 | Phillippa Gregory | The White Queen | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 781 | Piers Anthony | Viscous Circle (5 book series) | SF | 5 | Very clever | 2016 |
| 782 | Pip Williams | The Dictionary of Lost Words | Novel | 4 | Brilliant reimagining of the preparation of the first Oxford English Dictionary | 2020 |
| 783 | Posie Graeme-Evans | The Island House | - | Unread | - | - |
| 784 | Poul Anderson | War of the Wing-Men | SF | 1 | A bit feeble | - |
| 785 | R D Blackmore | Lorna Doone | Novel | 4 | Classic | - |
| 786 | Rachel Cusk | Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 787 | Rachel Matthews | Vinyl Inside | Novel | 1 | Feeble | - |
| 788 | Rachel Seiffert | Afterwards | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 789 | Rachel Seiffert | The Dark Room | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 790 | Randolph Stous | Visitants | Novel | Unread | Set in New Guinea | - |
| 791 | Ray Bradbury | Farenheit 451 | SF | 5 | Classic | - |
| 792 | Ray Bradbury | The Martian Chronicles | Science Fiction | 4 | Fascinating | 1951 |
| 793 | Rebecca Stead | When You Reach Me | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 794 | Rebecca Stott | Darwin's Ghosts | Science | 4.5 | Fascinating | - |
| 795 | Rebecca West | Black Lamb and Grey Falcon | History | 3 | Interminable | 1951 |
| 796 | Renata Adler | Pitch Dark | - | Unread | - | - |
| 797 | Renata Adler | Speedboat | - | Unread | - | - |
| 798 | Richard Aitken | Botanical Riches | Botany | 4 | Fascinating, but too brief | - |
| 799 | Richard Cohen | Chasing the Sun | Science | 4 | The Story of the Sun | - |
| 800 | Richard Dawkins | The Extended Phenotype | Science | 4 | - | - |
| 801 | Richard Dawkins | The God Delusion | Rationalism | 4 | OK but not a good as I expected | 2006 |
| 802 | Richard Dawkins | The Greatest Show on Earth | Science | 5 | Evidence of evolution | - |
| 803 | Richard Dawkins | The Red Queen | Science | 4 | - | - |
| 804 | Richard Dawkins | The Selfish Gene | Science | 5 | - | 2006 |
| 805 | Richard Flanagan | The Narrow Road to the Deep North | - | Unread | - | - |
| 806 | Richard Ford | Canada | - | Unread | - | - |
| 807 | Richard Wranaham | Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 808 | Riikka Pulkkinen | The Limit | - | Unread | - | - |
| 809 | Robert Hutchinson | The Spanish Amarda | - | Unread | - | - |
| 810 | Robert Lane Greene | You Are What You Speak | Language | 4 | Wide ranging | - |
| 811 | Robert Trivers | The Folly of Fools | - | Unread | - | - |
| 812 | Robert Wilson | The Hidden Assassins | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 813 | Robert Wright | NonZero | Novel | 1 | - | - |
| 814 | Roberta Lowing | Notorious | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 815 | Robin Black | Life Drawing | - | Unread | - | - |
| 816 | Robin de Crespigny | The People Smuggler | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 817 | Roger McDonald | Mr Darwin's Shooter | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 818 | Roger McDonald | The Ballard of Desmond Kale | Poetry | Unread | - | - |
| 819 | Ron Rash | Serena | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 820 | Rose Tremain | Merivel | - | Unread | - | - |
| 821 | Ruby J Murray | Running Dogs | - | Unread | - | - |
| 822 | Ruth Noel | The Mythology of Tolkien's Middle Earth | Novel | 2.5 | - | - |
| 823 | Ruth Prawer Jhabrala | Out of India | Novel | 2 | Of no interest to me | - |
| 824 | Ryan O'Neill | The Weight of a Human Heart | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 825 | Ryan O'Neill | Their Brilliant Careers | Novel | 3 | Artificial biographies. Read a few and gave up | 2016 |
| 826 | Ryszard Kapúscinski | Imperium | Travelog | 4 | Impressive and disconcerting | 1994 |
| 827 | Ryszard Kapúscinski | The Soccer War | Report | 2 | Issue 211 - Disappointing | - |
| 828 | Ryszard Kapúscinski | Travels with Herodotus | Report | 3 | - | 2016 |
| 829 | S J Watson | Before I Go To Sleep | Novel | Unread | - | 1994 |
| 830 | Sadie Jones | Small Wars | Novel | 3 | Set in Malta in the 1950s | - |
| 831 | Sadie Jones | The Outcast | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 832 | Sally Vickers | Dancing Backwards | Novel | 3 | - | - |
| 833 | Sally Vickers | Miss Garnet's Angel | Novel | 3 | - | - |
| 834 | Sally Vickers | Mr Golightly's Holiday | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 835 | Salman Rushdie | Luka and the Fire of Life | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 836 | Salman Rushdie | The Enchantress of Florence | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 837 | Salman Rushdie | The Moor's Last Sigh | Novel | 4 | - | - |
| 838 | Sam Carmody | The Windy Season | Novel | 4 | Set in WA. Better than I expected | 2017 |
| 839 | Sarah Hall | The Electic Michelangelo | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 840 | Sarah Moss | Summerwater | Novel | 4 | Cleverly constructed | 2020 |
| 841 | Sarah Mussi | Seige | - | Unread | - | 2017 |
| 842 | Sarah Waters | The Little Stranger | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 843 | Sebastian Barry | A Long Long Way | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 844 | Sebastian Barry | On Canaan's Side | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 845 | Sharon Bedar | The Little Kiddie Went to Market | Report | 5 | Expose of ads in kindergartens and schools | - |
| 846 | Sharon Moalem | Inheritance | - | Unread | - | - |
| 847 | Shaun Tan | Tales from the Inner City | Picture Book | 5 | Amazing & Brilliant | 2018 |
| 848 | Sheila Fitzpatrick | My Father's Daughter | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 849 | Shereen El Feki | Sex and the Citadel | - | Unread | - | 2018 |
| 850 | Sherman Alexie | War Dances | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 851 | Shirley Hazzard | The Evening of the Holiday | Novel | 3 | - | - |
| 852 | Shirley Hazzard | The Transit of Venus | Novel | 3 | - | - |
| 853 | Sian Prior | Shy | - | Unread | - | - |
| 854 | Sigmund Freud | You Name It | Psychoanalysis | 5 | - | - |
| 855 | Simon Leys | The Death of Napolean | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 856 | Simon Leys | With Stendhal | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 857 | Simonetta Hornby | The Almond Picker | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 858 | Siri Hustvedt | The Enchantment of Lily Dahl | Novel | 3 | - | - |
| 859 | Siri Hustvedt | The Sorrows of an American | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 860 | Siri Hustvedt | What I Loved | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 861 | Sloan Crosley | The Clasp | - | Unread | - | - |
| 862 | Sofie Laguna | The Choke | Novel | 4 | Superb | 2017 |
| 863 | Sonja Dechian | An Astronaut's Life | - | Unread | - | - |
| 864 | Sonya Hartnett (Ed) | The Best Australian Short Stories | - | Unread | - | - |
| 865 | Sonya Hartnett | Butterfly | - | Unread | - | 2017 |
| 866 | Sophie Divry | The Library of Unrequited Love | - | Unread | - | - |
| 867 | Sopholes | The Theban Plays | Novel | - | - | - |
| 868 | Stef Penney | The Invisible Ones | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 869 | Stef Penney | The Tenderness of Wolves | Novel | 2 | - | - |
| 870 | Stefan Zweig | Beware of Pity | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 871 | Stephan Bank and Michael Kahn | The Sibling Bond | Report | 4 | Psychoanalysis | - |
| 872 | Stephanie Meyer | Twilight | Novel | 1 | Feeble | - |
| 873 | Stephen Daisley | Traitor | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 874 | Steve Koen | Debunking Economics | Economics | Unread | - | - |
| 875 | Steve Poole | Unspeak | Report | 4 | - | - |
| 876 | Steven Amsterdam | Things We Didn't See Coming | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 877 | Steven Carroll | A World of Other People | - | Unread | - | - |
| 878 | Steven Pinker | The Language Instinct | Science | 4 | - | - |
| 879 | Steven Roger Fischer | Glyph-breaker | Crypto | 4.5 | Fascinating | 1997 |
| 880 | Sue Miller | Family Pictures | Novel | 4 | - | - |
| 881 | Sue Miller | The Lake Shore Limited | Novel | 3 | - | 1997 |
| 882 | Sue Miller | The Senator's Wife | Novel | 4 | - | - |
| 883 | Sue Miller | The Story of My Father | Novel | 4 | - | - |
| 884 | Sue Miller | The World Below | Novel | 4 | - | - |
| 885 | Sue Monk Kidd | The Invention of Wings | - | Unread | - | - |
| 886 | Sue Saliba | Alaska | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 887 | Sulari Gentill | Miles Off Course | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 888 | Susan Carland | Fighting Hislam | Social analysis | 4 | Directly confronts the ruthless sexism and patriarchy in Islam. (Arab/Islam/Muslim) | 2017 |
| 889 | Susan Ducan | Salvation Creek | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 890 | Susan Ducan | The House and Salvation Creek | Novel | Unread | - | 2017 |
| 891 | Susan Faludi | The Terror Dream | Report | 3 | American reaction to 9/11 | - |
| 892 | Susan Fletcher | Eve Green | Novel | 3 | - | - |
| 893 | Susan Fletcher | Oystercatchers | Novel | 2 | Feeble | - |
| 894 | Susan Hancock | The Peastick Girl | - | Unread | - | - |
| 895 | Susan Hill | A Kind Man | Novel | 3 | Quaint, understated | - |
| 896 | Susan Hill | The Small Hand | - | Unread | - | - |
| 897 | Susan Johnson | Life in Seven Mistakes | Novel | 2 | Awful characters | - |
| 898 | Susan Johnson | My Hundred Lovers | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 899 | Susan Landau | Listening In | Security | 3.5 | A simple introduction | 2017 |
| 900 | Susana Fortes | Waiting for Robert Capa | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 901 | Susie Orbach | The Impossibility of Sex | Novel | Unread | - | 2017 |
| 902 | T. E. Lawrence | Seven Pillars of Wisdom | Report | 4.5 | Amazing | 1926 |
| 903 | Tara June Winch | The Yield | Novel | 4 | A well-written, convincing story about Aboriginal life | 2019 |
| 904 | Tash Aw | Map of the Invisible World | Novel | 2 | - | 1926 |
| 905 | Terry Eagleton | How to Read Literature | - | Unread | - | - |
| 906 | Terry Prachett | Snuff | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 907 | Tess Evans | The Memory Tree | Novel | 3 | Good, but a bit too goody | - |
| 908 | The Person of the Man | Nikos Athanasou | - | Unread | - | - |
| 909 | The Sweet Girl | Annabell Lyon | - | Unread | - | - |
| 910 | Thea Astley | Vanishing Points | Novel | 2 | - | 1940 |
| 911 | Theodor Reik | From 30 Years with Freud | Psychoanalysis | 4.5 | Memoir | 1948 |
| 912 | Theodor Reik | Listening with the third Ear | Psychoanalysis | 5 | Fascinating | 1957 |
| 913 | Theodor Reik | Myth and Guilt | Psychoanalysis | 5 | Interprets tree gods Adam and Jesus | 1957 |
| 914 | Theodor Reik | Ritual: Psychoanalytic Studies | Psychoanalysis | 5 | - | 1946 |
| 915 | Theodor Reik | Surprise and the Psychoanalyst | Psychoanalysis | 5 | A complex read, but rewarding | 1961 |
| 916 | Theodor Reik | The Compulsion to Confess | Psychoanalysis | 5 | Required reading for lawyers etc | 1961 |
| 917 | Theodor Reik | The Creation of Woman | Psychoanalysis | 4.5 | Reanalyses birth of Eve from Adam's rib | 1960 |
| 918 | Theodor Reik | The Haunting Melody | Psychoanalysis | 4 | Why can we be obsessed with a tune? | 1953 |
| 919 | Theodor Reik | The Secret Self | Psychoanalysis | 5 | - | 1953 |
| 920 | Thomas Hardy | Far From the Maddening Crowd | Novel | 4 | - | - |
| 921 | Thomas Kostigen | The Big Handout | Economics | 4.5 | Expose of American subsidies to Big Business | - |
| 922 | Thomas Levenson | Newton and the Counterfeiter | Science | 4 | Great history | - |
| 923 | Thomas Pynchon | The Crying of Lot 49 | SF | 1 | - | - |
| 924 | Tim Lott | Rumours of a Hurricane | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 925 | Tim Lott | The Scent of Dried Roses | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 926 | Tim Parks | Judge Savage | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 927 | Tom Watson & Martin Hickman | Dial M for Murdoch | Media | 5 | Shocking | - |
| 928 | Toni Jordan | Addition | Novel | 1 | Feeble | 2016 |
| 929 | Toni Jordan | Our Tiny, Useless Hearts | Novel | 3.5 | Well-written and waaaaaay over-the-top mindless fluff | 2016 |
| 930 | Tony Horwitz | A Voyage Long and Strange | History | 4 | European but pre-Colombian stories of America | 2008 |
| 931 | Tove Jannson | The summer Book | - | Unread | - | - |
| 932 | Tove Jannson | Travelling Light | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 933 | Trudi Canavan | The Black Magician | Fantasy Series | Unread | - | - |
| 934 | Trudi Canavan | The Rogue | Fantasy Series | Unread | - | - |
| 935 | Trvin Yalom | Staring at the Sun | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 936 | Trvin Yalom | The schopenhauer Cure | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 937 | Téa Obreht | The Tiger's Wife | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 938 | Ursula Le Guin | Always Coming Home | Novel | 3 | - | - |
| 939 | Ursula Le Guin | City of Illusions | Novel | 3 | - | - |
| 940 | Ursula Le Guin | Gifts | Novel | - | - | - |
| 941 | Ursula Le Guin | Lavinia | Novel | - | - | - |
| 942 | Ursula Le Guin | Tales from Earthsea | Novel | - | - | - |
| 943 | Ursula Le Guin | The Lathe of Heaven | Novel | - | - | - |
| 944 | Ursula Le Guin | The Wizards of Earthsea Vols 1 .. 4 | Novel | 4 | - | - |
| 945 | V S Nipaul | Half A Life | Novel | 1 | Feeble | - |
| 946 | Valerie Martin | Property | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 947 | Vanessa Diffenbaugh | The Language of Flowers | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 948 | Vanessa Gebbie | The Coward's Tale | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 949 | Various | Fairy Tales from The Arabian Nights | Fantasy Series | 4 | Ed: E. Dixon. Drawings: Joan Kiddell-Monroe. Very complex | 1907 |
| 950 | Various | GriffithsREVIEW54 | Anthology | 4 | Very high quality | 2016 |
| 951 | Various | Island | Literary Journal | 4 | Issue 148. Pretentious | 2017 |
| 952 | Various | Overland | Literary Journal | 4 | Issue 223 | 2017 |
| 953 | Various | The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis | Psychoanalysis | 4 | Vol XXVIII Part III-IV. Very interesting | 1947 |
| 954 | Various | The Lifted Brow | Literary Journal | 3.5 | Issue 32 - Mixed quality | 2016 |
| 955 | Vasily Grossman | Everything Flows (Forever Flowing) | Novel | Unread | - | 2016 |
| 956 | Vasily Grossman | Life and Fate | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 957 | Victoria Glendenning | The Grown-ups | Novel | 2 | Feeble | - |
| 958 | Victoria Hannan | Kokomo | Novel | 2 | Distasteful realism, too much reliance on alcohol | 2020 |
| 959 | Virginia Duigan | Days Like These | Novel | 4 | - | - |
| 960 | Virginia Duigan | The Biographer | Novel | 4 | - | - |
| 961 | Virginia Duigan | The Precipice | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 962 | Vivian Pham | The Coconut Children | Novel | 4 | Beautifully written story of young Vietnamese girl growing up in Australia | 2020 |
| 963 | W G Sebald | The Rings of Saturn | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 964 | W. B. Yeats | Poems selected by Seamus Heaney | Poetry | 2 | Hard to understand | - |
| 965 | W. E. H. Stanner | The Dreaming and Other Essays | - | Unread | - | - |
| 966 | Walter Murdoch | On Rabbits, Morality, Etc | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 967 | Wendy James | The Stelle Diaries | Novel | 3 | - | - |
| 968 | Wet Ink | Issue 23 | Novel | 3 | - | - |
| 969 | Wibke Bruhns | My Father's Country | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 970 | William Maxwell | All the Days and Nights | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 971 | William Maxwell | So Long, See You Tomorrow | - | Unread | - | - |
| 972 | William McInnes | The Laughing Clowns | - | Unread | - | - |
| 973 | William Robertson Smith | Lectures on the Religion of the Semites | Religion | 4 | Three Series. Vast analysis of holy creatures, places and things | 1888 |
| 974 | Willy Lamb | I Know This Much is True | Novel | Unread | - | - |
| 975 | XingJian Gao | The Case for Literature | Novel | 3 | - | - |
| 976 | Yan Lianke | Lenin's Kisses | - | Unread | - | - |
| 977 | Yann Martel | Life of Pi | Novel | - | Unreadable | - |
| 978 | Yassmin Abdel-Magied | Yassmin's Story | Autobiography | 3.5 | Worth reading | 2016 |
| 979 | Zachary Mason | The Lost Books of the Odyssey | - | Unread | - | - |
| 980 | Zadie Smith | White Teeth | Novel | - | Unreadable | - |
| 981 | Zeynep Tufekci | Twitter and Tear Gas | Social analysis | 4 | Overview of digitally organized protest | 2017 |
| 982 | Zoe Adler Bishop (Ed) | The Evening Lands | - | Unread | - | - |
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