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Friday, 30 April 2010

April book: The Legacy by Kirsten Tranter

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The views contained herein are those of fabulous yet everyday women who record the way they have experienced each book.

ABOUT US

We are a Sydney-based book group who meet once a month to talk about a book chosen by one of our members. We discuss the book, we grade it (out of 10) and we get side-tracked onto other issues.

We are reading this book next

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Our top rated books 2004 -2011 (in no specific order)

  • Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
  • Persuasion by Jane Austen
  • The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
  • Bereft by Chris Womersley
  • Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
  • Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
  • In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Click here to read previous posts

  • Books Read 2006
  • Books Read 2007
  • Books Read 2008
  • Books Read 2009
  • Books Read 2010
  • Books Read 2011

Our sister bookgroup in Melbourne

  • No.1 Melbourne Ladies' Bookclub
    May book: The Golden Age by Joan London - *The Golden Age* by Joan London (discussion led by JM) Some background links to get you started: - The publisher's page for the book - Review ...
    10 years ago

2011 Book List

  • The Tall Man by Chloe Hooper
  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
  • Before I go to Sleep by S J Watson
  • A Tiny Bit Marvellous by Dawn French
  • Room by Emma Donaghue
  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
  • Death of a Red Heroine by Qui Xiaolong
  • Bereft by Chris Womersley
  • Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
  • Mr Rosenblum's List by Natasha Solomons
  • Tinkers by Paul Harding

2010 Book List

  • The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
  • The Other Hand by Chris Cleave
  • In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
  • Ghost Child by Caroline Overington
  • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shafer
  • The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
  • Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
  • The Legacy by Kirsten Trantor
  • Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
  • Day after Night by Anita Diamant
  • Things Without a Name by Joanne Fedler

2009 Book List

  • The Age of Reason by Jean Paul Sartre
  • Breath by Tim Winton
  • Disgrace by J M Coetzee
  • The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
  • The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
  • Persuasion by Jane Austen
  • The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman
  • A Confederacy of Dunces
  • Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

2008 Booklist

  • My Year of Meat by Ruth Ozeki
  • Half a Life by V.S.Naipaul
  • March by Geraldine Brooks
  • The Gathering by Anne Enright
  • The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
  • The Broken Shore by Peter Temple
  • On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
  • Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
  • Love Life by Ray Kluun
  • The Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
  • The Book Thief by Marcus Zuzak

2007 BookList

  • The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
  • You Gotta Have Balls by Lily Brett
  • A heart of Stone by R Dorrestein
  • The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville
  • Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
  • The Gospel of Gods and Crocodiles by Elizabeth Stead
  • Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  • Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin
  • The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
  • Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
  • Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver

2006 Booklist

  • Let's talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
  • Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
  • Don't Think of an Elephant by George Lakoff
  • The Kite Runner by Kaled Hosseini
  • Lucky by Alice Sebold
  • It’s not about the bike: My journey back to life by Lance Armstrong
  • The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
  • My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey
  • Velocity by Mandy Sayer
  • The Factory by Paddy O'Reilly
  • The Butterfly Man by Heather Rose

2005 Booklist

  • Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres
  • The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman
  • People Who Have Stolen from Me by David Cohen
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • A Life By Design: The Art and Lives of Florence Broadhurst by Siobhan O'Brien
  • My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
  • The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
  • Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
  • Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
  • Joe Cinque’s Consolation by Helen Garner
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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