Tuesday 28 November 2017

Some suggestions for 2018, Pt.1

Some ideas for our next six months organised by category
(most from the side-bar, but I've dropped some that have been there for a while)

Non-Australian

Alameddine, Rabih An unnecessary woman
Howard, Elizabeth Jane (one by her)
Robinson, Marilynne (One by her: Housekeeping or Gilead or Home or Lila)

Indigenous Australian

Cobby Eckermann, Ali Ruby Moonlightand/or Inside my mother and/or Too afraid to cry
Coleman, Claire Terra nullius

New books from Aussie favourites

de Kretser, Michelle The life to come
Flanagan, Richard First person
Laguna, Sofie The choke
Miller, Alex The passage of love

Non-fiction

Blackman, Barbara All my Januaries
Griffiths, Tom The art of time travel

Award-winners

Nguyen, Viet Thanh The sympathizer (Pulitzer Prize 2016)
Saunders, George Lincoln in the Bardo (Booker 2017)
Stow, Randolph The merry-go-round by the sea (Past Miles Franklin, could also be our Classic)

Recent suggestions from members

Harper, Jane The dry
Harper, Jane Force of nature

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