Book List

Action/Adventure

• Tomorrow When the War Began Series – John Marsden
• The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
• Matched – Ally Condie
• Chaos Walking Series (The Knife of Never Letting Go) – Patrick Ness
• Uglies – Scott Westerfeld
• The Call of the Wild – Jack London
• The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
• The Road – Cormac McCarthy
• Red Rising  – Pierce Brown
• The Bone Clocks – David Mitchell
• The Road to Winter – Mark Smith

Australian Literature

• Jasper Jones – Craig Silvey
• The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
• Tomorrow When the War Began Series – John Marsden
• The Underdog – Markus Zusak
• Blueback – Tim Winton
• Tomorrow When the War Began – John Marsden
• By The River – Steven Herrick
• Pieces of Sky – Trinity Doyle
• Breath – Tim Winton

Classics

• Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
• To Kill A Mocking-bird – Harper Lee
• The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
• The Call of the Wild – Jack London
• Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
• Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
• A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway
• The Garden of Eden – Ernest Hemingway
• Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austin

Contemporary Literature

• The Road – Cormac McCarthy
• Snow Falling on Cedars – David Guterson
• The White Tiger – Aravind Adiga
• Slaughterhouse 5 – Kurt Vonnegut
• The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
• In the Skin of a Lion – Michael Ondaatje
• The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
• The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
• Jasper Jones – Craig Silvey
• Life of Pi – Yann Martel
• The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes
• The Bone Clocks – David Mitchell
• The Luminaries – Eleanore Catton
• Barkskins – Annie Proulx
• The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt

Crime Fiction & Mystery

• Trash – Andy Mulligan
• Scat – Carl Hiaasen
• Revolver – Marcus Sedgewick
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
• Istanbul Passage –  Joseph Kanon
• The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
• The Spy Who Came In From The Cold – John LeCarre
• Snow Falling on Cedars – David Guterson
• The Luminaries – Eleanore Catton

Fantasy

• The Chronicles of Narnia – C. S. Lewis
• Dragonkeeper – Carole Wilkinson
• The Inheritance Cycle – Christopher Paolini
• Ranger’s Apprentice – John Flanagan
• Graceling – Kristin Cashore
• The Bone Clocks – David Mitchell

Historical Fiction

• To Kill A Mocking-bird – Harper Lee
• The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
• Revolver – Marcus Sedgewick
• The Kite Runner – Khaled – Hosseini
• A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
• The White Tiger – Aravind Adiga
• The Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett
• Slaughterhouse 5 – Kurt Vonnegut
• The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
• In the Skin of a Lion – Michael Ondaatje
• The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
• The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas – John Boyne
• Snow Falling on Cedars – David Guterson
• The Luminaries – Eleanore Catton
• Barkskins – Annie Proulx

Non-fiction/Life Writing

• Mud, Sweat and Tears: Bear Grylls
• The Happiest Refugee – Anh Do
• The Diary of a Young Girl– Anne Frank
• The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
• The Prince – Niccolo Machiavelli
• Krakatoa – Simon Winchester
• The Weak Suffer What They Must – Yanis Varoufakis

Picture Books

• The Lost Thing – Shaun Tan
• The Great Paper Caper – Oliver jeffers
• Flotsam – David Wiesner
• The Enemy – David Cali & Serge Bloch
• The Arrival – Shaun Tan
• The Heart and the Bottle – Oliver Jeffers
• I am Thomas – Libby Gleeson & Armin Greder
• The Island –  John Heffernan & Peter Sheehan
• The Two Bullies – Junko Morimoto
• The Boy and the Toy – Sonya Hartnet

Postcolonial and Globalisation

• The White Tiger – Aravind Adiga
• The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
• Jasper Jones – Craig Silvey
• Life of Pi – Yann Martel
• To Kill A Mocking-bird – Harper Lee
• The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
• In the Skin of a Lion – Michael Ondaatje
• Barkskins – Annie Proulx (Ecological)
• The Shipping News – Annie Proulx (Globalisation)

       – East meets West

• A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
• The White Tiger – Aravind Adiga
• The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
• A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
• Life of Pi – Yann Martel
• The Ink Bridge –
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist

       – Post 9-11/War in the East Literature

• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Jonathan Safran Foer
• Scat – Carl Hiaasen
• The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini

Postmodern Literature

• Slaughterhouse 5 – Kurt Vonnegut
• A History of the World in 10.5 Chapters – Julian Barnes
• The Bone Clocks – David Mitchell
• The Shipping News – Annie Proulx

Science Fiction

• Chaos Walking Series (The Knife of Never Letting Go) – Patrick Ness
• I Am Number Four – Pittacus Lore
• The Power of Six – Pittacus Lore
• Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood
• Year of the Flood – Margaret Atwood
• The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
• Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
• Red Rising  – Pierce Brown
• Golden Son – Pierce Brown

Speculative, Dystopian, Utopian and Post-Apocolyptic Fiction

• The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
• Matched – Ally Condie
• Chaos Walking Series (The Knife of Never Letting Go) – Patrick Ness
• Uglies – Scott Westerfeld
• Tomorrow When the War Began – John Marsden
• Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood
• The Road – Cormac McCarthy
• Year of the Flood – Margaret Atwood
• Feed – MT Anderson
• Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
• Divergent – Veronica Roth
• Red Rising  – Pierce Brown
• The Bone Clocks – David Mitchell

Spiritual/Philosophical

• Life of Pi – Yann Martel
• The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
• The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• The Prophet – Kahlil Gibran

Teen Fiction

• Junk – Melvin Burgess (contemporary, realist fiction)
• Tomorrow When the War Began – John Marsden
• Chaos Walking Series (The Knife of Never Letting Go) – Patrick Ness
• I Am Number Four – Pittacus Lore
• Scat – Carl Hiaasen
• The Chronicles of Narnia – C. S. Lewis
• Dragonkeeper – Carole Wilkinson
• The Inheritance Cycle – Christopher Paolini
• Ranger’s Apprentice – John Flanagan
• The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
• Matched – Ally Condie
• Uglies – Scott Westerfeld
• Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
• Divergent – Veronica Roth
• Red Rising  – Pierce Brown
• A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder – Holly Jackson

War Literature

• Tomorrow When the War Began – John Marsden
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Jonathan Safran Foer
• The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
• Slaughterhouse 5 – Kurt Vonnegut
• Snow Falling on Cedars – David Guterson
• Once – Morris Gleitzman