100 Favourite Books by our Most Popular Authors
Staff Favourites - Fiction
Staff Favourites - Non Fiction
For the Young at Heart
Curl up by the fire with one of these ripping yarns – our top 100 most-borrowed titles from our top 100 most borrowed authors.
| Title | Author |
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The summons |
John Grisham |
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Black notice |
Patricia Cornwell |
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Dating game |
Danielle Steel |
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Fatal voyage |
Kathy Reichs |
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The silent lady |
Catherine Cookson |
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Acid row |
Minette Walters |
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Daddy's little girl |
Mary Higgins Clark |
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Winter solstice |
Rosamunde Pilcher |
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Shattered |
Dick Francis |
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The jester |
James Patterson |
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Evening class |
Maeve Binchy |
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Smoky Joe's cafe |
Bryce Courtenay |
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Girl from the south |
Joanna Trollope |
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Let it shine |
Josephine Cox |
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The eleventh commandment |
Jeffrey Archer |
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The triumph of Katie Byrne |
Barbara Taylor Bradford |
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Edge of danger |
Jack Higgins |
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The babes in the wood |
Ruth Rendell |
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Q is for quarry |
Sue Grafton |
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Blue horizon |
Wilbur Smith |
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The best laid plans |
Sidney Sheldon |
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The shelters of stone |
Jean M. Auel |
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Chasing the dime |
Michael Connelly |
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Chesapeake blue |
Nora Roberts |
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'Tis : a memoir |
Frank McCourt |
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The stone monkey |
Jeffery Deaver |
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Jackdaws |
Ken Follett |
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The distant echo |
Val McDermid |
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A traitor to memory |
Elizabeth George |
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Sea glass |
Anita Shreve |
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The red room |
Nicci French |
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Tom Clancy's op-centre line of control |
Tom Clancy |
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The bone vault |
Linda Fairstein |
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Daughter of fortune |
Isabel Allende |
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Dreamcatcher |
Stephen King |
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Death in holy orders |
P.D. James |
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Area 7 |
Matthew Reilly |
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Stalker |
Faye Kellerman |
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Morgan's run |
Colleen McCullough |
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Last man standing |
David Baldacci |
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Sweet fortune |
Jayne Ann Krentz |
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The murder book |
Jonathan Kellerman |
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Snow falling on cedars |
David Guterson |
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A dark devotion |
Clare Francis |
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Seven up |
Janet Evanovich |
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Protect and defend |
Richard North Patterson |
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Her father's house |
Belva Plain |
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Valhalla rising |
Clive Cussler |
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Resurrection men |
Ian Rankin |
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Billy |
Pamela Stephenson |
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Looking for Alibrandi |
Melina Marchetta |
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Forbidden love: a harrowing true story of love and revenge in Jordan |
Norma Khouri |
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Hannibal |
Thomas Harris |
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When the singing stops |
Di Morrissey |
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Chocolat |
Joanne Harris |
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Parcel arrived safely: tied with string : my autobiography |
Michael Crawford |
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Gone for good |
Harlan Coben |
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Dirt music |
Tim Winton |
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Sea of dreams |
Susan Sallis |
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The Blind Assassin |
Margaret Atwood |
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The sound of one hand clapping |
Richard Flanagan |
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Down under |
Bill Bryson |
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Windflowers |
Tamara McKinley |
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Faust's party |
Matthew Ottley |
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The strength in us all |
Sara Henderson |
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Dying to tell |
Robert Goddard |
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The horse whisperer |
Nicholas Evans |
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The last detective |
Robert Crais |
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Gallows thief |
Bernard Cornwell |
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Tango one |
Stephen Leather |
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Liberty |
Stephen Coonts |
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Cavern of the fear |
Emily Rodda |
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Dilemma |
Jon Cleary |
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Half moon street |
Anne Perry |
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Envy |
Sandra Brown |
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Persuader |
Lee Child |
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Deep and silent waters |
Charlotte Lamb |
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The constant gardener |
John Le Carre |
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Warning signs |
Stephen White |
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The fiery cross |
Diana Gabaldon |
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Lola Rose |
Jacqueline Wilson |
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The cost of silence |
Margaret Yorke |
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Not all tarts are apple |
Pip Granger |
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That Camden Summer |
LaVyrle Spencer |
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The Cassandra compact |
Robert Ludlum |
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That old ace in the hole |
Annie Proulx |
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Paradise Fields |
Katie Fforde |
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Dust to dust |
Tami Hoag |
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Millie's fling |
Jill Mansell |
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All that glitters |
V. C. Andrews |
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Playmates |
Jane Tanner |
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The bonesetter's daughter |
Amy Tan |
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The rescue |
Nicholas Sparks |
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Just between us |
Cathy Kelly |
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The black opal |
Victoria Holt |
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The seasons will pass |
Audrey Howard |
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The remorseful day |
Colin Dexter |
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Icon |
Frederick Forsyth |
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The Da Vinci code |
Dan Brown |
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Sleeping cruelty |
Lynda La Plante |
Our staff are an eclectic bunch with very interesting reading tastes. These are some of their favourites.
| Title | Author |
| Aftermath | Peter Robinson |
| Alchemist | Paulo Coelho |
| An Imaginary Life | David Malouf |
| Area 7 | Matthew Reilly |
| As I lay dying | William Faulkner |
| Atomised | Michel Houellebecq |
| Au Revoir ANF | Mary Moody |
| Augustus | John Williams |
| Australians - series | William Stuart Long |
| Behind the Scenes at the Museum | Kate Atkinson |
| Beneath the Southern Cross | Judy Nunn |
| Big Stone Gap | Adriana Trigiani |
| Billy Liar | Keith Waterhouse |
| Bird Artist | Howard Norman |
| Blackberry Wine | Joanna Harris |
| Bleak House | Charles Dickens |
| Blind Assassin | Margaret Atwood |
| Bone Collector | Jeffery Deaver |
| Bone People | Keri Hulme |
| Book of Sand | Jorge Luis Borges |
| Bourne Identity | Robert Ludlum |
| Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh |
| Bridges of Madison County | Robert Waller |
| Café Scheherazade | Arnold Zable |
| Cannery Row | John Steinbeck |
| Catcher in the rye | J.D. Salinger |
| Childhood's End | Arthur C. Clarke |
| Children's Hour | Marcia Willett |
| Chocolat | Joanna Harris |
| Clan of the Cave Bear | Jean Auel |
| Cloudstreet | Tim Winton |
| Coastliners | Joanna Harris |
| Code of the Woosters | P.G. Wodehouse |
| Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens | Wallace Stevens |
| Color Purple | Alice Walker |
| Coming Home | Rosamunde Pilcher |
| Conditions of Faith | Alex Miller |
| Cross Stitch | Diana Gabaldon |
| Cryptonomicon | Neal Stephenson |
| Crystal Cave | Mary Stewart |
| Cujo | Stephen King |
| Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown |
| Dance to the Music of Time | Anthony Powell |
| Dangerous Vine | Barbara Ewing |
| Darling Buds Of May | H.E. Bates |
| Daughter | Pavlos Matesis |
| Daughter of the Forest | Juliet Marillier |
| Daughter of Time | Josephine Tey |
| David Copperfield | Charles Dickens |
| Decline and Fall | Evelyn Waugh |
| Difficult Young Man | Martin Boyd |
| Dirt Music | Tim Winton |
| Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood | Rebecca Wells |
| Dreaming the eagle (Boudica 1) | Manda Scott |
| Dressmaker | Rosalie Ham |
| Eagle in the Snow | Wallace Breem |
| Eldred Jones, Lulubelle & the Most High | Clare Nonhebel |
| Elm Creek Quilts | Jennifer Chiaverini |
| Emma | Jane Austen |
| Emperor: Gates of Rome | Conn Iggulden |
| Emperor: the death of kings | Conn Iggulden |
| English Passengers | Matthew Kneale |
| English Patient | Michael Ondaatje |
| Feel of Steel | Helen Garner |
| Fiery Cross | Diana Gabaldon |
| Five quarters of the orange | Joanna Harris |
| Flying Finish | Dick Francis |
| Forty Words for Sorrow | Giles Blunt |
| Fountainhead | Ayn Rand |
| Francis Crawford of Lymond series | Dorothy Dunnett |
| Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café | Fannie Flagg |
| Fugitive Pieces | Anne Michaels |
| Girl, Interrupted | Susanna Kaysen |
| Giving Tree Junior picture book | Shel Silverstein |
| God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy |
| Gone for Good | Harlen Coben |
| Green Mile | Stephen King |
| Harnessing Peacocks | Mary Wesley |
| Harp in the South trilogy | Ruth Park |
| He Shall Thunder in the Sky | Elizabeth Peters |
| Henry V | William Shakespeare |
| Henry's Daughter | Joy Dettman |
| Here's Luck | Lennie Lower |
| High Society | Ben Elton |
| Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams |
| Home at the End of the World | Michael Cunningham |
| Hunger 1 copy | Knut Hamsun |
| Ice House | Minette Walters |
| Ice Station | Matthew Reilly |
| Illusions | Richard Bach |
| Illywhacker | Peter Carey |
| In the Skin of a Lion | Michael Ondaatje |
| Independence Day | Richard Ford |
| Infinite Plan | Isabelle Allende |
| Into the Wilderness | Sara Donati |
| Isabel's Bed | Elinor Lipman |
| Island | Aldous Huxley |
| It | Steven King |
| Ivory and The Horn | Charles De Lint |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte |
| Joy Luck Club | Amy Tan |
| Kane and Abel | Jeffrey Archer |
| Katherine | Anya Seton |
| Kleinzeit | Russell Hoban |
| Knots & Crosses | Ian Rankin |
| Lavondyss | Robert Holdstock |
| Life of Pi: A Novel | Yann Martel |
| Little White Horse | Elizabeth Goudge |
| Looking for Alibrandi | Melina Marchetta |
| Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| Lover's Knots: A Hundred Year Novel | Marion Halligan |
| The Man who Planted Trees | Jean Giono |
| Matthew Flinders Cat | Bryce Courtenay |
| Memoirs of a Geisha | Arthur Golden |
| Memory and Dream | Charles De Lint |
| Merry-go-round in the sea | Randolph Stow |
| Miss Garnet's Angel | Sally Vickers |
| Mists of Avalon | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| Monk Downstairs | Tim Farrington |
| Monkey | Cheng-en Wu |
| Morgan's Run | Colleen McCullough |
| Mountjoy series | Elizabeth Pewsey |
| Museum Guard | Howard Norman |
| Needful Things | Steven King |
| Nicholas Nickelby | Charles Dickens |
| No Great Mischief | Alistair MacLeod |
| No Second Chance | Harlan Coben |
| No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency | Alexander McCall Smith |
| Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less | Jeffrey Archer |
| Of mice and men | John Steinbeck |
| On Beulah Height | Reginald Hill |
| On the Beach | Nevil Shute |
| One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
| One For the Money | Janet Evanovich |
| One hundred years of solitude | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| Other Boleyn Girl | Philippa Gregory |
| Outsider | Albert Camus |
| Over His Dead Body | Leslie Glass |
| Owl Service | Alan Garner |
| Pea Pickers | Eve Langley |
| Perfume: The Story of a Murderer | Patrick Suskind |
| Pickwick Papers | Charles Dickens |
| Pig Earth (Into their labours trilogy, 1) | John Berger |
| Pilot's Wife | Anita Shrieve |
| Plague Dogs | Richard Adams |
| Playing with fire | Peter Robinson |
| Poisonwood bible | Barbara Kingsolver |
| Pomegranate tree | Colleen Klein |
| Pompeii: A novel | Robert Harris |
| Poppy | Drusilla Modjeska |
| Portrait of a lady | Henry James |
| Possession | A. S. Byatt |
| Prayer for Owen Meany | John Irving |
| Pride and prejudice | Jane Austen |
| Prime of life | Simone De Beauvoir |
| Rachel's holiday | Marian Keyes |
| Rain queen | Katherine Scholes |
| Raisins and almonds | Kerry Greenwood |
| Rebecca | Daphne Du Maurier |
| Red tent | Anita Diamant |
| Regeneration trilogy | Pat Barker |
| Remains of the day | Kazuo Ishiguro |
| River God | Wilbur Smith |
| Salterton trilogy | Robertson Davies |
| Saving grace | Julie Garwood |
| Secret fire | Johanna Lindsey |
| Shadow matrix | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| Shell seekers | Rosamunde Pilcher |
| Shogun | James Clavell |
| Shutter Island | Dennis Lehane |
| Siddhartha | Hermann Hesse |
| Sirens of Titan | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. |
| Skinners trail | Quintin Jardine |
| Snow falling on cedars | David Guterson |
| Song of names | Norman Lebrecht |
| Spilt milk | Kathleen Stewart |
| Standing in the rainbow | Fannie Flagg |
| Stasiland | Anna Funder |
| Stephanie Plum series | Janet Evanovich |
| Storm | Boris Starling |
| Suitable Boy | Vikram Seth |
| Summer lightning | P.G. Wodehouse |
| Suzanne's diary for Nicholas | James Patterson |
| Sword of honour trilogy | Evelyn Waugh |
| Sword of Truth - series | Terry Goodkind |
| Temple | Matthew Reilly |
| Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Thomas Hardy |
| The Leopard | Guiseppe di Lampedusa |
| The once and future King | T.H. White |
| The woman who walked into doors | Roddy Doyle |
| These is my words: The diary of Sara Agnes Prine | Nancy Turner |
| These old shades | Georgette Heyer |
| Three men in a boat | Jerome K. Jerome |
| Three to get deadly | Janet Evanovich |
| Tim | Colleen McCullough |
| Tree of man | Patrick White |
| True history of the Kelly Gang | Peter Carey |
| Tulip fever | Deborah Moggach |
| Tully | Paullina Simons |
| War and peace | Leo Tolstoy |
| Watchers | Dean Koontz |
| Waterlog: a swimmer's journey through Britain | Roger Deakin |
| Wheel of Time - series | Robert Jordan |
| Wild Jasmine | Bertrice Small |
| Wild surmise | Dorothy Porter |
| Wild swans: Three daughters of China | Jung Chang |
| Wilt | Tom Sharpe |
| Windmill Hill | Michael Jacobson |
| Year of wonders | Geraldine Brooks |
| Title | Author |
| Angel Tree | Alex Dingwall-Main |
| Blood Money: The Incredible True Story of David Morris and the tragedy of Somalia | Trisha Stratford |
| Campaigns of Alexander | Arrian |
| Cook's Companion | Stephanie Alexander |
| Cry of the Damaged Man | Tony Moore |
| Desert Flower | Waris Dirie |
| Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1923 | Franz Kafka |
| Diary of Virginia Woolf (5 vols) | Virginia Woolf |
| Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage | Alfred Lansing |
| Englishwoman's Kitchen | Tamasin Day-Lewis |
| Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Hunter S. Thompson |
| A Fortunate Life | A.B. Facey |
| From Strength to Strength: an Autobiography | Sara Henderson |
| From the Holy Mountain: a Journey in the Shadows of Byzantium | William Dalrymple |
| Gardens in Australia | Edna Walling |
| Holy Cow : an Indian adventure | Sarah MacDonald |
| I Dreamed of Africa | Kuki Gallman |
| If Only They Could Talk | James Herriot |
| If this is a man | Primo Levi |
| Jane Grigson's Fruit Book | Jane Grigson |
| Lasseter's Diary | Harold Lasseter |
| Luminous Bodies (poetry) | James Charlton |
| Mosaic: a chronicle of five generations | Diane Armstrong |
| My Family And Other Animals | Gerald Durrell |
| Never Tell Me Never | Janine Sheperd |
| Notes From a Small Island | Bill Bryson |
| Papillon | Henri Charriere |
| Queen of the elephants | Mark Shand |
| Quest for the Rose | Roger Phillips |
| Ripening Sun | Patricia Atkinson |
| Rose Boys | Peter Rose |
| Rwanda crisis 1959-1994: History of a genocide | Gerard Prunier |
| Self matters: helping you create your life from the inside out | Phillip C. McGraw |
| Song of the Dodo : Island biogeography in an age of extinctions | David Quammen |
| Sylvie and Bruno | Lewis Carroll |
| Symply too good to be true Vol 3 | Annette Sym |
| That perfect stitch | Roxanne McElroy |
| The most offending soul alive: Tom Harrison and his remarkable life | Judith M. Heimann |
| Triumph of the nomads | Geoffrey Blainey |
| Twopence to cross the Mersey | Helen Forrester |
| Unequal protection: The rise of corporate dominance and the theft of human rights | Thom Hartmann |
| Up the duff | Kaz Cooke |
| Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance | Robert Pirsig |
| Zen flesh, Zen bones: a collection of Zen and Pre-Zen writings | Paul Reps & Nyogen Senaki |
| Title | Author |
| Alice In Wonderland | Lewis Carroll |
| All the Mowgli Stories | Rudyard Kipling |
| Anne of Green Gables series | L.M. Montgomery |
| Bears don't bounce! | Jackie French |
| Cold Comfort Farm | Stella Gibbons |
| Derek the Dinosaur | Mary Blackwood |
| Dream Days | Kenneth Grahame |
| Golden Age | Kenneth Grahame |
| From the mixed up files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler | E.L. Konigsburg |
| Grandma Cadbury's series | Dianne Bates |
| Green eggs and Ham | Dr Seuss |
| Harry Potter series | J.K. Rowling |
| The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| House at Pooh Corner | A.A. Milne |
| Hubert's Hair-Raising Adventure | Bill Peet |
| Lady Lupin's Book of Etiquette | Babette Cole |
| Leg at Each Corner | Norman Thelwell |
| Little Women | Louisa May Alcott |
| Love You Forever | Robert Munsch/Sheila McGraw |
| Magic Hat | Mem Fox |
| Obernewtyn | Isobelle Carmody |
| Over Sea, Under Stone | Susan Cooper |
| Pat the Cat and Sailor Sam | Margaret Wild |
| Phoenix and the Carpet | E. Nesbit |
| Playing Beatie Bow | Ruth Park |
| Possum magic | Mem Fox |
| Seven little Australians | Ethel Turner |
| Snugglepot and Cuddlepie | May Gibbs |
| The great Gilly Hopkins | Katherine Paterson |
| The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe | C.S. Lewis |
| The little prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
| There's a hippopotamus on our roof eating cake | Hazel Edwards |
| Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Twits | Roald Dahl |
| Velveteen rabbit | Margery Williams |
| Watership down | Richard Adams |
| Wind in the willows | Kenneth Grahame |
| Wombat divine | Mem Fox |
