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Books
for the University Bound and Lifelong Learners
Thanks
to Pat Pledger,
Information Officer,Commonwealth Government Education Portal,
educationportal@educationau.edu.au,
for granting permission to publish this list she compiled with the
assistance of OZTL_NETTERS.
Pat
originally wrote to Teacher/librarians around Australia :
"I recently came across a site called Outstanding
Books for the College Bound
and Lifelong learners
from the ALA. It can be found at http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklists/obcb/fiction.html
What books do you think would be included on an Australian list?"
| Fiction |
|
| Atwood,
Margaret |
The
blind assassin |
| Atwood,
Margaret |
The
handmaid's tale |
| Austen,
Jane |
Persuasion |
| Austen,
Jane |
Pride
and prejudice |
| Bradbury, Ray |
Fahrenheit
451 |
| Brooks,
Geraldine |
Year
of wonder |
| Byatt,
A.S |
Possession |
| Carey,
Peter |
The
true history of the Kelly gang |
| Cato,
Nancy |
All
the Rivers Run |
| Charnas,
Suzy Mckee |
Walk
to the end of the world or Motherlines |
| Chen,
Da |
Colors
of the mountain |
| Carey,
Peter |
Oscar
and Lucinda |
| Clavell,
James |
Shogun |
| Courtenay,
Bryce |
Smoky
Joe's Café |
| Cusack,
Dymphna James,Florence |
Come
in Spinner |
| Dante |
The
Divine Comedy |
| Facey,
A. B |
A
fortunate life |
| Fitzgerald,
F. Scott |
The
great Gatsby |
| Forrester,
Helen |
Twopence
To Cross The Mersey |
| Fowles,
John |
The
Magus or Daniel Martin or The Collector |
| Frazier,
Charles |
Cold
Mountain |
| Gaines,
Edward |
A
lesson before dying |
| Garland,
Alex |
The
Beach |
| Goldsworthy,
Peter |
Wish |
| Goldsworthy,
Peter |
Little
deaths |
| Greene,
Grahame |
The
heart of the matter |
| Greer,
Germaine |
The
female eunuch |
| Harris,
Thomas |
Silence
of the lambs |
| Heller,
Joseph |
Catch-22 |
| Hemingway,
Ernest |
Farewell
to arms |
| Herbert,
Frank |
Dune |
| Hesse,
Hermann |
Siddhartto |
| Hughes,
Robert |
The
fa tal shore |
| Hulme,
Keri |
The
bone people |
| Huxley,
Aldous |
Brave
new world |
| Idriess,
Ion |
Lasseter's
Last Ride |
| Ishiguro,
Kazuo |
The
remains of the day |
| Jinks,
Catherine |
Pagan
series |
| Kelleher,
Victor |
Taronga |
| Keneally,
Thomas |
Schindlers
list |
| Kesey,
Ken |
One
flew over the cuckoo's nest |
| Lawson,
Henry |
While
the billy boils |
| Lee,
Harper |
To
kill a mockingbird |
| Le
Guinn Ursula |
The
left hand of darkness |
| Lengyel,
Olga |
Five
Chimneys |
| Lindsay,
Joan |
Picnic
at Hanging Rock |
| Locke
Elliott, Sumner |
Careful
he might hear you |
| Marsden,
John |
Tomorrow
series |
| Marchetta,
Melina |
Looking
for Alibrandi |
| McCaffrey,
Anne |
Dragonsong
and others |
| McCarthy,
Maureen |
Queen
Kat, Carmel and St Jude |
| McCourt,
Frank |
Angela's
Ashes |
| McEwan,
Ian |
Atonement |
| McEwan,
Ian |
Enduring
Love |
| McKinley,
Robin |
Beauty
(or any title) |
| Mistry,
Rohinton |
A
fine balance |
| Monsarrat,
Nicholas |
The
Kapillan of Malta |
| Morgan,
Sally |
My
place |
| Morrison,
Toni |
The
bluest eye |
| McCullough,
Colleen |
The
Thorn Birds |
| Nasar,
Sylvia |
A
Beautiful Mind |
| Niland,
Darcy |
The
S hiralee |
| Okri,
Ben |
The
Famished road |
| Orwell,
George |
Animal
farm |
| Orwell,
George |
1984 |
| Park,
Ruth |
Poor
man's orange |
| Proulx,
E.Annie |
Accordion
Crimes |
| Remarque,
Erich Maria |
All
quiet on the Western Front |
| Richardson,
Henry Handel |
The
fortunes of Richard Mahony |
| Rowling,
J. K |
Harry
Potter series |
| Roy,
Arundhati |
The
God of Small Things |
| Salinger,
J.D. |
Catcher
in the rye |
| Seth,
Vikram |
A
Suitable Boy |
| Sholokhov,
Mikhail |
Quiet
Flows The Don/The Don Flows To The Sea |
| Shute,
Nevil |
A
town like Alice |
| Spence,
Catherine Helen |
Clara
Morrison |
| Steinbeck,
John |
The
grapes of wrath |
| Steinbeck,
John |
Of
mice and men |
| Suskind,
Patrick |
Perfume |
| Swift,
Graham |
Waterland |
| Tepper,
Sherri |
The
gate to women's country |
| Tolkien,
J.R.R. |
The
Hobbit |
| Tolkien,
J.R.R. |
Lord
of the rings |
| Tolstoy,
Leo |
Anna
Karenina |
| Turner, Ethel |
Seven
little Australians |
| Turner-Hospital,
Janet |
The
Ivory Swing (or others) |
| Vonnegut,
Kurt |
Slaughterhouse
five |
| Walker,
Alice |
The
colour purple |
| Ward,
G. |
Wandering
girl |
| Waugh,
Evelyn |
Brideshead
revisited |
| West, Morris |
Devil's
Advocate et al/ |
| White,
E.B. |
Charlotte's
web |
| White,
Patrick |
Tree
of man |
| Winton,
Tim |
Cloudstreet |
| Winton,
Tim |
Dirt
music |
| Non
Fiction |
|
| Chang,
Jung |
Wild
Swans |
| Courtenay,
Bryce |
April
fool's day |
| Donaghy,
Bronwyn |
Anna's
Story |
| Farmaian,
Sattareh Farman |
Daughter
of Persia |
| Holborow,
Barbara |
Those
Tracks on my Face |
| Picciotto,
Richard |
Last
Man Down |
| Shepherd,
Janine |
Dare
to Fly |
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December 2003
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