Summer Reading
December 2013
Here at The Melbourne Review we asked a selection of friends to guide us through 2013’s output with an eye to the summer months ahead. We urge you to give books generously – now or at any time, and to support our local publishing industry.
MICHELLE GALLAHER
CEO, BioMelbourne Network
Best of 2013
• Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Vintage)
• Kerry Anne Walsh, The Stalking of Julia Gillard (A&U)
• Michelle de Kretser, The Lost Dog (A&U)
Summer Reading
• Gerald Murnane, A Lifetime on Clouds (Text Classics)
• Hannah Kent, Burial Rites (Picador)
• Christos Tsiolkas, Barracuda (A&U)
ANNA KRIEN
Author, Night Games (Black Inc.)
Best of 2013
• Alexis Wright, The Swan Book (Giramondo)
• Laura Jean McKay, Holiday in Cambodia (Black Inc.)
• JM Coetzee, The Childhood of Jesus (Text Publishing)
Summer Reading
• John Safran, Murder in Mississippi (Penguin)
• Chris Womersley, Cairo (Scribe)
• Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge (Simon & Schuster)
ANTONY LOEWENSTEIN
Author, Profits of Doom (MUP)
Best of 2013
• Jeremy Scahill, Dirty Wars (A&U)
• Breaking the Silence, Our Harsh Logic (Scribe)
• Joe Sacco, The Great War (Random House)
Summer Reading
• Max Blumenthal, Goliath (Nation Books)
• George Orwell, 1984 (Penguin)
• Kooshyar Karimi, I Confess (Wild Dingo Press)
JILL STARK
Author, High Sobriety (Scribe)
Best of 2013
• David Finkel, Thank You For Your Service (Scribe)
• Hannah Kent, Burial Rites (Picador)
• Hugh Mackay, The Good Life (Pan Macmillan)
Summer Reading
• John Safran, Murder in Mississippi (Penguin)
• Ian Rankin, Saints of the Shadow Bible (Orion)
• M.E. Thomas, Confessions of a Sociopath (Pan Macmillan)
KIRSTIE CLEMENTS
Author, The Vogue Factor and Tongue in Chic (MUP)
Best of 2013
• Kevin Kwan, Crazy Rich Asians (A&U)
• Robert Hilburn, Johnny Cash – The Life (Hachette)
• Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl (Hachette)
Summer Reading
• Jimmy Nelson, Before They Pass Away (TeNeues)
• Giancarlo Giametti, Private (Assouline)
• Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre, The Ruins of Detroit (Steidl)
KRISSY KNEEN
Author, Steeplechase (Text Publishing)
Best of 2013
• Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend (Text Publishing)
• David Vann, Goat Mountain (Text Publishing)
• Chris Somerville, We Are Not the Same Anymore (UQP)
Summer Reading
• Kristina Olsson, Boy, Lost (UQP)
• Ashley Hay, The Railwayman’s Wife (A&U)
• Susan Johnson, My Hundred Lovers (Random House)
ROBERT MANNE
Emeritus Professor at La Trobe University
Best of 2013
• David Nirenberg, Anti-Judaism (Head of Zeus)
• Saul Friedlander, Franz Kafka (Yale University Press)
• Clive Hamilton, Earthmasters (A&U)
Summer Reading
• Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Vintage)
• Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family: My Struggle, 1 (Vintage)
• Bill McKibben, Oil and Honey (Black Inc.)
CHRIS WOMERSLEY
Author, Bereft and Cairo (Scribe)
Best of 2013
• Donna Tartt, The Goldfi nch (Little, Brown)
• Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries (Granta)
• Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms (Penguin)
Summer reading
• Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah (Penguin Classics)
• Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time of Gifts (John Murray)
• Lenny Bartulin, Infamy (A&U)
ALASTAIR LUCAS
Company Director and Writer
Best of 2013
• Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow, The Grand Design (Random House)
• Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs (Little, Brown)
• Peter Singer, Animal Liberation (HarperPerennial)
Summer Reading
• John Heilemann & Mark Halperin, Game Change (HarperPerennial)
• Frans de Waal, The Bonobo and the Atheist (W.W. Norton)
• Peter Boghossian, A Manual for Creating Atheists (Pitchstone Publishing)
MICHAEL ROWLAND
Co-presenter, ABC News Breakfast
Best of 2013
• Mark Willacy, Fukushima (Pan Macmillan)
• David Day, Flaws in the Ice (Scribe)
• Colleen Ryan, Fairfax: The Rise and Fall (MUP)
Summer Reading
• Tim Winton, Eyrie (Hamish Hamilton)
• Ricky Ponting, At the Close of Play (HarperCollins)
• Bill Bryson, One Summer (Random House)
BYRON GEORGE
Designer and architect
Best of 2013
• Patti Smith, Just Kids (Bloomsbury)
• Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Random House)
• Bill Bryson, At Home (Double Day)
Summer Reading
• Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (HarperCollins)
• Jonah Lehrer, Imagine: The Art & Science of Creativity (Text Publishing)
• Haruki Murakami, After Dark (Random House)
ANGELA SAVAGE
Author, The Dying Beach (Text Publishing)
Best of 2013
• Hannah Kent, Burial Rites (Picador)
• Christos Tsiolkas, Barracuda (A&U)
• David Whish-Wilson, Zero at the Bone (Viking)
Summer Reading
• Laura Jean McKay, Holiday in Cambodia (Black Inc.)
• Amanda Curtin, Elemental (UWA)
• Garry Disher, Bitter Wash Road (Text Publishing)
KATE STOKES
Director, Coco Flip Design Studio
Best of 2013
• Johan Harstad, Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion? (UWA)
• Chloe Hooper, The Tall Man (Penguin)
• Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King (Hamish Hamilton)
Summer Reading
• Joan Didion, Blue Nights (Fourth Estate)
• Patti Smith, Just Kids (Bloomsbury)
• Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby (Granta)
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