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2012 Reading Hour

25 August 2012

2012 is the National Year of Reading.

PSMA Australia’s CEO Dan Paull was proud to be an ACT Reading Hour Champion, supporting Libraries ACT in promoting the benefits of reading for pleasure.

To support the 2012 Reading Hour on 25 August, the PSMA team developed the following list of our favourite fiction, non-fiction and children’s books—as well as a few that rocked our world!

Fiction

  • 1984 – George Orwell
  • Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
  • Breaking Dawn- Stephanie Meyer
  • Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister –  Gregory Maguire
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J K Rowlings
  • Ice Station  –  Matthew Reilly
  • Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
  • Millennium–trilogy by Stieg Larsson (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo etc)
  • Mr Golightly’s Holiday – Sally Vicker
  • Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
  • Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
  • Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett
  • PS I Love You – Cecelia Ahern
  • Shantaram –  Gregory David Roberts
  • The Alchemist – Paulo Coehlo
  • The Fog Garden – Marion Halligan
  • The Hand that First Held Mine – Maggie O’Farrell
  • The Help – Kathryn Stockett
  • The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
  • The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
  • The Memory Keeper’s Daughter – Kim Edwards
  • The Memory Keepers Daughter – Kim Edwards
  • The Road – Cormac McCarthy
  • The Tiger’s Wife – Téa Obreht
  • The True History of the Kelly Gang – Peter Carey
  • To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
  • Twilight – Stephanie Meyer
  • Two on a Tower, Thomas Hardy
  • Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel

Non–Fiction

  • A Room Of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf
  • Boomerang – Michael Lewis
  • Eat, Pray, Love – Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Lazarus Rising – John Howard
  • Mao’s Last Dancer – Li Cunxin
  • Mawson – Peter Fitzsimons
  • Me Cheeta, My Life in Hollywood – Cheeta
  • One Fourteenth of an elephant – Ian Denys Peek
  • One Way Road: The Autobiography of Robbie McEwen – Robbie McEwan
  • Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson
  • Stasiland – Anna Funder
  • The Adventure of Food: True Stories of Eating Everything –, Richard Sterling (ed)
  • The Art of the Soluble – P B Medawar
  • The Cook’s Companion – Stephanie Alexander
  • The Diary of Anne Frank – Anne Frank
  • The Gangster We Were All Looking For – Le Thi Diem Thuy
  • The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East – Robert Fisk
  • The Happiest Refugee: My Journey From Tragedy To Comedy – Anh Do
  • The Places in Between – Rory Stewart
  • The poems of Robert Service
  • The Women’s Weekly Children’s Birthday Cake Book
  • The Worst Date Ever – Jane Bussmann

Children’s

  • 365 days January – Gabrielle Lord
  • Allie Finkles: Rules for girls, the new girl – Meg Cabot
  • Belinda the Cow – Pamela Allen
  • Brown Bear, Brown Bear – What Do You See, Eric Carle
  • Charilie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
  • Conspiracy 365 book series – Gabrielle Lord
  • Eloise – Kay Thompson
  • Harry the Dirty Dog – Gene Zion
  • James and the Giant Peach – Roald Dahl
  • Lila Pirate –, Georgie Birkett
  • Nancy Drew Series – Carolyn Keene
  • Oh Dear – Rod Campbell
  • Old Pig – Margaret Wild
  • Playing Beatie Bow – Ruth Park
  • Possum Magic – Mem Fox
  • Rupert The Bear – Stuart Trotter
  • Say Please Louise – Phil Roxbee Cox
  • Seven Little Australians – Ethel Turner
  • Skulduggery Pleasant Series – Derek Landy (10–14 age group)
  • The diary of Meine Martin – Carol Waston
  • The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster
  • The Silver Sword – Ian Serraillier
  • The Tiger Who Came to Tea – Judith Kerr
  • The Witches – Roald Dahl
  • Who Sank the Boat? – Pamela Allen

Books that rocked our world

  • In Patagonia – Bruce Chatwin
  • Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You: A Guide to the Universe!  – Marcus Chown
  • Tell Me No Lies– John Pilger (ed)
  • The Harry Potter Series – J K Rowlings
  • Why Do We Do What We Do – Edward L Deci & Richard Flaste