Rohan Alexander

Inspired by Patrick Collison's version, this is a list of the books that Monica and I own. If you have recommendations, then please get in touch. I usually only keep books that I like, but books with a * are ones either Monica or I especially like.

Non-fiction

Huyen, Chip, "AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models".
Gold, Alex, "DevOps for Data Science".
Cantwell Smith, Brian, "The Promise of Artificial Intelligence".
*Alammar, Jay, and Maarten Grootendorst, "Hands-On Large Language Models".
*Lewis, Crystal, "Data Management in Large-Scale Education Research".
Ball, Philip, "How Life Works".
Huyen, Chip, "Designing Machine Learning Systems".
Wickham, Hadley, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, and Garrett Grolemund, "R for Data Science" [2e].
Zuckerman, Gregory, "The Man Who Solved the Market".
Petzold, Charles, "Code" [2e]
McKinney, Wes, "Python for Data Analysis" [3e]
Issenberg, Sasha, "The Lie Detectives".
Alexander, Rohan, "Telling Stories with Data".
Bouk, Dan, "Democracy's Data".
von Werra, Leandro, Lewis Tunstall, and Thomas Wolf, "Natural Language Processing with Transformers".
Sturge, Georgina, "Bad Data".
Wong, Wendy, "We, The Data".
Pearl, Judea, "The Book of Why".
Efron, Bradley, and Trevor Hastie, "Computer Age Statistical Inference".
Westfall, Peter, and Andrea Arias, "Understanding Regression Analysis".
Otis, Jessica, "By the Numbers".
Mukherjee, Siddhartha, "The Gene".
Nystrom, Robert, "Crafting Interpreters".
Canfield, Michael, (ed) "Field Notes on Science & Nature".
Oliphant, Elayne, "The Privilege of Being Banal".
James, Gareth, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, and Rob Tibshirani, "An Introduction to Statistical Learning" [2e]
Kuhn, Max and Julia Silge, "Tidy Modeling with R".
Hvitfeldt, Emil, and Julia Silge, "Supervised Machine Learning for Text Analysis in R".
Wickham, Hadley, "Advanced R" [2e]
Johnson, Alicia, Miles Ott, and Mine Dogucu, "Bayes Rules!".
*Timbers, Tiffany, Trevor Campbell, and Melissa Lee, "Data Science: A First Introduction".
Ginard, Ryan, "Future Philanthropy".
Grimmer, Justin, Margaret Roberts, and Brandon Stewart, "Text as Data".
Newham, Cameron, Bill Rosenblatt, "Learning the bash Shell".
Wickham, Hadley, "Mastering Shiny".
Gillispie, Charles, "The Edge of Objectivity".
Ashworth, Scott, Christopher Berry, and Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, "Theory and Credibility".
Bueno de Mesquita, Ethan, and Anthony Fowler, "Thinking Clearly with Data".
Irving, Damien, Kate Hertweck, Luke Johnston, Joel Ostblom, Charlotte Wickham, and Greg Wilson, "Research Software Engineering with Python".
Huntington-Klein, Nick, "The Effect".
Cunningham, Scott, "Causal Inference: The Mixtape".
Stigler, Stephen, "The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom".
Lockhart, Paul, "Measurement".
*Morange, Michel, "A History of Biology".
*Stigler, Stephen, "The History of Statistics".
Wainer, Howard, and Michael Friendly, "A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication".
Porter, Theodore, "The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900".
Stigler, Stephen, "Statistics on the Table".
Gil, Elad, "The High Growth Handbook".
Hughes Johnson, Claire, "Scaling People".
Bremer, Nadieh, and Shirley Wu, "Data Sketches".
Rendgen, Sandra, "The Minard System".
Hamming, Richard, "The Art of Doing Science and Engineering".
Kimmerer, Robin Wall, "Braiding Sweetgrass".
Crawford, Kate, "Atlas of AI".
D'Ignazio, Catherine, and Lauren Klein, "Data Feminism".
Whitby, Andrew, "The Sum of the People".
Juavinett, Ashley, "So You Want to Be a Neuroscientist?".
Zinsser, William, "On Writing Well".
McPhee, John, "Draft No. 4".
Lamott, Anne, "Bird by Bird".
*King, Stephen, "On Writing".
Forster, Edward Morgan, "Aspects of the Novel".
Hemingway, Ernest, "On Writing
Strunk, William, and Elwyn Brooks White, "The Elements of Style".
Hayot, Eric, "The Elements of Academic Style".
*Caro, Robert, "Working".
Robinson, Emily, and Jacqueline Nolis, "Build a Career in Data Science".
Healy, Kieran, "Data Visualization".
Cleveland, William, "The Elements of Graphing Data".
Larson, Will, "An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management".
Eghbal, Nadia, "Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software".
Kohavi, Ron, Diane Tang, and Ya Xu, "Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments".
Wilkerson, Isabel, "Caste".
Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda, "The Disordered Cosmos".
*Wilson, Greg, "Teaching Tech Together".
Teate, Renee, "SQL for Data Scientists".
Arel-Bundock, Vincent, "Analyse causale et méthodes quantitatives".
Taback, Nathan, "Design and Analysis of Experiments".
Beaton, Kate, "Ducks".
Miller, Chris, "Chip War".
Rebanks, James, "Pastoral Song".
*Rebanks, James, "The Shepherd's Life".
*Macdonald, Helen, "H is for Hawk".
*Kellaway, Lucy, "Re-educated".
Mears, Ashley, "Very Important People".
Loftus, Peter, "The Messenger".
Zuckerman, Gregory, "A Shot to Save the World".
*Gelman, Andrew, Jennifer Hill, and Aki Vehtari, "Regression and Other Stories".
Wu, Changbao, and Mary Thompson, "Sampling Theory and Practice".
*Lohr, Sharon, "Sampling: Design and Analysis" [2e].
Imai, Kosuke, "Quantitative Social Science".
*Light, Richard, Judith Singer, and John Willett, "By Design: Planning Research on Higher Education".
*Glennerster, Rachel, and Kudzai Takavarasha, "Running Randomized Evaluations".
*McElreath, Richard, "Statistical Rethinking".
*Carreyrou, John, "Bad Blood".
Hochschild, Arlie Russell, "Strangers in Their Own Land".
Trump, Donald, and Tony Schwartz, "The Art of the Deal".
Turnbull, Malcolm, "A Bigger Picture".
*Hastie, Trevor, Robert Tibshirani, and Jerome Friedman, "Elements of Statistical Learning".
McLean, Ian, "Why Australia Prospered".
Clark, Greg, "The Son Also Rises".
*James, Gareth, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, Rob Tibshirani, "Introduction to Statistical Learning", [1e]. Going through this with Peter Gibbard taught me a lot including: 1) if you want to learn something then buy a physical copy of a textbook, get a partner and commit to weekly chapter reviews; 2) learn statistics from statisticians; and 3) statistics is awesome and I want to learn more. I always thought that I was terrible at it because econometrics never came easily to me, but now I realise that maybe the econometrics-approach isn't for me, but the statistics one is.
*Wickham, Hadley and Garrett Grolemund, "R for Data Science" [1e]. Some people convert to Catholicism when they get married, I converted to R. But my knowledge was piecemeal and going through this book addressed that.
Cheese Board Collective, "The Cheese Board Collective Works".
*Wormser, Baron, "The Road Washes out in Spring". Stayed at the author's house, so bought some of his books and particularly liked this one about how his family lived off the grid in New England. Liked it even better after living in Amherst for a while.
Achatz, Grant, and Nick Kokonas, "Life, On the Line".
Tufte, Edward, "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information". I went to a two-day workshop of his while we were living in Chicago for a summer and got given all Tufte's books.
Tufte, Edward, "Beautiful Evidence".
Tufte, Edward, "Visual Explanations".
Tufte, Edward, "Envisioning Information".
Simmons, Bill, "The Book of Basketball".
Jay Z, "Decoded".
*Agassi, Andre, "Open". Tennis is incidental to the aspects that make this book great, so try it even if you don't particularly like the sport. I can't remember who recommended it -- seems like a Nick Crocker type of book?
Humphrey, Luke, "Hansons Marathon Method".
Humphrey, Luke, "Hansons Half-Marathon Method".
Jurek, Scott, "Eat & Run".
Dugas, Jonathan, Matt Fitzgerald, and Ross Tucker, "Runner's World: The Runner's Body".
NT News, "What a Croc!".
*Vanhoenacker, Mark, "Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot".
*Gelman Andrew and Jennifer Hill, "Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models".
Wasserman, Larry, "All of Statistics".
Wachter, Kenneth, "Essential Demographic Methods".
Quetelet, Adolphe, "A treatise on man and the development of his faculties".
*Pitman, Jim, "Probability".
Levingston, Jessica, "Founders at Work".
Harnish, Verne, "Mastering the Rockefeller Habits".
*Foer, Joshua, "Moonwalking with Einstein". Oddly enough you can train yourself to be able to memorize anything.
Broughton, Philip, "The Art of the Sale".
Kilcullen, David, "Blood Year".
Acemoglu, Daron and James Robinson, "Why Nations Fail".
Singer, Peter, "Animal Liberation".
Lieven, Anatol, "Pakistan: A Hard Country".
Murray, Williamson, "The Making of Strategy: Rulers, States, and War".
Michell, John, "How the World is Made: The Story of Creation According to Sacred Geometry".
Jones, Chris, "Applied Welfare Economics".
Stiglitz, Joseph, "The Price of Inequality".
Trippi, Joe, "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised".
Crabb, Annabel, "Stop at Nothing".
Fletcher, Paul, "Wired Brown Land".
Page, John Hyde, "The Education of a Young Liberal".
Jones, Dylan, "Cameron on Cameron".
Elliott, Francis and James Hanning, "Cameron".
Levenson Thomas, "Newton and the Counterfeiter".
Baudelaire, Charles, "Flowers of Evil and Other Works".
Cochran, William, "Sampling Techniques".
Hitchens, Christopher, "Hitch-22".
Fauvel, John, Raymond Flood, and Robin Wilson (eds), "Music and Mathematics".
Finlay, Victoria, "Colour".
Beckmann, Petr, "A History of Pi".
Hofstadter, Douglas, "I am a Strange Loop".
Ferguson, Kitty, "Pythagoras".
Bender, Jonathan, "Lego: A Love Story".
Ross, Sheldon, "Introduction to Probability Models".
Boyer, Carl (revised by Uta Merzbach), "A History of Mathematics".
Kudelka, Jon, "Hobart".
Stewart, James, "Calculus".
Grist, John and Maria, "The Romance of Mount Wellington".
Clemens, Mark, "The Mountain".
Gee, Helen and Janet Fenton, (eds) "The South-West Book".
Angus, Max, "The World of Olegas Truchanas".
Parsons, Nola, "Drawn to the Mountain".
Dennison, C. J., "Yesterday's Hobart Today".
Bennett, Richard, "South West Tasmania".
Bennett, Richard "Islands of Tasmania".
Charlton, Andrew, "Ozonomics".
Bell, Stephen, "Australia's Money Mandarins".
Cornish, Selwyn, "The Evolution of Central Banking in Australia".
Bueno de Mesquita, Bruce, "The Predictioneer's Game".
Pedahzur, Ami, "The Israeli Secret Services and the Struggle Against Terrorism".
Ferguson, Niall, "The House of Rothschild".
Plouffe, David, "The Audacity to Win".
*Remnick, David, "The Bridge".
Obama, Barack, "A Promised Land".
*Ignatieff, Michael, "Fire and Ashes".
De Botton, Alain, "The Art of Travel".
Lewis, Michael, "The Big Short".
Gelman, Andrew, "Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State".
Issenberg, Sasha, "The Victory Lab".
Nagel, Ernest, and James Newman, "Gödel's Proof".
Swafford, Jan, "Johannes Brahms".
Ridley, Matt, "Nature via Nurture".
Zinsser, William, "On Writing Well".
Lonely Planet, "East Africa".
Euripides, "The Bacchae and other plays".
Brown, Lester, "Plan B: Rescuing a Planet and a Civilization in Trouble".
*Petzold, Charles, "Code" [1e].
Heilbroner, Robert, "The Worldly Philosophers".
Gawande, Atul, "Complications".
Gawande, Atul, "Better".
Sachs, Jeffrey, "Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet".
Venkatesh, Sudhir, "Gang Leader for a Day".
Becker, Gary, "The Economic Approach to Human Behavior".
Arrow, Kenneth, "Social Choice and Individual Values".
Levitt, Steven, and Stephen Dubner, "Freakonomics".
Schelling, Thomas, "Micromotives and Macrobehavior".
Schelling, Thomas, "The Strategy of Conflict".
Myerson, Roger, "Game Theory".
Nasar, Sylvia, "A Beautiful Mind".
Klein, Gary, "Sources of Power".
De Botton, Alain, "Essays in Love".
Levy, Steven, "In the Plex".
Saville, Margot, "The Battle for Bennelong".
Jackman, Christine, "Inside Kevin 07".
Taylor, Lenore, and David Uren, "Shitstorm".
Clason, George, "The Richest Man in Babylon".
Singh, Simon, "Fermat's Last Theorem".
Gleick, James, "Genius".
Appiah, Kwame, "Thinking it Through".
Cloud, David, and Greg Jaffe, "The Fourth Star".
Fick, Nathaniel, "One Bullet Away".
Junger, Sebastian, "War".
Hennessey, Patrick, "The Junior Officers' Reading Club".
Kilcullen, David, "The Accidental Guerrilla".
Masters, Chris, "Uncommon Soldier".
Simpson, Emile, "War from the Ground Up".
Bush, George W, "Decision Points".
Howard, John, "Lazarus Rising".
Turnbull, Malcolm, "The Reluctant Republic".
Turnbull, Malcolm, "Fighting for the Republic".
ACGS "The Viking 2003".
ACGS "The Viking 2002".
ACGS "The Viking 2001".
ACGS "The Viking 2000".
ACGS "The Viking 1999".
Cole, John R., "The Making of Men".
McBratney, Sam, "Guess How Much I Love You".
Taylor, Mark, "Time to Declare".
Chrétien, Jean, "My Years as Prime Minister".
Hafner, Katie, "Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet".
Clinton, Bill, "My Life".
Stephanopoulos, George, "All Too Human: A Political Education". I thought that politics was romantic until I read this book when I was 20. Oddly it just made me want to be more involved in politics.
Harris, John, "The Survivor".
Maraniss, David, "First in His Class".
Shrum, Robert, "No Excuses".
Kelly, Paul, "The March of Patriots".
Edwards, John, "Keating: The Inside Story".
Holden, Anthony, "King Charles III".
Lewis, Michael, "Liar's Poker".
*Vaughan, Diane, "The Challenger Launch Decision".
Remnick, David, "Lenin's Tomb".
*Cramer, Richard Ben, "What It Takes: The Way to the White House".
Mulroney, Brian, "Memoirs".
Sisman, Adam "John le Carré: The Biography".
Herman, Edward S., and Noam Chomsky, "Manufacturing Consent".
Malone, Michael, "The Big Score".
Turnbull, Malcolm, "The Spycatcher Trial".
Moore, Charles, "Margaret Thatcher".
Thatcher, Margaret, "Autobiography".
Moore, Charles, "Margaret Thatcher: Volume One: Not for Turning".
Hawke, Bob, "The Hawke Memoirs".
d'Alpuget, Blanche, "Robert J Hawke".
Fraser, Malcolm and Margaret Simons "Malcolm Fraser".
Hayden, Bill, "Hayden: An Autobiography".
Trudeau, Pierre, "Memoirs".
Ogilvy, David "Ogilvy on Advertising".
Friedman, Milton, "Free to Choose: A Personal Statement".
Hayek, Friedrich, "The Fatal Conceit".
Dawkins, Richard, "The Selfish Gene".
*Tukey, John, "Exploratory Data Analysis".
Halberstam, David, "The Breaks of the Game".
*Remnick, David, "King of the World".
Waldrop, Mitchell, "The Dream Machine".
Nixon, Richard, "The Memoirs of Richard Nixon".
Yergin, Daniel, "The Prize".
*Wolfe, Tom, "The Right Stuff".
Mindell, David, "Digital Apollo".
Fishman, Charles, "One Giant Leap".
Sorensen, Theodore, "Kennedy".
Schlesinger, Arthur M., "A Thousand Days".
*Halberstam, David, "The Best and the Brightest". I read Plato's Republic at an impressionable age and so I used to think that if we could just put the smart people in charge then the 'right' decisions would be made. This book cured me of that.
White, Theodore, "The Making of the President 1960".
Orwell, George, "Critical Essays".
Feynman, Richard, "What do you care what other people think".
Goodstein, David, and Judith Goodstein, "Feynman's Lost Lecture".
Dyson, Freeman, "Disturbing the Universe".
Frank, Anne, "The Diary of a Young Girl".
Levi, Primo, "If This Is a Man".
Dyson, George, "Turing's Cathedral".
*Rhodes, Richard, "The Making of the Atomic Bomb".
*Ulam, Stanisław, "Adventures of a Mathematician".
*Jenkins, Roy, "Churchill: A Biography".
Nehru, Jawaharlal, "The Discovery of India".
Worsley, Lucy, "Agatha Christie".
*Yandell, Ben, "The Honors Class".
Strachey, Lytton, "Biographical Essays".
Durant, Will, "The Story of Philosophy".
Thomas, Henry, and Dana Lee Thomas, "Great Philosophers". This was my grandmother's.
McColley, Grant (ed), "Literature and Science".
Keynes, John Maynard, "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money".
*Keynes, John Maynard, "The Economic Consequences of the Peace".
*Harrod, Roy "The Life of John Maynard Keynes".
*Skidelsky, Robert, "John Maynard Keynes".
Wheeler-Bennett, John, "King George VI: His Life and Reign".
Horne, Alistair, "Macmillan: 1894-1956".
Macmillan, Harold, "Winds of Change: 1914-1939".
Eade, Philip, "Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited".
Gaskell, Elizabeth, "The Life of Charlotte Brontë".
*Ziegler, Philip, "Mountbatten".
Russell, Bertrand, "The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell".
Doxiadis, Apostolos, and Christos Papadimitriou, "Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth".
Haldane, Aylmer, "The Insurrection in Mesopotamia, 1920".
Lawrence, Thomas Edward, "Revolt in the Desert".
Lawrence, Thomas Edward, "Seven Pillars of Wisdom".
Day, David, "John Curtin; A Life".
Butlin, Sydney James "Australia and New Zealand Bank".
Winchester, Simon, "The Alice behind Wonderland".
Mill, John Stuart, "On Liberty and other writings".
Kipling, Rudyard, "Poems".
Keats, John, "Poems".
St Aubyn, Giles, "Edward VII: Prince and King".
Woodman, Dorothy, "Himalayan Frontiers".
Yule, Henry, and Arthur Coke Burnell, "Hobson-Jobson".
Woodruff, Philip "The Men Who Ruled India".
Goodwin, Doris Kearns, "Team of Rivals".
Clausewitz, Carl von, "On War".
Clapham, John, "The Bank of England".
Jenkins, Roy, "Gladstone: A Biography".
Apjohn, Lewis, "William Ewart Gladstone: His Life and Times".
*Koerner, Lisbet, "Linnaeus: Nature and Nation".
Wulf, Andrea, "The Invention of Nature".
Snow, Peter, "To War with Wellington".
Bernard, Jack, "Talleyrand: A Biography".
Meacham, Jon, "Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power".
Tocqueville, Alexis, "Democracy in America".
Smith, Adam, "The Wealth of Nations".
Belloc, Hilaire, "Richelieu".
Ackroyd, Peter, "Shakespeare: The Biography".
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, "The History of England".
Friedrich, Markus, "The Jesuits: A History".
"The Bible".
Aurelius, Marcus, "Meditations".
Lane Fox, Robin, "Alexander the Great".

Fiction

Aesop, "Fables".
Amis, Kingsley, "Lucky Jim".
Amis, Kingsley, "The Crime of the Century".
Amis, Kingsley, "That Uncertain Feeling".
Armanno, Venero, "The Volcano".
Archer, Jeffrey, "Sons of Fortune".
Archer, Jeffrey, "Kane and Abel".
Austen, Jane, "Mansfield Park".
Austen, Jane, "Emma".
Banville, John, "The Sea".
Barbery, Muriel, "The Elegance of the Hedgehog".
Bellow, Saul, "The Adventures of Augie March".
Brontë, Anne, "Agnes Grey".
Brontë, Anne, "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall".
Brontë, Charlotte, "Jane Eyre".
Brontë, Charlotte, "Shirley".
Brontë, Charlotte, "The Professor".
Brontë, Charlotte, "Villette".
Brontë, Emily, "Wuthering Heights".
Bulgakov, Mikhail, "The Master and the Margarita".
Byatt, A. S., "Possession".
Camus, Albert, "Collected Fiction".
Carroll, Lewis, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland".
Carroll, Lewis, "Through the Looking Glass".
Carey, Peter, "The Tax Inspector".
Carey, Peter, "The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith".
Carey, Peter, "His Illegal Self".
Carey, Peter, "Illywhacker".
Carey, Peter, "Oscar and Lucinda".
Carey, Peter, "True History of the Kelly Gang".
Chandler, Raymond, "The High Window".
Chandler, Raymond, "The Lady in the Lake".
Chandler, Raymond, "The Long Goodbye".
Chaucer, Geoffrey, "The Canterbury Tales".
Chekhov, Anton, "Selected Stories". We are slightly over-indexed on old Russian authors thanks to a generous gift from Yanbo Tang when he left Toronto.
Conrad, Joseph, "Heart of Darkness".
Clancy, Tom, "Rainbow Six".
Clancy, Tom, "Executive Orders". "Borrowed" this from my uncle years ago!
Clarke, Marcus, "For the Term of His Natural Life". All Australians own a copy of this.
Christie, Agatha, "Poirot Investigates".
Christie, Agatha, "The Big Four".
Christie, Agatha, "The Seven Dials Mystery".
Christie, Agatha, "Partners in Crime".
Christie, Agatha, "The Mysterious Mr Quin".
Christie, Agatha, "Peril at End House".
Christie, Agatha, "Mr Parker Pyne, Detective".
Christie, Agatha, "Dead Man's Mirror".
Christie, Agatha, "Appointment with Death".
Christie, Agatha, "Easy to Kill".
Christie, Agatha, "The Sittaford Mystery".
Christie, Agatha, "Evil Under the Sun".
Christie, Agatha, "Murder in Retrospect".
Christie, Agatha, "The Hollow".
Christie, Agatha, "Witness for the Prosecution".
Christie, Agatha, "Murder on the Links".
Christie, Agatha, "Crooked House".
Christie, Agatha, "Ordeal by Innocence".
Christie, Agatha, "Cat Among the Pigeons".
Christie, Agatha, "Endless Night".
Christie, Agatha, "The Golden Ball and Other Stories".
Christie, Agatha, "Postern of Fate".
Christie, Agatha, "13 Clues for Miss Marple".
Christie, Agatha, "The Man in the Brown Suit".
Christie, Agatha, "By the Pricking of My Thumbs".
Christie, Agatha, "La dernière énigme".
Christie, Agatha, "Témoin à charge".
Christie, Agatha, "Unfinished Portrait".
Christie, Agatha, "A Daughter's a Daughter".
Christie, Agatha, "The Rose and the Yew Tree".
Christie, Agatha, Dorothy Sayers, and G K Chesterton, "The Floating Admiral".
Christie, Agatha, "And Then There Were None".
Christie, Agatha, "Curtain and Sleeping Murder".
Christie, Agatha, "Nemesis and The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side".
Christie, Agatha, "Elephants Can Remember".
Christie, Agatha, "Passenger to Frankfurt".
Christie, Agatha, "Third Girl".
Christie, Agatha, "The Mysterious Affair at Styles".
Christie, Agatha, "Starring Miss Marple".
Christie, Agatha, "Five Complete Hercule Poirot Novels".
Christie, Agatha, "Five Complete Novels".
Christie, Agatha, "Five Classic Murder Mysteries".
Christie, Agatha, "Nemesis".
Christie, Agatha, "The Clocks After the Funeral".
Christie, Agatha, "Miss Marple's Final Cases".
Christie, Agatha, "Sleeping Murder".
Christie, Agatha, "Nemesis".
Christie, Agatha, "Hallowe'en Party".
Christie, Agatha, "At Bertram's Hotel".
Christie, Agatha, "A Caribbean Mystery".
Christie, Agatha, "The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side".
Christie, Agatha, "4:50 From Paddington".
Christie, Agatha, "A Pocket Full of Rye".
Christie, Agatha, "They Do It With Mirrors".
Christie, Agatha, "A Murder Is Announced".
Christie, Agatha, "The Moving Finger".
Christie, Agatha, "The Thirteen Problems".
Christie, Agatha, "4:50 from Paddington and They Do It with Mirrors".
Christie, Agatha, "Taken at the Flood and Hickory Dickory Dock".
Christie, Agatha, "Mrs McGinty's Dead and The Labours of Hercules".
Christie, Agatha, "The Adventures of the Christmas Pudding and The Hound of Death".
de Cervantes, Miguel, "Don Quixote"
Crichton, Michael, "The Andromeda Strain".
Crichton, Michael, "Timeline".
Danielewski, Mark, "House of Leaves".
Davies, Robertson, "The Rebel Angels".
Davies, Robertson, "The Lyre of Orpheus".
DeLillo, Don, "White Noise".
Desai, Anita, "The Artist of Disappearance".
Desai, Kiran, "The Inheritance of Loss".
DeWitt, Helen, "Lightning Rods".
*DeWitt, Helen, "Some Trick".
*DeWitt, Helen, "The Last Samurai". Nothing to do with the Tom Cruise movie.
*DeWitt, Helen, "The English Understand Wool".
DeWitt, Helen, "Der Letzte Samurai".
DeWitt, Helen, "Le dernier samouraï".
Konstantinou, Lee, "The Last Samurai Reread".
Dickens, Charles, "Little Dorrit".
Dickens, Charles, "Our Mutual Friend".
Pope-Hennessy, Una "Charles Dickens".
Dickens, Charles, "A Tale of Two Cities".
Dickens, Charles, "Oliver Twist".
Dickens, Charles, "David Copperfield".
Dickens, Charles, "A Christmas Carol".
Dixon, Franklin, "Hardy Boys: The Tower Treasure".
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, "The Brothers Karamazov".
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, "The Idiot".
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, "The Double".
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, "Crime and Punishment".
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, "Notes from the Underground".
Doyle, Arthur Conan, "The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes".
Doyle, Arthur Conan, "Sherlock Holmes: Selected Stories".
Eco, Umberto, "The Name of the Rose".
Eliot, George, "Middlemarch".
Eliot, George, "The Mill on the Floss".
Eugenides, Jeffrey, "Middlesex".
Egan, Jennifer, "A Visit from the Goon Squad".
Earls, Nick, "After January".
Earls, Nick, "Perfect Skin".
Earls, Nick, "Bachelor Kisses".
Earls, Nick, "The True Story of Butterfish".
Earls, Nick, "48 Shades of Brown".
Earls, Nick, "Zigzag Street".
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, "The Little Prince".
Facey, A.B., "A Fortunate Life".
Frey, James, "My Friend Leonard".
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, "The Great Gatsby".
Forster, E.M., "A Passage to India".
Flaubert, Gustave, "Madame Bovary".
Flynn, Gillian, "Gone Girl".
Flanagan, Richard, "First Person". Present from Helen.
Fielding, Henry, "Tom Jones".
"The Greek Myths".
Galsworthy, John, "The Silver Spoon and Passers By".
Galsworthy, John, "The White Monkey and A Silent Wooing".
Galsworthy, John, "The Man of Property".
Galsworthy, John, "End of the Chapter".
Galsworthy, John, "Swan Song".
Galsworthy, John, "The Forsyth Saga".
Gaskell, Elizabeth, "North and South".
Garland, Alex, "The Beach".
Gibran, Kahlil, "The Prophet".
Girvin, Brenda, "The Lower Fourth".
Greene, Graham, "The Heart of the Matter".
Grisham, John, "The Pelican Brief".
Grisham, John, "The Runaway Jury".
Grisham, John, "The Street Lawyer".
Haddon, Mark, "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time".
Hamid, Mohsin, "The Reluctant Fundamentalist".
Hardy, Thomas, "Tess of the D'Urbervilles".
Haruf, Kent, "Plainsong".
Haruf, Kent, "Benediction".
Heller, Joseph, "Catch-22".
Heller, Joseph, "Something Happened".
Hesse, Hermann, "Siddhartha".
*Hesse, Hermann, "The Glass Bead Game".
Hornsby, Nick, "About a Boy".
Hugo, Victor, "Les Misérables".
*Ishiguro, Kazuo, "The Remains of the Day".
Ishiguro, Kazuo, "Never Let Me Go".
Ishiguro, Kazuo, "Nocturnes".
Ishiguro, Kazuo, "The Unconsoled".
James, Henry, "The Portrait of a Lady".
James, Henry, "The Bostonians".
"Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam".
Kipling, Rudyard, "The Jungle Book".
Kuang, R.F., "Babel".
Kurkov, Andrey, "Death and the Penguin".
Kwan, Kevin, "Crazy Rich Asians".
le Carré, John, "A Perfect Spy". Dad likes le Carré so I buy them when there's a nice edition.
le Carré, John, "Agent Running in the Field".
Lear, Edward, "Complete Nonsense".
Lahiri, Jhumpa, "The Lowland".
Lahiri, Jhumpa, "The Namesake".
Tomasi, Giuseppe, "The Leopard".
Kundera, Milan, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being".
Lawrence, D. H., "Lady Chatterly's Lover".
Leunig, Michael, "The Curly Pyjama Letters".
Levi, Primo, "The Periodic Table".
McDonald, Nick, "Twelve".
McCourt, Frank, "Angela's Ashes".
McEwan, Ian, "Atonement".
Maalouf, Amin, "Leo the African".
Malouf, David, "Remembering Babylon".
Mandel, Emily St. John, "Sea of Tranquility".
*Mandel, Emily St. John, "Station Eleven".
Mandel, Emily St. John, "The Glass Hotel".
Mahfouz, Naguib, "Palace Walk". Present from Sami and Mel Wilson, whom I stayed with for 3 months in Adelaide.
Marchetta, Melina, "Looking for Alibrandi".
Martel, Yann, "Life of Pi".
Martin, George R. R., "Game of Thrones".
Melchor, Fernanda, "Hurricane Season".
Mortimer, John, "Rumpole".
Mortimer, John, "Rumpole and the Reign of Terror".
Mortimer, John, "Rumpole's Return".
Moloney, James, "Touch me".
Nabokov, Vladimir, "Novellas".
Nabokov, Vladimir, "Pnin".
Ondaatje, Michael, "The English Patient".
Orwell, George, "Nineteen Eighty-Four".
Orwell, George, "Books vs Cigarettes".
Pessl, Marisha, "Special Topics in Calamity Physics".
Perec, Georges, "Life: A User's Manual".
Potok, Chaim, "The Promise".
*Potok, Chaim, "The Chosen".
*Puzo, Mario, "The Godfather".
Reilly, Matthew, "Ice Station". Tom Hockings introduced me to this book on Day 1 of boarding school. Grade 8 Donaldson dorm: Tom, Charles, Antonio, Harley, George, Derek, (and me).
Rhys, Jean, "Wide Sargasso Sea".
Roy, Arundhati, "The God of Small Things".
Roy, Arundhati, "The Shape of the Beast".
Rowling, J.K., "et Philosophi Lapis".
Rowling, J.K., "The Tales of Beedle The Bard".
Rowling, J.K., "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince".
Rushdie, Salman, "The Moor's Last Sigh".
*Rushdie, Salman, "Midnight's Children".
Rushdie, Salman, "The Satanic Verses".
*Rushdie, Salman, "The Ground Beneath Her Feet".
Rushdie, Salman, "Fury".
Rushdie, Salman, "Shalimar The Clown".
Salinger, J.D., "The Catcher in the Rye". I think this was Rosie's, so it's nice to have.
Salinger, J.D., "Franny and Zooey".
Salinger, J.D., "Nine Stories".
Salinger, J.D., "For Esmé: With Love and Squalor".
Sayers, Dorothy, "Gaudy Night".
Saramago, José, "Baltasar and Blimunda".
Schulz, Charles, "Snoopy and the Red Baron".
Schumacher, Julie, "Dear Committee Members".
*Seth, Vikram, "The Golden Gate".
Seth, Vikram, "The Rivered Earth". I think this was a present from Darryl.
*Seth, Vikram, "An Equal Music".
*Seth, Vikram, "A Suitable Boy". I love this book with a passion that defies understanding.
Seth, Vikram, "Two Lives".
Shakespeare, William, "Complete Works".
Shteyngart, Gary, "Our Country Friends".
Simson, Graeme, "The Rosie Project".
Smith, Zadie, "The Fraud".
Smith, Zadie, "The Autograph Man".
Smith, Zadie, "On Beauty".
*Stephenson, Neal, "Seven Eves".
Steinbeck, John, "East of Eden".
Szabó, Magda, "The Door".
Trollope, Anthony, "The Duke's Children".
Trollope, Anthony, "Phineas Redux".
Trollope, Anthony, "The Prime Minister".
*Tartt, Donna, "The Secret History".
Tolstoy, Leo, "War and Peace".
Thackeray, William, "Vanity Fair".
Thackeray, William, "Henry Esmond".
Turgenev, Ivan, "Fathers and Sons".
Voynich, E. L., "The Gadfly".
Vonnegut, Kurt, "Breakfast of Champions".
Waugh, Evelyn, "The Complete Stories".
Waugh, Evelyn, "The Loved One".
Waugh, Evelyn, "A Tourist in Africa".
Waugh, Evelyn, "Officers and Gentlemen".
*Waugh, Evelyn, "Brideshead Revisited".
Waugh, Evelyn, "Sword of Honour".
Wilde, Oscar, "Complete Works".
*Wilde, Oscar, "The Picture of Dorian Gray".
Winton, Tim, "Cloudstreet". All Australians have a copy of this. I think it's in the constitution.
Winton, Tim, "Island Home". Present from Helen. There may be a theme emerging.
Winton, Tim, "The Shepherd's Hut". Present from Helen.
Winton, Tim, "Eyrie". Present from Helen.
Wodehouse, P. G., "Five Complete Novels".

Food and drink

Country Women's Association of Tasmania, "The 21st Birthday Cookery Book". My understanding, based on Helen, is that all Tasmanian women own this.
Irvine, A. C., "Central Cookery Book". All Tasmanian women own this.
Oliver, Jamie, "30-Minute Meals".
Alexander, Stephanie, "The Cook's Companion". Again, all Australians own this.
Pant, Pushpesh, "India: Cookbook". Present from Mum.
Evans, Matthew, Nick Haddow, and Ross O'Meara, "The Gourmet Farmer Goes Fishing". Present from Helen.
Grossi, Guy, "Italian". Present from Angela.
Gregory, Analiese, "How Wild Things Are".
Redzepi, Rene and David Zilber, "The Noma Guide to Fermentation".
Redzepi, Rene, "Noma".
Andrià, Ferran, "A Day at elBulli".
Andrià, Ferran, "The Family Meal".
Roman, Alison, "Nothing Fancy".
Ottolenghi, Yotam, "Plenty More".
Mims, Ben, "Crumbs".
Lamb, Nicola, "Sift".
Forkish, Kent, "Flour, Water, Salt, Yeast".
Ramsay, Gordon, "Restaurant Gordon Ramsay".
Ottolenghi, Yotam, and Helen Goh, "Sweet".
Ko, Lauren, "Pieometry".
Roman, Alison, "Sweet Enough".
The Australian Women's Weekly, "Children's Birthday Cake Book".
Lascelles, Alice, "The Martini".
Meehan, Jim, "Meehan's Bartender Manual".
Parsons, Brad, "Amaro".
Morgenthaler, Jeffrey, "The Bar Book".
Boissy, Joshua, Krystof Zizka, Jordan Mackay, and William Elliot, "The Maison Premiere Almanac".
Perrone, Agostino, with Giorgio Bargiani and Maura Milia, "The Connaught Bar".
Stillman, Adrienne, "Cocktails from Around the World".
Arnold, Dave, "Liquid Intelligence".
Solarik, Frankie, with Stéphanie Verge, "The Bar Chef".
Day, Alex, Nick Fauchald, and David Kaplan, "Cocktail Codex".
Kaplan, David, Nick Fauchald, Alex Day, "Death and Co".
Day, Alex, Nick Fauchald, and David Kaplan, "Welcome Home".
Johnson, Hugh, "Wine Companion". Present from Andrew.