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To celebrate The National Year of Reading, ABC TV's First Tuesday Book Club looked for the 10 Aussie Books to Read Before You Die - the great Australian reading list.
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The top ten ranked books were:
1. Cloudstreet - Tim Winton
2. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
3. A Fortunate Life - A.B. Facey
4. The Harp in the South - Ruth Park
5. The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay
6. Jasper Jones - Craig Silvey
7. The Magic Pudding - Norman Lindsay
8. The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas
9. The Secret River - Kate Grenville
10. Picnic at Hanging Rock - Joan Lindsay
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Hardly a Novel Approach
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 4 December 2012; (p. 48)
— Review of 10 Aussie Books to Read Before You Die 2012 single work film/TV
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Hardly a Novel Approach
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 4 December 2012; (p. 48)
— Review of 10 Aussie Books to Read Before You Die 2012 single work film/TV
Last amended 5 Dec 2012 16:45:08
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