Rating Scale:
- ***** Fantastic! You’ve gotta read this one!
- **** Great. Well worth a look
- *** OK. You may enjoy it.
- ** Not so great. Either dull, badly written, or just plain awful. Not recommended
- * Unspeakably bad. Couldn’t finish it
FICTION: Chick Lit (inc. Romance)
**** ½ “The Starlight Tide” by Sarah Key
*** ½ “A Chance This Christmas” By Joanne Rock
FICTION: Crime/Mystery
***** “Dark Town” by Thomas Mullen
***** “Right Wrong Number” by Jim Nesbitt
**** ½ “The Drowning Pool” by Ross MacDonald
**** ½ “Finders Keepers” by Stephen King
**** ½ “Murder in Mr Martha” by Janice Simpson
**** “Ask the Parrot” by Richard Stark
**** “The Dry” by Jane Harper
**** “The Handsome Man’s De Luxe Cafe” by Alexander McCall Smith
**** “The Nakamura Letters” by Frankie Bow
**** “Mother’s Day” by Frankie Bow
**** “The Musubi Murder” by Frankie Bow
*** ½ “The Cocktail Waitress” by James M. Cain
FICTION: General/Literary Fiction
***** “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?” by Horace McCoy
**** “Mr Love and Justice” by Colin MacInnes
**** PENNY: Hands I passed through…Things I saw…Stories I can tell” by Peter Davidson
** “Trumpeter Ville” By Dean Gessie
FICTION: Horror/Thriller
***** “Stephen King Goes to the Movies” by Stephen King
**** ½ “The Thing on the Doorstep and other short stories” by H.P. Lovecraft
FICTION: Science Fiction
**** ½ “Renascene” by Leigh Goodison
** ½ “Project Emergence” by Jamie Zakian
FICTION: YA/Children’s
***** “The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feast” by Alan Aldridge
**** ½ “The Epiplectic Bicycle” by Edward Gorey
**** “Fantastical Beasts and Where to Find Them” by J.K.Rawling
**** “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” by Ransom Riggs
**** “Taronga” by Victor Kelleher
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NON-FICTION: Art/History/Music
**** ½ “Brave New World” – NGV
**** ½ “Homage New Orleans” by Leon Morris
**** “Bedlam: London and its Mad” by Catharine Arnold
*** ½ “Australia Remembers When” by Bob Byrne
*** “The History of British and American Author-Publishers” by Anna Faktorovich
NON-FICTION: Biography/Autobiography
**** ½ “Role Model” by John Waters
**** ½ “Snowy Campbell: Australian Pioneer Investigator of the Brain” by Malcolm Macmillan
**** “Bury my heart in Bermondsey: Memoir of A Funeral Director” by Barry Albin Dyer
** ½ “Uncommon Character: Stories of Ordinary Men and Women Who Have Done the Extraordinary” by Douglas Feavel
NON-FICTION: Gardening
**** “There is no excuse for ugliness” by Clive Blazey
NON-FICTION: Humour/Gift Book
**** “A Bag of Roosters” by Michael Leunig
**** “Better Call Saul: The World According to Saul Goodman” by David Stubbs
**** “The Bumper Book of Debauchery For Girls and Boys” by Chis Grosz & James Cockington
**** “F in Spelling – The Funniest Test Paper Blunders” by Richard Benson
**** “Five Forget Mother’s Day” by Enid Blyton & Bruno Vincent
**** Make Trouble” by John Waters
**** “Man Caves” by Jasper White
**** “The Travelling Leunig” by Michael Leunig
*** ½ “Shakespeare’s Insults For the Office” by Wayne Hill & Cynthia Ottchen
*** “Your Cat’s Just Not That Into You” by Richard Smith
NON-FICTION: Self-Help/Instructional
*** ½ “The Doodle Revolution” by Sunni Brown
*** “French Women Don’t Get Fat” by Mireille Guiliano
NON-FICTION: Travel
**** ½ “The Best American Travel Writing 2016” edited by Bill Bryson
**** “The Road to Little Dribbling” by Bill Bryson
*** ½ “The Best Travel Writing, Volume 11: True Stories from Around the World” by James O’Reilly et al (ed)
NON-FICTION: True Crime
*** “Savage Obsessions” by Glen McNamara
You can access a PDF of all the reviews via this link: 2017 Book Reviews by Sarah Jackson
