100 Books that are special to me

1. A Fortunate Life by A.B. Facey
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns , Khaled Hosseini - Reminded me how loved I have been by women in my life.
3. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
4. April Fools Day – Bryce Courtenay
5. Artists Way, Julia Cameron
6. Big Book
7. Beloved, Toni Morrison
8. Bliss, Peter Carey
9. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
10. Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
11. Cider with Rosie, Laurie Lee
12. Cloudstreet, Tim Winton
13. Dirt Music, Tim Winton
14. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
15. Illywhacker, Peter Carey
16. In the Cut, Susanna Moore
17. Like Water For Chocolate, Laura Esquivel
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott - I was sure I was going to grow up to be Jo.
19. Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
20. Miss Smilia Feeling for Snow
21. Monkey Grip, Helen Garner
22. My Brillant Career, Miles Franklin
23. My Fortunate Life, AB Facey
24. Pastures of the Blue Crane, Hesba Brinsmead
25. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
26. Rebecca, Daphe du Maurier
27. Songlines, Buce Chatwin
28. Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson
29. Sybil, Flora Rheta Schreiber and Shirley Mason
30. Tales from the City, Armistead Maupin
31. The Artist Way, Julia Cameron
32. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Thomas Keneally
33. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
34. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald - I recently re-read this and reminded me what a tragedy love can be.
35. The Harp in the South, Ruth Park
36. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
37. The Man Who Loved Children, Christina Stead
38. The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan
39. The Riders by Tim Winton
40. The Secret River, Kate Grenville
41. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
42. Thorn Birds, Colleen McCulloch
43. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee - I really related to feeling uncomfortable with an older father, then slowly realising all I had to be grateful for.
44. Tully - Paullina Simons
45. When Jays fly to Barbmo, Margaret Balderson
46. White Teeth, Zadie Smith
47. Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula Le Guin - Showed me the thing I fear the most is myself.
48. World According to Garp, John Irving
49. You Can Heal Your Life, Louise Hay