Every book I’ve ever read

Last updated: 31^st Jan 2024

This post is dedicated to my Grade 2 teacher Miss Wilson, who made reading feel like a terrific adventure.

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This blog post may be the most personal thing I’ve ever published…

When I was 10 years old, I started writing down and rating every book I finished. I think it was mum’s idea. I did this in a small notebook called The Book Of Books.

Here it is:

There are three reasons for publishing this list:

1. 🖥️ I want to digitise my handwritten record of every book I’ve read, in case I lose the physical book.
2. 🧠 I can’t remember every book I’ve read. Before starting a book, I like knowing whether I’ve read it before. Being able to quickly search a digitised list like this will make this easy.
3. 💡 Some people might be interested.

To date, I’ve read 743 books in my life.

Writing and rating every book I’ve read using my patented 5 Tick System™ is probably the earliest example I can think of where I measured something that mattered to me. I think it’s one of the things that has made reading so much fun over the years. I love finishing a book and writing it in the Book Of Books.

🪩 Reflections 🪩 I had upon compiling this:

• When I’m interested in something I tend to go really deep on it, reading many books in succession on the same subject. E.g. Leadership, giving, business, personal finance, reading every book in the Tomorrow series by John Marsden etc.
• I read a lot of fiction when I was younger. Today, the majority of books I read are non-fiction.
• The score I gave a book out of 5 at the time of reading doesn’t necessarily reflect the lasting impact a book will have on me. E.g. In 2023 I read a book called Everybody Matters, which I scored 2/5, but it’s had a massive impact since on how I see the world.
• I tended to give higher ratings to books I read as a younger person (<16 years old), compared to as I got older and more discerning. Getting older has also meant I’ve gotten more honest with myself—honest with myself when a book I thought would be great, actually sucked!
• Authors I read the most were usually authors that had written one or multiple series that I really got into. Eg. The Tomorrow Series by John Marsden, Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling or The Famous Five/Secret Seven series by Enid Blyton.
• Before the age of 20, I’m surprised by how many books I read where nature was one of the main characters of the story. I especially seemed to like reading books set by the ocean.
• Especially when younger (<22 years old), I would read within my comfort zone a lot. I.e. I would read heaps of books by the same author. However, it was when I took a risk that my world usually opened up and a book would send me in a completely different direction. I wish I had taken more risks in my reading as a young person.
• So many of the Enid Blyton books I read as a kid, I rated 4/5. I probably should have taken this as a hint that there were more interesting books out there. Golly gosh, I loved those adventure books though.
• It’s interesting to note how some of my favourite children’s authors used a pseudonym—people like Emily Rodda, J. K. Rowling and Lemony Snicket. Back then, I never wanted to know the real names of the authors. It felt like finding out Santa Claus wasn’t real, a fact I didn’t allow myself to accept until I was about 14.
• I’m shocked at how few books I read in years such as 2019 and 2015.
• The books I read in a particular year tell the story of where my thinking was at during that particular time in my life.

The person who got me into reading was my Grade 2 teacher Miss Wilson. I remember her reading short fiction books about a dinosaur 🦕 to the whole class and being completely captivated. I wish I could remember the name of the series, but it escapes me.

I love reading today as a 33 year old just as much as I did as a 10 year old. I can’t say that about too many things I was doing in the 90s.

Most days, I still read in a similar way to how I did when I was 10—lying on my belly on the bed, propped up on my elbows. My partner thinks I’m weird for reading like this. “It looks so uncomfortable.” It is. I also read in chairs, in libraries and on public transport. I rarely do audiobooks, instead, I like the feeling of reading something physical that doesn’t involve a screen.

I no longer buy books, instead preferring to borrow them from the library. Libraries will purchase almost any book you want to read. They’re surely the most valuable public service.

Today I tend to read in smaller portions. 10 mins here, 10 mins there, compared to hours at a time when I was a teenager.

I also quit more books now. Life is too short to be reading things that don’t hold your attention or help you with something you need help with right now.

I read like my life depends on it, because it does. I’ve never done a DNA test, but I have this list of every book I’ve ever read.

Reading is the reason I started writing. To this day, a great book still feels magical. I’m a different person when I finish compared to when I started. It’s something I’ll do and something I’ll enjoy until the day I die.

How to use this searchable list of every book I’ve ever read

To find a book:

On Mac: COMMAND + F
On PC: CONTROL + F

Search by title or author.

Hopefully, you find this list interesting and it gives you some ideas on what you could read next.

A couple of tips on how to read these lists:

• Each year’s list starts from the first book I read that calendar year, then proceeds in order all the way to the last book I read that year.
• Where I cannot recall the author’s name, by memory or by Google search, I have listed the author as ‘unknown’.

The best books I’ve ever read
Books I’ve reread
Most-read authors
2024 – 34 years old
2023 – 33 years old
2022 – 32 years old
2021 – 31 years old
2020 – 30 years old
2019 – 29 years old
2018 – 28 years old
2017 – 27 years old
2016 – 26 years old
2015 – 25 years old
2014 – 24 years old
2013 – 23 years old
2012 – 22 years old
2011 – 21 years old
2010 – 20 years old
2009 – 19 years old
2008 – 18 years old
2007 – 17 years old
2006 – 16 years old
2005 – 15 years old
2004 – 14 years old
2003 – 13 years old
2002 – 12 years old
2001 – 11 years old
2000 – 10 years old
Before 2000

The best books I’ve ever read

Sorted by most recently read.

Give And Take — by Adam Grant

Rating I gave it on first read: 4/5
Age when first read: 32

Sometimes a book comes along that seems so obvious that you’re like, “Of course I should be living my life like that!” This was one of those books for me. It’s all about three different types of people: Givers, Matchers and Takers. As someone who had spent their life as a Matcher, this book inspired me to become a Giver.

Borrow from your local library or go to the Amazon page for details and reviews.

Atomic Habits — by James Clear

Rating I gave it on first read: 5/5
Age when first read: 31

Other than The Barefoot Investor, I can’t think of a book that has had a greater positive impact on my everyday life. Many years prior I had read Charles Duhigg’s The Power Of Habit, but for some reason, it didn’t resonate. Atomic Habits inspired me to take action and overhaul my life by first deciding what identity I wanted and then, one by one, forming the habits that a person with that identity would have.

Borrow from your local library or go to the Amazon page for details and reviews.

Models — by Mark Manson

Rating I gave it on first read: 5/5
Age when first read: 29

Going through your first breakup will cause you to (hopefully) take a good, long, hard look at your life. This book, the first from the author who would go on to write The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A Fuck, provided simple, actionable steps and a world-view to help me get what I wanted—feeling good again after going through a breakup and learning the skills of how to attract a great person to share my life with. Spoiler alert: it worked.

Borrow from your local library or go to the Amazon page for details and reviews.

The Barefoot Investor: The Only Money Guide You’ll Ever Need — by Scott Pape

Rating I gave it on first read: 5/5
Age when first read: 28

I didn’t know anything about money before my grandpa lent me a copy of this book. Since its publication in 2016, it’s become the best selling book in Australian history. It changed my life, one Barefoot Step at a time, and I haven’t returned the book. Sorry grandpa.

Borrow from your local library or go to the Amazon page for details and reviews.

Into Thin Air — by Jon Krakauer

Rating I gave it on first read: 5/5
Age when first read: 23

I’ve always been drawn to books set in nature. This book, based on real events, reads like a thriller. Journalist Job Krakauer recounts his experience as a part of what turned out to be the deadliest year on Mt Everest at the time this was published. I’ve never wanted to climb Everest, but after reading this, I felt like I had.

Borrow from your local library or go to the Amazon page for details and reviews.

The Power Of Positive Thinking — by Norman Vincent Peale

Rating I gave it on first read: 5/5
Age when first read: 22

This book was the first that made me feel okay for believing in something bigger than myself. As someone with a tendency to want to control things, this was revelatory—the idea that it wasn’t up to me. I don’t consider myself religious, but this book helped me understand the idea of God for the first time and gave me permission to have whatever sort of relationship I wanted with the greater beyond.

Borrow from your local library or go to the Amazon page for details and reviews.

The Inner Game Of Golf — by Timothy Gallwey

Rating I gave it on first read: 5/5
Age when first read: 20

The principles in this book can help you whatever you do in your life. I read this when I was an amateur golfer and I ended up enjoying it perhaps even more than I enjoyed playing golf.

Borrow from your local library or go to the Amazon page for details and reviews.

Nineteen Eighty-Four — by George Orwell

Rating I gave it on first read: 5/5
Age when first read: 19

I think I was too young to know exactly what was going on when I read this book, but I just remember thinking, “I can totally see the world becoming like this,” and feeling really scared at the same time.

Borrow from your local library or go to the Amazon page for details and reviews.

The Notebook — by Nicholas Sparks

Rating I gave it on first read: 5/5
Age when first read: 18

The film is incredible (adapted by fellow Australian Jan Sardi, no less) but the book is also a masterpiece. It takes your breath away when writing so simple can pack such a hefty emotional punch. Titanic and The Notebook are two of my favourite films: I will always love a great love story.

Borrow from your local library or go to the Amazon page for details and reviews.

Screw It, Let’s Do It — by Richard Branson

Rating I gave it on first read: 5/5
Age when first read: 18

This book gave me courage to be entrepreneurial, even though I don’t think I knew what the word meant back then. Even though I am happy to be an employee these days, I still try to approach my work with the spirit this book showed me was possible. It’s one of the first books I would gift someone under the age of 20.

Borrow from your local library or go to the Amazon page for details and reviews.

Breath — by Tim Winton

Rating I gave it on first read: 5/5
Age when first read: 18

Probably my favourite of all the books I read as a teenager that were set by the sea. Reading this book felt like listening to a Pink Floyd album. Dreamy, moody, deep, thrilling. The movie, incredibly, delivered on all these fronts too. Tim Winton is easily one of my favourite Australian authors and this is my favourite book of his.

Borrow from your local library or go to the Amazon page for details and reviews.

The Damage Done — by Warren Fellows

Rating I gave it on first read: 5/5
Age when first read: 15

I don’t know why dad lent me this to read as a 15 year old, but it certainly had an effect—scaring the living daylights out of me! I’m guessing it was his way of telling me, “Don’t do drugs Dean, or you’ll end up doing solitary in a Thai prison.” The picture on the cover still haunts me to this day.

Borrow from your local library or go to the Amazon page for details and reviews.

Tomorrow, When The War Began — by John Marsden

Rating I gave it on first read: 5/5
Age when first read: 14

This books completely changed my world view. The idea that Australia could be invaded scared the daylights out of 14 year-old me. Riveting fiction and to this day, probably the best book I’ve ever read.

Borrow from your local library or go to the Amazon page for details and reviews.

Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire — by J. K. Rowling

Rating I gave it on first read: 5/5
Age when first read: 10

To this day I don’t like reading really long books and I don’t tend to re-read books. This one is an exception on both counts. One of the all-time great fantasy books. When I read this as a teenager, it spoke to the part of me that was yearning for an adventurous life beyond the regular school day and home life.

Borrow from your local library or go to the Amazon page for details and reviews.

The Lorax — by Dr. Seuss

Rating I gave it on first read: 4/5
Age when first read: 10

I remember reading this at my grandparents’ house and feeling so deeply sad about the truffler trees getting cut down and the Lorax not having a home. It’s probably the book that made me love trees and love nature, along with Enid Blyton’s Magic Faraway Tree series. It also probably taught me that if I can’t feel at home in my real home, then I would always feel at home in nature, if we could look after it.

Borrow from your local library or go to the Amazon page for details and reviews.

The Wonderful Story Of Henry Sugar — by Roald Dahl

Rating I gave it on first read: 5/5
Age when first read: 9

It’s been so long since I read this book that I can no longer remember what exactly I loved about it. But I’ve never forgotten the feeling that the story about Henry Sugar in this book—a book which contains several other short stories—was one of my most favourite things I’d ever read at the time.

Borrow from your local library or go to the Amazon page for details and reviews.

Books I’ve reread

I don’t reread many books, but I’m trying to reread more of the most useful ones, so I thought this deserved its own section. To count as a reread means literally rereading it cover to cover at least once.

I haven’t included books I needed to reread as part of high school English and Literature. That’s not really re-reading for the joy of re-reading.

Books are listed from most recently reread.

The One Minute Manager — by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson (last re-read in 2023)
Who Moved My Cheese — by Spencer Johnson (last re-read in 2023)
So Good They Can’t Ignore You — by Cal Newport (last re-read in 2023)
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire — by J. K. Rowling
The Inner Game Of Golf — by Timothy Gallwey (last re-read in 2010)
The Secret River — by Kate Grenville
The Outsider — by Albert Camus (last re-read in 2012)
The Call Of The Wild — by Jack London (last re-read in 2012)
Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix — by J. K. Rowling
Tiger Woods: An American Master — by Nicholas Edwards (last re-read in 2003)
The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe — by C. S. Lewis
Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone — by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets — by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban — by J. K. Rowling

Most read authors

54 books — Enid Blyton
26 books — Morris Gleitzman
23 books — Beatrix Potter
19 books — John Marsden
19 books — Emily Rodda aka Jennifer Rowe
16 books — Paul Jennings
13 books — Tim Winton
13 books — Andy Griffiths
13 books — Lemony Snicket aka Daniel Handler
8 books — J. K. Rowling
7 books — John Gray
7 books — C. S. Lewis

2024 – 34 years old

In progress

2023 – 33 years old

Everybody Matters — by Bob Chapman and Raj Sisodia — 2/5
Four Thousand Weeks — by Oliver Burkeman — 3/5
A Wizard Of Earthsea — by Ursula K. Le Guin — 3/5
Taking Stock — by Jordan Grumet — 4/5
Awaken The Giant Within — by Tony Robbins — 5/5
The Go-Giver Leader — by Bob Burg and John David Mann — 2/5
Go-Givers Sell More — by Bob Burg and John David Mann — 3/5
Show Your Work — by Austin Kleon — 4/5
Jonathan Livingston Seagull — by Richard Bach— 3/5
Sapiens — by Yuval Noah Harari — 5/5
Steal Like An Artist — by Austin Kleon — 5/5
Lying — by Sam Harris — 3/5
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! — by Richard Feynman — 4/5
The Pathless Path — by Paul Millerd — 3/5
What Got You Here Won’t Get You There — by Marshall Goldsmith — 4/5
Open — by Andre Agassi — 4/5
Essentialism — by Greg McKeown — 4/5
The Go-Giver — by Bob Burg and John David Mann — 5/5
The Challenger Sale — by Brent Adamson and Dixon Matthew — 3/5
Die With Zero — by Bill Perkins — 5/5
Amp It Up — by Frank Slootman — 3/5
Rework — by David Heinemeier Hansson and Jason Fried — 4/5
The Decision Book — by Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschappeler — 3/5
Braving The Wilderness — by Brené Brown — 3/5
Human Work — by Leanne Holdsworth and Naryan Wong — 3/5
Excellent Advice For Living — by Kevin Kelly — 5/5
The E-Myth Revisited — by Michael E. Gerber — 4/5
Small Things Like These — by Claire Keegan — 4/5
The Song Of Significance — by Seth Godin — 3/5
On The Shortness Of Life — by Seneca — 4/5
Clear Thinking — by Shane Parrish — 5/5
Hidden Potential — by Adam Grant — 3/5
Fluent In 3 Months — by Benny Lewis — 4/5
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow — by Gabrielle Zevin — 4/5
Blue Horses — by Mary Oliver — 2/5
The Personal MBA — by Josh Kaufman — 4/5

2022 – 32 years old

Everyday Millionaires — by Chris Hogan — 3/5
Lean UX — by Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden — 4/5
The 4-Hour Workweek — by Tim Ferriss — 5/5
Purple Cow — by Seth Godin — 4/5
Primal Leadership — by Daniel Goleman — 2/5
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse — by Charlie Mackesy — 5/5
The Dip — by Seth Godin — 4/5
Financial Freedom — by Grant Sabatier — 3/5
The Top Five Regrets Of The Dying — by Bronnie Ware — 3/5
On Becoming A Leader — by Warren Bennis — 3/5
The Checklist Manifesto — by Atul Gawande — 4/5
Leaders Eat Last — by Simon Sinek — 4/5
Radical Acceptance — by Tara Brach — 4/5
Talent Is Overrated — by Geoffrey Colvin — 4/5
A Richer You — by Mary Holm — 3/5
Meditations — by Marcus Aurelius — 5/5
The Courage To Be Disliked — by Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi – 3/5
No Bullshit Leadership — by Martin Moore — 5/5
Hell Yeah Or No — by Derek Sivers — 4/5
Money Made Simple — by Sam Stubbs — 3/5
The Course Of Love — by Alain de Botton — 4/5
Trillion Dollar Coach — by Alan Eagle, Jonathan Rosenberg and Eric Schmidt — 4/5
The Psychology Of Money — Morgan Housel — 4/5
It Doesn’t Have To Be Crazy At Work — David Heinemeier Hansson and Jason Fried — 4/5
Can’t Hurt Me — David Goggins — 3/5
The Art Of Profitability — by Adrian Slywotzky — 2/5
Give And Take — by Adam Grant — 4/5
On Grief And Grieving — by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, David Kessler — 3/5
The Almanack Of Naval Ravikant — by Eric Jorgenson — 4/5
And Then There Were None — by Agatha Christie — 4/5
My Life In Full — by Indra Nooyi — 3/5
Get Together: How To Build A Community With Your People — by Bailey Richardson, Kevin Huynh and Kai Elmer Sotto — 2/5

2021 – 31 years old

Steve Jobs — by Walter Isaacson — 5/5
Measure What Matters — by John Doerr — 4/5
New Zealand Real Estate Investors’ Secrets — by Graeme Fowler — 4/5
Never Split The Difference — by Chris Voss — 3/5
Auē — by Becky Manawatu — 3/5
Creativity — by John Cleese — 3/5
The Slight Edge — by Jeff Olson and John David Mann — 5/5
Outliers — by Malcolm Gladwell — 2/5
The Phoenix Project — by Gene Kim, George Spafford, and Kevin Behr — 5/5
As A Man Thinketh — by James Allen — 2/5
How Will You Measure Your Life — by Clayton Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon — 3/5
Belong — by Radha Agrawal — 4/5
Good To Great — by Jim Collins — 3/5
Everything Is Fucked — by Mark Manson — 2/5
Invent And Wander — by Jeff Bezos — 3/5
The Unicorn Project — by Gene Kim – 3/5
The Goal — by Eliyahu M Goldratt and Jeff Cox — 2/5
The Simple Path To Wealth — by J. L. Collins – 5/5
The Ride Of A Lifetime — by Robert Iger — 4/5
Start With Why — by Simon Sinek — 3/5
Quit Like A Millionaire — by Kristy Shen and Bryce Leung — 5/5
The Friendship Cure — by Kate Leaver — 2/5
Creativity Inc. — by Edwin Catmull and Amy Wallace — 4/5
Playing With Fire — by Scott Rieckens — 3/5
Working Class Man — by Jimmy Barnes — 4/5
Rich Enough? — by Mary Holm — 4/5
Atomic Habits — by James Clear — 5/5
I Will Teach You To Be Rich — by Ramit Sethi — 3/5
Untamed — by Glennon Doyle — 2/5
Zero To One — by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters — 3/5
Vagabonding — by Rolf Potts — 3/5
The 12 Week Year — by Brian P. Moran, Michael Lennington — 3/5
The 12 Week Year Field Guide — by Brian P. Moran, Michael Lennington — 2/5
The Magic Of Thinking Big — by David Schwartz — 4/5
The Effective Executive — by Peter Drucker — 2/5
Anything You Want – by Derek Sivers – 3/5
7 Strategies For Wealth & Happiness — by Jim Rohn — 4/5
The Innovator’s Dilemma — by Clayton Christensen — 3/5
Money Lessons For My Younger Self — by Nick Carr — 4/5
Choose FI — by Chris Mamula, Brad Barrett and Jonathan Mendonsa — 4/5

2020 – 30 years old

No One Is Too Small To Make A Difference — by Greta Thunberg — 3/5
Who Is Michael Ovitz? — by Michael Ovitz — 4/5
Paris And Other Disappointments — by Adam Rozenbachs — 2/5
Sell Like Crazy — by Sabri Subi — 4/5
So Good They Can’t Ignore You — by Cal Newport — 4/5
Me: Elton John — by Elton John — 4/5
Becoming — by Michelle Obama — 4/5
North Korea Journal — by Michael Palin — 3/5
High Output Management — by Andrew Grove — 2/5
Working Class Boy — by Jimmy Barnes — 4/5
How To Succeed In Business Without Really Crying — by Carol Leifer — 2/5
The Handmaid’s Tale — by Margaret Atwood — 2/5
Likeable Social Media — by Dave Kerpen — 3/5
Your Money Or Your Life — by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez — 4/5
A Room Made Of Leaves — by Kate Grenville — 4/5
How Much Is Enough? — by Arun Abey and Andrew Ford — 4/5
The Little Book Of Common Sense Investing — by John Bogle — 4/5
The Lean Startup — by Eric Ries — 2/5
The Millionaire Next Door — by Thomas Stanley and William Danko — 3/5
Enough — by John Bogle — 3/5
Principles — by Ray Dalio — 5/5
Deep Work — by Cal Newport — 3/5
The Joy Of Sex — by Alex Comfort — 3/5
Mindset — by Carol Dweck — 3/5
Positioning — by Al Ries and Jack Trout — 4/5
Competing Against Luck — by Clayton Christensen, Karen Dillon, Taddy Hall and David S. Duncan — 3/5
Kama Sutra: A Position A Day for 365 Days A Year — by DK — 3/5

2019 – 29 years old

Models — by Mark Manson — 5/5
The Beatles In India — by Paul Saltzman — 4/5
State Of The Union — by Nick Hornby — 4/5
Fly — by unknown — 4/5

2018 – 28 years old

Shoe Dog – by Phil Knight — 4/5
The Barefoot Investor: The Only Money Guide You’ll Ever Need — by Scott Pape — 5/5
The Total Money Makeover — by Dave Ramsey — 3/5
Waiting For The Punch — by Marc Maron — 2/5
The Power Of Now — by Eckhart Tolle — 3/5
Arlo Finch In The Valley Of Fire — by John August — 2/5
Rich Dad, Poor Dad — by Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter — 4/5
Finding My Virginity — by Richard Branson — 4/5
The Shepherd’s Hut — by Tim Winton — 4/5
To Have And Have Not — by Ernest Hemingway — 2/5
The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A Fuck — by Mark Manson — 3/5
The Shepherd’s Life — by James Rebanks — 4/5
Down And Out In Paris And London — by George Orwell — 2/5
The Tattooist Of Auschwitz — by Heather Morris — 4/5
Just The Funny Parts — by Nell Scovell — 4/5
Option B — by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant — 3/5
Thrive — by Arianna Huffington — 3/5
The Sleep Revolution — by Arianna Huffington — 3/5
The Barefoot Investor For Families — by Scott Pape — 3/5

2017 – 27 years old

The Boy Behind The Curtain — by Tim Winton — 3/5
Not Dead Yet — by Phil Collins — 5/5
Lean In — by Sheryl Sandberg and Nell Scovell — 3/5
Man’s Search For Meaning — by Viktor Frankl — 2/5
The Girl With The Dogs — by Anna Funder — 1/5
Dog Eat Dog — by Michael Browning — 5/5
Getting There — by Gillian Zoe Segal — 4/5
15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management — by Kevin Kruse — 3/5
Auschwitz: The Complete Guide — by Perry Buck — 3/5
So, Anyway… — by John Cleese — 5/5
Born To Run — by Bruce Springsteen — 5/5
Into The Wild — by Jon Krakauer — 5/5
Sick In The Head — by Judd Apatow — 3/5

2016 – 26 years old

Jump In! — by Mark Burnett — 5/5
Brooklyn — by Colm Tóibín — 3/5
Eleanor And Park — by Rainbow Rowell — 2/5
The Rosie Project — by Graeme Simsion — 4/5
Mars And Venus In The Bedroom — by John Gray — 4/5
Memoirs Of A Geisha — by Arthur Golden — 4/5
Yes Please — by Amy Poehler — 3/5
Think And Grow Rich — by Napoleon Hill — 4/5
The Best Of Adam Sharp — by Graeme Simsion — 4/5
Island Home — by Tim Winton — 2/5
Call Me Ted — by Ted Turner and Bill Burke — 4/5
Trash ¬— by Andy Mulligan — 3/5
Use Your Words — by Catherine Deveny — 5/5
How Music Works — by David Byrne — 3/5
Drawing Funny — by Oslo Davis — 3/5
The Greatest Sitcoms Of All Time — by Martin Gitlin — 2/5

2015 – 25 years old

The Laugh Makers — by Robert L. Mills — 2/5
Even This I Get To Experience — by Norman Lear — 3/5
Still Foolin’ ‘Em — by Billy Crystal — 2/5

2014 – 24 years old

Mars And Venus On A Date — by John Gray — 5/5
Eat Pray Love — by Elizabeth Gilbert — 3/5
Born Standing Up — by Steve Martin — 5/5
Jim Henson — by Brian Jay Jones — 3/5
Carry A Big Stick — by Tim Ferguson — 4/5
Eyrie — by Tim Winton — 3/5
Bonkers: My Life In Laughs — by Jennifer Saunders — 3/5
The Fault In Our Stars — by John Green — 2/5
The Hunger Games — by Suzanne Collins — 5/5
Catching Fire — by Suzanne Collins — 4/5
Betty White: If You Ask Me — by Betty White — 3/5
Who Moved My Cheese — by Spencer Johnson — 4/5
The One Minute Manager — by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson — 4/5
Loyal Creatures — by Morris Gleitzman — 5/5
The Power Of Habit — by Charles Duhigg — 3/5
On Writing — by Stephen King — 3/5
Leadership And The One Minute Manager — by Ken Blanchard, Patricia Zigarmi and Drea Zigarmi — 3/5
Mars And Venus Together Forever — by John Gray — 3/5

2013 – 23 years old

The Catcher In The Rye — by J. D. Salinger — 5/5
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button And Six Other Stories — by F. Scott Fitzgerald — 2/5
Great Expectations — by Charles Dickens — 3/5
The Eight Characters Of Comedy — by Scott Sedita — 5/5
Writing Movies For Profit — by Robert Ben Garant, Thomas Lennon — 4/5
Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus — by John Gray — 5/5
Adventures In The Screen Trade — by William Goldman — 4/5
Bossypants — by Tina Fey — 3/5
And It’s Goodnight From Him — by Ronnie Corbett — 4/5
The Third Year Of War In Pictures — by various — 3/5
Back To School Jokes — by Lisa Eisenberg and Katy Hall — 2/5
Reg Grundy — by Reg Grundy — 4/5
Successful Television Writing — by Lee Goldberg and William Rabkin — 4/5
SeinLanguage — by Jerry Seinfeld — 3/5
All In Good Timing — by Henri Szeps — 3/5
The Internet Is A Playground — by David Thorne — 4/5
How To Get What You Want And Want What You Have — by John Gray — 5/5
Just Kids — by Patti Smith — 5/5
The Fourth Year Of War In Pictures — by various — 3/5
Work With Me — by Barbara Annis and John Gray — 4/5
Why Mars And Venus Collide — by John Gray — 4/5
How To Win Friends And Influence People — by Dale Carnegie — 4/5
The Head Book — by John Marsden — 3/5
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest — by Ken Kesey — 4/5
Emma — by Jane Austen — 2/5
The Fifth Year Of War In Pictures — by various — 3/5
Brave New World — by Aldous Huxley — 2/5
Into Thin Air — by Jon Krakauer — 5/5
Dark Summit — by Nick Heil — 3/5
Shantaram — by Gregory David Roberts — 5/5
Comic Insights — by Franklyn Ajaye — 4/5
The Sixth Year Of War — by various — 3/5
Writing The Pilot — by William Rabkin — 3/5
The TV Writers’ Workbook — by Ellen Sandler — 4/5
Heaven And Hell — by Don Felder and Wendy Holden — 5/5
The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People — by Stephen Covey — 4/5
Life — by Keith Richards — 4/5

2012 – 22 years old

Which Lie Did I Tell — by William Goldman — 4/5
The Turning — by Tim Winton — 3/5
Playing Beatie Bow — by Ruth Park — 3/5
The Well — by Elizabeth Jolley — 2/5
My Crowded Solitude — by Jack McLaren — 5/5
The Pigeon — by Patrick Süskind — 3/5
The Little Prince — by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry — 2/5
Displaced Person — by Lee Harding — 3/5
Hitler’s Daughter — by Jackie French — 4/5
The Plague — by Albert Camus — 2/5
Writing Screenplays That Sell — by Michael Hauge — 4/5
Frogs And Other Plays — by Aristophanes — 3/5
Comedy Classics — by James Herriot — 2/5
Comedy Rules — by Jonathan Lynn — 4/5
The Wolf Of Wall Street — by Jordan Belfort — 3/5
Writing The TV Drama Series — by Pamela Douglas — 4/5
The Goon Show Scripts — by Spike Milligan — 3/5
A Damsel In Distress — by P. G. Wodehouse — 3/5
Impro — by Keith Johnstone — 3/5
After — by Morris Gleitzman — 4/5
Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Volume One — Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, John Cleese and Michael Palin — 3/5
The New Comedy Writing — by Gene Perret — 4/5
You’re Funny — by Phil Rosenthal — 2/5
The First Year Of War In Pictures — by various — 4/5
Created By — by Steven Prigge — 3/5
Selling Your Story In 60 Seconds — by Michael Hauge — 4/5
Three Uses Of The Knife — by David Mamet — 3/5
The Second Year Of War In Pictures — by various — 3/5
Confessions Of An Advertising Man — by David Ogilvy — 5/5
The Art Of Writing Advertising — by Denis Higgins — 3/5
The Little Book Of Sitcom — by John Vorhaus — 4/5
Screenplay — by Syd Field — 3/5
Ogilvy On Advertising — by David Ogilvy — 4/5
The Power Of Positive Thinking — by Norman Vincent Peale — 5/5

2011 – 21 years old

The Pythons — by Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Bob McCabe — 5/5
The Screenwriter Within — by D. B. Gilles — 4/5
Writing Comedy — by John Byrne — 3/5
Monty Python Live — by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin — 3/5
Write To TV — by Martie Cook — 5/5
Making A Good Script Great — by Linda Seger — 4/5
Poetics — by Aristotle — 4/5
The Comedy Bible — by Judy Carter — 5/5
The Pitch — by Eileen Quinn and Judy Counihan — 3/5
Save The Cat — by Blake Snyder — 4/5
Everything I Know About Writing — by John Marsden — 2/5
The West Wing Script Book 1 — by Aaron Sorkin — 3/5
Story — by Robert McKee — 4/5
The Comic Toolbox — by John Vorhaus — 5/5
Don’t Peak At High School — by Fiona Scott-Norman — 3/5
Fawlty Towers — by Graham McCann — 3/5
On The Road — by Jack Kerouac — 2/5
Too Small To Fail — by Morris Gleitzman — 3/5
Persuasion — by Jane Austen — 4/5
Pride And Prejudice — by Jane Austen — 4/5
Regeneration — by Pat Barker — 2/5
Summer Crossing — by Truman Capote — 2/5
The Fry Chronicles — by Stephen Fry — 4/5
Pizza Cake — by Morris Gleitzman — 3/5
Tales From The Script — by Peter Hanson — 3/5
The Rough Guide To Comedy Movies — by Bob McCabe — 2/5
You’ll Be Sorry When I’m Dead — by Marieke Hardy — 3/5

2010 – 20 years old

Neverwhere — by Neil Gaiman — 3/5
The Winter Queen — by Boris Akunin — 4/5
Night Surfing — by Fiona Capp — 4/5
The Diary Of A Young Girl — by Anne Frank — 5/5
Gould’s Book Of Fish — by Richard Flanagan — 2/5
Why ACDC Matters — by Anthony Bozza — 4/5
The Inner Game Of Golf — by Timothy Gallwey — 5/5
John Lennon In His Own Write — by John Lennon — 1/5
My Sister’s Keeper — by Jodi Picoult — 5/5
Outlaw Journalist: The Life And Times Of Hunter S. Thompson — by William McKeen — 3/5
The World According To Clarkson — by Jeremy Clarkson — 3/5
The Book Thief — by Markus Zusak — 4/5
Breakfast At Tiffany’s — by Truman Capote — 5/5
The Cheeky Monkey — by Tim Ferguson — 5/5
Mockingbird — by Kathryn Erskine — 3/5
A Christmas Carol — by Charles Dickens — 3/5
Underdog — by Markus Zusak — 2/5
Puppy Fat — by Morris Gleitzman — 4/5
Dream Stuff — by David Malouf — 1/5
The Choice — by Edith Eger — 5/5
Of Mice And Men — by John Steinbeck — 5/5
High Fidelity — by Nick Hornby — 3/5
Hong Kong’s Heroic Bloodshed — by Martin Fitzgerald — 1/5
The Two Ronnies — by Peter Vincent — 3/5
Completely Stupid Men — by Jasmine Birtles — 2/5
The Alchemist — by Paulo Coelho — 4/5
The Brain That Changes Itself — by Norman Doidge — 3/5
Finding Your Voice — by Caroline Goyder — 3/5

2009 – 19 years old

Thunderwith — by Libby Hathorn — 2/5
Far Eastern Tales — by W. Somerset Maugham — 2/5
Death Of A Salesman — by Arthur Miller — 4/5
The Magician’s Nephew — by C. S. Lewis — 3/5
Secret Men’s Business — by John Marsden — 4/5
The Wife Of Martin Guerre — by Janet Lewis — 3/5
The Divine Wind — by Gary Disher — 3/5
Border Crossing — by Pat Barker — 3/5
Wildlight — by Robyn Mundy — 2/5
Halfway To Anywhere — by Norman Lindsay — 2/5
Minimum Of Two — by Tim Winton — 3/5
Johnno — by David Malouf — 2/5
Lockie Leonard: Scumbuster — by Tim Winton — 3/5
Lockie Leonard: Legend — by Tim Winton — 3/5
Then — by Morris Gleitzman — 5/5
Mascot Madness — by Andy Griffiths — 2/5
I’m Not Scared — by Niccolò Ammaniti — 3/5
The Nest — by Paul Jennings — 4/5
The Messenger — by Markus Zusak — 5/5
Bernhard Langer: My Autobiography — by Bernhard Langer — 2/5
Nathan Buckley: All I Can Be — by Ben Collins and Nathan Buckley — 3/5
Cloudstreet — by Tim Winton — 3/5
Saving Francesca — by Melina Marchetta — 3/5
Jango — by William Nicholson — 3/5
The Key To Rondo — by Emily Rodda — 2/5
Hamlet: A Novel — by John Marsden — 3/5
So Much To Tell You — by John Marsden — 3/5
Dirt Music — by Tim Winton — 3/5
Dead Lucky — by Lincoln Hall — 3/5
Animal Farm — by George Orwell — 4/5
Losing My Virginity — by Richard Branson — 4/5
The Hardcore Diaries — by Mick Foley — 3/5
The Chocolate War — by Robert Cormier — 2/5
Saucerful Of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Odyssey — by Nicholas Schaffner — 3/5
The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas — by John Boyne — 4/5
Grace — by Paul Lynch — 3/5
An ANZAC’s Story — Roy Kyle — 4/5
Nineteen Eighty-Four — by George Orwell — 5/5
The Kite Runner — by Khaled Hosseini — 5/5
Just Macbeth! — by Andy Griffiths — 4/5
Lord Of The Flies — by William Golding — 4/5
Girl Underground — by Morris Gleitzman — 3/5
Fragile Earth — by Ranulph Fiennes — 3/5
Songs And Verse — by Roald Dahl & Quentin Blake — 3/5
The Place For A Village: How Nature Shaped The City Of Melbourne — by Gary Presland — 2/5

2008 – 18 years old

The Secret River — by Kate Grenville — 4/5
Northern Lights — by Philip Pullman — 5/5
Philip’s Guide To Weather — by Reynolds Ross — 2/5
The Subtle Knife — by Philip Pullman — 3/5
The Amber Spyglass — by Philip Pullman — 3/5
Finding Ullagundahi Island — by Fabienne Bayet-Charlton — 3/5
Earth Then And Now — by Fred Pearce — 4/5
The Tale Of Little Pig Robinson — by Beatrix Potter — 2/5
Treasure Fever — by Andy Griffiths — 3/5
Pencil Of Doom — by Andy Griffiths — 2/5
The Arrival — by Shaun Tan — 4/5
The Lieutenant — by Kate Grenville — 3/5
Toad Surprise — by Morris Gleitzman — 4/5
The Prophet — by Kahlil Gibran — 1/5
Chinese Cinderella And The Secret Dragon Society — by Adeline Yen Mah — 2/5
The Outsider — by Albert Camus — 3/5
The Tales Of Beedle The Bard — by J. K. Rowling — 4/5
Screw It, Let’s Do It — by Richard Branson — 5/5
Tim — by Colleen McCullough — 5/5
The Notebook — by Nicholas Sparks — 5/5
Breath — by Tim Winton — 5/5
Rex: My Life — by Rex Hunt — 5/5

2007 – 17 years old

The End — by Lemony Snicket — 4/5
Greg Norman: The Way Of The Shark — by Greg Norman — 4/5
Letters From The Inside — by John Marsden — 5/5
Doubting Thomas — by Morris Gleitzman — 4/5
The Journey — by James Norbury — 3/5
Take My Word For It — by John Marsden — 3/5
Prizes — by unknown — 3/5
Steve Waugh’s World Cup Diary 1996 — by Steve Waugh — 3/5
Black Taxi — by James Moloney — 3/5
Looking For Alibrandi — by Melina Marchetta — 5/5
All The Green Year — by Don Charlwood — 3/5
No Regrets — by Steve Waugh — 4/5
Fly Away Peter — by David Malouf — 2/5
Triumph Of The Nomads — by Geoffrey Blainey — 3/5
A Streetcar Named Desire — by Tennessee Williams — 3/5
Beneath The Snow — by Caroline Carver — 4/5
The Importance Of Being Earnest — by Oscar Wilde — 3/5
Jane Eyre — by Charlotte Brontë — 3/5
Macbeth — by William Shakespeare — 3/5
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows — by J. K. Rowling — 5/5
Doppelganger — by David Stahler Jr. — 3/5
The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald — 3/5
Salomé — by Oscar Wilde — 2/5
Just Shocking — by Andy Griffiths — 2/5
Lady Windermere’s Fan — by Oscar Wilde — 2/5
A Florentine Tragedy — by Oscar Wilde — 2/5
In The Lake Of The Woods — by Tim O’Brien — 3/5
Sense And Sensibility — by Jane Austen — 3/5
The Crucible — by Arthur Miller — 2/5
Three Sisters — by Anton Chekhov — 2/5
The Rose Notes — by Andrea Mayes — 4/5

2006 – 16 years old

Out Of My Comfort Zone — by Steve Waugh — 4/5
The Penultimate Peril — by Lemony Snicket — 5/5
Incurable — by John Marsden — 5/5
The Wave — by Todd Strasser — 4/5
Josh — by Ivan Southall — 3/5
For Want Of A Saddle — by Christine Pullein-Thompson — 3/5
The Runaway Settlers — by Elsie Locke — 4/5
It’s Good To Be The King…Sometimes — by Jerry Lawler — 5/5
To Kill A Mockingbird — by Harper Lee — 4/5
Seeker — by William Nicholson — 4/5
Romeo And Juliet — by William Shakespeare — 2/5
Heartbreak And Triumph — by Shawn Michaels — 4/5
Road To Solo Driving — by Vic Roads — 2/5
Ice Station — by Matthew Reilly — 4/5
Mystery Of Disaster Island — by Ann Rivkin — 3/5
Escape Alone — by David Howarth — 4/5
The Call Of The Wild — by Jack London — 4/5
Smithereens — by Susan Taylor Chehak — 3/5
The Golfer’s Guide To Happiness — by Joe Kohl — 3/5
Flight Of The White Wolf — by Mel Ellis — 4/5
Girl With A Pearl Earring — by Tracy Chevalier — 5/5
Stolen — by Jane Harrison — 3/5
Parvana — by Deborah Ellis — 3/5
Mandragora — by David McRobbie — 4/5
Circle Of Flight — by John Marsden — 5/5

2005 – 15 years old

The Grim Grotto — by Lemony Snicket — 4/5
The Dragon In The Garden — by Reginald Maddock — 4/5
Darkness Be My Friend — by John Marsden — 5/5
Burning For Revenge — by John Marsden — 4/5
The Night Is For Hunting — by John Marsden — 4/5
The Other Side Of Dawn — by John Marsden — 5/5
While I Live — by John Marsden — 4/5
Winter — by John Marsden — 3/5
Harry Potter And the Half Blood Prince — by J. K. Rowling — 5/5
Nukkin Ya — by Heather Steen and Phillip Gwynne — 4/5
Bumageddon: The Final Pongflict — by Andy Griffiths — 3/5
Girl Underground — by Morris Gleitzman — 3/5
Once — by Morris Gleitzman — 4/5
How Hedley Hopkins Did a Dare — by Paul Jennings — 4/5
Adults Only — by Morris Gleitzman — 4/5
Erasmus James And The Galactic Zapp Machine — by D. C. Green — 3/5
The Damage Done — by Warren Fellows — 5/5
The Fellowship Of The Ring — by J. R. R. Tolkien — 4/5
Guitar Highway Rose — by Brigid Lowry — 3/5
The Two Towers — by J. R. R. Tolkien — 4/5
The Return Of The King — by J. R. R. Tolkien — 4/5

2004 – 14 years old

Toad Away — by Morris Gleitzman — 5/5
Dragons Nest — by Emily Rodda — 5/5
The Slippery Slope — by Lemony Snicket — 5/5
Never Say Die — by Steve Waugh — 4/5
Holes — by Louis Sachar — 5/5
Shadowgate — by Emily Rodda — 4/5
Tomorrow, When The War Began — by John Marsden — 5/5
The Dead Of Night — by John Marsden — 5/5
The Third Day The Frost — by John Marsden — 5/5
Talking In Whispers — by James Watson — 3/5
Isle Of The Dead — by Emily Rodda — 4/5
A Bridge To Wiseman’s Cove — by James Moloney — 5/5
The Sister Of The South — by Emily Rodda — 5/5
Deadly Unna — by Phillip Gwynne — 4/5

2003 – 13 years old

The Secret Of Terror Castle — by Robert Arthur — 4/5
The Carnivorous Carnival — by Lemony Snicket — 5/5
The Mystery Of The Stuttering Parrot — by Robert Arthur — 5/5
Captain’s Diary 2002 — by Steve Waugh — 5/5
Homecoming — by Cynthia Voigt — 5/5
Nips Go National — by Ruth Starke — 4/5
Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix — by J.K. Rowling — 5/5
Lockie Leonard: Human Torpedo — by Tim Winton — 3/5
Rift — by unknown — 4/5
The Sea Caves — by Colin Thiele — 4/5
Boy — by Roald Dahl — 5/5
Zombie Bums From Uranus — by Andy Griffiths — 4/5
Five Ring Fever — by Laurie Lawrence — 3/5

2002 – 12 years old

Rowen And The Zebak — by Emily Rodda — 5/5
Rowan And The Keeper Of The Crystal — by Emily Rodda — 5/5
The Reptile Room — by Lemony Snicket — 5/5
The Wide Window — by Lemony Snicket — 5/5
The Miserable Mill — by Lemony Snicket — 5/5
Toad Heaven — by Morris Gleitzman — 4/5
The Austere Academy — by Lemony Snicket — 4/5
Bumface — by Morris Gleitzman — 5/5
Cavern Of The Fear — by Emily Rodda — 5/5
Deadly (Nude) — by Paul Jennings & Morris Gleitzman — 5/5
Deadly (Brats) — by Paul Jennings & Morris Gleitzman — 5/5
Deadly (Stiff) — by Paul Jennings & Morris Gleitzman — 5/5
Deadly (Hunt) — by Paul Jennings & Morris Gleitzman — 5/5
Deadly (Grope) — by Paul Jennings & Morris Gleitzman — 5/5
Deadly (Pluck) — by Paul Jennings & Morris Gleitzman — 5/5
Little Pet Shop Of Horrors — by Betsy Haynes — 5/5
The Cabbage Patch Fib — by Paul Jennings — 5/5
My Life As A Human Hairball — by Bill Myers — 4/5
Taronga — by Victor Kelleher — 5/5
The Isle Of Illusion — by Emily Rodda — 5/5
The Water Babies — by Charles Kingsley — 4/5
Return Of The Indian — by Lynne Reid Banks — 3/5
My Life As A Blundering Ballerina — by Bill Myers — 4/5
Five Get Into Trouble — by Enid Blyton — 4/5
Bright Lights Dark Shadows: The Real Story Of ABBA — by Carl Magnus Palm — 4/5
Hitler’s Daughter — by Jackie French — 5/5
Little Brother — by Allan Baillie — 5/5
The Hobbit — by J. R. R. Tolkien — 3/5
Nicholas Nickleby — by Charles Dickens — 3/5
Just Disgusting — by Andy Griffiths — 4/5
Blueback — by Tim Winton — 5/5
Firesong — by William Nicholson — 5/5
Boy Overboard — by Morris Gleitzman — 5/5
The Power Of One — by Bryce Courtenay — 4/5
The Ersatz Elevator — by Lemony Snicket — 4/5
The Vile Village — by Lemony Snicket — 4/5
The River Of Adventure — by Enid Blyton — 3/5
The Hostile Hospital — by Lemony Snicket — 4/5
The Mystery Of The Whispering Mummy — by Robert Arthur — 4/5

2001 – 11 years old

The Hardy Boys And Nancy Drew Meet Dracula — by Glen Larson and Michael Sloan — 3/5
The Haunted House — by unknown — 3/5
Flight To Nowhere — by John Fuller — 2/5
Five Go Down To The Sea — by Enid Blyton — 4/5
The Shape Of Three — by Lilith Norman — 3/5
Five Have A Wonderful Time – by Enid Blyton — 4/5
Five On A Treasure Island — by Enid Blyton — 4/5
Five Go To Mystery Moor — by Enid Blyton — 5/5
Five On Kirrin Island Again — by Enid Blyton — 5/5
Five Go To Billycock Hill — by Enid Blyton — 4/5
Storm Boy — by Colin Thiele — 5/5
The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer — by Mark Twain — 4/5
The Wizard Of Oz — by L. Frank Baum — 4/5
Treasure Island — by Robert Louis Stevenson — 4/5
The Hundred Islands — by Mavis Thorpe Clark — 4/5
A Fortunate Life — by Albert Facey — 5/5
Does This School Have Capital Punishment — by Nat Hentoff — 3/5
The Shepherd — by unknown — 2/5
The Secret Of Moon Castle — by Enid Blyton — 4/5
Thunder And Lightnings — by Jan Mark — 4/5
The Horse And His Boy — by C. S. Lewis — 3/5
Prince Caspian — by C. S. Lewis — 4/5
The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader — by C. S. Lewis — 4/5
The Silver Chair — by C. S. Lewis — 5/5
The Last Battle — by C. S. Lewis — 5/5
We Have Fun — by Ladybird — 3/5
We Like To Help — by Ladybird — 3/5
Fun And Games — by Ladybird — 3/5
If I Ran The Zoo — by Dr. Seuss — 2/5
The Magic Pudding — by Norman Lindsay — 2/5
Worlds Of Adventure — by unknown — 3/5
The Adventures Of Digby The Mouse — by Mike Wilson — 3/5
The Sea Of Adventure — by Enid Blyton — 4/5
The Valley Of Adventure — by Enid Blyton — 4/5
Five Have Plenty Of Fun — by Enid Blyton — 4/5
Five Go Adventuring Again — by Enid Blyton — 5/5
The Secret Island — by Enid Blyton — 5/5
Five Have A Mystery To Solve — by Enid Blyton — 4/5
Heidi — by Johanna Spyri — 5/5
The Adventure Of The Secret Necklace — by Enid Blyton — 4/5
You And Me — by unknown — 2/5
Quicksilver — by unknown — 3/5
Tiger Woods: An American Master — by Nicholas Edwards — 4/5
Five Run Away Together — by Enid Blyton — 5/5
Summer Of The Swans — by Betsy Byars — 4/5
Eddy And The Demon Bowler — by Jane Carroll — 3/5
It’s Not Fair — by unknown — 3/5
Frequent Flyer Twins — by Hazel Edwards — 5/5
The Missing Lollypop — by Sam McBratney — 4/5
The Secret Of The Rumbling Churn — by John Sweet — 3/5
Charlotte’s Web — by E. B. White — 5/5
The Mystery Of The Invisible Thief — by Enid Blyton — 4/5
The Wind In The Willows — by Kenneth Grahame — 3/5
Five Go Off To Camp — by Enid Blyton — 4/5
The Mystery Of The Talking Skull — by Robert Arthur — 3/5
The Mystery Of The Island — by Isobel Knight — 4/5
Artemis Fowl — by Eoin Colfer — 4/5
Five Go To Smuggler’s Top — by Enid Blyton — 4/5
Five Get Into A Fix — by Enid Blyton — 4/5
Just Crazy — by Andy Griffiths — 4/5
Just Stupid — by Andy Griffiths — 4/5
Just Annoying — by Andy Griffiths — 4/5
Just Tricking — by Andy Griffiths — 5/5
Nips XI — by Ruth Starke — 5/5
Flash Jack — by Maureen McCarthy — 5/5
Mischief At St Rollo’s — by Enid Blyton — 4/5
Smuggler Ben — by Enid Blyton — 4/5
Gameplay — by unknown — 5/5
The Adventurous Four — by Enid Blyton — 4/5
The Adventurous Four Again — by Enid Blyton — 4/5
The Children Of Cherry Tree Farm — by Enid Blyton — 3/5
Five Are Together Again — by Enid Blyton — 4/5
Five Fall Into Adventure — by Enid Blyton — 5/5
The Mystery Of The Banshee Towers — by Enid Blyton — 5/5
The Dagger And Wings And Other Stories — by GK Chesterton — 3/5
The Golden Touch And Other Stories — by David Foulds — 3/5
The Forests Of Silence — by Emily Rodda — 5/5
The Lake Of Tears — by Emily Rodda — 5/5
City Of The Rats — by Emily Rodda — 5/5
The Shifting Sands — by Emily Rodda — 4/5
Dread Mountain — by Emily Rodda — 5/5
Maze Of The Beast — by Emily Rodda — 4/5
The Valley Of The Lost — by Emily Rodda — 5/5
Return To Del — by Emily Rodda — 5/5
The Day My Bum Went Psycho — by Andy Griffiths — 5/5
Five On A Secret Trail — by Enid Blyton — 5/5
Rowan Of Rin — by Emily Rodda — 5/5
Someone Like Me — by Elaine Forrestal — 5/5
The Missing Scientist — by Enid Blyton — 3/5
The Secret Mountain — by Enid Blyton — 4/5
The Bad Beginning — Lemony Snicket — 5/5
The Wind Singer — by William Nicholson — 5/5
Slaves Of The Mastery — by William Nicholson — 5/5
Rowan And The Travellers — by Emily Rodda — 5/5

2000 – 10 years old

Once Upon A Time — by The Brothers Grimm — 2/5
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire — by J. K. Rowling — 5/5
The Cocky’s Egg — by Cecilia Egan — 3/5
The Tale Of Scissors The Gnome — by Enid Blyton — 4/5
Ride A Wild Pony — by James Aldridge — 5/5
Heidi’s Children — by Charles Tritten — 2/5
The Lorax — by Dr. Seuss — 4/5
The Mind Master — by James Gunn — 3/5
The Web — by Jonathan Kellerman — 2/5
Five On Finniston Farm — by Enid Blyton — 5/5
Five Go To Demon’s Rocks — by Enid Blyton — 5/5
Five Go Off In A Caravan — by Enid Blyton — 5/5
On Loan — by unknown — 3/5
Tarflowers — by Terry Larsen — 1/5
Just Friends — by unknown — 3/5
His Master’s Ghost — by Tom Shapcott and Roger Simpson — 2/5
Mr. Edmund — by unknown — 3/5
The Paper Boy — by unknown — 4/5
Boy Soldiers — by unknown — 3/5
The Journey — by John Marsden — 5/5
The Other Facts Of Life — by Morris Gleitzman — 2/5
The Big Wish — by John Hepworth and Steve J. Spears — 3/5
The Mystery Of The Burnt Cottage — by Enid Blyton — 5/5
The Mystery Of The Spiteful Letters — by Enid Blyton — 5/5
The Island Of Adventure — by Enid Blyton — 5/5
Mr. Pink-Whistle’s Party — by Enid Blyton — 3/5
The Secret Of Spiggy Holes — by Enid Blyton — 5/5
The Children At Green Meadows — by Enid Blyton — 4/5
Second Childhood — by Morris Gleitzman — 3/5
Quest Beyond Time — by Tony Morphett — 2/5
Toad Rage — by Morris Gleitzman — 4/5
The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe — by C. S. Lewis — 4/5
Five On A Hike Together — by Enid Blyton — 4/5
Secret Seven Mystery — by Enid Blyton — 3/5
Puzzle For The Secret Seven — by Enid Blyton — 3/5
Bridge To Terabithia — by Katherine Paterson — 2/5
The Worst Team Ever — by Phillip Gwynne — 4/5
While The Clock Ticked — by Franklin W. Dixon — 4/5

Before 2000

The Enchanted Wood — by Enid Blyton — 3/5
The Magic Faraway Tree — by Enid Blyton — 3/5
The Folk Of The Faraway Tree — by Enid Blyton — 3/5
Adventures Of The Wishing Chair — by Enid Blyton — 3/5
The Wishing Chair Again — by Enid Blyton — 3/5
Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone — by J. K. Rowling — 5/5
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets — by J. K. Rowling — 5/5
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban — by J. K. Rowling — 5/5
Green Eggs And Ham — by Dr. Seuss ¬— 3/5
The Funny Little Woman — by Arlene Mosel — 3/5
Oxford Treasury Of Children’s Stories — by Michael Harrison — 2/5
Hello Mr. Twiddle — by Enid Blyton — 3/5
Along Came A Dog — by Meindert DeJong — 3/5
The Children Of Willow Farm — by Enid Blyton — 2/5
The Story Of Holly And Ivy — by Rumer Godden — 3/5
The Storm — by unknown — 3/5
Fantastic Mr. Fox — by Roald Dahl — 3/5
Nobody’s House — by Martin Hall — 5/5
Wicked — by Paul Jennings and Morris Gleitzman — 2/5
The Witches — by Roald Dahl — 3/5
The Twits — by Roald Dahl — 3/5
The Magic Finger — by Roald Dahl — 3/5
George’s Marvellous Medicine — by Roald Dahl — 3/5
The B.F.G. — by Roald Dahl — 3/5
Esiro Trot — by Roald Dahl — 2/5
James And The Giant Peach — by Roald Dahl — 4/5
Tiny Tots Story Book — by John H. Walton and Kim Walton — 3/5
The Haunted Mask — by R. L. Stine — 3/5
Monster Blood III — by R. L. Stine — 2/5
Attack Of The Mutant — by R. L. Stine — 3/5
Teacher Creature — by R. L. Stine — 4/5
Toilet Terror — by Betsy Haynes — 3/5
The Wonderful Story Of Henry Sugar — by Roald Dahl — 5/5
Good Work Secret Seven — by Enid Blyton — 4/5
Secret Seven Win Through — by Enid Blyton — 4/5
Undone — by Paul Jennings — 3/5
Uncanny — by Paul Jennings — 3/5
Unmentionable — by Paul Jennings — 3/5
Unbelievable — by Paul Jennings — 3/5
Unbearable — by Paul Jennings — 3/5
The Paw Thing — by Paul Jennings — 2/5
Alice In Wonderland — by Lewis Carroll — 2/5
Black Beauty — by Anna Sewell — 2/5
The Australasian Stamp Catalogue: 28th Edition — by various — 3/5
Tales From The Jungle Book — Rudyard Kipling — 2/5
The Tale Of Ginger and Pickles — by Beatrix Potter — 2/5
The Tale Of Squirrel Nutkin — by Beatrix Potter — 2/5
The Tale Of Benjamin Bunny — by Beatrix Potter — 3/5
Appley Dapply’s Nursery Rhymes — by Beatrix Potter — 3/5
The Tale Of Two Bad Mice — by Beatrix Potter — 3/5
The Tale Of Johnny Town-Mouse — by Beatrix Potter — 3/5
The Tale Of Mrs. Tittlemouse — by Beatrix Potter — 3/5
The Tale Of Timmy Tiptoes — by Beatrix Potter — 3/5
The Taylor Of Gloucester — by Beatrix Potter — 3/5
The Story Of Miss Moppet — by Beatrix Potter — 2/5
The Tale Of The Flopsy Bunnies — by Beatrix Potter — 2/5
The Tale Of Mr. Tod — by Beatrix Potter — 2/5
The Tale Of Samuel Whiskers — by Beatrix Potter — 2/5
The Tale Of Jemima Puddle-Duck — by Beatrix Potter — 4/5
The Tale Of The Pie And The Patty-Pan — by Beatrix Potter — 2/5
The Tale Of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle — by Beatrix Potter — 3/5
The Tale Of Pigling Bland — by Beatrix Potter — 4/5
The Tale Of A Fierce Bad Rabbit — by Beatrix Potter — 3/5
The Tale Of Tom Kitten — by Beatrix Potter — 3/5
The Tale Of Mr. Jeremy Fisher — by Beatrix Potter — 3/5
The Tale Of Peter Rabbit — by Beatrix Potter — 4/5
Cecily Parsley’s Nursery Rhymes — by Beatrix Potter — 3/5

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Derek Sivers has compiled one of the best free breakdowns of books on the internet here, which served also served as inspiration for this post.

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