For the first time this year, no crime fiction or sci-fi, just a directed mixture of serious literary fiction and nonfiction:
- I’ve been saving up Tim Winton’s Breath
- John Keane’s ambitious, fascinating The Life and Death of Democracy
- Exposure: A Journey, lyrical memoir/travel from local author Joel Magarey
- Hilary Spurling’s superlative Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse, The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954
- At last the paperback of Stewart O’Nan’s Songs for the Missing
- Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness by Lyanda Haupt
- Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals, now quite old but by the master, Niall Ferguson
- Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking
- A second go at Michael Bellomo’s The Stem Cell Divide: The Facts, the Fiction, and the Fear Driving the Greatest Scientific, Political, and Religious Debate of Our Time
- Charles Taylor’s epic A Secular Age