Power Readers
Macgregor Duncan & Andrew Leigh
Australian Literary Review, 3 March 2010
Additional Tables
We would be delighted if other researchers would like to use the data contained in these
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Table 1: Favourite Authors Listed by Australian Politicians
Non-fiction
1. Nelson Mandela (Bruce Billson LP, James Turnour ALP, Anthony Albanese ALP, Brett
Raguse ALP, Pat Farmer LP, Margaret May LP)
2. Robert Caro (Chris Bowen ALP, Mitch Fifield LP, Nicholas Champion ALP, Kirsten
Livermore ALP)
3. Les Carlyon (Brendan Nelson LP, Michael Forshaw ALP, Bruce Scott NAT)
4. The Bible (Stuart Robert LP, Hedley Chapman LP, Alex Hawke LP)
Fiction
1. Leo Tolstoy (Lindsay Tanner ALP, Mike Kelly ALP, Nick Minchin LP, Trish Crossin
ALP)
2. Harper Lee (Chris Bowen ALP, Brett Mason LP, Bruce Billson LP, Shayne Neumann
ALP)
3. J.R.R. Tolkien (Kate Lundy ALP, Darren Cheeseman ALP, Tony Abbott LP)
Non-Fiction and Fiction
1. George Orwell (Cory Bernardi LP, Lindsay Tanner ALP, Brendan O’Connor ALP, Mark
Dreyfus ALP, Gary Humphries LP, Mitch Fifield LP)
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Table 2: Favourite books named by selected prominent Labor politicians
Last nonLast fiction
Favourite non- Favourite
fiction
fiction
fiction
Nelson
Christopher
Mandela, Long
Kremmer, The
Tim Winton,
Walk to
Nick Hornby,
Anthony Albanese Carpet Wars
Breath
Freedom
High Fidelity
Jon K. Lauck,
Daschle vs
Robert Caro,
John Steinbeck,
Thune Master of the
Grapes of
Anatomy of a
F. Scott
Senate; Roy
Wrath; Harper
High Plains
Fitzgerald, The Jenkins, Life at Lee, To Kill a
Chris Bowen
Senate Race
Great Gatsby
the Centre
Mockingbird
Amir D Aczel,
God's Equation:
Tony Crilly, 50
Einstein,
Mathematical
JR Connell,
Relativity and
Ideas You Need Shakespeare's
the Expanding
Frank Delaney,
Tony Burke
to Know
Secret
Universe
Island
Bill Arthur and
Frances Morphy
(eds.),
Macquarie
George L.
Steve Tolz,
Atlas of
Small, The Blue Fraction of the
Indigenous
Geraldine
Peter Garrett
Whale
Whole
Australia
Brooks, March
Thomas
Drew Weston,
John Le Carre,
Friedman, The
The Political
A Most Wanted Lexus and the
Tim Winton,
Julia Gillard
Brain
Man
Olive Tree
Cloudstreet
George
Margot Saville,
Bob Carr, My
Johnston, My
Battle for
George Eliot,
Maxine McKew
Literary Life
Brother Jack
Bennelong
Middlemarch
Nick Cohen,
A.K.
What's Left?
Chesterton, The C.E. Smith,
How Liberals
Father Brown
Design for the
Jane Austen,
Tanya Plibersek
Lost Their Way Stories
other 90%
Persuasion
George Orwell,
Collected
Saul Bellow,
Essays,
Tony Judt,
The Adventures Journalism and Leo Tolstoy,
Lindsay Tanner
Reappraisals
of Augie March Letters
War and Peace
Name
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Table 3: Favourite books named by selected prominent Coalition politicians
Last nonLast fiction
Favourite non- Favourite
fiction
fiction
fiction
Evelyn Waugh, Robert Rhodes
Paul Johnson, A Sword of
James,
J.R.R. Tolkien,
History of the
Honour
Churchill: A
The Lord of the
Tony Abbott
Jews
(trilogy)
Study in Failure Rings
Martin Boyd,
The Langton
Series - The
Peter Watson, A Cardboard
Terrible Beauty Crown, When
- a History of
Blackbirds Sing,
the People and
A Difficult
Marcus Mabry, Ian McEwan,
Ideas that
Young Man,
Condoleezza
On Chesil
Shaped the
Outbreak of
Julie Bishop
Rice
Beach
Modern World
Love
Michael
Gordon,
Michael
Freeing Ali:
Chabon, The
The Human
Yiddish
Face of the
Policeman's
Too difficult to Too difficult to
Petro Georgiou
Pacific Solution Union
select just one
select just one
Peter
John LeCarre,
Thomas L
Jane Austen,
FitzSimons,
Tinker, Tailor,
Friedman, The
Pride and
Joseph Hockey
Tobruk
Soldier, Spy
World is Flat
Prejudice
Sebastian
Jared Diamond,
Les Carlyon,
Faulks,
Brendan Nelson
Collapse
Can’t remember The Great War Birdsong
Theodore
White, Tie - The
Making of the
John Boyne,
President in
Charles
Roy Jenkins,
The Boy in the 1960; Plutarch, Dickens, Great
Christopher Pyne Churchill
Striped Pyjamas Lives
Expectations
Richard
Cramer, What it
Karen Connelly, Harper Lee, To Takes;
James Ellroy,
The Lizard
Kill a
Machiavelli,
L.A.
Andrew Robb
Cage
Mockingbird
The Prince
Confidential
Name
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Table 4: A Selection of Books Authored by Current Australian Politicians
Abbott, Tony (1995) The minimal monarchy: and why it still makes sense for Australia.
(184 p.)
Abbott, Tony (1997) How to win the constitutional war and give both sides what they want.
(162 p.)
Abbott, Tony (2009) Battlelines
Andrews, Kevin (with Michelle Curtis) (1998) Changing Australia: social, cultural and
economic trends
Brown, Bob (1989) The Australian Economy. (375 p.)
Brown, Bob (2004) Memo for a saner world. (281 p.)
Costello, Peter (with Peter Coleman) (2008) The Costello memoirs: the age of prosperity.
(386 p.)
Emerson, Craig (2006) Vital signs, vibrant society: securing Australia's economic and social
wellbeing.
Kerr, Duncan J.C. (2001) Elect the ambassador!: building democracy in a globalised world.
(194 p.)
Mason, Brett (2006) Privacy without principle: the use and abuse of privacy in Australian law
and public policy. (228 p.)
Perrett, Graham (2008) The twelfth fish. (237 p.)
Swan, Wayne (2005) Postcode : the splintering of a nation. (248 p.)
Lindsay Tanner (with Peter Russ) (1978) The politics of pollution. (186 p.)
Tanner, Lindsay (1996) The last battle. (216 p.)
Tanner, Lindsay (1999) Open Australia. (248 p.)
Tanner, Lindsay (2003) Crowded lives. (124 p.)
Trood, Russell (2008) The emerging global order : Australian foreign policy in the 21st
century. (199 p.)
Turnbull, Malcolm (1988) The Spycatcher Trial
Turnbull, Malcolm (1993) The Reluctant Republic
Turnbull, Malcolm (1999) Fighting for the republic: the ultimate insider's account
Note: So far as we are aware, this is the most comprehensive list available, but it is
nonetheless likely that we have omitted some parliamentarians’ books.
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Table 5: Full results
Last Name
First Name
Gender
House
Party
Title of last non
fiction
Abbott
Anthony
Male
H of
Rep
LP
A History of the
Jews
Adams
Judith
Female
Senate
LP
Albanese
Anthony
Male
ALP
Bernardi
Cory
Male
H of
Rep
Senate
Billson
Bruce
Male
H of
Rep
LP
Birmingham
Simon
Male
Senate
LP
Bishop
Julie
Female
H of
Rep
LP
LP
Author of
last non
fiction
Paul Johnson
Title of last
fiction
Author of last
fiction
Title of
favourite non
fiction
Churchill: A
Study in
Failure
Author of
favourite
non fiction
Robert
Rhodes
James
Title of
favourite
fiction
The Lord of
the Rings
Author of
favourite fiction
The Carpet
Wars
The Wolf of
Wall Street
Christopher
Kremmer
Jordan
Belfort
Breath
Tim Winton
Long Walk to
Freedom
Free to
Choose
Nelson
Mandela
Milton
Friedman
High Fidelity
Nick Hornby
It
Stephen King
Ludwig
Bemelmans, and
Andrew
Davenport/Ragdoll
Long Walk to
Freedom
Nelson
Mandela
Lord of the
Flies, and
Animal Farm
To Kill a
Mockingbird
William Golding,
and George
Orwell
Harper Lee
The Argument:
Billionaires,
Bloggers and
the Battle to
Remake
Democratic
Politics, and
Winston
Churchill's
Speeches:
Never Give In!
The Three
Roosevelts
Matt Bai, and
Winston S.
Churchill
(ed.)
Madeline,
and In the
Night Garden:
Upsy Daisy
Ooh Pretty
Flower
(reading them
to his
daughter)
James
MacGregor
Burns &
Susan Dunn
Marcus
Mabry
A Long Way
Down
Nick Hornby
The Justice
Game
Geoffrey
Robinson
The Fourth
Estate
Jeffrey Archer
On Chesil
Beach
Ian McEwan
A Terrible
Beauty - a
History of the
People and
Ideas that
Shaped the
Modern World
Peter
Watson
The Langton
Series - The
Cardboard
Crown,
When
Blackbirds
Sing, A
Difficult
Young Man,
Outbreak of
Love
Martin Boyd
Sword of
Evelyn Waugh
Honour
(trilogy)
Cannot take part because she hasn't read a book privately in years
Condoleezza
Rice
5
J.R.R. Tolkien
Last Name
First Name
Gender
House
Party
Title of last non
fiction
Author of
last non
fiction
David
Levering
Lewis
Title of last
fiction
Author of last
fiction
Title of
favourite non
fiction
The Fall of the
Roman Empire
Author of
favourite
non fiction
Peter
Heather
Title of
favourite
fiction
Eagle in the
Snow
Author of
favourite fiction
Bishop
Mark
Male
Senate
ALP
Bowen
Chris
Male
H of
Rep
ALP
Brown
Robert
Male
Senate
AG
God's Crucible Islam and the
Making of
Europe 5701215
Daschle vs
Thune Anatomy of a
High Plains
Senate Race
Climate Code
Red
Attila - The
Gathering of
the Storm
William Napier
Jon K. Lauck
The Great
Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Master of the
Senate, and
Life at the
Centre
Robert Caro,
and Roy
Jenkins
Grapes of
Wrath, and
To Kill a
Mockingbird
John Steinbeck,
and Harper Lee
David Spratt
and Philip
Sutton
The
Butcherbird
Geoffrey Cousins
History of
Western
Philosophy
Bertrand
Russell
Frederick R. Karl
and Leo
Hamalian (eds)
Parliament of
Australia
Years of
Wonder
Catherine Brooks
Wittgenstein's
Poker
50
Mathematical
Ideas You Need
to Know
Tony Crilly
Shakespeare's
Secret
JR Connell
Ireland
Frank Delaney
Vaclav Klaus
ALP
Blue Planet in
Green Shackles
Dear Mr Rudd
Robert
Manne (ed.)
Antony &
Cleopatra
Suite
Francaise
Colleen
McCullough
Irene Nemirovsky
God's
Equation:
Einstein,
Relativity and
the Expanding
Universe
The Victory
David
Edmonds &
John
Eidinow
Amir D Aczel
Short
Stories: The
Existential
Imagination
long list
Burke
Anna
Female
H of
Rep
ALP
House of
Representatives
Practices
Burke
Anthony
Male
H of
Rep
ALP
Bushby
David
Male
Senate
LP
First Man in
Rome
The English
Patient
Colleen
McCullough
Michael
Ondaatje
Butler
Mark
Male
H of
Rep
Champion
Nicholas
Male
H of
Rep
Senate
ALP
The End of Oil
Paul Roberts
Flashman
Chuck Palahniuk
Pound for
Pound
Beyond
Passion
Great
Expectations
Charles Dickens
H of
Rep
ALP
Underbelly: The
Gangland War
Peter
Cornwall and
Ken Eustice
John Silvester
and Andrew
Rule
Master of the
Senate
The Bible
Fight Club
LP
George
MacDonald Fraser
Tony Boyle
Chapman
Hedley
Male
Cheeseman
Darren
Male
n/a
Primary Colors
Lord of the
Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
can't
remember
6
Natural
Capitalism
Pamela
Williams
Paul
Hawken,
Amory
Lovins & L.
Hunter
Lovins
Robert Caro
Joe Klein
Wallace Breen
n/a
Last Name
First Name
Gender
House
Party
Title of last non
fiction
Ciobo
Steven
Male
H of
Rep
LP
Cobb
John
Male
NATS
Combet
Gregory
Male
H of
Rep
H of
Rep
So you're going
to be a Dad,
and Peace Kills:
America's Fun
New
Imperialism
n/a
ALP
Biography of
Franklin
Roosevelt
Conrad Black
Coulton
Mark
Male
NATS
Patricia
Female
The Anthonys
of Richmond
Tuesdays with
Morrie
Paul Davey
Crossin
H of
Rep
Senate
Debus
Robert
Male
H of
Rep
ALP
Van Dieman's
Land
James Boyce
Dreyfus
Mark
Male
H of
Rep
ALP
Isaac Isaacs
Farmer
Patrick
Male
H of
Rep
LP
Ferguson
Laurie
Male
H of
Rep
ALP
Fifield
Mitchell
Male
Senate
LP
Fitzgibbon
Joel
Male
ALP
Forshaw
Michael
Male
H of
Rep
Senate
ALP
ALP
Author of
last non
fiction
Peter
Downey, and
P J O'Rourke
Title of last
fiction
Author of last
fiction
Title of
favourite non
fiction
none in
particular, but
likes "virtually
anything by P J
O'Rourke"
Author of
favourite
non fiction
P J O'Rourke
Title of
favourite
fiction
n/a
Author of
favourite fiction
JFK: Reckless
Youth
Nigel Hamilton
n/a
The Afghan
Campaign
crime fiction
books
Steven Pressfield
n/a
n/a
Rolf Boldrewood
Henning Mankell
any good
economic
history book
John Grisham
n/a
Wilbur Smith
J.K. Rowling
Madame
Secretary
Madeleine
Albright
When the
Lion Feeds
Anna
Karenina
Juno Diaz
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Zelman
Cowen
Playing for
Pizza
Harry Potter
and the HalfBlood Prince
The Brief
Wondrous
Life of Oscar
Wao
The
Lieutenant
any, but
especially
Eric
Hobsbawm
n/a
Robbery
under Arms
Capricornia
Kate Grenville
Collected
Essays
George
Orwell
Louis de
Bernieres
Hell Island
Matthew
Riley
can't
remember
n/a
Nelson
Mandela
Phnom Penh
(Cities of
Imagination
Series)
The
Reformation
Ghost Wars
Milton
Osborne
The Draining
Lake
Arnaldur
Indridason
Biography
(there are
two)
Labor's Giant
Step
Captain
Corelli's
Mandolin
Flanagan's
Run
Art Preis
Rabbit series
in general
John Updike
Diarmaid
MacCulloch
Steve Coll
State of Fear
Michael Crichton
Robert Caro
1984
George Orwell
Power of One
Bryce Courtenay
Master of the
Senate
Wild Swans
Jung Chang
Jeffrey Archer
Mark Twain: A
Life
Ron Powers
People of the
Book
Geraldine Brooks
Gallipoli
Les Carlyon
First among
Equals
The
Adventures
of
Huckleberry
Finn
Mitch Ablom
7
n/a
Xavier Herbert
Leo Tolstoy
Tom McNabb
Mark Twain
Last Name
First Name
Gender
House
Party
Title of last non
fiction
Garrett
Peter
Male
H of
Rep
ALP
The Blue Whale
George
Jennie
Female
H of
Rep
ALP
The War Within
Georgiou
Petro
Male
H of
Rep
LP
Gillard
Julia
Female
ALP
Gray
Gary
Male
H of
Rep
H of
Rep
Hawke
Alexander
Male
H of
Rep
LP
Hawker
David
Male
LP
Heffernan
William
Male
H of
Rep
Senate
LP
Freeing Ali: The
Michael
The Yiddish
Human Face of
Gordon
Policeman's
the Pacific
Union
Solution
The Political
Drew Weston A Most
Brain
Wanted Man
James Stirling Pamela
n/a
admiral and
Stathamfounding
Drew
governor of WA
Boy Genius:
Carl M.
Star Wars:
Karl Rove, The
Cannon et al.
Darth Bane:
Architect of
Rule of Two
George W.
Bush's
Remarkable
Political
Triumphs
Undiplomatic
Richard
The Lord's
Activities
Woolcott
Day
Hasn't read a book since he left high school
Hockey
Joseph
Male
LP
Tobruk
Hull
Kay
Female
NATS
Humphries
Gary
Male
H of
Rep
H of
Rep
Senate
Hunt
Gregory
Male
Hurley
Annette
Female
ALP
Author of
last non
fiction
George L.
Small
Title of last
fiction
Author of last
fiction
Fraction of
the Whole
Steve Tolz
Don Tate
Moscow
Rules
Daniel Silva
Michael Chabon
John Le Carre
n/a
Drew Karpyshyn
Michael Dobbs
Title of
favourite non
fiction
Macquarie
Atlas of
Indigenous
Australia
Recollections
of a Bleeding
Heart
too difficult
to select
just one
Author of
favourite
non fiction
Bill Arthur
and Frances
Morphy
(eds.)
Don Watson
Title of
favourite
fiction
March
Author of
favourite fiction
Love in the
Time of
Cholera
to difficult
to select
just one
Gabriel GarciaMarquez
The Lexus and
the Olive Tree
Manhunt: The
12-day chase
for Lincoln's
killer
The Bible
Thomas
Friedman
James
Swanson
Cloudstreet
Tim Winton
n/a
n/a
Atlas
Shrugged
Ayn Rand
Ataturk - a
biography
Lord Kinross
Lord of the
Flies
William Golding
Pride and
Prejudice
Constant
Gardener
Nineteen
Eighty-Four
The Great
Gatsby
Jane Austen
The Holy
Sinner
Thomas Mann
Tinker, Tailor,
John LeCarre
Soldier, Spy
Daughters of Fortune
The World is
Flat
Wild Swans
Thomas L
Friedman
Jung Chang
LP
Hospital by the
River
The Gallic War
Peter
FitzSimons
Catherine
Hamlin
Julius Caesar
The March
E.L. Doctorow
H of
Rep
LP
Second World
Parag Khanna
The Book
Thief
Markus Zusak
Stephanie
Alexander
Winston
Churchill,
and T.E.
Lawrence
Senate
ALP
Good & Bad
Power
Geoff Mulgan
Half of a
Yellow Sun
Chimamanda
Ngozi Adichie
The Cook's
Companion
History of the
Second World
War, and
Seven Pillows
of Wisdom
A Fortunate
Life
8
A B Facey
Geraldine
Brooks
John le Carre (?)
George Orwell
F. Scott
Fitzgerald
Last Name
First Name
Gender
House
Party
Title of last non
fiction
Author of
last non
fiction
Hamish
MaxwellStewart
Title of last
fiction
Author of last
fiction
Hutchins
Steve
Male
Senate
ALP
Jensen
Dennis
Male
H of
Rep
LP
Closing of Hell's
gates/The
Death of a
Convict Station
Blue Planet in
Green Chains
Johnston
David
Male
Senate
LP
Running the
War in Iraq
Jim Molan
Kelly
Michael
Male
H of
Rep
ALP
History of the
Vietnam War
Laming
Andrew
Male
H of
Rep
LP
Ley
Sussan
Female
H of
Rep
LP
Lindsay
Peter
Male
Livermore
Kirsten
Female
H of
Rep
H of
Rep
Lundy
Kate
Female
Macdonald
Ian
The Fern
Tattoo
David Brooks
Vaclav Havel
An
Inconvenient
Truth
The Bourne
Identity
Al Gore
unable to say
Robert Ludlum
Paul Ham
Kable
June Whittaker
Freakonomics
Stephen
Dubner and
Steven Levitt
Disgrace
J.M. Coetzee
David Hirst
The Unknown
Terrorist
Richard Flanagan
LP
The Gun and
the Olive
Branch
Poll dancing
Secret Wars The Amazing
SAS
Biography of
Bobby
Kennedy
Guns Germs
and Steel: The
Fates of
Human
Societies
n/a
Dirt Music
Tim Winton
Whitehall
Inheritance of
Loss
Kiran Desai
Mark
Latham
Robert Caro
Making
Money
Vernon God
Little
Senate
ALP
Lord of the
Rings
Red Earth
J.R.R. Tolkien
LP
Richard
Male
H of
Rep
ALP
The writings of Abraham Lincoln
Cloudstreet
Tim Winton
Brett
Male
Senate
LP
Cultural
Amnesia
The Diamond
Age
The Caves of
Perigord, and
The Pillars of
the Earth
Harry Potter
and the
Chamber of
Secrets
The Portable
William
Faulkner
Simon Singh
Senate
Ian
McPhedran
William
Hague
Neal Stephenson
Male
The Amazing
SAS
William Pitt the
Younger
The Latham
Diaries
The Path to
Power - The
Years of
Lyndon
Johnson
The Code
Book
Admiral
Nicholas
Horthy:
Memoirs
Lincoln
biography,
and Politics of
War
The Guns of
August
Terry Pratchett
ALP
Mungo
McCallum
Peter
Hennessy
Marles
Mason
To Kill a
Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Clive James
9
Martin Walker,
and Ken Follett
J.K. Rowling
William Faulkner
Title of
favourite non
fiction
A Distant
Mirror
Author of
favourite
non fiction
Barbara
Tuchman
Title of
favourite
fiction
The Last
Hurrah
Author of
favourite fiction
State of Fear
Michael Crichton
Ian
McPhedran
The
Godfather
Mario Puzo
Arthur
Schlesinger
War and
Peace
Leo Tolstoy
Jared
Diamond
Heart of
Darkness
n/a
Edwin O'Connor
n/a
Andrew L
Simon
David
Herbert
Donal and
David Day
Barbara
Tuchman
DBC Pierre
Greg Chapple
Last Name
First Name
Gender
House
Party
Title of last non
fiction
Title of last
fiction
Author of last
fiction
The Kite
Runner
Khaled Hosseini
Ghost Wars
Author of
last non
fiction
Peter
Costello and
Peter
Coleman
Steve Coll
Title of
favourite non
fiction
Long Walk to
Freedom
Author of
favourite
non fiction
Nelson
Mandela
Title of
favourite
fiction
Shogun
Author of
favourite fiction
May
Margaret
Female
H of
Rep
LP
The Costello
Memoirs
McEwen
Anne
Female
Senate
ALP
A Chancer
James Kelman
A Walk in the
Woods
Bill Bryson
Haruki
Murakami
Battle for
Bennelong
The Time of
My Life
Margo
Saville
Denis Healy
The Wind up
Bird
Chronicle
Middlemarch
McKew
Maxine
Female
McMullan
Robert
Male
H of
Rep
H of
Rep
ALP
My Literary Life
Bob Carr
My Brother Jack
ALP
Timothy
Brook
The Brass
Verdict
Michael Connolly
AG
Vermeer's Hat:
The
Seventeenth
Century and
the Dawn of
the Global
World
Breakthrough
The Great
World
David Malouf
Milne
Christine
Female
Senate
Girl by the
Sea
Senate
LP
Berlin
Ted
Nordhaus
and Michael
Shellenberger
Antony
Beevor
William
Shakespeare
Walden
Henry
Thoreau
The Fortunes
of Richard
Mahoney
Henry Handel
Richardson
Minchin
Nicholas
Male
State of Fear
Michael Crichton
Jere
Longman
War and
Peace
Leo Tolstoy
John Allen
The Shack
William P. Young
Among the
Heroes - the
true story of
the United 93
Theodore Rex
Morrison
Scott
Male
H of
Rep
LP
Judith
Female
H of
Rep
LP
Rabble-Rouser
for Peace - The
Autobiography
of Desmond
Tutu
The Proper
Study of
Mankind
Edmund
Morris
Secret River
Kate Grenville
Moylan
Isaiah Berlin
The Sorrows
of an
American
Siri Hustvedt
The Art of
Possibility
The Reader
Bernhard Schlink
Jessie Street - Biography
Breath
Tim Winton
Collapse
n/a
ALP
Straight Left
can't
remember
The
Godfather
Tax
Inspector
Birdsong
Peter Carey
LP
Short History
of Australia
The Great War
Rosamund
Stone
Zander &
Benjamin
Zander
Manning
Clark
Les Carlyon
Neal
Belinda
Female
ALP
Nelson
Brendan
Male
Neumann
Shayne
Male
H of
Rep
H of
Rep
H of
Rep
David Day
To Kill a
Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Jared
Diamond
Tom Wren
10
Mario Cazo
Curtin, and
Chifley (two
books)
James Clavell
G. Eliot
Sebastian Faulks
Last Name
First Name
Gender
House
Party
Title of last non
fiction
Oakeshott
Robert
Male
H of
Rep
IND.
The Parliament
of Man
O'Connor
Brendan
Male
ALP
Parke
Melissa
Female
Perrett
Graham
Male
H of
Rep
H of
Rep
H of
Rep
Title of last
fiction
Author of last
fiction
The Lorax
Dr Seuss
The future of
Robert B.
success
Reich
Rebel Journalism-The Writings of
Wilfred Burchett
Keating: The
John Edwards
inside story
Engleby
Sebastian Faulks
People of the
Book
Tended in the
Night
Geraldine Brooks
Plibersek
Tanya
Female
H of
Rep
ALP
Nick Cohen
The Father
Brown Stories
A.K. Chesterton
ALP
What's Left?
How Liberals
Lost Their Way
Inside Kevin 07
Price
Roger
Male
H of
Rep
Christine
Jackman
Gertrude Bell
n/a
H of
Rep
LP
Churchill
Roy Jenkins
Gertrude Bell:
The Arabian
Diaries 19131914
The Boy in
the Striped
Pyjamas
Pyne
Christopher
Male
John Boyne
Theodore
White, and
Plutarch
Great
Expectations
Charles Dickens
Male
H of
Rep
ALP
Sins of the
Father
Donald
Kessler
Liberal
Thinking
Southwell
(actually
Puplick/Southey?)
Tie - The
Making of the
President in
1960, and
Lives
Long Walk to
Freedom
Raguse
Brett
Nelson
Mandela
Jonathan
Lynn/Anthony
Jay
Kerry
Female
ALP
n/a
n/a
Female
ALP
Burning
Bright
The Kite
Runner
Tracy Chevalier
Amanda
can't
remember
n/a
n/a
Rishworth
H of
Rep
H of
Rep
Khaled Hosseini
n/a
n/a
Robb
Andrew
Male
H of
Rep
LP
The Lizard Cage
Karen
Connelly
To Kill a
Mockingbird
Harper Lee
What it Takes,
and The Prince
Richard
Cramer, and
Machiavelli
The
Complete
'Yes
Minister'
too many
to mention
Birds
without
wings
L.A.
Confidential
Rea
Robert
Stuart
Male
H of
Rep
LP
The Latham
Diaries
Mark Latham
The Da Vinci
Code
Dan Brown
The Bible
C.S. Lewis
Saffin
Janelle
Female
ALP
can't remember
Bruce
Male
Speaking for
Myself
History of the
Barocco
Cherie Blair
Scott
H of
Rep
H of
Rep
Peter Forrest
can't remember
The
screwtape
letters
The Glass
Palace
novels by Ian
Fleming
ALP
ALP
NATS
Author of
last non
fiction
Paul Kennedy
n/a
11
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Title of
favourite non
fiction
A Short
History of
Nearly
Everything
Homage to
Catalonia
see list
Author of
favourite
non fiction
Bill Bryson
Title of
favourite
fiction
The Breaker
Author of
favourite fiction
George
Orwell
n/a
Catch 22
Joseph Heller
see list
n/a
The
Autobiography
of Malcom X
Design for the
other 90%
Alex Haley
The Great
Gatsby
F. Scott
Fitzgerald
C.E. Smith
Persuasion
Jane Austen
War and
Peace
Gallipoli
Kit Denton
n/a
Leo Tolstoy
Les Carlyon
Louis de
Bernieres (?)
James Ellroy
Amitav Ghosh
Ian Fleming
Last Name
First Name
Gender
House
Party
Title of last non
fiction
Sherry
Nicholas
Male
Senate
ALP
Southcott
Andrew
Male
H of
Rep
LP
Nudge:
Improving
Decisions About
Health, Wealth,
and Happiness
The Political
Animal: An
Anatomy
Stephens
Ursula
Female
Senate
ALP
From Poverty
to Power
Sterle
Glenn
Male
Senate
ALP
Bob Hawke Memories
Tanner
Lindsay
Male
H of
Rep
ALP
Reappraisals
Tony Judt
Thomson
Kelvin
Male
H of
Rep
ALP
Troeth
Judith
Female
Senate
LP
An
Inconvenient
Truth
Margot Fontein
Turnour
James
Male
ALP
Vale
Danna
Female
H of
Rep
H of
Rep
Zappia
Antonio
Male
H of
Rep
ALP
LP
Author of
last non
fiction
Richard H.
Thaler and
Cass R.
Sunstein
Title of last
fiction
Author of last
fiction
Title of
favourite non
fiction
The Normans
in Sicily
Author of
favourite
non fiction
J. Norwich
Title of
favourite
fiction
The Fifth
Cadfael
Omnibus
Author of
favourite fiction
The Lost
Army
V.M. Manfredi
(said "Manfeed" in
the e-mail, but this
one seems closest)
Jeremy
Paxman
The Killer
Angels
Michael Shaara
The Right
Nation, and
The Lion and
the Unicorn
Jack Maggs,
and
Midnight's
Children
Peter Carey, and
Salman Rushdie
The Wooden
Leg of
Inspector
Anders
does not read
fiction
The
Adventures of
Augie March
Marshall Browne
Anthology of
Verse
John
Micklethwait
and Adrian
Wooldridge,
and Richard
Aldous
Louis
Untermeyer
Duncan
Green
Kings in
Grass Castles
Mary Durack
n/a
Vietnam Series
Saul Bellow
George
Orwell
War and
Peace
Leo Tolstoy
Al Gore
Sucked In
Shane Maloney
John
Bransbury
Catch 22
Joseph Heller
Meredith
Daneman
Mildred
Pierce
James M. Cain
Collected
Essays,
Journalism
and Letters
Where to Find
Birds in
Australia
The Dukes
Brian
Masters
Kate Atkinson
Lend me your
ears
America Alone
Max Atkinson
can't
remember
does not
read fiction
n/a
Long Walk to
Freedom
Moigan - The
Ascent of
Woman
Kevin Rudd The Biography
Robert
Macklin
Bachelard
Laurie Anderson
Nelson
Mandela
(there is this
title by
Melanie
Phillips, and
The Descent
of Woman
by Elaine
Morgan)
n/a
Behind the
Scenes at the
Museum
Grapes of
Wrath
does not
read fiction
doesn't have
one
n/a
Mark Steyn
12
n/a
doesn't have
one
Ellis Peters
n/a
John Steinbeck