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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 tables, but please cite our article in doing so.

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

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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