Les Carlyon,. The Great War. Sebastian. Faulks,. Birdsong. Christopher Pyne .....
Engleby. Sebastian Faulks. Homage to. Catalonia. George. Orwell. Catch 22.
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
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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
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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
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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
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n/a
doesn't have one
Ellis Peters
n/a
John Steinbeck
