Boroondara's 150 favourite books
As voted by you!
The libraries celebrated 150 years of continuous public library service in Boroondara in 2010 and 2011. As part of the celebrations, we asked Boroondara residents to vote for their all-time favourite books. We are now proud to present Boroondara's 150 favourite books, as voted by you!
There's a great mix of Australian and international books, recent releases and classics. Did your favourite make the list?
Number |
Title |
Author |
| 1 | Pride and prejudice | Jane Austen |
| 2 | To kill a mockingbird | Harper Lee |
| 3 | Harry Potter (series) | J.K. Rowling |
| 4 | The Millennium trilogy (series) | Stieg Larsson |
| 5 | The lord of the rings (series) | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| 6 | The faraway tree (series) | Enid Blyton |
| 7 | Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy |
| 8 | Cloudstreet | Tim Winton |
| 9 | Wuthering heights | Emily Bronte |
| 10 | Great Expectations | Charles Dickens |
| 11 | Alice in wonderland & Through the looking glass | Lewis Carroll |
| 12 | Persuasion | Jane Austen |
| 13 | Year of wonders | Geraldine Brooks |
| 14 | The Lymond chronicles (series) | Dorothy Dunnett |
| 15 | The wind in the willows | Kenneth Grahame |
| 16 | The kite runner | Khaled Hosseini |
| 17 | The No. 1 ladies' detective agency | Alexander McCall Smith |
| 18 | Winnie-the-Pooh | A.A. Milne |
| 19 | Anne of Green Gables | L.M. Montgomery |
| 20 | The Guernsey literary and potato peel pie society | Mary Ann Shaffer |
| 21 | The grapes of wrath | John Steinbeck |
| 22 | My family and other animals | Gerald Durrell |
| 23 | A fortunate life | A.B. Facey |
| 24 | The Narnia chronicles (series) | C.S. Lewis |
| 25 | Gone with the wind | Margaret Mitchell |
| 26 | The catcher in the rye | J.D. Salinger |
| 27 | Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte |
| 28 | The secret garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett |
| 29 | The very hungry caterpillar | Eric Carle |
| 30 | Mao's last dancer | Li Cunxin |
| 31 | A tale of two cities | Charles Dickens |
| 32 | The secret river | Kate Grenville |
| 33 | Discworld (series) | Terry Pratchett |
| 34 | Where the wild things are | Maurice Sendak |
| 35 | War and peace | Leo Tolstoy |
| 36 | The Bible | Various editions |
| 37 | Dirt music | Tim Winton |
| 38 | The book thief | Markus Zusak |
| 39 | Little women | Louisa May Alcott |
| 40 | Emma | Jane Austen |
| 41 | The adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 42 | Asterix (series) | Goscinny and Uderzo |
| 43 | 84 Charring Cross Road | Helene Hanff |
| 44 | The magic pudding | Norman Lindsay |
| 45 | Life of Pi | Yann Martel |
| 46 | The time traveller's wife | Audrey Niffenegger |
| 47 | Brother Cadfael (series) | Ellis Peters |
| 48 | The fortunes of Richard Mahoney | Henry Handel Richardson |
| 49 | Jeeves and Wooster (series) | P.G. Wodehouse |
| 50 | Arthur & George | Julian Barnes |
| 51 | The famous five (series) | Enid Blyton |
| 52 | Billabong (series) | Mary Grant Bruce |
| 53 | Molly Moon (series) | Georgia Byng |
| 54 | The outsider | Albert Camus |
| 55 | The alchemist | Paulo Coelho |
| 56 | Charlie and the chocolate factory | Roald Dahl |
| 57 | The leopard | Giuseppe Di Lampedusa |
| 58 | The red tent | Anita Diamant |
| 59 | The Alexandria quartet (series) | Lawrence Durrell |
| 60 | Ranger's apprentice (series) | John Flanagan |
| 61 | Possum magic | Mem Fox |
| 62 | Catch 22 | Joseph Heller |
| 63 | Biggles (series) | Captain W. E. Johns |
| 64 | Tinker tailor soldier spy | John Le Carre |
| 65 | Tomorrow, when the war began | John Marsden |
| 66 | Now we are six | A.A. Milne |
| 67 | Cry, the beloved country | Alan Paton |
| 68 | The Gormenghast trilogy (series) | Mervyn Peake |
| 69 | Amelia Peabody mysteries (series) | Elizabeth Peters |
| 70 | Rebus (series) | Ian Rankin |
| 71 | The nine tailors | Dorothy L. Sayers |
| 72 | The reader | Bernhard Schlink |
| 73 | Perfume | Patrick Suskind |
| 74 | The hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| 75 | The age of innocence | Edith Wharton |
| 76 | Voss | Patrick White |
| 77 | Not a penny more, not a penny less | Jeffrey Archer |
| 78 | The camel club (series) | David Baldacci |
| 79 | Selby (series) | Duncan Ball |
| 80 | Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury |
| 81 | People of the book | Geraldine Brooks |
| 82 | The twins of Emu Plains | Mary Grant Bruce |
| 83 | Ender's game | Orson Scott Card |
| 84 | Poirot (series) | Agatha Christie |
| 85 | Artemis Fowl (series) | Eoin Colfer |
| 86 | Harry Bosch (series) | Michael Connelly |
| 87 | Heart of darkness | Joseph Conrad |
| 88 | The dark is rising | Susan Cooper |
| 89 | Bleak house | Charles Dickens |
| 90 | The three musketeers | Alexander Dumas |
| 91 | Middlemarch | George Eliot |
| 92 | Mill on the Floss | George Eliot |
| 93 | Birdsong | Sebastian Faulks |
| 94 | The great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 95 | Pillars of the earth | Ken Follett |
| 96 | A passage to India | E.M. Forster |
| 97 | Where is the green sheep? | Mem Fox |
| 98 | Anne Frank: diary of a young girl | Anne Frank |
| 99 | The graveyard book | Neil Gaiman |
| 100 | Let's get a pup | Bob Graham |
| 101 | We of the Never-Never | Aeneas Gunn |
| 102 | Tess of the D'Urbervilles | Thomas Hardy |
| 103 | All creatures great and small | James Herriot |
| 104 | The grand Sophy | Georgette Heyer |
| 105 | Dalziel & Pascoe (series) | Reginald Hill |
| 106 | A thousand splendid suns | Khaled Hosseini |
| 107 | Ulysses | James Joyce |
| 108 | Schindler's ark | Thomas Keneally |
| 109 | Kim | Rudyard Kipling |
| 110 | Seven pillars of wisdom | T.E. Lawrence |
| 111 | If this is a man | Primo Levi |
| 112 | Twilight (series) | Stephenie Meyer |
| 113 | Love in a cold climate | Nancy Mitford |
| 114 | The pursuit of love | Nancy Mitford |
| 115 | Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov |
| 116 | The railway children | E. Nesbit |
| 117 | Nineteen eighty four | George Orwell |
| 118 | The shell seekers | Rosamunde Pilcher |
| 119 | Excellent women | Barbara Pym |
| 120 | The fountainhead | Ayn Rand |
| 121 | Deltora quest (series) | Emily Rodda |
| 122 | How I live now | Meg Rosoff |
| 123 | A suitable boy | Vikram Seth |
| 124 | King Lear | William Shakespeare |
| 125 | A town like Alice | Neville Shute |
| 126 | The master | Colm Toibin |
| 127 | The accidental tourist | Anne Tyler |
| 128 | The surgeon of Crowthorne | Simon Winchester |
| 129 | The shadow of the wind | Carlos Ruiz Zafon |
| 130 | Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy | Douglas Adams |
| 131 | Peepo | Janet Ahlberg |
| 132 | The adventures of the wishing chair (series) | Enid Blyton |
| 133 | True history of the Kelly gang | Peter Carey |
| 134 | The witches | Roald Dahl |
| 135 | David Copperfield | Charles Dickens |
| 136 | Tashi (series) | Anna Fienberg |
| 137 | Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert |
| 138 | Dog boy | Eva Hornung |
| 139 | Brave new world | Aldous Huxley |
| 140 | The poisonwood bible | Barbara Kingsolver |
| 141 | Wolf Hall | Hilary Mantel |
| 142 | Lovesong | Alex Miller |
| 143 | Badjelly the witch | Spike Milligan |
| 144 | When we were very young | A.A. Milne |
| 145 | Swallows and Amazons | Arthur Ransome |
| 146 | The lovely bones | Alice Sebold |
| 147 | The man who loved children | Christina Stead |
| 148 | Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 149 | Dragonkeeper | Carole Wilkinson |
| 150 | Veronika decides to die | Paulo Coelho |
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