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 17-19 January, 2025

The New Holland Honey Eaters will be performing their themed concert "Got More Trouble Than I Can Stand": The Story of Ragtime, at the Tamar Valley Folk Festival, George Town, TAS.  See the Festival website for more information. 

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Reading List 

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Title

Author

Country

Rating (/5)

81.The Temporary Gentleman

Sebastian Barry

Ireland

4.70

82.One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Marques

Colombia

5.00

83.The Fan Man

William Kotzwinkle

USA

3.90

84. Love in the Time of the Cholera

Gabriel García Marques

Colombia

5.00

85. The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

USA

4.90

86. The Luminaries

Eleanor Catton

New Zealand

4.90

87. My Brilliant Friend

Elena Ferrante 

 Italy

 4.50

88. The Search Warrant

Patrick Modiano

France

4.60

89. Red Sorghum

Mo Yan

China

 4.55

90. For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway

USA

 4.95

91. Zig-Zag Through the Bitter Orange Trees

Ersi Sotiropoulos

Greece

 2.75

92. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Karen Joy Fowler

USA

 4.00

93. All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr

USA

4.25

94. Who Killed Palomino Molero

Mario Vargas Llosa

Peru

5.00 

95. 1Q84

Haruki Murakami

Japan

4.50

96. A Universal History of Iniquity

Jorge Luis Borges

Argentina

5.00

97. Preparation for the Next Life

Atticus Lish

USA

4.55

98. The Old Gringo

Carlos Fuentes

Mexico

 4.50

99. In the Night of Time

Antonio Munoz Molina

Spain

 4.70

100. The Odyssey

Homer

Greece

5.00 

101. The Outsider

Albert Camus

France

 5.00

102. The Meursault Investigation

Kamel Daoud

Algeria

 4.90

103. The Blue Guitar

John Banville 

Ireland 

 4.50

104. Hadji Murad

Leo Tolstoy

Russia

 3.80

105. Above the Waterfall

Ron Rash

USA

 4.20

 106. A Brief History of Seven Killings

 Marlon James

 Jamaica

 4.90

107. I Saw Her That Night

Drago Jančar

Slovenia

 4.30

108. The Dream of My Return

Horacio Castellanos Moya

El Salvador

4.20 

109. The Story of the Lost Child

Elena Ferrante

Italy

5.00 

110. Blood Brothers

Ernst Haffner

Germany

 3.40

111. Room

Emma Donoghue

Canada

 4.65

112. The Corrections

Jonathan Franzen

USA

3.90 

113. Dirt Road

James Kelman

Scotland

 3.80

114. Days Without End

Sebastian Barry

Ireland

 4.80

115. The Wonder

Emma Donoghue

Canada

4.65 

116. The Sellout

Paul Beatty

USA

4.90 

117. The Mayor of Casterbridge

Thomas Hardy

England

 5.00

118. The North Water

Ian McGuire

UK

 4.20

119. A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara

USA

 4.10

120. The Scarlet Letter

 Nathaniel Hawthorne

 USA

5.00

121. Moby Dick

Herman Melville

USA

5.00 

122. Reeds in the Wind

Grazia Deledda

Italy

 4.20

123. A School for Fools

Sasha Sokolov

Russia

 3.95

124. Lincoln in the Bardo

George Saunders

USA

 3.95

125. Exit West

Moshin Hamid

Pakistan

3.95 

126. Solar Bones

Mike McCormack

Ireland

4.50 

127. When We Were Orphans

Kazuo Ishiguro

UK

4.50 

128. The Quiet American

Graham Greene

UK

4.60 

129. His Bloody Project

Graeme Macrae Burnet

Scotland

4.50 

130. The Portrait of a Lady

Henry James

USA

5.00 

131. Mrs. Osmond

John Banville

Ireland

 4.50

132. The Erl-King

Michel Tournier

France

 4.15

133. The Lost Musicians

William Heinesen

Denmark

 4.00

134. Satantango

László Krasznahorkai 

Hungary

 5.00

135. Independent People

Halldór Laxness 

 Iceland

 4.70

136. The Risen

Ron Rash

USA

3.90

137. The Shepherd's Hut

Tim Winton

Australia

 4.10

138. The Plains

Gerald Murnane

Australia

2.90

139. The Long Take

Robin Robertson

Scotland

 4.80

140. The Melancholy of Resistance

László Krasznahorkai 

Hungary

 4.60

141. Grace

Paul Lynch

Ireland

 4.45

142. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Olga Tokarczuk

Poland

4.00 

143. Milkman

Anna Burns

UK

 4.90

144. Warlight

Michael Ondaatje

Canada

 4.55

145. Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

France

 5.00

146. The Overstory

Richard Powers

USA

 4.40

 147. The Vegetarian

Han Kang 

 South Korea

4.00 

148. Pedro Paramo

Juan Rulfo

Mexico

5.00

149. It Can't Happen Here

Sinclair Lewis

USA

 3.50

150. The Leopard

Tomasi Di Lampedusa

Italy

5.00

151. Fathers and Sons

Ivan Turgenev

Russia

5.00 

152. Tender is the Night

F. Scott Fitzgerald

USA

4.90

153. Boy Swallows Universe

Trent Dalton

Australia

4.30 

154. Night Boat to Tangier

Kevin Barry

Ireland

4.95 

155. Beatlebone

Kevin Barry

Ireland

4.10 

156. The Goalkeeper's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick

Peter Handke

Austria

T.B.F. 

157. Akin

Emma Donoghue

Canada

 3.90

158. The Nickel Boys

Colson Whitehead

USA

 3.75

159.  Lanny

Max Porter

UK

 4.55

160. Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

USA

 5.00

161. Damascus

Christos Tsiolkas

Australia

4.40

162. Life and Fate

Vasily Grossman

Russia

 4.85

163. The Mirror & the Light

Hilary Mantel

UK

4.80 

164. Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

USA

4.10 

165. Lost Children Archive

Valeria Luiselli

Mexico

 4.20

166. The Pull of the Stars

Emma Donoghue

Canada

 4.40

167. Actress

Anne Enright

Ireland

 5.00

168. Blind Owl

Sadegh Hedayat

Iran

 4.20

169. The Fall of the Stone City

Ismail Kadare

Albania

 4.30

170.  How Much of These Hills Is Gold

C. Pam Zhang

USA

 4.50

171. Shuggie Bain

Douglas Stuart

Scotland

 4.60

172. The Secret Agent

Joseph Conrad

UK

5.00 

173. The Shape of the Ruins

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

Columbia

 4.40

174. Mayflies

Andrew O'Hagan

Scotland

 4.50

175. Anxious People

Fredrik Backman

Sweden

 4.55

176.  A Long Way From Home

Peter Carey

Australia

 4.65

177. Labyrinth

Amanda Lohrey

Australia

4.25 

178. The War of the Poor

Eric Vuillard

France

 2.50

179. The Fortune Men

Nadifa Mohamed

Somalia

 4.10

180. Afterlives

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Tanzania

 4.55

181. The Republic of False Truths

Alaa Al Aswany  

 Egypt

 3.50

182. Stoner

John Williams

USA

4.80

183. This Is Happiness

Niall Wiliams

Ireland

 4.65

184.  Klara and the Sun

Kazuo Ishiguro

UK 

 4.50

185. The Choke

Sofie Laguna

Australia

4.40 

186.  The Lincoln Highway

Amor Towles

USA 

 3.40

187. Journey to the End of the Night

Louis-Ferdinand Celestine

France

 5.00

188. The Rain Heron

Robbie Arnott

Australia

4.30 

189. The Sweetness of Water

Nathan Harris

USA

4.50 

190. The Power of the Dog

 Thomas Savage

 USA

 4.25

191. Bodies of Light

Jennifer Dowm

 Australia

4.60 

192. The Colony

Audrey Magee

Ireland

 4.70

193. 2066

Roberto Bolaño

Chile 

 5.00

194. Small Things Like These

Claire Keegan

Ireland

4.00

195. The Passenger

Cormac McCarthy

USA

 4.50

196. Birnam Wood

Eleanor Catton

New Zealand

 4.30

197. Old God's Time

Sebastian Barry

Ireland

4.85 

198. Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids

Kenzaburō Ōe

Japan

4.25 

199. Limberlost

Robbie Arnott

Australia

 4.60

200. Inferno

Dante Alighieri

Italy

5.00

201. Time Shelter

Georgi Gospodinov 

 Bulgaria

 4.30

202.  The Truce

Mario Benedetti 

 Uruguay

 4.65

203. Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

Ireland

 4.50

204. Aliss at the Fire

Jon Fosse

Norway

5.00

205. Chai Time at the Cinnamon Gardens

Shankari Chandran

Australia

 4.40

206. We Need New Names

NoViolet Bulawayo 

Zimbabwe 

4.75 

207. The Years

Annie Ernaux

France

4.70

208. Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

USA

 4.3/4.5

209. James

Percival Everett

USA

4.5/4.3 

210. Glory

NoViolet Bulawayo

Zimbabwe

 4.40

211. Manhattan Transfer

 John Dos Passos

 USA

 4.70

212. Slaughterhouse Five

Kurt Vonnegut

USA

 5.00

213. The Bee Sting

Paul Murray

Ireland

 

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