Books read in 2012

• Midnight in Peking by Paul French
• The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund De Waal
• Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Books read in 2011

• Midnight's children by Salmon Rushdie
• The thousand autumns of Jacob Zoet by David Mitchell
• Merry-go-round in the sea by Randolph Stow
• Ransom by David Malouf
• Love in the time of cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Foe by J. M. Coetzee
• Portnoy's complaint by Philip Roth
• Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
• Collected stories of Carson McCullers
• Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
• The happiest refugee by Anh Do
• The outsider by Albert Camus
• The man who loved children by Christina Stead

Books read in 2010

• Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
• The outsider by Albert Camus
• The merry-go-round in the sea by Randolph Stow
• Foe by J. M. Coetzee
• Dreams from my father by Barack Obama
• Wanting by Richard Flanagan
• The art of the engine driver by Steven Carroll
• Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
• Lovesong by Alex Miller
• This is how by M.J. Hyland
• The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
• Brooklyn by Colm Toibin

Books read in 2009

• The Boat by Nam Le
• The Spare Room by Helen Garner
• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins
• The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
• The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
• Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Books read in 2008

• Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
• The catcher in the rye by J. D. Salinger
• Miss Garnet's angel by Salley Vickers
• Joe Cinque's consolation by Helen Garner
• On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
• Accordion crimes by E. Annie Proulx
• Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
• Snow by Orhan Pamuk
• Things without a name by Joanne Fedler
• The lost dog by Michelle de Kretser
• Salmon fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday
• People of the book by Geraldine Brooks

Books read in 2007

• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan
• The Zahir by Paulo Coelho
• The Turning by Tim Winton
• The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
• We Need to Talk About Kevin: a novel by Lionel Shriver
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• Romulus My Father by Raimond Gaita
• Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
• Everyman's Rules for scientific living by Carrie Tiffany
• A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini
• The broken shore by Peter Temple
• Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Books read in 2006

• Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• Red Queen by Margaret Drabble
• A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
• Saturday by Ian McEwan
• Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
• Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
• The Pomegranate Soup by Marsh Mehran
• On beauty by Zadie Smith
• Secret river by Kate Grenville
• Child of the revolution by Louis M Garcia
• The handmaid's tale by Margaret Atwood

Books read in 2005

• Resurrectionists by Kim Wilkins
• I for Isobel by Amy Witting
• A Dictionary of Maqiao by Han Shaogong
• Matthew Flinder's Cat by Bryce Courtenay
• Disgrace by J.M.Coetzee
• Butterfly Song by Terri Janke
• The Namesake by Jumpa Lahiri
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
• Feasting and Fasting by Anita Desai
• May Contain Nuts by John O'Farrell
• The Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Dwakarum

Modern History Book Club

Books read in 2012

• Mawson by Peter Fitzsimon

Books read in 2011

• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
• Civil War by John Keegan
• Conquistadors by Michael Wood
• The Spartacus War by Barry Strauss 
• The judgement of Paris by Ross King

Books read in 2010

• Manhunt by James L Swanson
• Gold:the fever that forever changed Australia By David Hill
• Salt by Mark Kurlansky
• Ekateringburg by Helen Rappaport
• Zulu by Saul David
• The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius
• The Devil we know: Dealing with the new Iranian superpower by Robert Baer
• Khomenies Ghost by Con Coughlan
• Love and Louis IV by Antonia Fraser
• The Tall Man by Chloe Hooper 

Books read in 2009

• The French Revolution by Christopher Hibbert
• The Forgotten Children by David Hill
• Marie Antoinette by Evelyne Lever
• Thermopylae by Paul Cartledge
• Mussolini by Christopher Hibbert
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque
• The Duchess by Amanda Foreman

Books read in 2008

• The Vietnam years : from the jungle to the Australian suburbs by Michael Caulfield
• Secret Germany by Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh
• The rape of Nanking : the forgotten holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang
• The man who stole the Cyprus : a true story of escape by Warwick Hirst
• Hitler and the holocaust by Rober S. Wistrich 
• Wild ride : the rise and fall of Cobb & Co by Sam Everingham
• Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
• Closing hell's gates : the death of a convict station by Hamish Maxwell-Stewart
• Empire: how Britain made the modern world by Niall Ferguson

Books read in 2007

• Mr Stuart's Track: the forgotten life of Australia's greatest explorer by John Bailey
• Stasiland by Anna Funder
• The Geneva Convention: the hidden origins of the Red Cross by Angela Bennett
• Hellfire: the story of Australia, Japan and the prisoners of war by Cameron Forbes
• The Long March: the true story behind the legendary journey that made Mao's China by Ed Jocelyn
• Easter 1916: the Irish rebellion by Charles Townshend
• The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi 1857 by William Dalrymple
• King, Kaiser, Tsar: three royal cousins who led the world to war by Catrine Clay
• 1932 : a hell of a year by Gerald Stone
• Ataturk by Andrew Mango
• The last explorer : Hubert Wilkins Australia's unknown hero by Simon Nasht