Good Books

Christopher Koch
  Highways to a War

Colum McCann
  This Side of Brightness, Songdogs, Let the Great World Spin

Margaret Durack
  Kings in Grass Castles

Alain de Botton
  A Week at the Airport

John Lister-Kaye
  Song of the Rolling Earth

Steven Carroll
  The Lost Life: a novel

Sebastian Barry
  The Whereabouts of Aeneas McNulty, The Secret Scripture

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun

Stewart O'Nan
  Last Night at the Lobster

Kate Grenville 
  Searching for the Secret River, The Secret River, The Lieutenant, The Idea of Perfection

Morgan Llywelyn
  1972: a novel of Ireland's unfinished revolution, 1916

Andrea Levy
  Small Island

Mohsin Hamid
  The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Sebastian Faulks
  Ingleby

Joseph O'Neill
  The Breezes, Netherland, This is the Life

Barack Obama
  Dreams from my Father: a story of race and inheritance; The Audacity of Hope: thoughts on reclaiming the American dream

Patrick O'Keeffe
  The Hill Road