Ep 14: Our reading lives

In this live recording from the Sydney Writers’ Festival, Crabb and Sales take a wander through their reading lives in sixty minutes, somehow managing to squeeze in mention of 42 books, four interviews, two television clips and two magazine articles.  

• Clade by James Bradley

• Lucky Us by Amy Bloom

• The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy

• Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth by Andrew Smith

• Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

• Buzz Aldrin interview with Leigh Sales on 7.30

• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

• The Secret History by Donna Tartt

• The Fiddler in the Subway by Gene Weingarten

• Barack Obama: The Story by David Marannis

• Ulysses by James Joyce

• Tales from Shakespeare by Charles Lamb

• Tales of Troy and Greece by Andrew Lang

• Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

• Rabbit, Run by John Updike

• The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

• The Spare Room by Helen Garner

• This House of Grief by Helen Garner

• The First Stone by Helen Garner

• The Insults of Age by Helen Garner via The Monthly

• This Old Man by Roger Angell via The New Yorker

• Dick and Dora

• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

• My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin

• Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene

• The Chalet School by Elinor Brent-Dyer

• The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton

• Anne of Green Gables by L M Montgomery

• Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell

• The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum

• I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes

• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

• The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm

• Fatal Vision by Joe McGinniss

• The Selling of the President by Joe McGinniss

• The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C S Lewis

• My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell

• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

• Matt Damon interview with Leigh Sales via 7.30

• The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

• Jonathan Franzen interview with Leigh Sales via 7.30

• David Bowie on Extras

• Kate Winslett on Extras

• Boris Johnson interview with Annabel Crabb

• 72 Virgins by Boris Johnson

• The Iliad by Homer

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

• H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald