Sarina Gale’s Top 10 Favourite Books of All Time

We had the fabulous Sarina Gale from Scribe Publications on our weekly What Are You Reading? segment. There, Sarina shared ten of her all-time favourite books, and we’ve compiled them in this handy list so you can check them out. For more book recommendations, tune in every Thursday at 2pm for What Are You Reading?

Joe Cinque’s Consolation by Helen Garner

Compassionate but unflinching, this is a book about how and why Joe Cinque died. It probes the gap between ethics and the law; examines the helplessness of the courts in the face of what we think of as ‘evil’; and explores conscience, culpability, and the battered ideal of duty of care.

Buy a copy of Joe Cinque’s Consolation here.

What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt

The must-read novel of 2003 a state of the nation, break your heart, make you think novel from an American female novelist in a league of her own.

Buy a copy of What I Loved here.

Between a Wolf and a Dog by Georgia Blain

Taking place largely over one rainy day in Sydney, and rendered with the evocative and powerful prose Blain is known for, Between a Wolf and a Dog is a celebration of the best in all of us — our capacity to live in the face of ordinary sorrows, and to draw strength from the transformative power of art.

Buy a copy of Between a Wolf and a Dog here.

The Hours by Michael Cunningham

Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer and Pen/Faulkner prizes, The Hours is a daring and deeply affecting novel inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf. A passionate, profound and haunting story of love and inheritance, hope and despair.

Buy a copy of The Hours here.

Three Junes by Julia Glass

In this captivating debut novel, Julia Glass depicts the life and loves of the McLeod family during three crucial summers spanning a decade. Three Junes is a novel about how we live and how family ties (those that we make as well as those that we are born into) can offer redemption and joy.

Buy a copy of Three Junes here.

The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman

Buy a copy of The Imperfectionists here.

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

The million-copy bestseller, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance.

Buy a copy of A Little Life here.

Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

A celebration of literature, love, and the power of the human spirit, this warm, funny, tender, and thoroughly entertaining novel is the story of an English author living in the shadow of World War II and the writing project that will dramatically change her life. An international bestseller.

Buy a copy of Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society here.

Three women by Lisa Taddeo

Three Women is a record of unmet needs, unspoken thoughts, disappointments, hopes and unrelenting obsessions. The book Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Reese Witherspoon, Harry Styles, Christine and the Queens and Gillian Anderson are all reading.

Buy a copy of Three Women here.

The Broken Shore by Peter Temple

Joe Cashin was different once. He moved easily then; was surer and less thoughtful. But there are consequences when you’ve come so close to dying. For Cashin, they included a posting away from the world of Homicide to the quiet place on the coast where he grew up. Now all he has to do is play the country cop and walk the dogs. And sometimes think about how he was before.

Buy a copy of The Broken Shore here.