To celebrate our 70th birthday, we asked a few members of the team at The Australian Women’s Weekly to nominate their favourite five books of all time.
Here they are:
Deborah Thomas, Editor
Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer
Wild Swans, by Jung Chang
The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold
The Wilder Shores of Love, by Lesley Blanch
The Magic Faraway trilogy, by Enid Blyton
Lyndey Milan, Food Director
Like Water For Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel
Shipping News, by Annie Proulx
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, by Rebecca Wells
Angela’s Ashes, by Frank McCourt
Charlotte’s Web, by E.B. White
Athena Starwoman, author of Zodiac Lovers (HarperCollins)
Seabiscuit, by Laura Hillyard
It’s Not About the Bike, by Lance Armstrong
The Thorn Birds, by Colleen McCullough
Lord of the Rings, by Tolkien, entire series
Gone With The Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
Caroline Roessler, Managing Editor
To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
The Catcher In The Rye, by JD Salinger
Birdsong, by Sebastian Faulks
The Secret History, by Donna Tartt
In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
Gabrielle Ranaldi, Website Editor
The Magus, by John Fowles
Catch 22, by Joseph Heller
Intimacy, by Hanif Kureshi
Oscar and Lucinda, by Peter Carey
A Prayer For Owen Meany, by John Irving
Carol George, Books Editor
A Passage To India, by EM Forster
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Dice Man, by Luke Rhinehart
The Great Gatsby, by F Scott Fitzgerald
The French Lieutenant’s Woman, by John Fowles
Rosemary Bruce, Chief Sub-Editor
The Complete Adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, by May Gibbs
The Gormenghast Trilogy, by Mervyn Peake
Libra, by Don DeLillo
Pity the Nation, by Robert Fisk
Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold
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