Qwiller Geek Guides

Novels

1. Feed by MT Anderson
2. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
3. Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawa Jhabvala
4. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradley
5. Small Island by Andrea Levy
6. Swallow the Air by Tara June Winch
7. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
8. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

9. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
10. The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender by Marele Day
11. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
12. The Story of Tom Brennan by JC Burke
13. Vertigo by Amanda Lohrey
14. Wrack by James Bradley
15. All the light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
16. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
17. Past the Shallows by Favel Parrett
18. Emma by Jane Austen
19. An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
20. The China Coin by Allan Baillie

Nonfiction

1. A Room of One’s Own & Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf
2. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
3. ‘Remembrance’ – Australian War Memorial website
4. Romulus, My Father by Raimond Gaita
5. Speeches by John F Kennedy, Indira Gandhi, Severn Cullis-Suzuki, Paul Keating, Aung San Suu Kyi & Barack Obama
6. Stasiland by Anna Funder
7. The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
8. The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara
9. Unpolished Gem by Alice Pung
10. Selected Essays from The Boy Behind the Curtain by Tim Winton
11. I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai & Christina Lamb
12. The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
13. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
14. Toyo by Lily Chan

Shakespearean Drama

1. As You Like It
2. The Tempest
3. The Merchant of Venice
4. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
5. King Henry IV, Part I

Drama

1. All My Sons by Arthur Miller
2. A Man With Five Children by Nick Enright
3. Away by Michael Gow
4. Educating Rita by Willy Russell
5. Namatjira by Scott Rankin
6. Rainbow’s End by Jane Harrison
7. Shafana and Aunty Sarrinah by Alana Valentine
8. Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Ray Lawler
9. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
10. The Shoe-horn Sonata by John Misto
11. Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw
12. A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
13. Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas

Short Stories

1. Selected Short Stories from The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories by Henry Lawson

Film

1. A Beautiful Mind by Ron Howard
2. Billy Elliot by Stephen Daldry
3. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon by Ang Lee
4. Life of Pi by Ang Lee
5. One Night the Moon by Rachel Perkins
6. Run Lola Run by Tom Tykwer
7. Strictly Ballroom by Baz Luhrmann
8. Ten Canoes by Rolf de Heer
9. The Black Balloon by Elissa Down
10. The Castle by Rob Sitch
11. The Truman Show by Peter Weir
12. Good Night, and Good Luck by George Clooney

Media

1. Frank Hurley – The Man Who Made History by Simon Nasht
2. Go Back to Where You Came From – Series 1, Episodes 1, 2 and 3 by Ivan O’Mahoney
3. Waste Land by Lucy Walker
4. Reindeer in my Saami Heart by Janet Merewether
5. Unfolding Florence by Gillian Armstrong

Comparative Studies

1. King Richard III by William Shakespeare AND Looking for Richard by Al Pacino
2. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf AND The Hours by Stephen Daldry
3. The Stranger by Albert Camus AND The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud
4. Selected Poems from John Donne: A Selection of His Poetry AND W;t by Margaret Edson
5. Selected Poems from The Complete Poems by John Keats AND Bright Star by Jane Campion
6. Selected Poems from Ariel by Sylvia Plath AND Selected Poems from Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
7. The Tempest by William Shakespeare AND Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood

Poetry

1. Selected Poems from At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners edited by Ken Watson
2. Selected Poems from Immigrant Chronicle by Peter Skrzynecki
3. Selected Poems from Banjo Paterson Collected Verse
4. Selected Poems from Selected Poems by Douglas Stewart
5. Selected Poems from The Complete Poems by Emily Dickenson
6. Selected Poems from Komninos by the Kupful by Kominos
7. Selected Poems from The Poetry of Robert Frost
8. Selected Poems from Coast Road by Robert Gray
9. Selected Poems from Rosemary Dobson Collected
10. Selected Poems from Selected Poems & My People by Oodgeroo Noonuccal
11. Selected Poems from War Poems and Others by Wilfred Owen
12. The Simple Gift by Steven Herrick
13. Selected Poems from Selected Poems by Kenneth Slessor
14. Selected Poems from Contemporary Asian Australian Poets by Adam Aitken, Kim Cheng Boey and Michelle Cahill (eds)
15. Selected Poems from Inside my Mother by Ali Cobby Eckermann
16. Selected Poems from Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
17. Selected Poems from The Striped World by Emma Jones
18. Selected Poems from TS Eliot: Selected Poems
19. Selected Poems from Earth Hour by David Malou