Home in the World

Last Updated on June 25, 2024 by Home in the World

I’m a bit of a bookworm, and am open to reading many different genres. I’m also a pretty regular lurker of Goodreads, constantly looking for new authors and titles to add to my ‘To read’ shelf. As the first post in the ‘Books’ section of my website, I thought I’d just collate several of my favourite books (books I’d rated either 4 or 5 stars on Goodreads) from the last couple of years.

It’s a mixed bag – from WWII Europe, to the dizzying summit of Mt Everest and the dystopia of North Korea, to suburban Australia of the 1980s and ’90s, the flashpoint between Israel and Palestine, and even a sports autobiography. Hopefully there’s something in there for everyone. I certainly enjoyed all of them. Links to each can be found below the collage. From here on in, I will probably do separate feature posts whenever I have a good book to recommend. Happy reading!

• Unbreakable by Jelena Dokic
• Touching My Father’s Soul by Jamling Tenzing Norgay
• The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre
• The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
• The House of Special Purpose by John Boyne
• The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi
• The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
• Stasiland by Anna Funder
• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
• Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick
• Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa
• Letters from Berlin by Tania Blanchard
• Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
• Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
• All That I Am by Anna Funder
• One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus

You may also want to check out some of my more recent book reviews, such as:

Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See

Love and Other Battles by Tess Woods

The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi

The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer