Oh boy! great book recommendations

I have watched a couple of the ABC TV Book Club episodes but the last one for this year was the most rewarding - the transcript and podcast are available here
but for those that cannot be botheres here is a list of the favourite books of 2006 from our Summer edition panellists. They all seem to warrant a closer look esp. Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky and I have already dipped into the Jenny Kee book recommended by Germaine Greer at our local Borders and it is heartbreaking.

Jennifer selected...
Restless by William Boyd
Carry Me Down by MJ Hyland
Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster

Marieke selected...
Ludmilla’s Broken English by DBC Pierre
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
The Washingtonienne by Jessica Cutler

Jason selected...
Theft by Peter Carey
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
Emil and Karl by Yankev Glatshteyn

Germaine selected...
North Face of Soho by Clive James
Things I Didn’t Know by Robert Hughes
A Big Life by Jenny Kee

Frank selected...
Making Globalisation Work by Joseph Stiglitz
The Ethical Imagination: Journeys of the Human Spirit by Margaret Somerville
Be Near Me by Andrew O'Hagan