We asked Victorian readers who took part in the 2011 Summer Read to recommend a favourite book – and these are the most highly recommended.
1 – Piano lessons by Anna Goldsworthy
2 – The book of lost threads by Tess Evans
3 – The Diggers Rest Hotel by Geoffrey McGeachin
4 – Rocks in the belly by Jon Bauer
5 – Below the Styx by Michael Meehan
6 – The book thief by Markus Zusak
7 – Romulus, my father by Raimond Gaita
8 – Flying with paper wings by Sandy Jeffs
9 – The slap by Christos Tsiolkas
10 – The passage by Justin Cronin
11 – Into the woods by Anna Krien
12 – Animal kingdom by Stephen Sewell
13 – A fraction of the whole by Steve Toltz
14 – The sleepers almanac no. 6 by various authors
15 – To kill a mocking bird by Harper Lee
16 – Three cups of tea by Greg Mortenson
17 – The vintage and the gleaning by Jeremy Chambers
18 – The elegance of the hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
19 – How to make gravy by Paul Kelly
20 – Aphrodite's hat by Sally Vickers


