Some of My Favourite Books: Trent Dalton, Garry Disher and Heather Rose at Canberra Writers Festival

Trent Dalton (Gravity Let Me Go, Boy Swallows Universe), Heather Rose (A Great Act of Love, Bruny) and Garry Disher (the Peninsula Crimes and Hirsch series) name some of their favourite books, and the titles may delight and surprise you. Hosted by Kate and Cassie as part of this year's Canberra Writers' Festival.

TRENT DALTON'S PICKS

• Geraldine Brooks, Year of Wonders
• Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole
• John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath

HEATHER ROSE'S PICKS

• Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
• Virginia Woolf, Orlando
• Peter Carey, The Fat Man in History; Illywhacker
• Haruki Murakami, The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
• William Faulkner, Light in August
• John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
• Toni Morrison, Beloved
• David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
• George Eliot, Middlemarch

GARRY DISHER'S PICKS

• Russell Braddon, The Naked Island
• Nicolas Monsarrat, The Cruel Sea
• Raymond Carver, works
• Richard Ford, works
• Evan Connell, Mrs Bridge
• Colm Toibin, Brooklyn
• Alice Munro, works
• Ron Rash, works
• Cormac McCarthy, Child of God
• Helen Garner, The Children's Bach
• Kingsley Amis, works
• Claire Keegan, works
• John Sandford, works
• Michael Connelly, works
• Ian Rankin, works

OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED

• Stephen King, The Life of Chuck
• Hannah Kent, Devotion
• James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• Dorothy Dunnett, Lymond Chronicles
• Richard Stark, Parker series
• Donald E. Westlake, Dortmunder series
• Lloyd Jones, Mr Pip