The ABC Book Show best Australian reads

If you would like to add to your reading list (the thing to do at the start of the year – and after reading this, mine has just increased by nine) here are some suggestions from viewers of the ABC's Book Show with their list of favourite new books published in 2008. Fiction: Addition by Toni Jordan, Breath – Tim Winton, Enigma – Graeme Base, Everything I Knew – Peter Goldsworthy, People of the Book – Geraldine Brooks, Saltwater Moons – Julie Gittus, Sea of Many Returns – Arnold Zable, Tales from Outer Suburbia – Shaun Tan, The Boat by Nam Le, The Build Up by Phillip Gwynne, The Good Parents by Joan London, The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville, The Lifeboat by Zachary Jane, The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser, The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas, The Spare Room by Helen Garner and Wanting by Richard Flanagan. Non-fiction: Arabesques by Robert Dessaix, Arthur Boyd by Darleen Bungey, Feathered Dinosaurs: The Origin of Birds by John Long and Peter Schouten, In Turkey I am Beautiful by Brendan Shanahan, My Columbian Death by Matt Thompson, Ochre and Rust by Philip Jones, Other People's Country by Maureen Helend, That'd be Right by William McInnes, The Bitter Shore by Jacquie Everitt, The Rugmaker of Mazer-e-Sharif by Najaf and Robert Hillman, The Tall Man by Chloe Hooper, The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow – AJ Mackinnon and Warrior Poets by Benjamin Gilmour. For poetry In Between the Dancing by EA Gleeson and The Golden Bird; and New and Selected Poems by Robert Adamson.