• My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
• Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman
• The Pact - Jodi Picoult
• Tuesday's With Morrie - Mitch Albom
• Mudbound - Hillary Jordan
• Small Island - Andrea Levy
• The Help - Kathryn Stockett
• The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
• Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
• Hector and the Search for Happiness - Francois Lelord
• Room - Emma Donoghue
• The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
• The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
• Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
• I Am Not Esther - Fleur Beale
• Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
• The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
• A Fine Balance - Mistry Rohinton
• The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards

• “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
• “If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.”
• “We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
• “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
• “Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
• “I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.”

• Fiji
• Australia
• USA
• Canada
• Mexico
• England
• Scotland
• Wales
• France
• Italy
• South Africa
• Thailand
• Cambodia
• Germany
• Czech Republic
• Austria
• Singapore, Dubai, Malaysia (airports)

• 1984
• Breakfast at Tiffany's
• Crime and Punishment
• David Copperfield
• Frankenstein
• Gone with the Wind
• Lady Chatterley's Lover
• Lolita
• Lord of the Flies
• Lord of the Rings
• Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
• Moby Dick
• One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Robinson Crusoe
• Slaughterhuse V
• Tess of the D'ubervilles
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• The Blind Assassin margaret attwood
• The Garden Party
• The Great Gatsby
• The Joy of Sex

• The Millennium Series - Stieg Larson
• Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
• The Hobbit - Tolkien
• The Rosie Project - Graeme Simison
• Inferno - Dan Brown
• The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
• The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay
• The Kite Runner - Hosseini
• The Tea Rose - Jeniffer Donnelly
• Life of Pi - Yann Martel
• The Spark - Kristine Barnett
• Me Before You - Jojo Moyes
• Shantaram - David Gregory Roberts
• The Storyteller - Jodi Picoult
• The Earth Children's Series - Auel
• The Notebook - Sparks
• The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
• The Poisonwood Bible - Kingsolver
• Memoirs of a Geisha - Golden
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

• 'She wears

his touch like a ring bright around her finger

close enough to keep the bone to keep the distance from getting in'

• One day she says her heart is probably smashed into three-thousand little pieces, and that the only way to fix it would be to get a brand new heart. Instead she just wears a heart-shaped sticker on the left side of her shirt, and smiles because stickers are replaceable.-Autumn is her favorite. She tells him one day about how pretty all the leaves are, and he says how there aren’t pretty trees where he lives. She wants to send him red and orange and yellow leaves in an envelope, but then she remembers that they would be dead and brown by the time they’d arrive in his mailbox.-She names her three goldfish ...

• "Love one another." George Harrison
• "It's very beautiful over there." Thomas Edison
• "I'm so bored with it all." Winston Churchill
• "Am I dying, or is this my birthday?" Lady Nancy Astor (In her final illness, she awoke on her deathbed to see her family at her bedside).
• "I want nothing but death." Jane Austen
• "Are you guys ready? Let's roll." Todd Beamer (passenger on United Flight 93, September 11, 2001).
• "Now comes the mystery." Henry Ward Beecher
• I'm going away tonight." James Brown
• "Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight." Lord Byron
• "I'm a dead man!" Hyrum Smith
• "Make the world better." Lucy Stone (American abolitionist, feminist, activist).

• Amsterdam
• Back to Italy Amalfi Coast, Pisa, Verona, Venice, Rome
• Belgium
• Budapest
• Croatia
• Egypt
• Greece and the Islands
• India
• Ireland
• Israel
• New York
• South America
• Spain
• Sweeden
• Tahiti
• Vanuatu
• Vietnam

• A Clockwork Orange
• A Million Little Pieces
• A Novel Bookstore
• Alice I Have Been
• Alice in Zombieland
• Before I Go To Sleep
• Choke
• Cider House Rules
• Cloud Atlas
• Corrections
• Fifty Shades of Grey
• Girl with The Dragon Tattoo
• Henry's Demons
• Inheritance of Loss
• Jessica
• Life of Pi
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
• Middlesex
• Narnia Series
• Never Let Me Go

• Alfie
• Archer (Archie)
• Blake
• Boyd
• Beau
• Blair
• Brodie
• Benjamin
• Caleb
• Eddy
• Finn
• Fergus/Ferguson
• Fraiser
• Harrison
• Hector
• Isaac
• Jacob
• Jarod
• Liam
• Lucas
• Matthew

• Maudie and Bear
• Stuck - Oliver Jeffers
• How to be an Explorer of the World
• Alice and Wonderland
• Goodnight Mr Tom
• Goodnight Me - Andrew Daddo
• How to be a Boy - Oliver Jeffers
• Press Here - Herve Tullet
• Roald Dahl
• Dr Suess
• My Happy Life
• John Marsden
• Otter and Odder
• Hatchet - Gary Paulsen
• The ACB with Honora Lee
• Deborah Ellis
• Joy Cowley
• Margaret Mahy
• Violet Mackerel books
• Martine Murray
• The Weight of Water

• "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." - Gandhi
• "In reality there are as many religions as there are individuals." - Gandhi
• "Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same." - Emily Bronte
• "If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like having the moment all over again."
• "The human body essentially recreates itself every six months. Nearly every cell of hair and skin and bone dies and another is directed to its former place. You are not who you were last February."
• "There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no no...

• Safari in Africa
• Dog Sledding in Canada
• Skiing
• Tramping in the Marlborough Sounds NZ
• Skinny dipped
• Wine tour South Australia
• Been to University/Law School
• Worked in a Children's Book Store
• Done an audition
• Done a solo drama performance
• Flatted with Friends
• Eaten Escargots
• Been to the Coliseum
• Been to the Eiffel Tower
• Been to Tate Modern
• Seen The Globe Theatre
• Been to the Sydney Opera House
• Seen Musicals in London
• Worn an entire outfit from an opshop
• Given to charity
• Been fishing

• I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life.

The Year of Pleasures, Elizabeth Berg

• Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

• I hadn’t realized how much I’d been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to.

Talk Before Sleep, Elizabeth Berg

• If wishes were fishes, we’d all cast nets.

Dune, Frank Herbert

• The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imagina...

• A Stolen Life - Jaycee Dugard
• All Blacks Don't Cry - John Kerwin
• Grow Up - Ben Brown
• Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
• Hector and the Secrets of Love - Francois Lelord
• Hunger Games and Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
• Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai
• Love Aubrey
• Mice
• Nun's Priest's Tale - Chaucer
• Remembering Babylon - David Malouf
• Small Island - Andrea Levy
• The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi
• The Guest
• The Line of Beauty - Alan Holinghurst
• The Tempest - William Shakespeare
• The Waste Land and Other Poems - T.S Elliot
• The Wind in the Willows

• Alice
• Ava
• Aya
• Delilah
• Edie
• Eva
• Fleur
• Freya
• Greta
• Hatiie
• Harriet
• Hazel
• Isabel
• Laurie
• Layla
• Leah
• Lila
• Lola
• Maddeline
• Nelly
• Norah