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 PICKSGeraldine Brooks, Year of WondersSteve Toltz, A Fraction of the WholeJohn Steinbeck, Grapes of WrathHEATHER ROSE'S PICKSTom Robbins, Still Life with WoodpeckerVirginia Woolf, OrlandoPeter Carey, The Fat Man in History; IllywhackerHaruki Murakami, The Wind Up Bird ChronicleWilliam Faulkner, Light in AugustJohn Steinbeck, Of Mice and MenToni Morrison, BelovedDavid Mitchell, Cloud AtlasGeorge Eliot, MiddlemarchGARRY DISHER'S PICKSRussell Braddon, The Naked IslandNicolas Monsarrat, The Cruel SeaRaymond Carver, worksRichard Ford, worksEvan Connell, Mrs BridgeColm Toibin, BrooklynAlice Munro, worksRon Rash, worksCormac McCarthy, Child of GodHelen Garner, The Children's BachKingsley Amis, worksClaire Keegan, worksJohn Sandford, worksMichael Connelly, worksIan Rankin, worksOTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDStephen King, The Life of ChuckHannah Kent, DevotionJames Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManDorothy Dunnett, Lymond ChroniclesRichard Stark, Parker seriesDonald E. Westlake, Dortmunder seriesLloyd Jones, Mr Pip