In American Hagwon, the bestselling author of Pachinko, Min Jin Lee, explores family, education, ambition and the long shadow of economic upheaval, set between Seoul, Sydney and California. Louise Kennedy's Stations offers a tough and deeply felt Irish family story, while Catherine Chidgey's The Starving Bride turns hunger into a strange gothic performance. Kate and Cassie are joined this time by regulars, novelist and academic Professor Tony Birch and critic and literary judge Beejay Silcox. And, as we count down to the Top 100 Australian Books, Frank Moorhouse's biographer Matthew Lamb reveals his top three.Books featuredMin Jin Lee, American Hagwon, Fourth EstateLouise Kennedy, Stations, Bloomsbury CircusCatherine Chidgey, The Starving Bride, Penguin Matthew Lamb's Top 100 picksForty-Seventeen (1988) by Frank MoorhouseTourmaline (1963) by Randolph StowWriter Reader Critic (1992) by Dorothy Green Other books mentionedJanet McCalman, StruggletownPeter Carey, The Fat Man in HistoryThe Women's Weekly Birthday Cake BookLeonie Norrington, Djawundil Maymuru, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs and Djawa Burarrwanga, A Piece of Red ClothGretchen Shirm, Out of the WoodsColleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds