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Geraldine Brooks

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in Sydney, Australia

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Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

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Australian-born Geraldine Brooks is an author and journalist who grew up in the Western suburbs of Sydney, and attended Bethlehem College Ashfield and the University of Sydney. She worked as a reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald for three years as a feature writer with a special interest in environmental issues.

In 1982 she won the Greg Shackleton Australian News Correspondents scholarship to the journalism master’s program at Columbia University in New York City. Later she worked for The Wall Street Journal, where she covered crises in the the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans.

She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 2006 for her novel March ...more

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Memorial Days Book Tour Dates

The book tour events for Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks have been announced. Some venue links are to be confirmed so please check back for details. You can also follow Geraldine on FaceBook.

Tuesday, February 4 – San Francisco, CA
BOOK PASSAGE at Dominican University of California
In Conversation with Michael Lewis
More info here >

Tuesday, February 6 – Kansas City, MO
RAINY DAY BOOKS at Unity Te

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Geraldine Brooks’s books

Average rating: 4.04 · 687,458 ratings · 64,574 reviews · 46 distinct works • Similar authors

	Horse 4.26 avg rating — 174,740 ratings — published 2022 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Year of Wonders 4.01 avg rating — 169,354 ratings — published 2001 — 80 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	People of the Book 4.04 avg rating — 151,668 ratings — published 2008 — 131 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	March 3.81 avg rating — 74,300 ratings — published 2005 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Caleb's Crossing 3.86 avg rating — 70,117 ratings — published 2011 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Secret Chord 3.67 avg rating — 20,882 ratings — published 2015 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women 4.05 avg rating — 14,763 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memorial Days 4.43 avg rating — 4,350 ratings — published 2025 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over 3.93 avg rating — 2,817 ratings — published 1997 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best American Short Stories 2011 by Geraldine Brooks (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Heidi Pitlor (Goodreads Author) (Series Editor), Caitlin Horrocks (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.86 avg rating — 2,015 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.”
― Geraldine Brooks, March

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“To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.”
― Geraldine Brooks, March

tags: attitude, insight, mind, reading, tastes

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“A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.”
― Geraldine Brooks, People of the Book

tags: books

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December BoTM Side Read Nominations ~ Final Poll

Nora Goes Off Script

by Annabel Monaghan

12 votes, 38.7%

Horse

by Geraldine Brooks

10 votes, 32.3%

Project Hail Mary

by Andy Weir

5 votes, 16.1%

A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons

by Kate Khavari

4 votes, 12.9%

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“Writing a book is a bit like surfing," he said. "Most of the time you're waiting. And it's quite pleasant, sitting in the water waiting. But you are expecting that the result of a storm over the horizon, in another time zone, usually, days old, will radiate out in the form of waves. And eventually, when they show up, you turn around and ride that energy to the shore. It's a lovely thing, feeling that momentum. If you're lucky, it's also about grace. As a writer, you roll up to the desk every day, and then you sit there, waiting, in the hope that something will come over the horizon. And then you turn around and ride it, in the form of a story.”
― Tim Winton

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