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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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Average rating: 4.0 · 534,964 ratings · 50,483 reviews · 62 distinct works • Similar authors

	Year of Wonders 4.01 avg rating — 156,088 ratings — published 2001 — 88 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 4.02 avg rating — 139,749 ratings — published 2008 — 123 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
	Horse 4.34 avg rating — 70,840 ratings — published 2022 — 18 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 3.84 avg rating — 65,189 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
	March 3.78 avg rating — 65,022 ratings — published 2005 — 76 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 3.64 avg rating — 18,180 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women 4.05 avg rating — 13,911 ratings — published 1994 — 59 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 3.90 avg rating — 2,214 ratings — published 1997 — 2 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) 3.85 avg rating — 1,961 ratings — published 2011 — 8 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 Sampler 2011 3.72 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 2011 — 2 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

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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

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Historical Fiction is our genre for November. Please vote on which book you would like to read. Last day to vote is Friday, October 18.

The Red Queen

Philippa Gregory

4 votes, 40.0%

People of the Book

Geraldine Brooks

2 votes, 20.0%

The Lady and the Unicorn

Tracy Chevalier

1 vote, 10.0%

The House of the Spirits

Isabel Allende

1 vote, 10.0%

Fall on your Knees

Ann-Marie MacDonald

1 vote, 10.0%

Fingersmith

Sarah Waters

1 vote, 10.0%

The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B.

Sandra Gulland

0 votes, 0.0%

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Patrick Süskind

0 votes, 0.0%

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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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