Claire Nicholls

You can make a duck, which is now famous internationally, thanks to Bluey.

You can make the train, the hardest cake in the world.

And in fact, there's one that I think is structurally impossible.

The author has come back and said the tip truck was never actually possible before.

So don't try that one.

But I have had tips from friends of you can achieve almost anything with enough kebab sticks and butter icing.

But there is a lot of non-fiction books that are really important and those are emerging in the room as people are sending in their picks.

My Place by Sally Morgan, a beautiful autobiography.

Tell Me Why by Archie Roach.

Working Class Boy by Jimmy Barnes.

A lot of Helen Garner, a lot of fantastic Helen Garner.

So it's really important to keep in mind when choosing your favourite Australian book.

I think in this room we're a lot of fiction lovers and I think fiction's going to go strong, but there's a lot of other things we can pull on as well when we're putting together our personal lists.

Can I tell you, Kate and Cassie, that Diane here next to me has wearing Top 100 merch in the room.

She's wearing her Top 100 books t-shirt.

Oh, can you stand up for us, Diane?

And Diane, you are a big Richard Flanagan fan.

What books are you considering?

And so important to read together those books, I believe.

Let me tell you about some other books that are coming up in the room.