The Angus and Robertson online store has a Top 100...

Ok so that heaps of books to choose from ....um, I'm having a blonde moment sorry.

I just read this about :

Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin

In a small, desperately poor village in north - east China, a young peasant boy sits at his rickety old school desk, interested more in the birds outside than in Chairman Mao's Red Book and the grand words it contains. But that day, some strange men come to his school - Madame Mao's cultural delegates. They are looking for young peasants to mould into faithful guards of Chairman Mao's great vision....

I think it's recently been out at the movies (not that I've been since having kids lol....I'm not sure if it will stretch ppl though.