Well, it’s the end of the year and time for toting up my reads for The Australian Women Writers Challenge again. I had intended to read more histories written by women, and I’m rather disappointed to see that I hadn’t really read as much as I thought I had. I do, however, have an excuse as this thesis really does need to be written. In fact, the high number of fiction books gives a hint as to why it hasn’t been finished this year as planned.
Here they are, then:
FICTION
The Golden Age by Joan London
When It Rains by Maggie Mackellar
The Kayles of Bushy Lodge by Vera G. Dwyer
All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld
After the Fire, A Small Still Voice by Evie Wyld
Letter to George Clooney by Debra Adelaide
NON-FICTION (Memoirs, biographies, non-fiction)
Velocity by Mandy Sayer
The Tainted Trial of Farah Jama Julie Szego
Boy, Lost by Kristina Olsson
Night Games Anna Krein
Housewife Superstar Danielle Wood
The Ghost at the Wedding Shirley Walker
Mrs Cook: the Real and Imagined Life of the Captain’s Wife Marele Day
Madness by Kate Richards
HISTORY
Shattered Anzacs Marina Larsson
What’s Wrong with ANZAC? Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds
The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka Clare Wright
Broken Nation Joan Beaumont
And my favourites? The Golden Age for fiction; a dead heat between Boy, Lost and Madness for non-fiction and Shattered Anzacs for history.
Posted to Australian Women Writers Challenge 2014
The Resident Judge of Port Phillip 
Efficiently done, RJ. I’ve only read 4 of those books. Fascinating how many books there are out there to read – even when we are mostly looked at those fairly recently published. Thanks for contributing again this year.