Well, it’s close enough to the end of the year to do my Australian Women Writers Challenge 2017 Round-up. Looking through my reviews, I’m surprised how little Australian fiction I read this year. I’m acting as the Rounder-Upper-er for the History, Memoir and Biography genre on the AWWC site and I read much more in that genre. Perhaps a sense of obligation, or perhaps it just reflects my interests. Here are my reviews for 2017:
FICTION
Barbara Baynton Bush Studies
Jennifer Livett Wild Island
Amanda Lohrey The Philosopher’s Doll
Emily Maguire An Isolated Incident
Kirsten Tranter The Legacy
Josephine Wilson Extinctions
NONFICTION
Kate Auty and Lynette Russell Hunt Them, Hang Them
Jeannine Baker Australian Women War Reporters: Boer War to Vietnam
Jill Barnard Jetties and Piers: A background history of maritime infrastructure in Australia
Georgia Blaine Births, Deaths, Marriages: True Tales
Janette Bomford That Dangerous and Persuasive Woman: Vida Goldstein
Bernadette Brennan A Writing Life: Helen Garner and Her Work
Noeline Brown Living in the 1960s
Anna Clark The Catch: The Story of Fishing in Australia
Verna Coleman Adela Pankhurst: The Wayward Suffragette
Kerrie Dawson A Wife’s Heart: The Untold Story of Bertha and Henry Lawson
Jennifer Gall Looking for Rose Paterson: How Family Bush Life Nurtured Banjo the Poet
Kate Grenville The Case Against Fragrance
Ann McGrath Illicit Love: Interracial Sex and Marriage in the United States and Australia
Anisa Puri Australian Lives: An Intimate History
Olivera Simic Surviving Peace: a Political Memoir
Leonie Stevens Me Write Myself
The Resident Judge of Port Phillip 
Thanks Janine. It’s been lovely having you on the challenge this year. I’m amazed at how little our reading has crossed over – but I suppose there are a lot of Aussie women’s books out there. You have read a few that I want to read though.
Me too…. there is barely enough time to read non-fiction in this life. The ones I am most interested in are:
Jill Barnard: Jetties and Piers History of maritime infrastructure in Australia
Janette Bomford: That Dangerous and Persuasive Woman: Vida Goldstein and
Verna Coleman: Adela Pankhurst: The Wayward Suffragette. This book sounds great!