In January 2019, I undertook to read twenty books for the Australian Women Writers Challenge. I also challenged myself to read 60 books on Goodreads (which I achieved just yesterday) and to finish Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone in Spanish. I did somewhat better than that with my Spanish reading because I also read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, a collection of short stories and La Distancia Entre Nosotros in Spanish. Looking through my Goodreads, I read 23 fiction and 37 non-fiction, 37 Australian and 23 non-Australian books.
The proportions are somewhat different for the books that I have read as part of the Australian Women Writers Challenge for 2019, alphabetically by surname. Lots of History, Memoir and Biography here (nineteen!), but I’m rather deflated by how little fiction I read- only four! Perhaps improving on that should be my New Year’s Resolution.
Fiction
de Saint Phalle Poum and Alexandre: A Paris Memoir
Kate Morton The Lake House
Alice Robinson The Glad Shout
Carrie Tiffany Exploded View
Non Fiction
Robyn Annear Nothing New: A History of Second Hand
Judith Brett From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage
Margaret Cook A River with a City Problem
Joy Damousi The Labour of Loss
Kirsten Drysdale I Built No Schools in Kenya
Jill Giese The Maddest Place on Earth
Jenny Hocking The Dismissal Dossier
Rebecca Huntley Quarterly Essay 73: Australia Fair Listening to the Nation
Jane Lydon and Lyndall Ryan (eds) Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre
Cathy McLennan Saltwater
Lee Kofman Imperfect
Doris Pilkington (Nugi Garmirara) Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence
Lesley Potter Mistress of her Profession: Colonial Midwives of Sydney 1788-1901
Shirley Roberts Charles Hotham: A Biography
Jill Roe Beyond Belief: Theosophy in Australia 1879-1939
Myra Scott How Australia Led the Way: Dora Meeson Coates and British Suffrage
Leigh Straw Angel of Death Dulcie Markham: Australia’s most beautiful bad woman
Michelle Scott Tucker Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life at the Edge of the World
Nadia Wheatley Her Mother’s Daughter
The Resident Judge of Port Phillip 