I always forget to do this “I’ve finished!” post once I’ve met my self-selected target for books written by Australian women writers. But this year I have an excuse: I didn’t reach my target of twenty-five books, and I didn’t really read more fiction either, even though I vowed to do so.
Here’s what I did read in alphabetical order by surname:
FICTION:
Our Shadows (2020) by Gail Bell
Say No to Death (1951) by Dymphna Cusack
Questions of Travel (2012) by Michelle de Kretser
The Eye of the Sheep (2015) by Sofie Laguna
The Animals of That Country (2020) by Laura Jean Mackay
The Ruin (2019) by Dervla McTiernan
NON-FICTION:
Black, White and Exempt (2021) by Lucinda Aberdeen and Jennifer Jones (eds)
Caroline’s Dilemma (2019) by Bettina Bradbury
Nine Parts of Desire (1995) by Geraldine Brooks
Oh Happy Day: Those Times and These Times (2020) by Carmen Callil
Only Happiness Here (2020) by Gabrielle Carey
The First Stone (1995, 2020) by Helen Garner
Fury (2021) by Kathryn Heyman
The Palace Letters (2020) by Jenny Hocking
The Most I Could Be (2021) by Dale Kent
Malinche’s Conquest (1999) by Anna Lanyon
The New World of Martin Cortes (2003) by Anna Lanyon
The Chase (1986) by Ida Mann
The Women of Little Lon (2021) by Barbara Minchinton
The Countess from Kirribilli (2021) by Joyce Morgan
A Trip to the Dominions (2021) by Lynette Russell (ed.)
Defiant Voices: How Australia’s Female Convicts Challenged Authority (2021) by Babette Smith
Ten Thousand Aftershocks (2021) by Michelle Tom
The Resident Judge of Port Phillip 
The local fireworks are going off as I write this, so I’ll take the opportunity to thank you for sharing your reading and your podcasts this year, and to wish you happy reading in 2022!
And best wishes for 2022 to you as well. Long and well may you read!