Aussie Author Reading Challenges – titles I’m looking forward to in 2017
This post serves as both my 2016 Challenge Completion Summary and 2017 Commitment to the Aussie Author Challenge hosted here at Booklover Book Reviews and the Australian Women Writers Challenge.
Of the 52 titles reviewed on Booklover Book Reviews in 2016, almost half of those were by Australian authors.
Book Review – THAT DEVIL’S MADNESS by Dominique Wilson
Book Review – GUN STREET GIRL by Adrian McKinty
Book Reviews – HINDSIGHT & CRAVEN by Melanie Casey
Book Review – GHOST GIRLS by Cath Ferla
Book Review – THE MYSTERY OF THE VENUS ISLAND FETISH by Dido Butterworth, Tim Flannery
Book Review – THE END OF SEEING by Christy Collins
Book Review – ONE by Patrick Holland
Book Review – WE ATE THE ROAD LIKE VULTURES by Lynnette Lounsbury
Book Review – KILLING ADONIS by J M Donellan
Book Review – MISSING by Melanie Casey
Book Review – MR SNACK AND THE LADY WATER by Brendan Shanahan
Book Review – ROSETTA, A Scandalous True Story by Alexandra Joel
Book Review – BLACK ROCK WHITE CITY by A S Patric
Book Review – BLACK TEETH by Zane Lovitt
Book Review – BAD BLOOD by Gary Kemble
Book Review – 5 WAYS TO BE FAMOUS NOW by Maurilia Meehan
Book Review – THE SALAMANDERS by William Lane
Book Review – THE BEST OF ADAM SHARP by Graeme Simsion
Book Review – LE CHATEAU by Sarah Ridout
Book Review – WISDOM TREE a collection of 5 novellas by Nick Earls
Book Review – THE MUSEUM OF MODERN LOVE by Heather Rose
Book Review – THE RAREST THING by Deborah O’Brien
Book Review – MAYAN MENDACITY by L J M Owen
Book Review – THE FOUR LEGENDARY KINGDOMS by Matthew Reilly
Challenge Completion
As usual, my reading and review publication far exceeded the goals I set for myself – Kangaroo Level (12) of the Aussie Author Challenge 2016 and the Miles Level (6) of the 2016 Australian Women Writers Challenge.
Of the 25 titles reviewed, 13 were by female authors and 15 from authors whose work I’d not previously read.
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Challenge Commitment
I’m sticking with the Kangaroo (12) and Miles (6) reading goals for the Aussie Author Challenge 2017 and 2017 Australian Women Writers Challenge respectively.
And while I prefer to let my reading ‘take me where I wander’ during the year rather than making a reading list up front, here are just a few of the titles by Aussie Authors I am hoping to find time to read in 2017 :
- The second novel in Emma Viskic’s Caleb Zelic series, And Fire Came Down
- Our 2016 Miles Franklin award-winning Alec Patric’s next novel, Atlantic Black
- The Hidden Hours by Sara Foster
- The next novel in Adrian McKinty’s first class Sean Duffy / The Troubles series, Police at the Station and They Don’t Look Friendly
- After hearing her speak about it so passionately at the Brisbane Writers Festival last year, Kate Forsyth’s Beauty in Thorns
- The second Stella Hardy novel, Too Easy by J M Green
- Tom and Meg Keneally’s Monsarrat Crime series
- Greg Pyer’s The Unfortunate Victim
- Stephen Greenall’s Winter Traffic
