Aussie Readers discussion

I'm aiming to read at least 52 AAs for the year + 5 classics + 20 TBR.
The Wattle Island Book Club - Sandie Docker AA 5*

Annual Challenges 2024

Aussie Readers
A-Z Authors
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A-Z 'Real Life' Locations
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Everything Is Australian
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United In Reading Calendar
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Lovers Of CMTS
Read a Series
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A-Z Titles
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A-Z With A Difference
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A-Z Crime Characters
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bAA Books to Read in Challenges 9/52

Talking to My Country - Stan Grant
The Scoundrel's Daughter - Anne Gracie **** 09/01/2024
Cassandra - Kathryn Gossow
Wild Lands - Nicole Alexander
The Woman in the Library - Sulari Gentill ***** 02/01/2024
Killer Twist - C.A. Larmer
When We Have Wings - Claire Corbett
Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray - Anita Heiss
All the Rivers Run - Nancy Cato
The Children - Charlotte Wood
Territory - Judy Nunn
The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Richard Flanagan
Jasper Jones - Craig Silvey
Flames - Robbie Arnott
Bitter Wash Road - Garry Disher

A - Anni Taylor - Birds in Flight AA
B - Sarah Barrie - Bloodtree River AA
C - B.M. Carroll - The Missing Pieces of Sophie McCarthy AA
D - Danielle Binks - The Year the Maps Changed AA
E - Warren Ellis - Nina Simone's Gum: A Memoir of Things Lost and Found AA
F - Fiona McIntosh - Blood and Memory AA
G - Kerry McGinnis - Bloodwood Creek AA
H - Chloe Hooper - Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee AA
I - Ian Irvine - A Shadow on the Glass AA
J - Joanna Nell - Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year AA
K - Kerryn Mayne - Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder AA
L - Catherine Lee - Arson at the Art Gallery AA
M - Melissa Manning - Smokehouse AA
N - Malla Nunn - A Beautiful Place to Die AA
O - Stephen Orr - One Boy Missing AA
P - Phillipa Nefri Clark - Lest Bridges Burn AA
Q -
R - Rachel Amphlett - The Lost Boy AA
S - Shankari Chandran - Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens AA
T - Trent Dalton - Lola in the Mirror AA
U - Alice Melike Ulgezer - The Memory of Salt AA
V - Vikki Wakefield - This is How We Change the Ending AA
W - Pip Williams - The Bookbinder of Jericho AA
X - Jo Dixon - The House of Now and Then AA
Y - Antony Loewenstein - The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World AA
Z - Helen Goltz - Mystery at the Asylum AA -

Peter Corris books
,S>January - The Dying Trade
February - White Meat
March - The Marvellous Boy
April - Make Me Rich
May - The Empty Beach
June - The Greenwich Apartments
July - Deal Me Out
August - The January Zone
September - O'Fear
October - Wet Graves
November - Aftershock
December - Beware of the Dog
Tour de Oz: The extraordinary story of the first bicycle race around Australia - Bret Harris
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Google Ebooks TBR
The Secrets at Oceans Edge - Kali Napier
A Spanner in the Works - Loretta Smith
The Unusual Life of Edna Walling - Sara Hardy (She's the gardener at Rowland Sinclair's family's country place)
Call of the Reed Warbler - Charles Massy
Dead in the Water (Jonno 2) by Terence J Quinn (why do so many authors move to Oz?)
Deadline (Jonno 1) by Terence J Quinn
Running LIke China - Sophie Hardcastle
Kokoda - Peter Fitzsimons
Monkey Grip - Helen Garner
Silent Fear - Katherine Howell
Deadly Obsession - Karen M Davis
Wife on the Run - Fiona Higgins
The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Richard Flanagan
The Stalking of Julia Gillard - Kerry-Anne Walsh
Murder in Mississipi - John Safran
On the Trail of Genghis Khan - Tim Cope
The Misogyny Factor - Ann Summers
Monkey Grip - Helen Garner

Seasonal Challenges
Summer Challenge Dec-Feb
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5 Classics - I've used the Penguin list

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Secret History - Donna Tartt

20 TBR

Long Day's Journey into Night - Eugene O'Neill
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Edward Albee
Where the Sidewalk Ends - Shel Silverstein
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood - Rebecca Wells
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
A shilling for candles: The story of a crime - Josephine Tey
Set in Darkness - Ian Rankin
Blindsighted - Karin Slaughter
The Bronze Horseman - Paullina Simons
The Round House - Louise Erdrich 10
The Yellow Birds - Kevin Powers
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban - Malala Yousafzai
Last Train to Istanbul - Ayşe Kulin
Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris - Eric Jager 15
The Fishing Fleet: Husband Hunting in the Raj - Anne de Courcy
Necropolis: London and Its Dead - Catharine Arnold
The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe - Charles Nicholl
Death at La Fenice - Donna Leon
The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern

Colleen Hoover books on my Kindle

Good luck Mary!!

Good luck with all your challenges Mary!

Carolyn wrote: "Good luck with all your challenges Mary!"

Thanks Carolyn. Fingers crossed

Poison Orchids - Sarah A. Denzil 26/01/24