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2019 Reading Challenge

15/12/2019

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I made a goal of reading 40 books this year, however in November I had to revise and upped it to 45. Last year I struggled to meet my goal of 40 as I was doing a lot of research for my PhD, but this year I didn’t have to do as much. Based on a post by Sandra Ruttan who set a goal to read more Indigenous authors I made that my goal and deliberately searched for Indigenous authors. I read some non fiction for my PhD and some fiction that were based in The Balkans as part of my research too. I also wanted to ensure that I keep reading young adult fiction so that I can talk to my students and recommend books, although I also snatch their good reads as soon as they finish and borrow from the school library. I also ensure that I read more female authors than male authors, and especially that I hone in on Australian authors.
Total: 46
By Genre:
12 Crime
9 Non Fiction
10 Young Adult
13 Fiction
1 Poetry

Based on Australian Female vs Male
26 Female Australian Authors
5 Male Australian Authors
2 Anthologies of mixed gender
33 out of 46 were Australian

By interest
3 PhD research
8 Indigenous authors

Crime (12)
  1. A Few Right Thinking Men by Sulari Gentil (Oz F)
  2. Dead Man Switch (A Billie Walker Mystery #1) by Tara Moss  (Oz F)
  3. Good Girl, Bad Girl (Cyrus Haven, #1) by Michael Robotham (Oz M)
  4. The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2) by Margaret Atwood 
  5. Platform Seven by Louise Doughty
  6. The Cry by Helen Fitzgerald (Oz F)
  7. The Pale House by Luke McAllen
  8. The Skeleton Road by Val McDermid
  9. The Ruin (Cormac Reilly #1) by Dervla McTiernan
  10. The Lost Man by Jane Harper (Oz F)
  11. Ghost Girls by Cath Ferla (Oz F)
  12. Second Sight by Aoife Clifford (Oz F)
Non fiction (9)
  1. Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood by Barbara Demick (PhD)
  2. Unlike the Heart: A Memoir of Brain and Mind by Nicola Redhouse (Oz F)
  3. Surviving Srebrenica by Hasan Hasanovic (PhD)
  4. Inside the Law by Vikki Petraitis (Oz F)
  5. The Last Refuge by Hasan Nuhanovic (PhD)  (Oz M)
  6. Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe (Indigenous)  (Oz M)
  7. Imperfect by Lee Kofman (Oz F)
  8. Close to Home by Alice Pung (Oz F)
  9. Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder (Oz F)
Young Adult (10)
  1. Barbed Wire and Cherry Blossoms by Anita Heiss (Indigenous) (Oz F)
  2. The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling by Wai Chim (Oz F)
  3. The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf by Amber Kwaymullina (Indigenous) (Oz F)
  4. Too Flash by Melissa Lucashenko (Indigenous) (Oz F)
  5. Mrs Whitlam by Bruce Pascoe (Indigenous)  (Oz M)
  6. Black Cockatoo by Carl Merrison (Indigenous)  (Oz M)
  7. Catching Teller Crow by Ambelin Kwaymullina and Ezekiel Kwaymullina (Indigenous) (Oz F)
  8. On the Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta (Oz F)
  9. Growing up African in Australia edited by Maxine Beneba Clarke (Oz)
  10. White Night by Ellie Marney (Oz F)
Fiction (13)
  1. The Bad Mothers' Book Club by Keris Stainton
  2. Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman (Indigenous) (Oz F)
  3. Mother of Pearl by Angela Savage (Oz F)
  4. The Healing Party by Micheline Lee (Oz F)
  5. The Yield by Tara June Winch (Indigenous) (Oz F)
  6. Love and Other Battles By Tess Woods (Oz F)
  7. The Fifth Letter by Nicola Morirarty (Oz F)
  8. The Best Summer Stories edited by Aviva Tuffield (Oz)
  9. The Place on Dalhousie by Melina Marchetta (Oz F)
  10. Down the Hume by Peter Polices  (Oz M)
  11. The Good Teacher by R.M. Anderson  (Oz M)
  12. The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner (Oz F)
  13. Girl at War by Sara Nović 
Poetry (1)
Just Give Me The Pills by Koraly Dimitriadis (Oz F)​

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