Australian Women Writers Challenge 2020 Complete Post

Welcome to my official wrap up post of the 2020 Australian Women Writers Challenge. I joined #aww2020 with a personal goal of 150 books to read and review for the challenge. I logged in my last official review for the challenge on the 30^th December 2020. According to my records, my final stats reveal that I read and reviewed 140 books by Australian Women Writers. Although I’m pleased with this end result, unfortunately I fell short of 10 books to meet my overall goal.  I aim to be less ambitious in 2021 and I will only sign up for this challenge so fingers crossed I meet my goal for #aww2021.

For interested readers, I have included a list, along with review links for all the books I logged in for the 2020 Australian Women Writers Challenge, which I am pleased to announce is officially closed!

1. The Women in Black by Madeleine St John
2. The House of Wishes by Jenn J. McLeod
3. The Mothers by Genevieve Gannon
4. Dead Man Switch by Tara Moss
5. Beyond the Horizon by Ella Carey
6. Simmering Season by Jenn J. McLeod
7. Maggie’s Going Nowhere by Rose Hartley
8. Your Own Kind of Girl by Clare Bowditch
9. Up on Horsehsoe Hill by Penelope Janu
10. The Great Divide by L.J.M. Owen
11. The Lawson Sisters by Janet Gover
12. The Paris Model by Alexandra Joel
13. The Sunrise Girl by Lisa Wolstenholme
14. The Life She Chooses by Maggie Christensen
15. Riptides by Kirsten Alexander
16. Charlotte Pass by Lee Christine
17. Desire Lines by Felicity Volk
18. The Boundary Fence by Alissa Callen
19. Going Under by Sonia Henry
20. Second Sight by Aoife Clifford
21. The Daughter of Victory Lights by Kerri Turner
22. I Choose Elena by Lucia Osborne-Crowley
23. Truths I Never Told You by Kelly Rimmer
24. The River Home by Hannah Richell
25. The Girl in the Painting by Tea Cooper
26. The Shelley Bay Ladies Swimming Circle by Sophie Green
27. Amber and Alice by Janette Paul
28. The Banksia Bay Beach Shack by Sandie Docker
29. The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
30. The Lost Love Song by Minnie Darke
31. Last Bridge Before Home by Lily Malone
32. Frankie Pants & Mr Fox by Helen Lear
33. The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld
34. Euphoria Kids by Alison Evans
35. What a lot of Nonsense by Sheena Knowles
36. The Deceptions by Suzanne Leal
37. Where the Truth Lies by Karina Kilmore
38. The Fence by Meredith Jaffe
39. The End of Cuthbert Close by Cassie Hamer
40. The Shifting Landscape by Katherine Kovacic
41. The Cedar Tree by Nicole Alexander
42. Whitethorne by Nene Davies
43. The Long Road Home by Fiona McCallum
44. The Good Woman of Renmark by Darry Fraser
45. Below Deck by Sophie Hardcastle
46. The Fragments by Toni Jordan
47. The Killing Streets by Tanya Bretherton
48. Inheritance of Secrets by Sonya Bates
49. No Small Shame by Christine Bell
50. Missing William Tyrrell by Caroline Overington
51. Walking by Kim Kelly
52. Maralinga by Judy Nunn
53. Painting in the Shadows by Katherine Kovacic
54. The Paris Secret by Natasha Lester
55. Summer at Urchin’s Bluff by Eliza Bennetts
56. The Drop-Off by Fiona Harris
57. When Grace Went Away by Meredith Appleyard
58. Who We Were by B.M. Carroll
59. The Secret Life of Shirley Sullivan by Lisa Ireland
60. Fool Me Once by Karly Lane
61. The One by Kaneana May
62. Follow After Me by Allison Marlow Paterson
63. Jane in Love by Rachel Givney
64. Sheerwater by Leah Swann
65. Prey by L.A. Larkin
66. The Darkest Shore by Karen Brooks
67. Sixty Seconds by Jesse Blackadder
68. A Treacherous Country by K.M. Kruimink
69. The Upside of Over by J.D. Barrett
70. The Spill by Imbi Neeme
71. Just an Ordinary Family by Fiona Lowe
72. Midwife on the Orient Express by Fiona McArthur
73. Alexandra Rose and her icy-cold toes by Monique Mulligan
74. The Stockman’s Secret by Mandy Magro
75. Where the Dead Go by Sarah Bailey
76. Blame by Nicole Trope
77. The Goldminer’s Sister by Alison Stuart
78. Bottlebrush Creek by Maya Linnell
79. The Yield by Tara June Winch
80. Fled by Meg Keneally
81. The Lost Jewels by Kirsty Manning
82. Death on the Derwent by Robin Bowles
83. The Postmistress by Alison Stuart
84. The Safe Place by Anna Downes
85. The Life She Wants by Maggie Christensen
86. After Goodbye by Teena Raffa
87. Kick the Dust by Rhonda Forrest
88. Croc Country by Kerry McGinnis
89. The Beautiful Mother by Katherine Scholes
90. Goodbye Newsroom by Michelle Prak
91. The Life She Finds by Maggie Christensen
92. Tiny White Lies by Fiona Palmer
93. The Sister’s Gift by Barbara Hannay
94. The Last Migration by Charlotte McConaghy
95. The Women’s Pages by Victoria Purman
96. The Bush Telegraph by Fiona McArthur
97. Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
98. Finding Eadie by Caroline Beecham
99. The Stockman’s Daughter by Jacquie Underdown
100. The Things She Owned by Katherine Tamiko Arguile
101. The Night Swim by Megan Goldin
102. Rival Sisters by Louise Guy 
103. The Farm at Peppertree Crossing by Leonie Kelsall
104. Punch and Judy by Kelly Van Nelson
105. The McCalister Legacy by Nicole Hurley-Moore
106. Her Last Words by Kim Kelly
107. The Healer by Allison Butler
108. I Give My Marriage a Year by Holly Wainwright
109. The Cake Maker’s Wish by Josephine Moon
110. The Silk House by Kayte Nunn
111. The Lost Girls by Ava Benny-Morrison
112. The Godmothers by Monica McInerney
113. Climbing Fear by Leisl Leighton
114. The Wreck by Meg Keneally
115. The Champagne War by Fiona McIntosh
116. An Unusual Boy by Fiona Higgins
117. Song of the Crocodile by Nardi Simpson
118. The Desert Nurse by Pamela Hart
119. Second Chance Lane by Nicola Marsh
120. Across the Water by Ingrid Alexandra
121. The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
122. The Shearer’s wife by Fleur McDonald
123. The Cartographer’s Secret by Tea Cooper
124. Home Sweet Home by Mandy Magro
125. Those Other Women by Nicola Moriarty
126. The Road to Ironbark by Kaye Dobbie
127. Misconception by Rebecca Freeborn
128. The Mystery Woman by Belinda Alexandra
129. The Great Escape From Woodlands Nursing Home by Joanna Nell
130. Searching for Charlotte by Kate Forsyth and Belinda Murrell
131. The Family Inheritance by Tricia Stringer
132. Lonely in Longreach by Eva Scott
133. The New Girl by Ingrid Alexandra
134. The History of Mischief by Rebecca Higgie
135. The Narrows by Nene Davies
136. The Survivors by Jane Harper
137. Vanishing Falls by Poppy Gee
138. The Other Side of Absence by Betty O’Neill
139. Writing the Dream by Serenity Press
140. Christmas Among the Gum Trees by Jennie Jones, Susanne Bellamy, Lauren K. McKellar, Nicole Flockton and Ainslie Paton

That’s a wrap! What a reading journey it has been, with such a great selection books written by our talented group of Australian Women Writers. I can’t wait to see what 2021 holds reading wise. I am again pledging my support of the Australian Women Writers Challenge for 2021, so stay tuned for my official sign up post!

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Mrs B