You may notice this is slightly different to 2018 – I’m not going to list the magazines that I read. They’re random and all over the place, but my monthly subscription to MiNDFOOD will always be a definite!
To try and ensure I keep up to date with the books, I’ll just list them rather than give a description as well. Let me know if you’ve read any of them 🙂
B1: Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak … this was read part 2018 / part 2019.
B2: The Patterson Girls by Rachael Johns
B3: Every Note Played by Lisa Genova
B4: Past Tense by Lee Child
B5: Order to Kill by Vince Flynn with Kyle Mills
B6: The Lost Man by Jane Harper
B7: After the Lights Go Out by Lili Wilkinson
B8: The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein
B9: The Girl from Munich by Tania Blanchard
B10: The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult … a re-read as I couldn’t remember if I’d read it or not. I had, but finished it a second time 🙂
B11: The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan
B12: The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart by Holly Ringland
B13: Bye Bye Baby by Fiona McIntosh
B14: Beautiful Death by Fiona McIntosh
B15: Lenny’s Book of Everything by Karen Foxlee
B16: All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
B17: The Scholar by Dervla McTiernan
B18: The Nowhere Child by Christian White
B19: Any Ordinary Day by Leigh Sales
B20: The Girl on the Page by John Purcell
B21: The Rosie Result by Graeme Simsion
B22: The Mother-In-Law by Sally Hepworth
B23: The Brothers of Brigadier Station by Sarah Williams. I listened to the audiobook read by Myles Pollard (of McLeod’s Daughters fame!)
B24: Tully by Paullina Simons
B25: After the Party by Cassie Hamer
B26: My Brother-But-One by T. M. Clark
B27: The Cinema at Starlight Creek by All Sinclair
B28: Suitcase of Dreams by Tania Blanchard
B29: The Secrets of Midwives by Sally Hepworth
B30: Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
B31: Gravity is the Thing by Jaclyn Moriarty
B32: Hades by Candice Fox
B34: After the End by Clare Mackintosh
B35: The Ex by Nicola Moriarty (I listened to the audiobook read by Simone Gescheit)
B36: The Wolf Pack by CJ Box
B37: The Nancys by R.W.R McDonald
B38: The Birdman’s Wife by Melissa Ashley
B39: Eden by Candice Fox
B40: Say You’re Sorry by Michael Robotham
B41: The Book of Dreams by Nina George
B42: Three Little Lies by Laura Marshall
B43: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
B44: I Came to Say Goodbye by Caroline Overington
B45: Good Little Liars by Sarah Clutton
B46: The Shelly Bay Ladies Swimming Circle by Sophie Green
B47: Good Girl Bad Girl by Michael Robothom
B48: The Diamond Hunter by Fiona McIntosh
B49: The Bitterroots by CJ Box
B50: You Don’t Know Me by Sara Foster
B51: The Helpline by Katherine Collette
B52: Normal People by Sally Rooney
B53: Skylarking by Kate Mildenhall
B54: Snake Island by Ben Hobson
B55: Aloha Love by Susan Murphy
B56: The Strangers We Know by Pip Drysdale
B57: Vivaldi’s Lost Concerto by Jennifer Mackenzie Dunbar
By my count, 40 0f the 57 books are written by Australians – and 6 of these authors I read 2 or more of their books as well.
I do like my international authors, particularly those who I have followed and kept up to date with new releases. As such, I’m not inclined to read only Australian authors. In fact, one day if I’m published, it would be an absolute thrill to be published in overseas territories, and I’d very much hope that in these countries I would be read – and not avoided because I’m not a resident of the country I’m published in. Getting very much ahead of myself here, but … forward thinking!
The book that will see me into the New Year is Tabitha Bird’s A Lifetime of Impossible Days. I have heard wonderful things about this novel and am quite looking forward to it.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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