A tally of books I’ve read.
As I get around to it, I’ll add hyperlinks to reviews either here, hosted elsewhere or on Good Reads of the books I’ve been reading.
This year, I’ve somehow managed to read nothing but fiction written by women. Once I realised I was doing it, I thought I just might keep it up. (Though a few male authors might end up here!) Did you know that female authors in Australia make up about two thirds of the pool, yet male writers are reviewed far more frequently? The Australian Financial Review, for example, published a number of book reviews and only 17% were books written by women.
So, I’ll be reviewing more books. Can you smash the Patriarchy by reading? I don’t know, but I’ll try. Because feminism.
2017 Reading List
- Who’s Afraid Too?- Maria Lewis (Sequel to Who’s Afraid?, reviewed here.)
- The Secrets of Midwives- Sally Hepworth
- The Things We Keep- Sally Hepworth (Author interview here)
- The Mother’s Promise- Sally Hepworth
- Good Me, Bad Me- Ali Land
- All These Perfect Strangers- Aoife Clifford
- The Handmaid’s Tale- Margaret Atwood
- The Missing- C. L. Taylor
- The Lie- C. L. Taylor
- The Accident- C. L. Taylor
- Daughter of Smoke and Bone- Laini Taylor
- Days of Blood and Starlight- Laini Taylor
- Dreams of Gods and Monsters- Laini Taylor
- Carve the Mark- Veronica Roth
- Firstlife- Gina Showalter
- Only Daughter- Anna Snoekstra
- The Girl Before- J.P. Delaney
- Testimony- Anita Shreve
- Seven Stones to Stand and Fall- Diana Gabaldon
- The Good Girl- Mary Kubica
- Find Me- J.S. Monroe
- Come Back To Me- Sarah Foster
- Jasper Jones- Craig Silvey
- The House We Grew Up In- Lisa Jewell
- I Found You- Lisa Jewell
- She’s Come Undone- Wally Lamb
- Woman on the Edge of Time- Marge Piercy
- Sleeping Beauties- Stephen King & Owen King
- It Came From the Deep- Maria Lewis (Author interview here.)
- The Good Girl Stripped Bare- Tracey Spicer
- Bridget Jones’ Baby- Helen Fielding
2018
- Beneath the Shadows- Sara Foster
- Summer Sisters- Judy Blume
- In the Unlikely Event- Judy Blume
- The Good Daughter- Karin Slaughter
- Last Breath- Karin Slaughter
- Grant County series- Karin Slaughter
- The Fear- C. L. Taylor
- Friend Request- Laura Marshall
- The Joe O’Loughlin books- Michael Robotham
- Gone for good- Harlan Coben
- Elinor Oliphant is Completely Fine- Gail Honeyman
- Coptown- Karin Slaughter
- The Outsider- Stephen King
- How do you like me now?- Holly Bourne
- Pretty Girls- Karin Slaughter
- Love, Simon- Becky Albertalli
- Leah on the OffBeat- Becky Albertalli
- The Mummy Bloggers- Holly Wainwright
- The Wife- Meg Wolizter
- The Interestings- Meg Wolitzer
- To All the Boys I’ve loved before series- Jenny Han
- Swan Song- Robert R. McCammon
- Children of Blood and Bone- Tomi Adeyemi
- Looking for Alaska- John Green
- The Children Act- Ian McEwan
- The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair- Joel Dicker
- The Devil Wears Prada books- Lauren Weisberger
- A Simple Favour- Darcy Bell
- The Miriam Black series, books 1,2,3- Chuck Wendig
2019
- A Spark of Light- Jodi Picoult
- The Miriam Black series, books 4 & 5- Chuck Wendig
- All your perfects- Colleen Hoover
- The Family Next Door- Sally Hepworth
- Conversations with friends- Sally Rooney
- An American Marriage- Tayari Jones
- You- Caroline Kepnes
- Boy Swallows Universe- Trent Dalton
- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine- Gail Honeyman
- The Rook- Daniel O’Malley
- Fated- Benedict Jacka
- Normal People- Sally Rooney
- Fistful of Frost Trilogy- Rebecca Chastain
- Crescent Legacy Trilogy- Nicole R. Taylor
- The Hidden Hours- Sara Foster
- Animals- Emma Jane Unsworth
- Then She Was Gone- Lisa Jewell
- Dead Again- T. J. Garrett
- Maternal Instinct- Rebecca Bowyer
- The Art of Keeping Secrets- Rachel Johns
- The Institute- Stephen King
- Elevation- Stephen King
- Say Hello- Carly Findlay
- The Secrets She Keeps- Michael Robotham
- The Witch Who Courted Death- Maria Lewis
- Everything I Never Told You- Celeste Ng
- Red Sister Trilogy- Mark Lawrence
- Dowser Series books 1-9- Megan Ciana Doidge
- Deja Dead- Kathy Reichs
- Pieces of Her- Karin Slaughter
- Witchlands series books 1-2- Susan Dennard
- These Days of Ours- Juliet Ashton
- Madison Fox Novella Box Set- Rebecca Chastain
- Clean Sweep- Ilona Andrews
- History is All You Left Me- Adam Silvera
- What if it’s us?- Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
2020
- Will Trent series 1-8- Karin Slaughter
- The Choke- Sophie Laguna
- Where the Crawdads Sing- Delia Owens
- Don’t Let Go- Harlen Coben
- The One books 1-3- Nora Roberts
- These days of ours- Juliet Ashton
- My Dark Vanessa- Kate Elizabeth Russell
- You don’t know me- Sara Foster
- The opposite of always- Justin A. Reynolds
- Earthly delights- Kerry Greenwood
- The Weekend- Charlotte Wood
- Little fires everywhere- Celeste Ng
- The pull of the stars- Emma Donoghue
- The Complete Double Dead- Chuck Wendig
- The Shepherd’s Hut- Tim Winton
- Fauna- Donna Mazza
- Breath- Tim Winton
- I give my marriage a year- Holly Wainwright