This year I have read (and written reviews) for 109 books by Australian women. Eleven fewer than last year. Of these, 31 are non-fiction (bold) and I had noted that 8 were written by Indigenous women (italic)

2. When the Apricots Bloom by Gina Wilkinson

3. CRY: The Tears of a Girl from Birkenhead by Trish Ollman

4. A Girl from Birkenhead by Trish Ollman

5. White Throat (Clementine Jones #2) by Sarah Thornton

6. The Survivors by Jane Harper

7. Mother Tongue by Joyce Kornblatt

8. Songwoman by Ilka Tampke (Skin#2)

9. Searching for Charlotte by Kate Forsyth and Belinda Murrell

10. The Wreck by Meg Keneally

11. Dancing in My Dreams: Confronting the Spectre of Polio by Kerry Highley

12. A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville

13. A Life Worth Living by Louise Guy

14. My Tidda, My Sister by Marlee Silva

15. The Edwards Street Baby Farm by Stella Budrikis

16. The Cartographer’s Secret by Téa Cooper

17. The Dressmaker’s Secret by Rosalie Ham

18. The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth

19. The Great Escape from Woodlands Nursing Home by Joanna Nell

20. Here Until August by Josephine Rowe

21. Dolores by Lauren Aimee Curtis

22. An Unusual Boy by Fiona Higgins

23. The Warrior, the Voyager and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire by Kate Fullagar

24. The Labyrinth by Amanda Lohrey

25. A Clue for Clara by Lian Tanner

26. The Weekend by Charlotte Wood

27. Song of the Crocodile by Nardi Simpson

28. Diving into Glass by Caro Llewellyn

29. The Family Inheritance by Tricia Stringer

30. The First Time He Hit Her by Heidi Lemon

31. The Killing Streets by Tanya Bretherton

32. Something in the Wine by Tricia Stringer

33. The Mother Fault by Kate Mildenhall

34. In Search of the Woman Who Sailed the world by Danielle Clode

35. Fresh Cuttings (selected by Sue Abbey and Sandra Phillips)

36. The Erasure Initiative by Lili Wilkinson

37. Top End Girl by Miranda Tapsell

38. Women and Leadership by Julia Gillard and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

39. The Wasp and the Orchid by Danielle Clode

40. Billings Better Bookstore and Brasserie by Fin J Ross

41. Hunting the Wild Pineapple by Thea Astley

42. Painting in the Shadows by Katherine Kovacic

43. The Night Swim by Megan Goldin

44. Death on the Derwent: Sue Neill-Fraser’s story by Robin Bowles

45. The Last Migration by Charlotte McConaghy

46. Into the Night by Sarah Bailey (Gemma Woodstock #2)

47. Where The Dead Go by Sarah Bailey

48. A Treacherous Country by K.M. Kruimink

49. Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko

50. Darkness for Light (Caleb Zelic #3) by Emma Viskic

51. The Goldminer’s Sister by Alison Stuart

52. The Silk House by Kayte Nunn

53. The Safe Place by Anna Downes

54. Deadman’s Track by Sarah Barrie

55. Sticks and Stones by Katherine Firkin

56. I Choose Elena by Lucia Osborne-Crowley

57. Dragon’s Gate by Vivian Bi

58. Pride against Prejudice by Ida West

59. Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty

60. The Service of Clouds by Delia Falconer

61. The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay

62. When Grace Went Away by Meredith Appleyard

63. One Life: My Mother’s Story by Kate Grenville

64. Finding Ullagundahi Island by Fabienne Bayet-Charlton

65. Royal Canberra Hospital by Janet Newman and Jennie Warren

66. See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence by Jess Hill

67. Present Tense by Natalie Conyer

68. Prey by L.A. Larkin

69. The Lost Love Song by Minnie Darke

70. The House of Youssef by Yumna Kassab

71. The Women’s Pages by Victoria Purman

72. Poison and Light by Gillian Polack

73. Community of Thieves by Cassandra Pybus

74. Sustenance by Simone Lazaroo

75.Truganini by Cassandra Pybus

76. After She Wrote Him by Sulari Gentill

77. The Paris Secret by Natasha Lester

78. Riptides by Kirsten Alexander

79. The End of Cuthbert Close by Cassie Hamer

80. Euphoria Kids by Alison Evans

81. Sheerwater by Leah Swann