I didn’t succeed in my reading challenge last year so I will continue to try to read those unread books already on my bookshelves.
I also want to try some new authors this year so I am challenging myself to read at least one new author each month. By new author I mean an author I haven’t read before.
January
Close Your Eyes by Michael Robotham
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne
Dead Man Switch by Tara Moss
The Godmothers by Monica McInerney
A Serving of Scandal by Prue Leith
No Spin : My autobiography by Shane Warne and Mark Nicholas
February
The Secret Lives of Colour by Kassia St Clair (new author)
Call me Evie by J P Pomare (new author)
Travels with Epicurus by Daniel Klein (new author)
The Mother in Law by Sally Hepworth (new author)
The Perfume Collector by Kathleen Tessaro
The Gardener by Prue Leith
The Food of Love by Prue Leith
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (new author)
March
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman (new author)
The Lost Son by Prue Leith
The Prodigal Daughter by Prue Leith
Canberry Tales: an informal history by G A Mawer (new author)
The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott (new author)
The Humans by Matt Haig
For All The Tea In China by Sarah Rose(new author)
April
Goodbye Sarajevo by Atka Reid (new author)
Australian Greats by Peter Cochrane (new author)
The Wild Silence by Raynor Winn
May
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
The Good Turn by Dervla McTeirnan
Perfect People by Peter James
A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
John Eales the biography by Peter Fitzsimons
Code Name Helene by Ariel Lawhon (new author)
Prince of Fire by Daniel Silva
Women’s Pages by Victoria Purman (new author)
June
Daylight by David Baldacci
Deadline by Stella Rimington
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
Agent Running in the Field by John le Carre
July
Under a Mackeral Sky by Rick Stein
The Valley by Steve Hawke
The Secret Race by Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle
Slaying the Badger by Richard Moore
The Island by Victoria Hislop (new author)
August
The Fourth Sacrifice by Peter May
The Killing Room by Peter May
The Champagne War by Fiona McIntosh
Trust by Chris Hammer
Snakehead by Peter May
Still by Matt Nable (new author)
Mirror Man by Fiona McIntosh
Flinders: The man who mapped Australia by Rob Mundle (new author)
September
Chinese Whispers by Peter May
Less by Andrew Sean Greer (new author)
An Insider’s Plague Year by Peter Doherty (new author)
Soil: The incredible story of what keeps the earth, and us, healthy. by Matthew Evans (new author)
The Heron’s Cry by Ann Cleeves
Cutter’s End by Margaret Hickey (new author)
October
The Skeleton Road by Val McDermid
When You Are Mine by Michael Robotham
Forensics: the anatomy of crime by Val McDermid
After the Cash by Michael Bussi (new author)
Becoming by Michelle Obama (new author)
Out of Bounds by Val McDermid
Broken Ground by Val McDermid
November
Three Dollars by Elliot Perlman
Joanna Lumley, the biography by Tim Ewbank (new author)
A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away by Christopher Brookmyre (new author)
Now You See Her by James Patterson.
December
No books read. Oh dear!
Gippsland Granny 