2021 Australian Women Writer’s Challenge

Hosted by Australian Women Writers

The challenge runs from January 1, 2021 and ends December 31, 2021.

Goal: 50 books

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1. This Has Been Absolutely Lovely by Jessica Dettmann

2. When the Apricots Bloom by Gina Wilkinson

3. Lana’s War by Anita Abriel

4. Shelter by Catherine Jinks

5. Elizabeth & Elizabeth by Sue Williams

6. The Schoolgirl Strangler by Katherine Kovacic

7, My Best Friend’s Murder by Polly Phillips

8. The Women and the Girls by Laura Bloom

9. Relics, Wrecks and Ruins by Aiki Flinthart

10. With My Little Eye by Sandra Hogan

11. Crackenback by Lee Christine

12. The Second Son by Loraine Peck

13. Sargasso by Kathy George

14. The Silent Listener by Lyn Yeowart

15. The Paris Affair by Pip Drysdale

16. A Home Like Ours by Fiona Lowe

17. Other People’s Houses by Kelli Hawkins

18. The Husband Poisoner by Tanya Bretherton

19. Grace Under Pressure by Tori Haschka

20. The Codebreakers by Alli Sinclair

21. Tipping by Anna George

22. One Last Dance by Emma Jane Holmes

23. Welcome to Nowhere River by Meg Bignell 

24. The Last Reunion by Kayte Nunn 

25. The Lady With the Gun Asks the Questions by Kerry Greenwood 

26. How To Fake Being Tidy by Fenella Souter 

27. Something to Hide by Fleur McDonald 

28. You Need To Know by Nicola Moriarty 

29. All We Have Is Now by Kaneana May

30. Second First Impressions by Sally Thorne 

31. The Rose Daughter by Maria Lewis 

32. The Chase by Candice Fox 

33. Girl, 11 by Amy Suiter Clarke 

34. The Jam Queens by Josephine Moon

35. House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland 

36. Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray By Anita Heiss

37. The Dressmakers of Yarrandarrah Prison by Meredith Jaffe 

38. How To Mend a Broken Heart by Rachael Johns

39. Take Me Home by Karly Lane

40. Before You Knew My Name by Jacqueline Bublitz 

41. You Had it Coming by B.M. Carroll

42. The Girl Remains by Katherine Firkin

43. Love, In Theory by Elodie Cheesman 

44. Magpie’s Bend by Maya Linnell 

45. Mirror Man by Fiona McIntosh 

46. Digging Up Dirt by Pamela Hart

47. Echolalia by Briohny Doyle 

48. Who Gets To Be Smart by Bri Lee 

49. Lily’s Little Flower Shop by Lisa Darcy 

50. Catch Us the Foxes by Nicola West 

51. The Other Side of Beautiful by Kim Lock

52. The Newcomer by Laura Elizabeth Woollett 

53. The Wattle Seed Inn by Leonie Kelsall 

54. The Last of the Apple Blossom by Mary-Lou Stephens

55. The Garden of Hopes and Dreams by Barbara Hannay 

56. CSI Told You Lies by Meshel Laurie 

57. Trouble is My Business by Lisa Walker 

58. Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy

59. The Attack  by Catherine Jinks 

60. Cutters End by Margaret Hickey 

61. Happy Hour by Jacquie Byron

62. The Housemate by Sarah Bailey 

63. The Wattle Island Book Club by Sandie Docker 

64. The Unusual Abduction of Avery Conifer by Ilsa Evans 

65. Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty 

66. Larrimah by Caroline Graham & Kylie Stevenson 

67. The River Mouth by Karen Herbert 

68. The Tea Ladies of St Jude’s Hospital by Joanna Nell 

69. Birds of a Feather by Tricia Stringer 

70. I Shot the Devil by Ruth McIver

72. Outback Secrets by Rachael Johns 

73. At the End of the Day by Liz Byrski 

74. Women to the Front by Heather Sheard and Ruth Lee 

75. Deception Creek by Fleur McDonald 

76. The Safe Place by LA Larkin 

77. Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia by Anita Heiss

78. Unforgiven by Sarah Barrie

79. The Waterhole by Lily Malone

80. The Long Weekend by Fiona Palmer 

81. The Spy’s Wife by Fiona McIntosh 

82. The Prodigal Sister by Darry Fraser 

83. Bad Habits by Sarah Evans 

84. Once Burnt Twice Shy by Karly Lane