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Annual Australian Authors Challenge 2025Duration: 1/1/25 - 31/12/25
Level: Two
22/24
Male Authors
✔️1. Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️2. Killing Mr Rent-a-Kill by Duncan McNab ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️3. Cellnight: A verse novel by John Kinsella ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️4. Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️5.Bomb Season in Jakarta: A personal account of a turbulent period in Australian diplomacy by Grant Dooley ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Female Authors
✔️1. Because I Love Him: One Woman's Journey from Wounds to Wisdom by Ashlee Donohue ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️2. Break the Rules by Lauren Jackson ⭐️⭐️
✔️3. Someone Else's Bucket List by Amy T. Matthews ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️4. Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️5. Dreaming in the Urban Areas by Lisa Bellear ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️6. The Burrow by Melanie Cheng ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
2025 New Releases
✔️1.An Academic Affair by Jodi McAlister ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️2. The Forsaken by Matt Rogers ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️3.Love Overdue by Ali Berg ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️4. Dying Rose by Douglas Smith ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️5. The Final Chapter by January Gilchrist
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Favourite Genre
✔️1. Vendetta by Sarah Barrie ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️2. Endgame by Sarah Barrie ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️3. Highway Thirteen: Stories by Fiona McFarlane ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️4. The Unquiet Grave by Dervla McTiernan ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️5. Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️6. The Thrill of It by Mandy Beaumont ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Annual Challenge 2023 - Calendar of BooksDuration: 1/1/23 - 31/12/23
Level: Hard
2/24
Titles
January
Just Desserts by Mary Daheim 28/01/23 4★
February
March
April
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January - Strawberry Shortcake Murder by Joanne Fluke 11/01 4★
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Its my first time back in a few years participating in reading challenges, love Louise Penny so this seemed like a sign :-)January 2023's Featured Author is Louise Penny
Duration: 1/1/23 - 31/1/23
Level: HARD
1/12
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TASKS
#1. Born in Toronto, Canada, Louise Penny is a well known, prize winning author of mysteries.
**Read a book set in Canada OR
**Read a prize winning book by any author
Among the Ruins by Ausma Zehanat Khan
#2. Penny's first novel was Still Life set in the small town of Three Pines and featuring Armand Gamache.
**Read a book set in a small town in any country OR
**Read a debut novel
Death at Whitewater Church by Andrea Carter
#3. The Armand Gamache series now runs to 19 books and is translated into 31 languages.
**Read a book from a long running series OR
**Read a book translated from another language
Strawberry Shortcake Murder by Joanne Fluke 11/01 ★★★★
#4. The Armand Gamache novels are currently being made into a TV series.
**Read a book which has been made into a movie or TV show OR
**Read a book which you think would make a good movie.
Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up by Alexandra Potter
BONUS
**Read a book by Louise Penny
The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny
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August 2020 Challenge - Let's Travel!Level: Easy
0/5
TASKS
#1. Geographical Setting: Read a book set in a different country to your own
The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory
#2. Travel to a Different Genre: Read a book from a genre you haven't explored before/for a long time.
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
#3. Cover Hunt: Read a book with a mode of transport on the cover (not legs or feet)
Wild at Heart by K.A. Tucker
#4. Title: Read a book with a PLACE NAME in the title
TBC
#5. Author: Read a book by an author who lives in a country other than your own
Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev
It’s taken me a while to come up with my list, and given that most of my reading plans are being changed because of my mood, here is my list for July, subject to change of course.July Challenge. Freedom at last!
Duration: 1/7/20 - 31/7/20
Level: 1/5
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K - One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London
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Finished, I changed out pretty much everyone of my books this month and ended up having a purge of my TBR so not a bad outcome. I will start with the easy level and might move up depending on my reading this month
June TBR Challenge
Duration: 1/6/20 - 30/6/20
Level: Easy
4/4
TASKS
#1. On your TBR the longest :
#2. A new to you author :
#3. Favourite author:
#4. Favourite genre:
I hadn’t realised how many series I have started and stalled on and how many were on my TBR so lets do this!Winter Challenge
Duration: 1/6/20 - 31/8/20
Level: Hard
4/12
1a. Read a book which is 1st in a series.
b. Read a book by an author you have never read before.
2a. Read a book which is 2nd in a series
b. Read a book which has a two word title (and yes -" a", "an" and "the" do count!)
3a. Read a book which is 3rd in a series.
Among the Ruins by Ausma Zehanat KhanAusma Zehanat Khan
b. Read the third book on your TBR
One Kick by Chelsea Cain
4a. Read a book which is 4th in a series.
Thursday's Child by Nicci French
b. Read a book which was published in April (any year)
TBC
5a. Read a book which is 5th in a series.
Ceremony in Death by J.D. Robb
b. Read a book which a Goodreads friend gave five stars.
Fourteen by Shannon Molloy AA
6a. Read a book which is 6th in a series. The 6th Target by James Patterson
b. Read a book which is set in winter.
Snowblind by Ragnar Jónasson
I will start with the easy level and might move up depending on my reading this monthJune TBR Challenge
Duration: 1/6/20 - 30/6/20
Level: Easy
4/4
TASKS
#1. On your TBR the longest :
#2. A new to you author :
#3. Favourite author:
#4. Favourite genre:
Finished, changed a few around because my mood/what I want to read is changing by the moment. Enjoyed all of them and was good to change my reading around a little. thanks for organising May Challenge - All about the GENRES 1st - 31st May 2020
Level: Medium
5/5
May Challenge - All about the GENRES 1st - 31st May 2020 Level: Medium
5/5
I had a slow couple of reading day, managed 140 pages of Waking Gods and then 40 pages of Transmission so my total is 493 pages
Yesterday I finished Blue Monday so read 307 pages today I'm reading a couple of things I have read 25 pages of Transmission but its taking longer to read than I would like so have now picked up Waking Gods as the style of that should see me read a bit quicker
Whoops almost missed this, I'm in!
This challenge fits in well with the challenge I set myself this year. Will list 16 just in case..0/16 read
1.) 2017- The Hidden Hours by Sara Foster *Aussie Author*
2.) 2016- The Twisted Knot by J.M. Peace
3.) 2015- The Waiting Room by Leah Kaminsky *Aussie Author*
4.) 2014- In the Morning I'll be Gone by Adrian McKinty
5.) 2013- Outback Dreams by Rachael Johns * Aussie Author*
6.) 2012- Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
7.) 2011- Now You See Me by Sharon Bolton
8.) 2010- The Little Breton Bistro by Nina George
9.) 2009- What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
10.) 2008- Dead Line by Stella Rimington
11.) 2007- Frantic by Katherine Howell *Aussie Author*
12.) 2006- A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny
13.) 2005- The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
14.) 2004- Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear
15.) 2003- Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder
16.) 2002- The English Assasin by Daniel Silva
Finished Ragdoll on Sunday night, what a book!! 5/5 Books read
I am, halfway through it's a great read loving it
I need to organise myself and see how I'm going with this, I think I have done 3 lines but will sort it all out tomorrow and post an update.
I Have been super late getting myself organised for the challenge, finally sorted out my word etc and am reading the last book to complete the challenge now. My original post is number 6SPELL-IT-OUT:
Using the first letter of a book title or the first letter of the authors first or last name, spell out an April item:
4/5 Books read
R - Ragdoll by Daniel Cole
Apr 20, 2017 09:03PM
Ha ha I hope it doesn't move like that for you!! What a wonderful surprise, he's a keeper
Apr 20, 2017 07:27PM
Happy Friday, I'm doing the double long long weekend so off today and Monday plus the Tuesday! Yay me.. hope this is ok to post, My Mum has been making booksleeves for me since last Christmas when I complained about my books getting battered, she has finally opened up an Etsy store, if you are interested check it out :-)https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/totesaGoGo
