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Your end of year top 5-10 titles of 2023 - AUSTRALIAN Authors only!

With another year almost over here at Aussie Readers it's that time again to list your top 5 - 10 Aussie author titles. The books don't have to be released this year (2023) but only to be read.

Here's the link to the mid-year top 5-10 where you chose the first half of the year's favourites. See how much, and if, they change :)

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

My top 10 AAs for 2023 in no particular order...

Wild Card by Simon Rowell

The Spring Farewell by Michelle Montebello

Lest Bridges Burn by Phillipa Nefri Clark

Song of the Starlings by T.M. Clark

No Trace by Michael Trant

Vendetta by Sarah Barrie

Terror in Topaz by A.M. Stuart

Back on Track by Tricia Stringer

The Rush: A Novel by Michelle Prak

Dead Tide by Fiona McIntosh

My Aussie Top Ten 2023

The Sinister Booksellers of Bath by Garth Nix

Birds in Flight by Anni Taylor

Missing by Catherine Lee

Look Closer by Rachel Amphlett

Mystery at the Asylum by Helen Goltz

The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams

Wild Card by Simon Rowell

The Detective Up Late by Adrian McKinty

Terror in Topaz by A.M. Stuart

Cover the Bones by Rachel Amphlett

Such a good year of reading!

Invented Lives by Andrea Goldsmith
Return to Valetto by Dominic Smith
The Unearthed by Lenny Bartulin
Smokehouse by Melissa Manning
Peace by Garry Disher
The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams
Headcase by Jack Heath
The Long Game/Wild Card by Simon Rowell
The House of Now and Then by Jo Dixon

I had 9 5* Australian books this year


Estella by Kathy George
Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee by Chloe Hooper
Homecoming by Kate Morton
Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville
The Hummingbird Effect by Kate Mildenhall
Return to Valetto by Dominic Smith
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein
Nina Simone's Gum by Warren Ellis
Diary of a Bad Year by J.M. Coetzee

Brenda wrote: "Your end of year top 5-10 titles of 2023 - AUSTRALIAN Authors only!



Fabulous list Brenda, I have not read Wild Card and No Trace but the other eight would be on my list as well :)



With another year almost over here at Aussie Readers it's that time again to list your top 5 - 10 Aussie author ti..."

I've enjoyed a lot of excellent Aussie reads this year, so it's hard to pick just a few but here goes:

The Detective Up Late by Adrian McKinty

Lola in the Mirror by Trent Dalton

The Tilt by Chris Hammer

Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy

Fire with Fire: A Novel by Candice Fox

Killer Traitor Spy by Tim Ayliffe

Return to Valetto by Dominic Smith

Vendetta by Sarah Barrie

Missing by Catherine Lee

The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams

Lola in the Mirror by Trent Dalton
Cherry Beach by Laura Mcphee Brown
Limberlost by Robbie Arnott
The crying room by Gretchen Shirm
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran
The hummingbird effect by Kate mildenhall
Providence by Max Barry
The good wife of bath by Karen Brooks

My top 2 by my own ratings were
The Woman in the Library - Sulari Gentill
and
The Tilt - Chris Hammer


I also finished an older series of 4 books, which I had started the previous year, and enjoyed for its setting and themes

Silent Valley - Malla Nunn A.A #3
Present Darkness - Malla Nunn A.A #4


And special mention to YA book that I read to fill in a gap in one of my challenges, but ended up making me think
The Year the Maps Changed - Danielle Binks

I had a great year of reading but did not read that many Aussie books. Here are the ones I liked the best.

My top ten books by Aussie authors. in no particular order:

- Homecoming by Kate Morton
- Stone Town by Margaret Hickey
- The Long Game by Simon Rowell
- Exiles by Jane Harper
- Return to Valetto by Dominic Smith
- The Tilt by Chris Hammer
- The Mother by Jane Caro
- Fire with Fire by Candice Fox
- Birds in Flight by Anni Taylor
- Dead Horse Gap by Lee Christine