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This will be the third year I've participated in the challenge, and I'm looking forward to discovering some more wonderful books by Australian women writers! This year I'm aiming to read 40 books for the challenge.

Good luck Anna, and have fun!

Here's my list of books read for the challenge in 2015 - I'll update this post as I finish each book.

1. Outback Lives and Border Fence Brides: More Tales of an Outback Doctor by Jane Bradhurst - finished 6 January
2. My Story by Julia Gillard - finished 18 January
3. Last Woman Hanged by Caroline Overington - finished 22 January
4. Child of the Twilight by Carmel Bird - finished 25 January
5. Tell Me the Truth: Conversations With My Patients About Life And Death by Ranjana Srivastava - finished 10 February
6. Mothers Grimm by Danielle Wood - finished 13 February
7. Diamonds in the Mud and Other Stories by Joy Dettman - finished 21 February
8. Lantana Lane by Eleanor Dark - finished 1 March
9. The Wedding Season by Su Dharmapala - finished 11 March
10. Great Australian Women Volume II : From Pioneering Days to the Present by Susanna de Vries - finished 19 March
11. A Question of Death: An Illustrated Phryne Fisher Treasury by Kerry Greenwood - finished 22 March
12. The Battlers by Kylie Tennant - finished 8 April
13. Dying For A Chat: The Communication Breakdown Between Doctors and Patients by Ranjana Srivastava - finished 10 April
14. The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka by Clare Wright - finished 24 April
15. The Thing about Prague� by Rachael Weiss - finished 6 May
16. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough - finished 30 May
17. Burial Rites by Hannah Kent - finished 20 June
18. The Secret River by Kate Grenville - finished 25 June
19. There, Where The Pepper Grows by Bem Le Hunte - finished 27 June
20. Goodbye Sweetheart by Marion Halligan - finished 8 July
21. Something Special, Something Rare: Outstanding short stories by Australian women - finished 9 July
22. The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman - finished 10 July
23. The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane - finished 19 July
24. Secret Keeping for Beginners by Maggie Alderson - finished 19 July
25. Dear Life: On Caring for the Elderly by Karen Hitchcock - finished 20 July
26. Love in the Years of Lunacy by Mandy Sayer - finished 21 July
27. Dark Roots by Cate Kennedy - finished 23 July
28. Life in Ten Houses: A Memoir by Sonya Hartnett - finished 24 July
29. Swallow the Air by Tara June Winch - finished 25 July
30. Hot Little Hands by Abigail Ulman - finished 30 July
31. Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke - finished 3 August
32. Little White Slips by Karen Hitchcock - finished 8 August
33. Daughter of the Territory by Jacqueline Hammar - finished 18 August
34. The Golden Age by Joan London - finished 6 September
35. Close To Home by Robin Barker - finished 13 September
36. Antidote to Murder by Felicity Young - finished 24 September
37. The Floating Garden by Emma Ashmere - finished 10 October
38. Last Day in the Dynamite Factory by Annah Faulkner - finished 23 October
39. Unpolished Gem by Alice Pung - finished 24 October
40. Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar - finished 30 October
41. After Darkness by Christine Piper - finished 3 November
42. The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks - finished 11 November
43. Plain-speaking Jane by Jane Caro - finished 14 November
44. The Household Guide To Dying by Debra Adelaide - finished 19 December
45. Murder on a Midsummer Night by Kerry Greenwood - finished 22 December (a reread)
46. The diaries of Ethel Turner by Ethel Turner (edited by Philippa Poole) - finished 24 December
47. Seven Little Australians by Ethel Turner - finished 30 December

Just finished my 20th book for the challenge, so I'm halfway towards my goal. Since it's only just over halfway through the year, I'm on track to reach my goal of 40 books by Australian women writers.

I've managed to add ten books to my challenge total in the past month, thanks to being on leave following surgery and having heaps of time to read! (Confession - I also read some non-AWW.) Now I'm three quarters of the way towards my goal of 40.

That must be the silver lining to your surgery cloud :) Good to hear Anna.

I've reached my goal for this year's challenge, but why stop now? I'll see how many more books by Australian women writers I can fit in before the end of the year. :-)

Well done Anna:) And you're right...it's not the end of the year yet!

Another great year of reading completed. I read 47 books by Australian women writers, more than my goal of 40. I was so close to 50 in 2015 that I'm planning to make that my goal for 2016 - and I'm even planning to write some reviews!

Congratulations Anna!