How to choose twenty-five books

Reading twenty-five books in a year is not too hard when you’ve been an avid reader for over seventy years. Some of the time though the choice can be overwhelming.

I tend to read from the same lists of publishers recommendations and follow the literary reviews. I follow the reviews that are published by the Australian Women Writers Challenge.

This year just for the fun of it, I plan to be more creative about how I choose what to read. I got the idea for this this list from a post of Erin Burns which you can access here.

This is my list of twenty-five books to read this year

1. A book about France
2. A book my daughter recommends
3. A book club choice – well, actually, there’ll be a lot of those
4. A book from the Scarborough library (my local library)
5. One of the classics I already own
6. A book of poetry
7. A book from the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2015 shortlist
8. A book about Australian history
9. A novel with a medieval theme
10. A book set in the Australian outback
11. A book written in 1995
12. A book from the Stella Prize 2015 short list
13. A book of young adult fiction
14. A book of ‘chick-lit’
15. A book with a blue cover with a windmill
16. A book ‘For Dummies’ about I subject I know nothing about
17. A book of exotic recipes – and I’ll make three of the recipes
18. A book about spirituality
19. A book with pictures
20. A book of speculative fiction
21. A book by an author I listen to at the Perth Writers Festival in February 2015
22. A book by a male writer
23. A book by an Aboriginal woman
24. A book from the Walkley Award for Best Non-Fiction Books 2015 shortlist
25. A book with a flower (or flowers) on the cover.

That’s my list of twenty-five books. I’ll review some of them for the Australian Women Writers Challenge.

Australian Women Writers Challenge 2015

I would love you to add to the list. Leave a comment with your suggestions.