Stella Prize Summer Reading Challenge Completed

It may have taken me all year and January, February, and December 2024 to complete this challenge over summer, but I have managed to do so. I completed the final prompt; title begins with see or bad in December with Bad Country by Kim Ulrick. I have successfully completed all but two of my challenges. I am working on the final surprise Christmas prompt from Dymocks, and whilst I have completed the prompts for the YA Challenge I am doing, I am planning on finishing the overall count for that challenge at the end of the year, just in case I read some more YA in the next few weeks before I write those final posts. I had fun with this one, and was able to use more than just Stella nominees and prize winners for this book. I think this made it more creative for me, as I explored a wide range of stories to complete this challenge.

Set During a Hot Summer: Tight Lines by Louise Lambeth

Won the Stella Prize: Drop Bear by Evelyn Araluen

Under 100 pages: Two Selkie Stories from Scotland by Kate Forsyth

Graphic novel: Stars in their Eyes by Jessica Walton and Aśka

Not set in Australia: The Nosy Detectives by Louisa Bennet

Author was a speaker at Stella Day Out: Decadence by Thuy On

Red or pink cover: Miss Mary-Kate Martin’s Guide to Monsters: The Bother with the Bonkillyknock Beast by Karen Foxlee

Has a bird on the cover: PD McPem’s Agency for Mysterious Mysteries by Anna Batteste

Published before 2020: The Fish Girl by Mirandi Riwoe

Poetry collection: Lemons in the Chicken Wire by Alison Whittaker

Title begins with see or bad: Bad Country by Kim Ulrick

Short story collection: Square Me, Round World by Chelsea Luker and Eliza Fricker

Memoir: Late Bloomer: How An Autism Diagnosis Changed my Life by Clem Bastow

Blue cover: Temora and the Wordsnatcher by Kate Gordon

Over 200 pages: The Hidden Book by Kirsty Manning

Has more than one author: The Secret Science Society in Space by Kathy Hoopmann Josie Montano