Oooooh I LOVE awards lists - I always want to read every single book on every list. Of course that isn't really possible, at least as long as I'm expected to function in society like a normal person haha, but that doesn't matter - part of the fun for me is collecting the books and planning when I might read which one, and finding out more about the authors, and what my friends thought of the titles.

The Stella Prize long list for 2020 was announced a little over a week ago, and I've been loving seeing what everyone thinks of the list (I have literally only heard good things), and trying to decide what to read first - I always like to think that if I can just get on top of a couple of the books before the short list comes out (on 6 March) then this might be the year that I read them all (ha!).


There are 12 books on the long list, and I have my hands on five of them so far - click the titles to go to the Goodreads page and find out more.

The House of Youssef - Yumna Kassab

There was Still Love - Favel Parrett

Lucky Ticket - Joey Bui

This is How We Change the Ending - Vikki Wakefield

The Yield - Tara June Winch 

To be honest, I'll probably get to the library loans first, but these all look so good!
Are there any here you're busting to read? Or that are favourites already?

xo Bron

When the longlist for the Stella Prize - a major literary award for women's writing in Australia - was announced I immediately logged onto my library account to start requesting some of the titles. I did pretty well - about 10 days later and my loans for 4 of the fiction titles are in already!


I wrote a bit last year about my issues with prize lists and reader's FOMO - I always want to read ALL THE BOOKS, which is obviously not possible. This year my plan is to start with the fiction books - 7 of the 12 longlisted books are fiction and I'd like to read them all. Once the shortlist is announced (on March 8) I might try to read the shortlisted non-fiction, although to be honest I am a bit of a wimp when it comes to non-fiction that is going to give me big feelings!

You can see the full longlist, and find out more about each of the 12 books on it, here.

I'll keep you posted on how I go with my Stella reading plans, and in the meantime I'd love to know who else is reading the Stella Prize longlist this year, and whether you have read and loved any of the longlisted books?

xo Bron

Kind of a mini stack tonight - I have a bunch of books to talk about, but only these three in my hands. These are books that have been longlisted for The Stella Prize, a literary award for Australian women's writing - both fiction and non-fiction - you can read more about it on the Stella Prize website here.

The longlist for the Stella Prize consists of 12 books, and the shortlist of 6 will be announced on International Women's day - Thursday 8th March, and we'll find out who the winner is on 12 April. Last year I bought a set of the 6 shortlisted books from Readings and really enjoyed reading them. I only got through 4 by the time that the winner was announced, so this year I'm planning to start reading from the longlist, in the hope that I'll have a couple of the shortlist read already.

So these are the three I have managed to get my hands on already, either on loan from friends or the library...