Literary Awards and Book Lists
The Athenaeum Library's most popular titles of 2019
1. Any ordinary day - Leigh Sales
2. Becoming - Michelle Obama
3. The lost man - Jane Harper
4. Boy swallows universe - Trent Dalton
5. The promised land - Barry Maitland
6. Big sky - Kate Atkinson
7. The dry - Jane Harper
8. The temptation of forgiveness - Donna Leon
9. Black diamond - Martin Walker
10. Machines like me - Ian McEwan
2019 Booker Prize Shortlist
The testaments - Margaret Atwood WINNER
Ducks, Newburyport - Lucy Ellmann
Girl, woman, other - Bernadine Evaristo WINNER
An orchestra of minorities - Chigozie Obioma
Quichotte - Salman Rushdie
10 minutes 38 seconds in this strange world - Elif Shafak
Previous Man Booker Prize Winners
2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award Shortlist
The Lebs - Michael Mohammed Ahmad
A sand archive - Gregory Day
A stolen season - Rodney Hall
The death of Noah Glass - Gail Jones
Too much lip - Melissa Lucashenko WINNER
Dyschronia - Jennifer Mills
Previous Miles Franklin Winners
2019 Stella Prize Shortlist
Little gods - Jenny Ackland
The bridge - Enza Gandolfo
Pink mountain on Locust Island - Jamie Marina Lau
The erratics - Vicki Laveau-Harvie WINNER
Too much lip - Melissa Lucashenko
Axiomatic - Maria Tumarkin
2019 Prime Minister's Literary Award Winners
Fiction - The death of Noah Glass by Gail Jones
Non-fitcion - Half the perfect world by Paul Genoni and Tanya Dalziell
Australian history - The Bible in Australia by John Edwards
Poetry - Sun music by Judith Beveridge
Young adult literature - The things that will not stand by Michael Gerard Bauer
Children's literature - His name was Walter by Emily Rodda
Previous Prime Minister's Literary Award Winners
2019 Nobel Laureate for Literature
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The 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature was also awarded this year
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