Literary Awards and Book Lists

The Athenaeum Library's most popular titles of 2018

1.   Dark emu - Bruce Pascoe
2.   Force of nature - Jane Harper
3.   The temptation of forgiveness - Donna Leon
4.   The heart's invisible furies - John Boyne
5.   The museum of modern love - Heather Rose
6.   The last man in Europe - Dennis Glover
7.   The woman in the window - A J Finn
8.   Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine - Gail Honeyman
9.   Home fire - Kamila Shamsie
10. The shepherd's hut - Tim Winton

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

Previous Stella Prize Winners

2018 Prime Minister's Literary Award Winners

The 2019 award shortlists can be viewed here

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