Literary Awards and Book Lists
The Athenaeum Library's most popular titles of 2021
1. The yield - Tara June Winch
2. The dictionary of lost words - Pip Williams
3. The darkest evening - Ann Cleeves
4. A song for the dark times - Ian Rankin
5. Transient desires - Donna Leon
6. The sentinel - Lee Child
7. Many rivers to cross - Peter Robinson
8. Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell
9. The survivors - Jane Harper
10. The liar's dictionary - Williams Eley
2022 Booker Prize Shortlist
Glory - NoViolet Bulawayo
The trees - Percival Everett
Treacle walker - Alan Garner
The seven moons of Mali Almeida - Shehan Karunatilaka WINNER
Small things like these - Claire Keegan
Oh William! - Elizabeth Strout
2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award Shortlist
The other half of you - Michael Mohammed Ahmad
Scary monsters - Michelle de Krester
Bodies of light - Jennifer Down WINNER
One hundred days - Alice Pung
Grimmish - Michael Winkler
Previous Miles Franklin Winners
2022 Stella Prize Shortlist
Take care - Eunice Andrada
Dropbear - Evelyn Araluen WINNER
No document - Anwen Crawford
Bodies of light - Jennifer Down
Stone fruit - Lee Lai
Homecoming - Elfie Shiosaki
2021 Prime Minister's Literary Award Winners
Fiction - The labyrinth by Amanda Lohrey
Non-fitcion - The stranger artist by Quentin Sprague
Australian history - People of the river by Grace Karskens
Poetry - The strangest place by Stephen Edgar
Young adult literature - Metal fish, falling snow by Cath Moore
Children's literature - Fly on the wall by Remy Lai and How to make a bird by Meg McKinlay
Previous Prime Minister's Literary Award Winners
2022 Nobel Laureate for Literature
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