Literary Awards and Book Lists
The Athenaeum Library's most popular titles of 2017
1. Earthly remains - Donna Leon
2. Lincoln in the bardo - George Saunders
3. Precious and Grace - Alexander McCall Smith
4. All the light we cannot see - Anthony Doerr
5. My name is Lucy Barton - Elizabeth Strout
6. The heart's invisible furies - John Boyne
7. The Black Widow - Daniel Silva
8. The waters of eternal youth - Donna Leon
9. Fatal pursuit - Martin Walker
10. The thirst - Jo Nesbo
2018 Man Booker Prize Shortlist
Milkman - Anna Burns WINNER
Everything Under - Daisy Johnson
The Mars Room - Rachel Kushner
Washington Black - Esi Edugyan
The Overstory - Richard Powers
The Long Take - Robin Robertson
Previous Man Booker Prize Winners
2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award Shortlist
No More Boats - Felicity Castagna
The Life to Come - Michelle de Krester WINNER
The Last Garden - Eva Hornung
Storyland - Catherine McKinnon
Border Districts - Gerald Murnane
Taboo - Kim Scott
Previous Miles Franklin Winners
2018 Stella Prize Shortlist
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree - Shokoofeh Azar
Terra Nullius - Claire G Coleman
The Life to Come - Michelle de Kretser
An Uncertain Grace - Krissy Kneen
The Fish Girl - Mirandi Riwoe
Tracker - Alexis Wright WINNER
2017 Prime Minister's Literary Award Winners
The 2018 award timeline has yet to be released
Fiction - Their brilliant careers by Ryan O'Neill
Poetry - Headwaters by Anthony Lawrence
Non-fiction - Quicksilver by Nicolas Rothwell
Prize for Australian history - Atomic Thunder by Elizabeth Tynan
Young adult fiction - Words in deep blue by Cath Crowley
Children's fiction (joint winner) - Dragonfly song by Wendy Orr
Children's fiction (joint winner) - Home in the rain by Bob Graham
Previous Prime Minister's Literary Award Winners
2017 Nobel Laureate for Literature
The 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature has been cancelled
Titles in our collection:
The remains of the day
When we were orphans
Never let me go
The unconsoled
An artist of the floating world
Nocturnes : five stories of music and nightfall
The buried giant