Literary Awards and Book Lists
The Athenaeum Library's most popular titles of 2022
1. The man who died twice - Richard Osman
2. The heron's cry - Ann Cleeves
3. A gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
4. Bad actors - Mick Herron
5. Crossing places - Elly Griffiths
6. Still life - Sarah Winman
7. The madness of crowds - Louise Penny
8. The marriage portrait - Maggie O'Farrell
9. The murder rule - Dervla McTiernan
10. The Jane Austen remedy - Ruth Wilson
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
2022 Prime Minister's Literary Award Winners
Fiction - Red heaven by Nicolas Rothwell
Non-fitcion - Rogue forces by Mark Willacy
Australian history - Semut by Christine Helliwell
Poetry - Human looking by Andy Jackson
Young adult literature - The gaps by Leanne Hall
Children's literature - Mina and the whole wide world by Sherryl Clark
Previous Prime Minister's Literary Award Winners
2022 Nobel Laureate for Literature
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