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
2017 Man Booker Prize Shortlist
The 2018 shortlist to be announced in September
4 3 2 1 - Paul Auster
History of wolves - Emily Fridlund
Exit west - Mohsin Hamid
Elmet - Fiona Mozley
Lincoln in the bardo - George Saunders WINNER
Autumn - Ali Smith
Previous Man Booker Prize Winners
2017 Miles Franklin Literary Award Shortlist
The 2018 shortlist to be announced in June
An Isolated Incident - Emily Maguire
Extinctions - Josephine Wilson WINNER
Waiting - Philip Salom
Their Brilliant Careers - Ryan O'Neill
The Last Days of Ava Langdon - Mark O'Flynn
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 (joint winner) - 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
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