Literary Awards and Book Lists

The Athenaeum Library's most popular titles of 2019

1.   Any ordinary day - Leigh Sales
2.   Becoming - Michelle Obama
3.   The lost man - Jane Harper
4.   Boy swallows universe - Trent Dalton
5.   The promised land - Barry Maitland
6.   Big sky - Kate Atkinson
7.   The dry - Jane Harper
8.   The temptation of forgiveness - Donna Leon
9.   Black diamond - Martin Walker
10. Machines like me - Ian McEwan

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 white girl - Tony Birch
Islands - Peggy Frew
No one - John Hughes
The returns - Philip Salom
Exploded view - Carrie Tiffany
The yield - Tara June Winch WINNER

Previous Miles Franklin Winners

2019 Stella Prize Shortlist

See what you made me do - Jess Hill WINNER
Diving into glass - Caro Llewellyn
There was still love - Favel Parrett
Here until August - Josephine Rowe
The yield - Tara June Winch
The weekend - Charlotte Wood

Previous Stella Prize Winners

2019 Prime Minister's Literary Award Winners

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