Literary Awards and Book Lists
The Athenaeum Library's most popular titles of 2018
1. Dark emu - Bruce Pascoe
2. Force of nature - Jane Harper
3. The temptation of forgiveness - Donna Leon
4. The heart's invisible furies - John Boyne
5. The museum of modern love - Heather Rose
6. The last man in Europe - Dennis Glover
7. The woman in the window - A J Finn
8. Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine - Gail Honeyman
9. Home fire - Kamila Shamsie
10. The shepherd's hut - Tim Winton
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 Lebs - Michael Mohammed Ahmad
A sand archive - Gregory Day
A stolen season - Rodney Hall
The death of Noah Glass - Gail Jones
Too much lip - Melissa Lucashenko WINNER
Dyschronia - Jennifer Mills
Previous Miles Franklin Winners
2019 Stella Prize Shortlist
Little gods - Jenny Ackland
The bridge - Enza Gandolfo
Pink mountain on Locust Island - Jamie Marina Lau
The erratics - Vicki Laveau-Harvie WINNER
Too much lip - Melissa Lucashenko
Axiomatic - Maria Tumarkin
2018 Prime Minister's Literary Award Winners
The 2019 award shortlists can be viewed here
Fiction - Border districts by Gerald Murnane
Poetry - Blindness and rage by Brian Castro
Non-fiction - Asia's reckoning by Richard McGregor
Prize for Australian history - John Curtin's war by John Edwards
Young adult fiction - This is my song by Richard Yaxley
Children's fiction - Pea pod lullaby by Glenda Millard
Previous Prime Minister's Literary Award Winners
2019 Nobel Laureate for Literature
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The 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature was also awarded this year
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