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 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

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