Literary Awards and Book Lists
The Athenaeum Library's most popular titles of 2021
1. The yield - Tara June Winch
2. The dictionary of lost words - Pip Williams
3. The darkest evening - Ann Cleeves
4. A song for the dark times - Ian Rankin
5. Transient desires - Donna Leon
6. The sentinel - Lee Child
7. Many rivers to cross - Peter Robinson
8. Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell
9. The survivors - Jane Harper
10. The liar's dictionary - Williams Eley
2021 Booker Prize Shortlist
A passage north - Anuk Arudpragasam
The promise - Damon Galgut WINNER
No one is talking about this - Patricia Lockwood
The fortune men - Nadifa Mohamed
Bewilderment - Richard Powers
Great circle - Maggie Shipstead
2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award Shortlist
Amnesty - Aravind Adiga
The rain heron - Robbie Arnott
At the edge of the solid world - Daniel Davis Wood
The labyrinth - Amanda Lohrey WINNER
Lucky's - Andrew Pippos
The inland sea - Madeleine Watts
Previous Miles Franklin Winners
2021 Stella Prize Shortlist
Fathoms: the World Inside the Whale - Rebecca Giggs
Revenge: Murder in Three Parts - S. L. Lim
The Animals in That Country - Laura Jean McKay
Witness - Louise Milligan
Stone Sky Gold Mountain - Mirandi Riwoe
The Bass Rock - Evie Wyld WINNER
2021 Prime Minister's Literary Award Winners
Fiction - The labyrinth by Amanda Lohrey
Non-fitcion - The stranger artist by Quentin Sprague
Australian history - People of the river by Grace Karskens
Poetry - The strangest place by Stephen Edgar
Young adult literature - Metal fish, falling snow by Cath Moore
Children's literature - Fly on the wall by Remy Lai and How to make a bird by Meg McKinlay
Previous Prime Minister's Literary Award Winners
2021 Nobel Laureate for Literature
Titles in our collection:
Afterlife