Literary Awards and Book Lists
The Athenaeum Library's most popular titles of 2020
1. Blue moon - Lee Child
2. The long call - Ann Cleeves
3. A silent death - Peter May
4. Fair warning - Michael Connelly
5. The night fire - Michael Connelly
6. Agent running in the field - John Le Carre
7. Trace elements - Donna Leon
8. The good turn - Dervla McTiernan
9. From the land of the moon - Milena Agus
10. The anarchy - William Dalrymple
2020 Booker Prize Shortlist
The new wilderness - Diane Cook
This mournable body - Tsitsi Dangarembga
Burnt sugar - Avni Doshi
The shadow king - Maaza Mengiste
Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart WINNER
Real life - Brandon Taylor
Previous Man Booker Prize Winners
2020 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
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
2020 Prime Minister's Literary Award Winners
Fiction - The yield by Tara June Winch
Non-fitcion - Song spirals by Gay'wu Group of Women
Australian history - Meeting the Waylo by Tiffany Shellam
Poetry - The lost Arabs by Omar Sakr
Young adult literature - How it feels to float by Helena Fox
Children's literature - Cooee Mittigar by Jasmine Seymour and Leanne Mulgo Watson
Previous Prime Minister's Literary Award Winners
2020 Nobel Laureate for Literature
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Poems 1962-2012