Book Awards100 Must-Read Australian Books
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Book awards by cover
Works (97)
| Titles | Order |
|---|---|
| 45 & 47 Stella Street and Everything That Happened by Elizabeth Honey — not in English Common Knowledge | Children |
| Affluenza: When Too Much is Never Enough by Clive Hamilton — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| All That I Am by Anna Funder — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction |
| The Alphabet Sisters by Monica McInerney — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction |
| Am I Black Enough For You? by Anita Heiss — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| Australians: A Short History by Thomas Keneally — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| Bad Debts by Peter Temple — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction |
| Because a White Man'll Never Do It by Kevin Gilbert — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| The Beekeeper's Secret by Josephine Moon — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction |
| The Boat by Nam Le — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction |
| Bold Palates: Australia's Gastronomic Heritage by Barbara Santich — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| The Book Thief by Markus Zusak — not in English Common Knowledge | YA |
| Born to Run by Cathy Freeman — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| Breaking the Mould: ; Taking a Hammer to Sexism in Sport by Angela Pippos — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| Burial Rites by Hannah Kent — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction |
| I Came to Say Goodbye by Caroline Overington — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction |
| Campaign Ruby by Jessica Rudd — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction |
| Captains by Malcolm Knox — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| The Case Against Fragrance by Kate Grenville — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| Cloudstreet by Tim Winton — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction |
| A Distant Journey by Morrissey Di — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction |
| The Doctor by Karl Kruszelnicki — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| Does My Head Look Big In This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah — not in English Common Knowledge | YA |
| The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| Feeling Sorry for Celia by Jaclyn Moriarty — not in English Common Knowledge | YA |
| The forever house : time-honoured Australian homes by Cameron Bruhn — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction |
| Free-Falling by Nicola Moriarty — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction |
| Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia by David Hunt — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| The good girl of Chinatown by Jenevieve Chang — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| The Happiest Refugee by Anh Do — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| The Harp in the South by Ruth Park — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction |
| The Hate Race by Maxine Beneba Clarke — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| Hating Alison Ashley by Robin Klein — not in English Common Knowledge | Children |
| Hey Mum, What's a Half-Caste? by Lorraine McGee-Sippel — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| Home (Black Australian Writing) by Larissa Behrendt — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction |
| Ice Station by Matthew Reilly — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction |
| In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction |
| Jessica by Bryce Courtenay — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction |
| Jodie's Journey by Colin Thiele — not in English Common Knowledge | Children |
| The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction |
| Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta — not in English Common Knowledge | YA |
| Love Struck by Melanie La'Brooy — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction |
| The Lucky Country by Donald Horne — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| Macquarie Pen Anthology of Aboriginal Literature by Anita Heiss — not in English Common Knowledge | |
| Mao's Last Dancer by Cunxin Li — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| The Men Who Killed Qantas by Matthew Benns — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction |
| My Brother Jack by George Johnston — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction |
| My Place by Sally Morgan — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| My Story by Julia Gillard — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction |
| The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction |
| Not quite Australian : how temporary migration is changing the nation by Peter Mares — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| Not Quite Nigella by Lorraine Elliott — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| On Not Speaking Chinese: Living Between Asia and the West by Ien Ang — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| One Continuous Picnic: A History of Australian Eating by Michael Symon — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| Penny Pollard's Diary by Robin Klein — not in English Common Knowledge | Children |
| People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction |
| The permanent resident by Roanna Gonsalves | Fiction |
| Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction |
| QF32 by Richard De Crespigny — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| Questions of Travel by Michelle De Kretser — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction |
| Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: Paul Keating PM by Don Watson — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| The Rise and Fall of Australia by Nick Bryant — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction |
| Rule No. 5: No Sex on the Bus: Confessions of a Tour Leader by Brian Thacker — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| The Secret Recipe for Second Chances by J.D. Barrett — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction |
| The Secret River by Kate Grenville — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction |
| Selby's secret by Duncan Ball — not in English Common Knowledge | Children |
| Selection Day by Aravind Adiga | Fiction |
| Seven Little Australians by Ethel Turner — not in English Common Knowledge | Children |
| Shelter : how Australians live by Kara Rosenlund — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| Sins of the brother: The definitive story of Ivan Milat and the backpacker murders by Mark Whittaker — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction |
| Someone Else's Daughter: The Life and Death of Anita Cobby by Julia Sheppard — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| Songs of a War Boy by Deng Thiak Adut — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| Spirits of the Ghan by Judy Nunn — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction |
| Still Lucky by Rebecca Huntley — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| The Swan Book by Alexis Wright — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction |
| Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan — not in English Common Knowledge | YA |
| That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction |
| This Is Me by Ian Thorpe — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction |
| Tracks by Robyn Davidson — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| A Treasury of Cartoons by First Dog on the Moon, — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| True Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia by David Hunt | Nonfiction |
| True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction |
| Two Weeks with the Queen by Morris Gleitzman — not in English Common Knowledge | Children |
| The tyranny of distance : how distance shaped Australia's history by Geoffrey Blainey — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| Where the Sea Takes Us: A Vietnamese-Australian Story by Kim Huynh | Nonfiction |
| Why Aren't We Dead Yet?: The Survivor's Guide to the Immune System by Idan Ben-Barak — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| The Wife Drought by Annabel Crabb — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| Yassmin's Story by Yassmin Abdel-Magied — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction |
| Everywhere I Look by Helen Garner — not in English Common Knowledge | Nonfiction, 2017 |
