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Titles	Order
Burning in by Mireille Juchau	Fiction, 2008
The Complete Stories by David Malouf	Fiction, 2008
Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts by Clive James	Non-fiction, 2008
El Dorado by Dorothy Porter	Fiction, 2008
A History of Queensland by Raymond Evans	Non-fiction, 2008
Jamaica by Malcolm Knox	Fiction, 2008
My Life as a Traitor: An Iranian Memoir by Zarah Ghahramani	Non-fiction, 2008
Napoleon: The Path to Power by Philip Dwyer	Non-fiction, 2008
Shakespeare's Wife by Germaine Greer	Non-fiction, 2008
Sorry by Gail Jones	Fiction, 2008
Vietnam: The Australian War by Paul Ham	Non-fiction, 2008
The Widow and Her Hero by Thomas Keneally	Fiction, 2008
American Journeys by Don Watson	Non-fiction, 2009
The Boat by Nam Le — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2009
Doing Life: A Biography of Elizabeth Jolley by Brian Dibble	Non-fiction, 2009
Everything I Knew by Peter Goldsworthy	Fiction, 2009
The Good Parents by Joan London	Fiction, 2009
Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History by Jenny Hocking	Non-fiction, 2009
The Henson Case by David Marr	Non-fiction, 2009
One Foot Wrong by Sofie Laguna	Fiction, 2009
The Pages by Murray Bail	Fiction, 2009
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks	Fiction, 2009
Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee by Chloe Hooper	Non-fiction, 2009
Van Diemen's Land by James Boyce	Non-fiction, 2009
Wanting by Richard Flanagan	Fiction, 2009
As the Earth Turns Silver by Alison Wong	Fiction ∙ 2010
Beatle Meets Destiny by Gabrielle Williams	Young Adult Fiction, 2010
The Blue Plateau: An Australian Pastoral by Mark Tredinnick	Non-fiction, 2010
The Book Of Emmett by Deborah Forster	Fiction, 2010
Cicada Summer by Kate Constable	Children's Fiction, 2010
The Ghost at the Wedding: A True Story by Shirley Walker	Non-fiction, 2010
Harry & Hopper by Margaret Wild	Children's Fiction, 2010
Jarvis 24 by David Metzenthen	Young Adult Fiction, 2010
Just Macbeth! by Andy Griffiths	Children's Fiction, 2010
The lake woman : a romance by Alan Gould	Fiction, 2010
The Life and Death of Democracy by John Keane	Non-fiction, 2010
Lovesong by Alex Miller	Fiction, 2010
Mannie and the Long Brave Day by Martine Murray	Children's Fiction, 2010
Mr Chicken Goes to Paris by Leigh Hobbs	Children's Fiction, 2010
The Museum of Mary Child by Cassandra Golds	Young Adult Fiction, 2010
Ransom by David Malouf	Fiction, 2010
Running with the Horses by Alison Lester	Children's Fiction, 2010
Stolen by Lucy Christopher	Young Adult Fiction, 2010
Strange Places: a Memoir of Mental Illness by Will Elliott	Non-fiction, 2010
Summertime: Scenes from Provincial Life by J. M. Coetzee	Fiction, 2010
Swerve by Phillip Gwynne	Young Adult Fiction, 2010
Tensy Farlow and the home for mislaid children by Jen Storer	Children's Fiction, 2010
The Terrible Plop by Ursula Dubosarsky	Children's Fiction, 2010
The Water Dreamers: The Remarkable History of Our Dry Continent by Michael Cathcart	Non-fiction, 2010
The Winds of Heaven by Judith Clarke	Young Adult Fiction, 2010
About a Girl by Joanne Horniman	Young Adult Fiction, 2011
April and Esme Tooth Fairies by Bob Graham	Children's Fiction, 2011
Claude Levi-Strauss: The Poet in the Laboratory by Patrick Wilcken	Non-fiction, 2011
Flyaway by Lucy Christopher	Children's Fiction, 2011
Glissando : a melodrama by David Musgrave	Fiction, 2011
Good Oil by Laura Buzo	Young Adult Fiction, 2011
How To Make Gravy: A to Z, A Mongrel Memoir by Paul Kelly	Non-fiction, 2011
Notorious by Roberta Lowing	Fiction, 2011
Now by Morris Gleitzman	Children's Fiction, 2011
The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor	Non-fiction, 2011
The Piper's Son by Melina Marchetta	Young Adult Fiction, 2011
Sydney by Delia Falconer	Non-fiction, 2011
That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott	Fiction, 2011
The Three Loves of Persimmon by Cassandra Golds	Young Adult Fiction, 2011
When Colts Ran by Roger McDonald	Fiction, 2011
Why I Love Australia by Bronwyn Bancroft	Children's Fiction, 2011
1835: The Founding of Melbourne & the Conquest of Australia by James Boyce	Australian History, 2012
Alaska by Sue Saliba	Young Adult Fiction, 2012
All That I Am by Anna Funder	Fiction, 2012
Armour by John Kinsella	Poetry, 2012
Ashes in the Air by Ali Alizadeh	Poetry, 2012
Autumn Laing by Alex Miller	Fiction, 2012
Being Here by Barry Jonsberg	Young Adult Fiction, 2012
Breaking the Sheep's Back by Charles Massy	Australian History, 2012
Come down, cat! by Sonya Hartnett	Children's Fiction, 2012
Evangeline, the wish keeper's helper by Maggie Alderson	Children's Fiction, 2012
Father's day by Anne Brooksbank	Children's Fiction, 2012
Forecast: Turbulence by Janette Turner Hospital	Fiction, 2012
Immigration nation : the secret history of us [videorecording] by Jacob Hickey	History, 2012
Indifferent Inclusion: Aboriginal People and the Australian Nation by Russell McGregor	Australian History, 2012
The Jewel Fish of Karnak by Graeme Base	Children's Fiction, 2012
Kinglake-350 by Adrian Hyland	Non-fiction, 2012
Michael Kirby: Paradoxes and Principles by A. J. Brown	Non-fiction, 2012
Pan's Whisper by Sue Lawson	Young Adult Fiction, 2012
Sarah Thornhill by Kate Grenville	Fiction, 2012
A Short History of Christianity by Geoffrey Blainey	Non-fiction, 2012
Southern Barbarians by John Mateer	Poetry, 2012
A Straight Line to My Heart by Bill Condon	Young Adult Fiction, 2012
When horse became saw by Anthony Macris	Non-fiction, 2012
The Australian Moment by George Megalogenis — not in English Common Knowledge	Non-Fiction, 2013
The Beginner's Guide to Revenge by Marianne Musgrove	Children's Fiction, 2013
Bold Palates: Australia's Gastronomic Heritage by Barbara Santich	Non-Fiction, 2013
Bradman's War by Malcolm Knox	Non-Fiction, 2013
Burning rice by Eileen Chong	Poetry, 2013
The Censor's Library: Uncovering the Lost History of Australia's Banned Books by Nicole Moore	History, 2013
The Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey	Fiction, 2013
The Children of the King by Sonya Hartnett	Young Adult Fiction, 2013
Crimson crop. by Peter Rose	Poetry, 2013
Every Thing Left Unsaid by Jessica Davidson	Young Adult Fiction, 2013
Farewell, Dear People: Biographies of Australia's Lost Generation by Ross McMullin — not in English Common Knowledge	History, 2013
Floundering by Romy Ash	Fiction, 2013
Friday Brown by Vikki Wakefield	Young Adult Fiction, 2013
Gough Whitlam : his time : the biography. Volume II by Jenny Hocking	History, 2013
Grace beside me by Sue Mcpherson	Young Adult Fiction, 2013
Jam Tree Gully: Poems by John Kinsella — not in English Common Knowledge	Poetry, 2013
Liquid nitrogen by Jennifer Maiden	Poetry, 2013
Lost Voices by C. J. Koch	Fiction, 2013
Mateship With Birds by Carrie Tiffany	Fiction, 2013
Plein airs and graces : the life and times of George Collingridge by Adrian Mitchell	Non-Fiction, 2013
Questions of Travel by Michelle De Kretser — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2013
Sandakan by Paul Ham	History, 2013
The Sex Lives of Australians by Frank Bongiorno	History, 2013
The sunlit zone by Lisa Jacobson	Poetry, 2013
Today We Have No Plans by Jane Godwin	Children's Fiction, 2013
Uncommon Soldier: The Story of the Making of Today's Diggers by Chris Masters	Non-Fiction, 2013
What's the Matter, Aunty May? by Peter Friend	Children's Fiction, 2013
1953 by Geoff Page	Poetry, 2014
Arthur Phillip: Sailor, Mercenary, Governor, Spy by Michael Pembroke	Australian History, 2014
Australia's secret war : how trade unions sabotaged Australian Military Forces in World War II by Hal Colebatch — not in English Common Knowledge	Australian History, 2014
Belomor by Nicolas Rothwell	Fiction, 2014
Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War by Joan Beaumont — not in English Common Knowledge	Australian History, 2014
The Categorical Universe of Candice Phee by Barry Jonsberg	Children's Fiction, 2014
Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power by Philip Dwyer	Non-Fiction, 2014
Coal Creek by Alex Miller	Fiction, 2014
Eldershaw by Stephen Edgar	Poetry, 2014
The First Third by Will Kostakis	Young Adult Fiction, 2014
Flagship: The Cruiser HMAS Australia II and the Pacific War on Japan by Mike Carlton	Australian History, 2014
The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka by Clare Wright	Australian History, 2014
Girl Defective by Simmone Howell	Young Adult Fiction, 2014
Kissed by the Moon by Alison Lester	Children's Fiction, 2014
Life in Outer Space by Melissa Keil	Young Adult Fiction, 2014
The Lucky Culture And The Rise Of An Australian Ruling Class by Nick Cater	Non-Fiction, 2014
Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John by Helen Trinca — not in English Common Knowledge	Non-Fiction, 2014
Moving Among Strangers: Randolph Stow and My Family by Gabrielle Carey — not in English Common Knowledge	Non-Fiction, 2014
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2014
The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane	Fiction, 2014
Pureheart by Cassandra Golds	Young Adult Fiction, 2014
Rendezvous with Destiny: How Franklin D. Roosevelt and Five Extraordinary Men Took America into the War and into the World by Michael Fullilove	Non-Fiction, 2014
Rules of Summer by Shaun Tan	Children's Fiction, 2014
Song for a Scarlet Runner by Julie Hunt	Children's Fiction, 2014
Tempo by Sarah Day	Poetry, 2014
A World of Other People by Steven Carroll — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2014
Amnesia by Peter Carey	Fiction, 2015
Are You Seeing Me? by Darren Groth	Young Adult Fiction, 2015
The Astrologer's Daughter by Rebecca Lim	Young Adult Fiction, 2015
Descent into Hell: The Fall of Singapore - Pudu and Changi - the Thai-Burma Railway by Peter Brune	Australian History, 2015
Earth Hour by David Malouf	Poetry, 2015
Encountering the Pacific in the Age of the Enlightenment by John Gascoigne	Non-Fiction, 2015
The Europeans in Australia: Volume 3: Nation by Alan Atkinson	Australian History, 2015
Exhibits of the sun by Stephen Edgar	Poetry, 2015
Golden Boys by Sonya Hartnett	Fiction, 2015
In Certain Circles by Elizabeth Harrower	Fiction, 2015
Menzies at War by Anne Henderson	Australian History, 2015
My Dad Is A Bear by Nicola Connelly	Children's Fiction, 2015
My Two Blankets by Irena Kobald	Children's Fiction, 2015
Private Bill: In Love and War by Barrie Cassidy	Non-Fiction, 2015
This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial by Helen Garner	Non-Fiction ∙ 2015
Tigers on the Beach by Doug MacLeod	Young Adult Fiction, 2015
To Name Those Lost by Rohan Wilson	Fiction, 2015
Two wolves by Tristan Bancks	Children's Fiction, 2015
Withering-by-Sea by Judith Rossell	Children's Fiction, 2015
Becoming Kirrali Lewis by Jane Harrison	Young Adult Fiction, 2016
Cocky's Joy by Michael Farrell	Poetry, 2016
Forever young by Steven Carroll	Fiction, 2016
The greatest Gatsby by Tohby Riddle	Children's Fiction, 2016
Green Valentine by Lili Wilkinson	Young Adult Fiction, 2016
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman	Young Adult Fiction, 2016
In-between Days by Vikki Wakefield	Young Adult Fiction, 2016
Island Home: A Landscape Memoir by Tim Winton	Non-Fiction, 2016
Mr Huff by Anna Walker	Children's Fiction, 2016
Ned Kelly: A Lawless Life by Doug Morrissey	Australian History, 2016
Net needle by Robert Adamson	Poetry, 2016
Perfect by Danny Parker	Children's Fiction, 2016
Quicksand by Steve Toltz	Fiction, 2016
Red Professor: The Cold War life of Fred Rose by Peter Monteath	Australian History, 2016
Second half first by Drusilla Modjeska	Non-Fiction, 2016
Waiting for the Past by Les Murray	Poetry, 2016
The World Repair Video Game by David Ireland	Fiction, 2016
'A Passion for Exploring New Countries' - Matthew Flinders & George Bass by Josephine Bastian	Australian History, 2017
The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art by Sebastian Smee	Nonfiction, 2017
The Art of Time Travel: Historians and Their Craft by Tom Griffiths	Nonfiction, 2017
Blue Sky Yellow Kite by Janet A. Holmes	Children's fiction, 2017
The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon	Young Adult fiction, 2017
The Easy Way Out by Steven Amsterdam	Fiction, 2017
Evatt: A Life by John Murphy	Australian History, 2017
Extinctions by Josephine Wilson	Fiction, 2017
Figgy and the President by Tamsin Janu	Children's fiction, 2017
Forgetting Foster by Dianne Touchell	Young Adult fiction, 2017
Fragments by Antigone Kefala	Poetry, 2017
A Handful of Sand: The Gurindji Struggle, After the Walk-Off by Charlie Ward	Australian History, 2017
The last days of Ava Langdon by Mark O'Flynn	Fiction, 2017
Mick: A Life of Randolph Stow by Suzanne Falkiner	Nonfiction, 2017
My Brother by Dee Huxley	Children's fiction, 2017
One would think the deep by Claire Zorn	Young Adult fiction, 2017
Our Man Elsewhere: In Search of Alan Moorehead by Thornton McCamish	Nonfiction, 2017
Painting Red Orchids by Eileen Chong	Poetry, 2017
the stars at oktober bend by Glenda Millard	Young Adult fiction, 2017
Valiant for Truth: The Life of Chester Wilmot, War Correspondent by Peter Brune	Australian History, 2017
Waiting by Philip Salom	Fiction, 2017
Archipelago by Adam Aitken	Poetry, 2018
Beautiful Balts: From Displaced Persons to New Australians by Jayne Persian	Australian history, 2018
Chatelaine by Bonny Cassidy (ed)	Poetry, 2018
Domestic interior by Fiona Wright	Poetry, 2018
The Enigmatic Mr Deakin by Judith Brett	Australian history, 2018
Feathers by Phil Cummings	Children’s literature, 2018
First Person by Richard Flanagan	Fiction, 2018
Hidden in Plain View: The Aboriginal People of Coastal Sydney by Paul Irish	(Australian history, 2018
Indigenous and other Australians since 1901 by Tim Rowse	Australian history, 2018
The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders by Stuart Kells	Nonfiction, 2018
The Life to Come by Michelle De Kretser	Fiction, 2018
Living on Hope Street by Demet Divaroren	Young Adult literature, 2018
A Long Way from Home by Peter Carey	Fiction, 2018
Mischka's War: A Story of Survival from War-Torn Europe to New York by Sheila Fitzpatrick	Nonfiction, 2018
My lovely Frankie by Judith Clarke	Young Adult literature, 2018
No Front Line: Australia's Special Forces at War in Afghanistan by Chris Masters	Nonfiction, 2018
The ones that disappeared by Zana Fraillon	Young Adult literature, 2018
Ruben by Bruce Whatley	Young Adult literature, 2018
Storm Whale by Sarah Brennan	Children’s literature, 2018
Taboo by Kim Scott	Fiction, 2018
Unbreakable by Jelena Dokic	Nonfiction, 2018
The Arsonist by Chloe Hooper	Non-fiction, 2019
The Art of Taxidermy by Sharon Kernot	Young adult literature, 2019
Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin	Non-fiction, 2019
Beautiful Revolutionary by Laura Elizabeth Woollett	Fiction, 2019
Between Us by Clare Atkins	Young adult literature, 2019
Blakwork by Alison Whittaker	Poetry, 2019
A certain light : a memoir of family, loss and hope by Cynthia Banham	Non-fiction, 2019
Cicada by Shaun Tan	Young adult literature, 2019
Dancing in Shadows: Histories of Nyungar Performance by Anna Haebich	Australian history, 2019
Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia by Billy Griffiths	Australian history, 2019
The Feather by Margaret Wild	Children's literature, 2019
Incredible Freedom Machines by Kirli Saunders	Children's literature, 2019
The Land of Dreams by D. A. Kemp	Australian history, 2019
Lenny's Book of Everything by Karen Foxlee	Young adult literature, 2019
Newcastle sonnets by Keri Glastonbury	Poetry, 2019
Rusted Off: Why Country Australia Is Fed Up by Gabrielle Chan	Non-fiction, 2019
Saudade by Suneeta Peres da Costa	Fiction, 2019
Sonam and the Silence by Eddie Ayres	Children's literature, 2019
A Stolen Season by Rodney Hall	Fiction, 2019
Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko	Fiction, 2019
Waiting for Chicken Smith by David Mackintosh	Children's literature, 2019
You Daughters Of Freedom: The Australians Who Won the Vote and Inspired the World by Clare Wright	Australian history, 2019
Catch a Falling Star by Meg McKinlay	Children’s literature ∙ 2020
The Death of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee	Fiction, 2020
Empirical by Lisa Gorton	Poetry, 2020
Enchantment of the Long-haired Rat, The by Tim Bonyhady	Nonfiction, 2020
Exploded view by Carrie Tiffany	Fiction, 2020
From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia Got Compulsory Voting by Judith Brett	Australian history, 2020
The future keepers by Nandi Chinna	Poetry, 2020
Hearing Maud : A Journey for a Voice by Jessica White	Nonfiction, 2020
Heide by Pio	Poetry, 2020
The Honeyman and the Hunter by Neil Grant	YA literature, 2020
The Oarsmen by Scott Patterson	Australian history, 2020
One careless night by Christina Booth	Children’s literature, 2020
Progressive New World: How Settler Colonialism and Transpacific Exchange Shaped American Reform by Marilyn Lake	Australian history, 2020
See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence by Jess Hill	Nonfiction, 2020
Sludge: Disaster on Victoria's Goldfields by Susan Lawrence	Australian history, 2020
The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling by Wai Chim	YA literature, 2020
This Is How We Change the Ending by Vikki Wakefield	YA literature, 2020
The Weekend by Charlotte Wood	Fiction, 2020
When the Ground Is Hard by Malla Nunn	YA literature, 2020
Wolfe Island by Lucy Treloar	Fiction, 2020
The Altar Boys by Suzanne Smith	Nonfiction, 2021
The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld	Fiction, 2021
Ceremony Men: Making Ethnography and the Return of the Strehlow Collection (SUNY series, Tribal Worlds: Critical Studies in American Indian Nation Building) by Jason M. Gibson	Australian History, 2021
Change Machine by Jaya Savige	Poetry, 2021
The Convict Valley: The Bloody Struggle on Australia's Early Frontier by Mark Dunn	Australian History, 2021
The Details: On Love, Death and Reading by Tegan Bennett Daylight	Nonfiction, 2021
The End of the World Is Bigger than Love by Davina Bell	Young adult literature, 2021
The F team by Rawah Arja	Young adult literature, 2021
Flight Lines by Andrew Darby	Nonfiction, 2021
Homer Street by Laurie Duggan	Poetry, 2021
In the Time of Foxes by Jo Lennan	Fiction, 2021
Loner by Georgina Young	Young adult literature, 2021
Lucky's by Andrew Pippos	Fiction, 2021
Pathfinders: A history of Aboriginal trackers in NSW by Michael Bennett	Australian History, 2021
Shorter Lives by John A. Scott	Poetry, 2021
A Treacherous Country by K.M. Kruimink	Fiction, 2021
Truganini: Journey Through the Apocalypse by Cassandra Pybus	Nonfiction, 2021
When Rain Turns to Snow by Jane Godwin	Young adult literature, 2021
The Year the Maps Changed by Danielle Binks	Children's Literature, 2021

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