| Titles | Order |
| The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan | [2014] |
| Fredy Neptune: A Novel In Verse by Les Murray | Fiction, 1999 |
| The Sky Travellers: Journeys in New Guinea 1938-1939 (Miegunyah Press) by Bill Gammage | History, 1999 |
| Unseen! by Paul Jennings | Best Children's Book, 1999 |
| Bone Flute by Nicole A. Bourke | Best Emerging Author, 2000 |
| Drylands by Thea Astley | Fiction, 2000 |
| The Family Tree by Jane Godwin | Best Children's Book, 2000 |
| John Curtin: A Life by David Day | History, 2000 |
| Why Weren't We Told? by Henry Reynolds | Harry Williams Award, 2000 |
| Borderline : Australia's response to refugees and asylum seekers in the wake of the Tampa by Peter Mares | Harry Williams Award, 2001 |
| The colonial earth by Tim Bonyhady | History, 2001 |
| A fine and private place by Brian Matthews | Non-Fiction, 2001 |
| Fox by Margaret Wild | Best Children's Book, 2001 |
| MamaKuma : one woman, two cultures by Deborah Carlyon | Best Emerging Author, 2001 |
| True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey | Fiction, 2001 |
| Blat Magic by Michael Stephens | Best Children's Book, 2002 |
| The Boyds : a family biography by Brenda Niall | Non-Fiction, 2002 |
| Gallipoli by Les Carlyon | History, 2002 |
| Getting The Girl by Markus Zusak | Young Adult, 2002 |
| In denial : the stolen generations and the right by Robert Manne | Harry Williams Award, 2002 |
| The Lambing Flat by Nerida Newton | Best Emerging Author, 2002 |
| Reconciliation : a journey by Michael Gordon | Harry Williams Award, 2002 |
| The volcano by Venero Armanno | Fiction, 2002 |
| Boys Of Blood & Bone by David Metzenthen | Young Adult, 2003 |
| Dark Victory by David Marr | Harry Williams Award, 2003 |
| Due Preparations for the Plague by Janette Turner Hospital | Fiction, 2003 |
| The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies by Kimberley Starr | Best Emerging Author, 2003 |
| The meeting of the waters : the Hindmarsh Island affair by Margaret Simons | Non-Fiction, 2003 |
| Mussolini by R. J. B. Bosworth | History, 2003 |
| Rain May and Captain Daniel by Catherine Bateson | Best Children's Book, 2003 |
| Wambo, the Changing Face of Rural Australia by Chris Ashton | 2003 |
| An accidental terrorist by Steven Lang | Best Emerging Author, 2004 |
| Dancing With Strangers: Europeans and Australians at First Contact by Inga Clendinnen | History, 2004 |
| A Death in Brazil: A Book of Omissions by Peter Robb | Non-Fiction, 2004 |
| Dragon Keeper by Carole Wilkinson | Best Children's Book, 2004 |
| Elizabeth Costello by J. M. Coetzee | Fiction, 2004 |
| The History Wars by Stuart Macintyre | Harry Williams Award, 2004 |
| How to Make a Bird by Martine Murray | Young Adult ∙ 2004 |
| Mahjar by Eva Sallis | Australian Short Story, 2004 |
| Wolf Notes by Judith Beveridge | Poetry, 2004 |
| Camel Rider by Prue Mason | Best Children's Book, 2005 |
| The long road of the junkmailer by Patrick Holland | Best Emerging Author 2005 |
| Papunya: A Place Made After the Story: the Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement by Geoffrey Bardon | Non-Fiction, 2005 |
| Secret Scribbled Notebooks by Joanne Horniman | Young Adult ∙ 2005 |
| The Ship by Sarah Day | Poetry, 2005 |
| The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American History through Songs, Sermons, and Speech by Shane White | History, 2005 |
| Stem cells : controversy at the frontiers of science by Elizabeth Finkel | Science Writers, 2005 |
| The Turning: Stories by Tim Winton | Fiction, 2005 |
| Vincenzo's Garden by John Clanchy | Australian Short Story, 2005 |
| 'The Last Mandarin: reflections on the career of Sir Arthur Tange' in Canberra Bulletin of Public Administration 94, Dec 1999 by Peter Edwards | History, 2006 |
| The Anatomy of Wings by Karen Foxlee | Best Emerging Author 2006 |
| Asbestos House: The Secret History of James Hardie Industries by Gideon Haigh | Harry Williams Award, 2006 |
| A Funny Thing Happened at 27,000 Feet by Craig Cormick | Australian Short Story, 2006 |
| The Garden Book by Brian Castro | Fiction, 2006 |
| Good Health in the 21st Century by Carole Hungerford | Science Writers, 2006 |
| The New Arcadia: Poems by John Kinsella | Poetry, 2006 |
| Packer's Lunch: A Rollicking Tale of Swiss Bank Accounts and Money-Making Adventurers in the Roaring '90s by Neil Chenoweth | Non-Fiction, 2006 |
| The Red Shoe by Ursula Dubosarsky | Young Adult, 2006 |
| The Slightly Bruised Glory of Cedar B. Hartley by Martine Murray | Best Children's Book, 2006 |
| Carpentaria by Alexis Wright | Fiction, 2007 |
| Every Move You Make by David Malouf | Australian Short Story, 2007 |
| Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 by Christopher Clark | History, 2007 |
| Jonestown : the power and the myth of Alan Jones by Chris Masters | Harry Williams Award, 2007 |
| Layla, Queen of Hearts by Glenda Millard | Best Children's Book, 2007 |
| One Whole and Perfect Day by Judith Clarke | Young Adult, 2007 |
| The Passenger by Laurie Duggan | Poetry, 2007 |
| Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica by Tom Griffiths | Non-Fiction, 2007 |
| Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality by Marilyn Lake | History, 2008 |
| Muck: A Memoir by Craig Sherborne | Non-Fiction, 2008 |
| Omega Park by Amy Barker | Best Emerging Author, 2008 |
| The Peasant Prince by Cunxin Li | Best Children's Book, 2008 |
| Requiem for a Beast by Matt Ottley | Young Adult, 2008 |
| Someone else : fictional essays by John Hughes | Australian Short Story, 2008 |
| The Spare Room by Helen Garner | Fiction, 2008 |
| Typewriter Music by David Malouf | Poetry, 2008 |
| Why Is Uranus Upside Down?: And Other Questions About the Universe by Fred Watson | Science Writers, 2008 |
| The Boat by Nam Le | Australian Short Story, 2009 |
| Little Blue by Gaye Chapman | Best Children's Book, 2009 |
| PASTEUR'S GAMBIT : Louis Pasteur, the Australiasian Rabbit Plague and a Ten Million Dollar Prize by Stephen Dando-Collins | Science Writers, 2009 |
| A Small Free Kiss in the Dark by Glenda Millard | Young Adult, 2009 |
| Stella Miles Franklin: a biography by Jill Roe | History, 2009 |
| The Striped World by Emma Jones | Poetry, 2009 |
| Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee by Chloe Hooper | Non-Fiction, 2009 |
| Wanting by Richard Flanagan | Fiction, 2009 |
| Apocrypha by William O'Shaunessy | Poetry, 2010 |
| The Blue Plateau: An Australian Pastoral by Mark Tredinnick | Non-Fiction, 2010 |
| Drink the air by Richard Yaxley | Young Adult, 2010 |
| Little White Slips by Karen Hitchcock | Australian Short Story, 2010 |
| Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change by Clive Hamilton | Harry Williams Award, 2010 |
| RPM by Noel Mengel | Best Emerging Author, 2010 |
| Summertime: Scenes from Provincial Life by J. M. Coetzee | Fiction, 2010 |
| Sydney Harbour by Ian Hoskins | History, 2010 |
| Toppling by Sally Murphy | Best Children's Book, 2010 |
| Why I Love Australia by Bronwyn Bancroft | 2010 |
| Being Here by Barry Jonsberg | Young Adult, 2011 |
| The Beloved by Annah Faulkner | Best Emerging Author, 2011 |
| An eye for eternity : the life of Manning Clark by Mark McKenna | Non-Fiction, 2011 |
| Into the Woods by Anna Krien | Harry Williams Award, 2011 |
| Just a Dog by Michael Gerard Bauer | Best Children's Book, 2011 |
| Northern voyagers : Australia's monsoon coast in maritime history by Alan Powell | History, 2011 |
| Reading Madame Bovary by Amanda Lohrey | Fiction, 2011 |
| Starlight: 150 Poems by John Tranter | Poetry, 2011 |
| The Australian Moment by George Megalogenis | Harry Williams Award, 2012 |
| The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia by Bill Gammage | History, 2012 |
| Cold Light by Frank Moorhouse | Fiction, 2012 |
| Crimson crop. by Peter Rose | Poetry, 2012 |
| Forecast: Turbulence by Janette Turner Hospital | Short Story Collection, 2012 |
| The Ink Bridge by Neil Grant | Young Adult, 2012 |
| Kumiko and the shadow catchers by Briony Stewart | Children's Book, 2012 |
| My Island Homicide by Catherine Titasey | Emerging Author, 2012 |
| The People Smuggler: The True Story Of Ali Al Jenabi, The 'Oskar Schindler Of Asia' by Robin De Crespigny | Non-Fiction, 2012 |
| Sex, Genes & Rock 'n' Roll: How Evolution Has Shaped the Modern World by Rob Brooks | Science, 2012 |
| Boy, Lost by Kristina Olsson | Non-Fiction ∙ 2013 |
| A Corner of White: Book 1 of The Colors of Madeleine by Jaclyn Moriarty | Young Adult, 2013 |
| Don't let a spoonbill in the kitchen! by Narelle Oliver | Children's Book, 2013 |
| The Flash of Recognition: Photography and the Emergence of Indigenous Rights by Jane Lydon | History, 2013 |
| Gap by Rebecca Jessen | Emerging Author, 2013 |
| Jam Tree Gully: Poems by John Kinsella | Poetry, 2013 |
| Like a House on Fire by Cate Kennedy | Short Story Collection, 2013 |
| Mullumbimby by Melissa Lucashenko | Fiction, 2013 |
| The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton | People's Choice, 2013 |
| 1914: The Year the World Ended by Paul Ham | Non-Fiction, 2014 |
| Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War by Joan Beaumont | History, 2014 |
| The Cracks in the Kingdom: Book 2 of The Colors of Madeleine by Jaclyn Moriarty | Young Adult, 2014 |
| Earth Hour by David Malouf | Poetry, 2014 |
| How to Do a Liver Transplant: Stories from My Surgical Life by Kellee Slater | People's Choice, 2014 |
| Only the Animals: Stories by Ceridwen Dovey | Short Story Collection, 2014 |
| Refuge by Jackie French | Children's Book, 2014 |
| Rules of Summer by Shaun Tan | Children's Book, 2014 |
| Anzac, The Unauthorised Biography by Carolyn Holbrook | History, 2015 |
| Becoming Aurora by Elizabeth Kasmer | Emerging Author, 2015 |
| The bush : travels in the heart of Australia by Don Watson | Non-Fiction, 2015 |
| The Golden Age by Joan London | Fiction, 2015 |
| Merciless Gods by Christos Tsiolkas | Short Story Collection, 2015 |
| On the road ... with kids : one family's life-changing gap year by John Ahern | People's Choice, 2015 |
| The Pause by John Larkin | Young Adult, 2015 |
| A Single Stone by Meg McKinlay | Children's Book, 2015 |
| Waiting for the Past by Les Murray | Poetry, 2015 |
| Warrior: A Legendary Leader's Dramatic Life and Violent Death on the Colonial Frontier by Libby Connors | State Significance, 2015 |
| Anatomy of Voice by David Musgrave | Poetry, 2016 |
| Between a Wolf and a Dog by Georgia Blain | Fiction, 2016 |
| Dreaming the Enemy by David Metzenthen | Young Adult, 2016 |
| A Few Days in the Country: And Other Stories by Elizabeth Harrower | Short Story Collection, 2016 |
| The High Places by Fiona McFarlane | Short Story Collection, 2016 |
| KidGlovz by Julie Hunt | Children's Book ∙ 2016 |
| Not Just Black and White by Lesley Williams | State Significance, 2016 |
| The Pearl Frontier: Indonesian Labor and Indigenous Encounters in Australia's Northern Trading Network by Julia Martínez | History, 2016 |
| Small Acts of Disappearance by Fiona Wright | Non-Fiction, 2016 |
| Swimming Home: A Novel by Mary-Rose MacColl | People's Choice, 2016 |
| The Birdman's Wife by Melissa Ashley | Fiction, 2017 |
| The Circle and the Equator by Kyra Giorgi | Short Story Collection, 2017 |
| The Daintree blockade : the battle for Australia's tropical rainforests by Bill Wilkie | State Significance, 2017 |
| Fragments by Antigone Kefala | Poetry, 2017 |
| The Grand, Genius Summer of Henry Hoobler by Lisa Shanahan | Children's Book, 2017 |
| Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search for Human Antiquity by Rebe Taylor | History, 2017 |
| The Killing of Louisa by Janet Lee | Emerging Author, 2017 |
| Saltwater by Cathy McLennan | Non-Fiction and People's Choice, 2017 |
| Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley | Young Adult, 2017 |
| Brisbane houses with gardens : the story of the people who built them by Beth Wilson | People's Choice, 2018 |
| The Elephant by Peter Carnavas | Children's Book, 2018 |
| In the dark spaces by Cally Black | Young Adult, 2018 |
| I love poetry by Michael Farrell | Poetry, 2018 |
| Pulse Points by Jennifer Down | Short Story Collection, 2018 |
| Taboo by Kim Scott | Fiction, 2018 |
| Tracker : stories of tracker tilmouth by Alexis Wright | Non-Fiction, 2018 |
| We'll show the world : Expo 88 by Jackie Ryan | History and State Significance, 2018 |
| Blakwork by Alison Whittaker | Poetry, 2019 |
| Exploded view by Carrie Tiffany | Fiction, 2019 |
| Lenny's Book of Everything by Karen Foxlee | Young Adult, 2019 |
| The Slightly Alarming Tale of the Whispering Wars Wars by Jaclyn Moriarty | Children's, 2019 |
| Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko | Work of State Significance, 2019 |
| An Unconventional Wife: the life of Julia Sorell Arnold by Mary Hoban | Non-Fiction, 2019 |
| Zebra : and other stories by Debra Adelaide | Short Story Collection, 2019 |
| As Fast As I Can | Children's, 2020 |
| Ghost Bird by Lisa Fuller | Young Adult, 2020 |
| Heartland: How Rugby League Explains Queensland by Joe Gorman | Work of State Significance, 2020 |
| Heide by Pio | Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry, 2020 |
| A lifetime of impossible days by Tabitha Bird | People’s Choice, 2020 |
| Lucky Ticket by Joey Bui | Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection, 2020 |
| Olive Cotton: A Life in Photography by Helen Ennis | Nonfiction, 2020 |
| Stone Sky Gold Mountain by Mirandi Riwoe | Fiction ∙ 2020 |
| Amnesia Road: Landscape, violence and memory by Luke Stegemann | Nonfiction, 2021 |
| Bindi by Kirli Saunders | Children's, 2021 |
| Car Crash: A Memoir by Lech Blaine | Work of State Significance, 2021 |
| Mary's Last Dance by Mary Li | People’s Choice, 2021 |
| Metal Fish, Falling Snow by Cath Moore | Young Adult, 2021 |
| Ordinary Matter by Laura Elvery | Short Story Collection, 2021 |
| Song of the Crocodile by Nardi Simpson | Fiction, 2021 |
