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Literary Awards and Book Lists

The Athenaeum Library's most popular titles of 2019

1.   Any ordinary day - Leigh Sales
2.   Becoming - Michelle Obama
3.   The lost man - Jane Harper
4.   Boy swallows universe - Trent Dalton
5.   The promised land - Barry Maitland
6.   Big sky - Kate Atkinson
7.   The dry - Jane Harper
8.   The temptation of forgiveness - Donna Leon
9.   Black diamond - Martin Walker
10. Machines like me - Ian McEwan

 


 

2019 Booker Prize Shortlist

The testaments - Margaret Atwood   WINNER
Ducks, Newburyport - Lucy Ellmann
Girl, woman, other - Bernadine Evaristo   WINNER
An orchestra of minorities - Chigozie Obioma
Quichotte - Salman Rushdie
10 minutes 38 seconds in this strange world - Elif Shafak

Previous Man Booker Prize Winners

 


 

2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award Shortlist

The Lebs - Michael Mohammed Ahmad
A sand archive - Gregory Day
A stolen season - Rodney Hall
The death of Noah Glass - Gail Jones
Too much lip - Melissa Lucashenko   WINNER
Dyschronia - Jennifer Mills

Previous Miles Franklin Winners

 


 

2019 Stella Prize Shortlist

Little gods - Jenny Ackland
The bridge - Enza Gandolfo
Pink mountain on Locust Island - Jamie Marina Lau
The erratics - Vicki Laveau-Harvie   WINNER
Too much lip - Melissa Lucashenko
Axiomatic - Maria Tumarkin

 

Previous Stella Prize Winners

 


 

2019 Prime Minister's Literary Award Winners

Fiction - The death of Noah Glass by Gail Jones
Non-fitcion - Half the perfect world by Paul Genoni and Tanya Dalziell
Australian history - The Bible in Australia by John Edwards
Poetry - Sun music by Judith Beveridge
Young adult literature - The things that will not stand by Michael Gerard Bauer
Children's literature - His name was Walter by Emily Rodda

 

Previous Prime Minister's Literary Award Winners

 


 

2019 Nobel Laureate for Literature

Peter Handke

No titles currently held in collection

 

The 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature was also awarded this year

Olga Tokarczuk

Titles in our collection:
Flights
Drive your plow over the bones of the dead

 
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