Book Awards Reading Challenge

2008 - The Time We Have Taken, Steven Carroll
2007 - Carpentaria, Alexis Wright
2006 - The Ballad of Desmond Kale, Roger McDonald
2005 - The White Earth, Andrew McGahan
2004 - The Great Fire, Shirley Hazzard
2003 - Journey to the Stone Country, Alex Miller
2002 - Dirt Music, Tim Winton
2001 - Dark Palace, Frank Moorhouse
2000 - tie
Drylands, Thea Astley
Benang, Kim Scott
1999 - Eucalyptus, Murray Bail
1998 - Jack Maggs, Peter Carey
1997 - The Glade within the Grove, David Foster
1996 - Highways to a War, Christopher Koch
1995 - The Hand That Signed the Paper, Helen Demidenko
1994 - The Grisly Wife, Rodney Hall
1993 - The Ancestor Game, Alex Miller
1992 - Cloudstreet, Tim Winton
1991 - The Great World, David Malouf
1990 - Oceana Fine, Tom Flood
1989 - Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey
1988 - Date changed from year of publication to year of announcement.

1987 - Dancing on Coral, Glenda Adams
1986 - The Well, Elizabeth Jolley
1985 - The Doubleman, Christopher Koch
1984 - Shallows, Tim Winton
1983 - No award.
1982 - Just Relations, Rodney Hall
1981 - Bliss, Peter Carey
1980 - The Impersonators, Jessica Anderson
1979 - A Woman of the Future, David Ireland
1978 - Tirra Lirra by the River, Jessica Anderson
1977 - Swords and Crowns and Rings, Ruth Park
1976 - The Glass Canoe, David Ireland
1975 - Poor Fellow My Country, Xavier Herbert
1974 - The Mango Tree, Ronald McKie
1973 - No award.
1972 - The Acolyte, Thea Astley
1971 - The Unknown Industrial Prisoner, David Ireland
1970 - A Horse of Air, Dal Stivens
1969 - Clean Straw for Nothing, George Johnston
1968 - Three Cheers for the Paraclete, Thomas Keneally
1967 - Bring Larks and Heroes, Thomas Keneally
1966 - Trap, Peter Mathers
1965 - The Slow Natives, Thea Astley
1964 - My Brother Jack, George Johnston
1963 - Careful He Might Hear You, Sumner Locke Elliott
1962 - tie
The Well Dressed Explorer, Thea Astley
The Cupboard Under the Stairs, George Turner
1961 - Riders in the Chariot, Patrick White
1960 - The Irishman, Elizabeth O'Conner
1959 - The Big Fellow (Palmer), Vance Palmer
1958 - To the Islands, Randolph Stow
1957 - Voss, Patrick White