Past titles: Fiction

2010

Lovesong;
Alex Miller [THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER]

Shortlist

Parrot and Olivier in America; Peter Carey
Summertime; J.M. Coetzee
The World Beneath; Cate Kennedy
Come Inside; G.L. Osborne

2009

Things We Didn't See Coming;
Steven Amsterdam [THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER]

Shortlist

Look Who's Morphing; Tom Cho
Butterfly; Sonya Hartnett
Cooee; Vivienne Kelly
Ransom; David Malouf

2008

Breath;
Tim Winton [CATEGORY WINNER]

Shortlist

Diary of a Bad Year; J.M.Coetzee
Burning In; Mireille Juchau
The Orphan Gunner; Sara Knox
The Good Parents; Joan London

2007

Every Move You Make;
David Malouf [CATEGORY WINNER]

Shortlist

The Time We Have Taken; Steven Carroll
Sucked In; Shane Maloney
Careless; Deborah Robertson
Carpentaria; Alexis Wright

2006

Dead Europe;
Christos Tsiolkas [CATEGORY WINNER]

Shortlist

The Resurrectionist; James Bradley
Slow Man; J. M. Coetzee
The Secret River; Kate Grenville

2005

Sixty Lights;
Gail Jones [CATEGORY WINNER]

Shortlist

March; Geraldine Brooks
Surrender; Sonya Hartnett
The Marsh Birds; Eva Sallis
I Have Kissed Your Lips; Gerard Windsor

2004

The White Earth;
Andrew McGahan [CATEGORY WINNER]

Shortlist

My Life as a Fake; Peter Carey
The Boy; Julian Davies
How the Light Gets In; M. J. Hyland

2003

Of a Boy;
Sonya Hartnett [THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER]

Shortlist

Shanghai Dancing; Brian Castro
Black Mirror; Gail Jones
The Hamilton Case; Michelle de Kretser
Journey to the Stone Country; Alex Miller

2002

Gilgamesh;
Joan London [CATEGORY WINNER]

Shortlist

Confessing a Murder; Nicholas Drayson
Gould's Book of Fish; Richard Flanagan
Moral Hazard; Kate Jennings
Dirt Music; Tim Winton

2001

True History of the Kelly Gang;
Peter Carey [CATEGORY WINNER]

Shortlist

Dark Palace; Frank Moorhouse
Last Drinks; Andrew McGahan
The Conditions of Faith; Alex Miller
Flying in Silence; Gerry Turcotte

2000

Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop;
Amy Witting [THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER]

Shortlist

Drylands; Thea Astley
Tin Toys; Anson Cameron
NYC; Catherine Ford

1999

The Deep Field;
James Bradley [CATEGORY WINNER]

Shortlist

Last of the Sane Days; Fiona Capp
Burning Sunday; Michael McCoy
The Layers of the City; Antoni Jach
The Prowler; Marion Campbell
The Hunter; Julia Leigh

1998

Three Dollars;
Elliot Perlman [THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER]

Shortlist

Mr Darwin's Shooter; Roger McDonald
Eucalyptus; Murray Bail
The Golden Dress; Marion Halligan

1997

Jack Maggs;
Peter Carey [CATEGORY WINNER]

Shortlist

The Chosen; David Ireland
Stepper; Brian Castro
The Service of Clouds; Delia Falconer

1996

The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow;
Thea Astley [THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER]

Shortlist

Night Letters; Robert Dessaix
The Drowner; Robert Drewe
The Glade Within The Grove; David Foster
The Island in the Mind; Rodney Hall
The Conversations at Curlow Creek; David Malouf

1995

Billy Sunday;
Rod Jones [CATEGORY WINNER]

Shortlist

Death of a River Guide; Richard Flanagan
The Grass Sister; Gillian Mears
The Sitters; Alex Miller

1994

The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith;
Peter Carey [THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER]

Shortlist

Coda; Thea Astley
The White Woman; Liam Davison
Seasonal Adjustments; Adib Khan

1993

The Georges' Wife;
Elizabeth Jolley [THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER]

Shortlist

Soundings; Liam Davison
The Mule's Foal; Fotini Epanomitis
The Toucher; Dorothy Hewett

1992

Lovers' Knots;
Marion Halligan [THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER]

Shortlist

Vanishing Points; Thea Astley
Micky Darlin; Victor Kelleher
The Ancestor's Game; Alex Miller

1991

Double-Wolf;
Brian Castro (Allen & Unwin) [CATEGORY WINNER]

Shortlist

What God Wants; Lily Brett
Cloudstreet; Tim Winton

1990

Longleg;
Glenda Adams [CATEGORY WINNER]

Shortlist

Translation; John A. Scott
Spider cup; Marion Halligan
Marriage; Amy Witting
The Great World; David Malouf

1989

My Father's Moon;
Elizabeth Jolley [CATEGORY WINNER]

Shortlist

Company of Images; Janine Burke
I for Isobel; Amy Witting
Memoirs of an Old Bastard; Jack Hibberd
The Bathing Machine Called the Twentieth Century; Nigel Krauth
The Mountain; Graham Henderson
Towards Asmara; Thomas Keneally

1988

Forty-Seventeen;
Frank Moorhouse [THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER]

Shortlist

It's Raining in Mango; Thea Astley
Oscar and Lucinda; Peter Carey
Joan Makes History; Kate Greville
Out of the Line of Fire; Mark Henshaw

1987

Stories from the War Zone and Sydney Stories;
Jessica Anderson [THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER]

Shortlist

Holden's Performance; Murray Bail
Propinquity; John Macgregor
Home is the Sailor and The Best of Intentions; Nancy Phelan
Sky Poems; Philip Salom

1986

Sister Ships;
Joan London [THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER]

Shortlist

The Auschwitz Poems; Lily Brett
Lie of the Land; John Clanchy
Postcards from Surfers; Helen Garner
Going Home; Archie Weller

1985

Illywacker;
Peter Carey [THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER]

Shortlist

Home Time; Beverley Farmer
Dog Rock; David Foster
The Children's Bach; Helen Garner
Selected Poems 1963 – 1983; Robert Gray
A Family Madness; Thomas Keneally
The Doubleman; C.J. Koch
Benton's Conviction; Geoff Page

1984

The Bellarmine Jug;
Nicholas Hasluck [THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER]

Shortlist

The Man Who Stayed Below; Alan Gould
Stories from Suburban Road; T.A.G. Hungerford
Harland's Half Acre; David Malouf
Loving Daughters; Olga Masters
Serpent's Tooth; Roger Millis
Shallows; Tim Winton

1983

Mr Scobie's Riddle;
Elizabeth Jolley [THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER]

Shortlist

The Body Surfers; Robert Drewe
Doctor Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World; Colin Johnson
The Cure; Peter Kocan
The People's Oher World; Les A. Murray

1982

Fly Away Peter;
David Malouf [THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER]

Shortlist

Just Relations; Rodney Hall
The Plains; Gerald Murnane
Child's Play; David Malouf
Sister Kate; Jean Bedford
An Item From The Late News; Thea Astley

1981

Turtle Beach;
Blanche d'Alpuget [CATEGORY WINNER]

Shortlist

Bliss; Peter Carey
Moonlite; David Foster
City of Women; David Ireland
Nero's Poems; Geoffrey Lehmann
Foreigners'; David Martin
Out of the Corn of One Eye; Fia Moppert

1980

A Woman of the Future;
David Ireland [THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR JOINT WINNER]
Homesickness;
Murray Bail [THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR JOINT WINNER]

Shortlist

The Frangipani Gardens; Barbara Hanrahan
The Everlasting Secret Family; Frank Moorhouse
The Boys Who Stole the Funeral; Les A. Murray

1979

1915;
Roger McDonald [THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER]

Shortlist

The Hottest Night of the Century; Glenda Adams
The Peach Groves; Barbara Hanrahan
The Second Leunig; Dusty Swag
The New Cratylus; A. D. Hope

1978

The Year of Living Dangerously;
Christopher Koch [THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER]

Shortlist

Swords and Crowns and Rings; Ruth Park
Flying Home; Morris Lurie
The Tall One; Barbara Jefferis
The Electric Beach, Short Stories; James McQueen
An Imaginary Life; David Malouf
Quarantine; Nicholas Hasluck

1977