Past titles: Non-Fiction
2010
Ten Hail Marys;
Kate Howarth [CATEGORY WINNER]
Shortlist
Flying with Paper Wings; Sandy Jeffs
Listening to Country; Ros Moriarty
The Lost Mother; Anne Summers
Otherland; Maria Tumarkin
2009
Down to the Crossroads: On the Trail of the 2008 US Election;
Guy Rundle [CATEGORY WINNER]
Shortlist
The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island; Chloe Hooper
Darwin's Armada: How Four Voyagers to Australasia won the Battle for Evolution and Changed the World; Iain McCalman
The Red Highway; Nicolas Rothwell
Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History; Jenny Hocking
2008
American Journeys;
Don Watson [THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER]
Shortlist
I am Melba; Ann Blainey
Van Diemen's Land; James Boyce
An Exacting Heart: The Story of Hephzibah Menuhin; Jacqueline Kent
A Family History of Smoking; Andrew Riemer
2007
Colonial Ambitions: Foundations of Australian Democracy;
Peter Cochrane [THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER]
Shortlist
Back from the Brink: How Australia's Landscape Can Be Saved; Peter Andrews
The Great War; Les Carlyon Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica; Tom Griffiths
Unpolished Gem; Alice Pung
2006
Velocity: A Memoir;
Mandy Sayer [CATEGORY WINNER]
Shortlist
A Trial Separation: Australia and the Decolonisation of Papua New Guinea; Donald Denoon
The Weather Makers: The History and Future of Climate Change; Tim Flannery
Thunder from the Silent Zone: Rethinking China; Paul Monk
Florence Broadhurst: Her Secret and Extraordinary Lives; Helen O'Neill
2005
Plenty: Digressions on Food;
Gay Bilson [THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER]
Shortlist
A Certain Maritime Incident: The Sinking of SIEV X; Tony Kevin
Leaving Year Zero: Stories of Surviving Pol Pot's Cambodia; Richard Lunn
In Tasmania; Nicholas Shakespeare
Pig City: From the Saints to Savage Garden; Andrew Stafford
2004
A Death in Brazil;
Peter Robb [CATEGORY WINNER]
Shortlist
Inside Out; Robert Adamson
Einstein's Heroes; Robyn Arianrhod
Dancing with Strangers; Inga Clendinnen
Car Wars; Graeme Davison
2003
Charles Conder: The Last Bohemian;
Ann Galbally [CATEGORY WINNER]
Shortlist
The Philosopher's Dog; Raimond Gaita
Broken Song: T.G.H.Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession; Barry Hill
Black Sheep: Journey to Borroloola; Nicholas Jose
Pushing Times Away: A Memoir; Peter Singer
2002
Recollections of a Bleeding Heart;
Don Watson [THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER]
Shortlist
Gallipoli; Les Carlyon
Stasiland; Anna Funder
Carpet Wars; Christopher Kremmer
An Indelible Stain; Henry Reynolds
2001
The Life and Myth of Charmian Clift;
Nadia Wheatley [CATEGORY WINNER]
Shortlist
The White Divers of Broome; John Bailey
The Colonial Earth; Tim Bonyhady
Broken Circles; Anna Haebich
The Essence of Capitalism; Humphrey McQueen
2000
Craft for a Dry Lake;
Kim Mahood [CATEGORY WINNER]
Shortlist
Tiger's Eye; Inga Clendinnen
A Better Woman; Susan Johnson
Stravinsky's Lunch; Drusilla Modjeska
1999
Sacred Places. War Memorials in the Australian Landscape;
Ken Inglis [THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER]
Shortlist
Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin; Diane Bell
White Nation: Fantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural Nation; Ghassan Hage
Frontier Lands and Pioneer Legends; Pamela Lukin Watson
Sex and Suffering. Women's Health and a Women's Hospital; Janet McCalman
Sins of the Brother; Mark Whittaker & Les Kennedy
1998
The Reds;
Stuart McIntyre [CATEGORY WINNER]
Shortlist
South of My Days; Veronica Brady
Romulus, My Father; Raimond Gaita
Sister, Sister; Anna Rosner Blay
1997
Snake Cradle;
Roberta Sykes [THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER]
Shortlist
The Europeans in Australia; Alan Atkinson
The Fiftieth Gate; Mark Baker
1996
Robin Boyd: A Life;
Geoffrey Serle [CATEGORY WINNER]
Shortlist
Keating: The Inside Story; John Edwards
Hunters and Collectors: The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia; Tom Griffiths
Spaces in Her Day: Australian Women's Diaries of the 1920s and 1930s; Katie Holmes
The Christesen Romance; Judith Armstrong
1995
The Future Eaters;
Tim Flannery [CATEGORY WINNER]
Shortlist
The First Stone; Helen Garner
Bearbrass; Robyn Annear
One Summer, Every Summer; Gideon Haigh
Good Times, Hard Times; Mark Peel
1994
Lyrebird Rising;
Jim Davidson [CATEGORY WINNER]
Shortlist
Georgiana; Brenda Niall
Noel Counihan : Artist and Revolutionary; Bernard Smith
Rose Scott; Judith Allen
1993
Journeyings;
Janet McCalman [CATEGORY WINNER]
Shortlist
Christina Stead; Hazel Rowley
Take Me to Paris, Johnny; John Foster
1992
A Fence Around the Cuckoo;
Ruth Park [CATEGORY WINNER]
Shortlist
Wards of the State; Robert Adamson
Tell Me I'm Here; Anne Deveson
Waterloo Creek; Roger Milliss
Inside Outside; Andrew Riemer
1991
Patrick White. A Life;
David Marr [THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER]
Shortlist
Sitting in; Barry Hill
My Strange Friend; David Martin
The Seeds of Time; Christopher Sexton
1990
Blessed City;
Gwen Harwood [THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER]
Shortlist
Poppy; Drusilla Modjeska
Australians at Home; Terence Lane & Jessie Serle
1989
Mariners Are Warned!;
Marsdern Horden [THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER]
Shortlist
Don't Take your Love to Town; Ruby Langford
Martin Boyd: A Life; Martin Boyd
My Father's Son; Ric Throssell
Puzzles of Childhood; Manning Clark
1988
Big-Noting;
Robin Gerster [CATEGORY WINNER]
Shortlist
Louisa; Brian Matthews
Survival in Our Own Land; Christobel Mattingley and Ken Hampton
Paradise Found and Lost; Oskar Spate
Two Centuries of Panic: A History of Corporate Collapses in Australia; Trevor Sykes
1987
The Fatal Shore;
Robert Hughes [CATEGORY WINNER]
Shortlist
Arthur Phillip: His Voyaging; Alan Frost
Limits of Hope: Soldier Settlement in Victoria, 1915 – 1938; Marilyn Lake
Whole Life; an Autobiography; Morris Lurie
Where's Morning Gone?; Barney Roberts
1986
George Johnston: A Biography;
Garry Kinnane [CATEGORY WINNER]
Shortlist
The Soldiers' Story; Terry Burstall
The War Diaries of "Weary" Dunlop; E.E. Dunlop
Plankton's Luck; Mungo MacCallum
Heroes; John Pilger
1985
Mapping the Paddocks;
Chester Eagle [CATEGORY JOINT WINNER]
Vietnam: A Reporter's War;
Hugh Lunn [CATEGORY JOINT WINNER]
Shortlist
Memory Ireland; Vincent Buckley
A Knockout with a Slouch Hat; T. A. G. Hungerford
Valley People; Jim Marwood
Raffaelo! Raffaelo!; Desmond O'Grady
The Moon Man; E.M. Webster
1984
H.B. Higgins: The Rebel as Judge;
John Rickard [CATEGORY WINNER]
Shortlist
Punishment Short of Death; Margaret Hazzard
Struggletown; Janet McCalman
Will Dyson; Ross McMullin
Wild Man of Letters'; Craig Munro
The Boy Adeodatus; Bernard Smith
Gilbert Murray; Francis West
1983
A History of Tasmania. Vol. 1;
Lloyd Robson [CATEGORY WINNER]
Shortlist
Full Fathom Five; Mary Albertus Bain
Shackleton's Forgotten Argonauts; Lennard Bickel
Cutting Green Hay; Vincent Buckley
Sons in the Saddle; Mary Durack
Against the Stream; A. F. Howells
This is the ABC; Ken Inglis
1982
John Monash: A Biography;
Geoffrey Serle [CATEGORY WINNER]
Shortlist
Robert Hawke; Blanche d'Alpuget
The Golden Age of Australian Opera; Harold Love
Gods and Politicians; Bruce Grant
France Australe; Leslie Marchant
1981
A Million Wild Acres;
Eric Rolls [THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER]
Shortlist
Trial Balance; H.C. Coombs
Annie's Coming Out; Rosemary Crossley and Anne McDonald
A Fortunate Life; A. B. Facey
Rebels and Procursors; Richard Hase
1980
Shortlist
Whirlwinds in the Plain; E. M. Webster
Henry Parkes; A. W. Martin
1979
Shortlist
Ernest Giles: Explorer and Traveller 1835 – 1897; Ray Ericksen
Weevils in the Flour; Wendy Lowenstein
This Bed My Centre; Ellen Newton
The Spanish Lake; O. H. K. Spate
1978
The Anzacs;
Patsy Adam-Smith [THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER]
Shortlist
A History of Australia Vol. IV; Manning Clark
Mediator; Blanche d'Alpuget
Australia's Founding Mothers; Helen Heaney
Going it Alone; Bill Mandle
A Nation for a Continent; Russel Ward
The Secret State; Richard Hall
Die Like the Carp; Harry Gordon
1977
A Certain Grandeur;
Graham Freudenberg [THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER]
Shortlist
Mucking About; Sir Paul Hasluck
Ruling Class, Ruling Culture; R. W. Connell
Lament for the Barkindji; Bobbie Hardy
Bairnsdale; Hal Porter
1976
Capitalism, Socialism and the Environment;
Hugh Stretton [THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER]
Shortlist
Cape Solitary; Ray Ericksen
A Time for Building; Paul Hasluck
Lion and Kangaroo; Gavin Souter
1975
Shortlist
Native Companions; A. D. Hope
T. J. Ryan; D. J. Murphy
1974
A History of Australia, Vol 111;
Manning Clark [THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER]
Shortlist
A Drift of Things; Roland Robinson
Norman Lindsay: The Embattled Olympian; John Hethering
Wild Life of Eastern Australia; Stanley and Kay Breeden