Miles Franklin Award - Longlisted Works

Longlisted Works

Longlisted titles are only shown for the years 2005 onwards. That was the first year that such a list was released by the judging panel. The number of works included on the longlist varies from year to year.

2012

• Blood, Tony Birch
• The Spirit of Progress, Steven Carroll
• Spirit House, Mark Dapin
• The Precipice, Virginia Duigan
• All That I Am, Anna Funder
• Sarah Thornhill, Kate Grenville
• Five Bells, Gail Jones
• Foal's Bread, Gillian Mears
• Autumn Laing, Alex Miller
• Cold Light, Frank Moorhouse
• Past The Shallows, Favel Parrett
• The Street Sweeper, Elliot Perlman
• Animal People, Charlotte Wood

2011

• Rocks in the Belly, John Bauer
• The Good Daughter, Honey Brown
• The Mary Smokes Boys, Patrick Holland
• The Piper's Son, Melina Marchetta
• When Colts Ran, Roger McDonald
• Time's Long Ruin, Stephen Orr
• That Deadman Dance, Kim Scott
• The Legacy, Kirsten Tranter
• Bereft, Chris Womersley

2010

• Figurehead, Patrick Allington
• Parrot and Olivier in America, Peter Carey
• The Bath Fugues, Brian Castro
• Boy on a Wire, Jon Doust
• The Book of Emmett, Deborah Forster
• Sons of the Rumour, David Foster
• Siddon Rock, Glenda Guest
• Butterfly, Sonya Hartnett
• The People's Train, Thomas Keneally
• Lovesong, Alex Miller
• Jasper Jones, Craig Silvey
• Truth, Peter Temple

2009

• The Pages, Murray Bail
• Wanting, Richard Flanagan
• Addition, Toni Jordan
• One Foot Wrong, Sofie Laguna
• Ice, Louis Nowra
• Fugitive Blue, Claire Thomas
• A Fraction of the Whole, Steve Toltz
• The Devil's Eye, Ian Townsend
• The Slap, Christos Tsiolkas
• Breath, Tim Winton

2008

• The Fern Tattoo, David Brooks
• The Time We Have Taken, Steven Carroll
• Love Without Hope, Rodney Hall
• Orpheus Lost, Janette Turner Hospital
• Sorry, Gail Jones
• The Widow and Her Hero, Tom Keneally
• The Memory Room, Christopher Koch
• Landscape of Farewell, Alex Miller
• Secrets of the Sea, Nicholas Shakespeare

2007

• Theft: A Love Story, Peter Carey
• Silent Parts, John Charalambous
• The Unknown Terrorist, Richard Flanagan
• Beyond the Break, Sandra Hall
• Dreams of Speaking, Gail Jones
• The Unexpected Elements of Love, Kate Legge
• Careless, Deborah Robertson
• Carpentaria, Alexis Wright

2006

• Knitting, Anne Bartlett
• The Garden Book, Brian Castro
• The Secret River, Kate Grenville
• An Accidental Tourist, Stephen Lang
• The Ballad of Desmond Kale, Roger McDonald
• Prochownik's Dream, Alex Miller
• Sunnyside, Joanna Murray-Smith
• A Case of Knives, Peter Rose
• The Broken Shore, Peter Temple
• Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living, Carrie Tiffany
• Dead Europe, Christos Tsiolkas
• The Wing of Night, Brenda Walker

2005

• Salt Rain, Sarah Armstrong
• The Gift of Speed, Steven Carroll
• Backwaters, Robert Engwarda
• The Ghost Writer, John Harwood
• The Broken Book, Susan Johnson
• Sixty Lights, Gail Jones
• A Private Man, Malcolm Knox
• The Philosopher's Doll, Amanda Lohrey
• The White Earth, Andrew McGahan
• I Have Kissed Your Lips, Gerard Windsor
• The Submerged Cathedral, Charlotte Wood
• The Last Ride, Denise Young