The Age Book of The Year - The Age Book of The Year

The Age Book of The Year

(Years link to corresponding " in literature" or " in Australian literature" articles.)

• 2012: 1835: The Founding of Melbourne & The Conquest Of Australia by James Boyce
• 2011: Indelible Ink by Fiona McGregor
• 2010: Lovesong by Alex Miller
• 2009: Things We Didn't See Coming by Steven Amsterdam
• 2008: American Journeys by Don Watson
• 2007: Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy by Peter Cochrane
• 2006: Friendly Fire by Jennifer Maiden
• 2005: Plenty: Digressions on Food by Gay Bilson
• 2004: Totem by Luke Davies
• 2003: Of a Boy by Sonya Hartnett
• 2002: Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: Paul Keating PM by Don Watson
• 2001: Untold Lives and Later Poems by Rosemary Dobson
• 2000: Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop by Amy Witting
• 1999: Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape by K.S. Inglis
• 1998: Three Dollars by Elliot Perlman
• 1997: Jack Maggs by Peter Carey
• 1996: The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow by Thea Astley
• 1995: The Future Eaters by Tim Flannery
• 1994: The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith by Peter Carey
• 1993: The George's Wife by Elizabeth Jolley
• 1992: Lover's Knots by Marion Halligan
• 1991: Patrick White: A Life by David Marr
• 1990: Blessed City by Gwen Harwood
• 1989: Mariners are Warned: John Lort Stokes and HMA Beagle by Marsden Hordern
• 1988: Forty Seventeen by Frank Moorhouse
• 1987: Stories from the Warm Zone by Jessica Anderson
• 1986: Sister Ships by Joan London
• 1985: Illywhacker by Peter Carey
• 1984: The Bellarmine Jug by Nicholas Hasluck
• 1983: Mr Scobie's Riddle by Elizabeth Jolley
• 1982: Fly Away Peter by David Malouf
• 1980: Joint winners

A Woman of the Future by David Ireland

Homesickness by Murray Bail

• 1979: 1915 by Roger McDonald
• 1978: The Year of Living Dangerously by Christopher Koch
• 1976: A Late Picking by A. D. Hope
• 1975: A Kindness Cup by Thea Astley
• 1974: The Pure Land by David Foster