Fiction Book Award
- 2010 Summertime, J. M. Coetzee
- 2009 Wanting by Richard Flanagan
- 2008 The Spare Room by Helen Garner
- 2007 Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
- 2006 The Garden Book by Brian Castro
- 2005 The Turning by Tim Winton
- 2004 Elizabeth Costello by J. M. Coetzee
- 2003 Due Preparations For The Plague by Janette Turner Hospital
- 2002 The Volcano by Venero Armanno
- 2001 True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
- 2000 Drylands by Thea Astley
- 1999 Fredy Neptune: A Novel in Verse by Les Murray
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