2016 Award Winning Books

Man Booker Prize 2016

The Sellout by Paul Beatty
The Schooldays of Jesus by J.M. Coetzee
Serious Sweet by A.L. Kennedy
Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet
The North Water by Ian McGuire
Hystopia by David Means
The Many by Wyl Menmuir
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
Work Like Any Other by Virginia Reeves
My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
All That Man Is by David Szalay
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien

The Man Booker International Prize 2016

The Vegetarian by Han Kong (translated by Deborah Smith)

The 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

The Sympathiser by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Get in Trouble: Stories by Kelly Link
Maude’s Line by Margaret Verble

Miles Franklin Literary Award 2016

Black Rock White City by A.S Patric
Hope Farm by Peggy Frew
Leap by Myfanwy Jones
Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar
The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
Ghost River by Tony Birch
Coming Rain by Stephen Daisley
The World Without Us by Mireille Juchau
The Hands: An Australian Pastoral by Stephen Orr

The 2016 Stella Prize

The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood v2

The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
Six Bedrooms by Tegan Bennett Daylight
Hope Farm by Peggy Frew
A Few Days in the Country: And Other Stories by Elizabeth Harrower
The World Without Us by Mireille Juchau
Small Acts of Disappearance by Fiona Wright

The 2016 Prime Minister’s Literary Award – Fiction

The Life of Houses by Lisa Gorton
The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
Forever Young by Stephen Carroll
The World Repair Video Game by David Ireland
Quicksand by Steve Toltz

Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award 2016

(for an unpublished manuscript by an Australian writer under the age of 35)

The Memory Artist by Katherine Brabon

Davitt Awards 2016

(Awarded for best Crime writing by an Australian woman)

Best Adult Novel

Resurrection Bay by Emma Viskic

Best Young Adults Novel

Risk by Fluer Ferris

Best Non-fiction

Wild Man by Alecia Simmonds

Ned Kelly Awards 2016

(The Ned Kelly Awards are Australia’s oldest and most prestigious prizes honouring our crime fiction and true crime writing.)

Best Fiction

Before it Breaks by Dave Warner
R&R by Mark Dapin
The Heat by Garry Disher
Fall by Candice Fox
Rain Dogs by Adrian McKinty
Ash Island by Barry Maitland

Best True Crime

Certain Admissions by Gideon Haigh
The Sting by Kate Kyriacou
A Murder Without Motive by Martin McKenzie-Murray
Killing Love by Rebecca Poulson
Kidnapped by Mark Tedeschi

Best First Fiction

Resurrection Bay by Emma Viskic
Please Don’t Leave Me Here by Tania Chandler
Good Money by J M Green
Amplify by Mark Hollands
Skin Deep by Gary Kemble
Four Days in June by Iain Ryan

2016 in Review: The Years’ Award Winning Books

Friday, 16 December 2016

Looking for reading inspiration? Check out 2016 best books, drawn from the major literary awards and crime writing awards.

Winners are shown in bold.

Many of these prize winning books can be found in the SMSA Library Catalogue, using the links provided.

Search for these books in the Library Catalogue.

We’d love your suggestions

Have you read something you loved this year, but it’s not part of our collection? Or maybe there’s a book you wish we had? We’re always happy to hear your suggestions! You can share your book recommendations by writing in the suggestion book at the library desk, or submit online via the library catalogue or suggest a book for the library to purchase

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