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Total 279 shelf kilometres housing the collections
Approximately 10.25 million collection items
375, 308 new collection items

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PREVIOUS NOMINATIONS

2025

Charlotte Wood

Stone Yard Devotional

2012

Kim Scott

That Deadman Dance

2004

Alex Miller

Journey to the Stone Country

2004

Sonya Hartnett

Of a Boy

2004

Kate Jennings

Moral Hazard

2005

Peter Goldsworthy

Three Dog Night

2005

Peter Carey

My Life as a Fake

2008

Alexis Wright

Carpentaria

2008

Peter Carey

Theft: A Love Story

2007

Kate Grenville

The Secret River

2007

Geraldine Brooks

March

2007

Brian Castro

The Garden Book

2006

Malcolm Knox

A Private Man

2006

Gail Jones

Sixty Lights

2006

Susan Johnson

The Broken Book

2009

Nicholas Shakespeare

Secrets of the Sea

2009

Alex Miller

Landscape of Farewell

2009

Steven Carroll

The Time we Have Taken

2010

Christos Tsiolkas

The Slap

2010

Tim Winton

Breath

2010

Helen Garner

The Spare Room

2011

Alex Miller

Lovesong

2011

Marion Halligan

Valley of Grace

2024

Alexis Wright

Praiseworthy

2023

Jessica Au

Cold Enough for Snow

2021

Tara June Winch

The Yield

2020

Markus Zusak

Bridge of Clay

2020

Tracy Sorensen

The Lucky Galah

2020

Melissa Lucashenko

Too Much Lip

2019

Sarah Schmidt

See What I Have Done

2019

Sofie Laguna

The Choke

2018

Dominic Smith

The Last Painting of Sara de Vos

2018

Heather Rose

The Museum of Modern Love

2017

Charlotte Wood

The Natural Way of Things

2017

Peggy Frew

Hope Farm

2017

Geraldine Brooks

The Secret Chord

2016

Sofie Laguna

The Eye of the Sheep

2015

Hannah Kent

Burial Rites

2014

Michelle de Kretser

Questions of Travel

2014

Carrie Tiffany

Mateship With Birds

2013

Frank Moorhouse

Cold Light

2013

Kate Grenville

Sarah Thornhill

2011

David Malouf

Ransom

2008

Gail Jones

Dreams of Speaking

2005

Shirley Hazzard

The Great Fire

2003

Tim Winton

Dirt Music

2003

Richard Flanagan

Gould’s Book of Fish : a novel in twelve fish

2003

Elizabeth Jolley

An Innocent Gentleman

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