Members of the public were asked to vote for ten of their favourite Australian books. A compilation was made of the 100 most popular books - novels, non-fiction and children's books. The results were published on the weekend17-18 October. 100 - 61 are listed in this post.
*JF Round the Twist by Paul Jennings
*JF The 13-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffith and Terry Denton
CB Recipe Tin Eats:Dinner by Nagi Maehashi
*JF Where the Forest Meets the Sea by Jeannie Baker
Puberty Blues by Kathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey
Juice by Tim Winton
The Lost Man by Jane Harper
The Dressmaker by Rosalie Ham
*PB Wombat Stew by Marcia K Vaughan and Pamela Lofts
We of the Never-Never by Mrs Aeneas Gunn
Power Without Glory by Frank Hardy
The Broken Shore by Peter Temple
The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
Scrublands by Chris Hammer
The Tree of Man by Patrick White
A Town Like Alice by Neville Shute
Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James
Voss by Patrick White
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran
Damned Whores and God's Police by Anne Summers
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
*PB Are We There Yet? by Alison Lester
Books marked with * are children's books. (Also YA - Young Adult; JF - Junior Fiction; PB - Picture Book CB - Cookery Books)
Titles of books with posts in this blog have hyperlinks to the post.
Many of the titles in the list are for books that I read long before I began this blog.
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