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.
Today the list of the next fifty books (101-150) that did not make the list was released. Many favourites appear on the supplementary lists.
Always Home, Always Homesick by Hannah Kent
The Sound of One Hand Clapping by Richard Flanagan
A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
* PB The Eleventh Hour by Graeme Base
Bruny by Heather Rose
* PB Who Sank the Boat? by Pamela Allen
The Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak
On the Beach by Neville Shute
* JF The Complete Adventures of Blinky Bill
The Fortunes of Richard Mahony by Henry Handle Richardson
All Our Shimmering Skies by Trent Dalton [on my top 10]
* JF Mary Poppins by P L Travers
The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan
* YA Hating Alison Ashley by Robin Klein
* PB Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox & Julie Vivas
Dusk by Robbie Arnott
The Drovers Wife by Henry Lawson
* PB Grug by Ted Prior
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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