Here is the list via Australian Government-Dept of Communications and The Arts
Fiction
- The Life of Houses by Lisa Gorton (Giramondo) (Winner)
- The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood (Allen & Unwin) (Winner)
- Forever Young by Steven Carroll (HarperCollins Publishers)
- The World Repair Video Game by David Ireland AM (Island Magazine Inc.)
- Quicksand by Steve Toltz (Penguin)
Poetry
- The Hazards by Sarah Holland-Batt (University of Queensland Press) (Winner)
- Net Needle by Robert Adamson (Black Inc.)
- Cocky’s Joy by Michael Farrell (Giramondo)
- Waiting for the Past by Les Murray AO (Black Inc.)
- The Ladder by Simon West (Puncher & Wattmann)
Non-fiction
- On Stalin’s Team: the Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics by Sheila Fitzpatrick (Melbourne University Press) (Winner)
- Thea Astley: Inventing her own Weather by Karen Lamb (University of Queensland Press) (Winner)
- Tom Roberts and the Art of Portraiture by Julie Cotter (Thames & Hudson)
- Second Half First by Drusilla Modjeska (Penguin Random House Australia)
- Island Home by Tim Winton (Penguin)
Prize for Australian History
- The Story of Australia’s People. The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia by Geoffrey Blainey AC (Penguin) (Winner)
- Let My People Go: the Untold Story of Australia and the Soviet Jews 1959–89 by Sam Lipski AM and Suzanne D Rutland OAM (Hybrid Publishers) (Winner)
- Red Professor: the Cold War Life of Fred Rose by Peter Monteath and Valerie Munt (Wakefield Press )
- Ned Kelly: A Lawless Life by Doug Morrissey (Connor Court Publishing)
- The War with Germany: Volume III—The Centenary History of Australia and the Great War by Robert Stevenson (Oxford University Press)
Young Adult fiction
- A Single Stone by Meg McKinlay (Walker Books Australia) (Winner)
- Becoming Kirrali Lewis by Jane Harrison (Magabala Books)
- Illuminae: The Illuminae Files _01 by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (Allen & Unwin)
- Inbetween Days by Vikki Wakefield (Text Publishing)
- Green Valentine by Lili Wilkinson (Allen & Unwin)
Children’s fiction
- Sister Heart by Sally Morgan (Fremantle Press) (Winner)
- Adelaide’s Secret World by Elise Hurst (Allen & Unwin)
- Perfect by Danny Parker and illustrated by Freya Blackwood (Hardie Grant Egmont)
- The Greatest Gatsby : A Visual Book of Grammar by Tohby Riddle (Penguin Random House Australia)
- Mr Huff by Anna Walker (Penguin Random House Australia)
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