2019 In Review: The Year’s Best Books (Award Winners)
Sections
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The Miles Franklin Literary Award
The Stella Prize
The Man Booker Prize
The Davitt Awards (Crime Writing)
The Ned Kelly Awards (Crime Writing)
The Daggers (Crime Writing)
National Biography Award
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
 | The Overstory by Richard Powers WINNER |
The Miles Franklin Literary Award
 | Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko WINNER The Lebs by Michael Mohammed Ahmad A Sand Archive by Gregory Day A Stolen Season by Rodney Hall The Death of Noah Glass by Gail Jones Dyschronia by Jennifer Mills |
The Stella Prize
 | The Erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie WINNER Little gods by Jenny Ackland The Bridge by Enza Gandolfo Pink Mountain on Locust Island by Jamie Marina Lau Too much lip by Melissa Lucashenko Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin |
The Man Booker Prize
 | The Testaments by Margaret Atwood WINNER Girl, woman, other by Bernardine Evaristo WINNER An orchestra of minorities by Chigozie Obioma Quichotte : a novel by Salman Rushdie Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann |
The Davitt Awards (Crime Writing)
 | Best Adult Fiction The Rúin by Dervla McTiernan WINNER This I Would Kill For by Anne Buist BEST DEBUT Second Sight by Aoife Clifford Redemption Point by Candice Fox Mine by Susi Fox Wintering by Krissy Kneen |
 | Best Non Fiction The Arsonist by Chloe Hooper WINNER Gorgeous Girl by Mary Pershall The Lindt Café Siege by Deborah Snow Waiting for Elijah by Kate Wild
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The Ned Kelly Awards (Crime Writing)
 | Best Crime Novel The Lost Man by Jane Harper WINNER Gone By Midnight by Candice Fox The Spotted Dog by Kerry Greenwood |
| Best First Crime Novel The Rúin by Dervla McTiernan WINNER The Portrait of Molly Dean by Katherine Kovacic |
 | Best True Crime Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee WINNER The Lindt Café Siege by Deborah Snow |
The Daggers (Crime Writing)
 | The Gold Dagger The Puppet Show by M. W. Craven WINNER All the Hidden Truths by Claire Askew What We Did by Christobel Kent Unto Us a Son is Given by Donna Leon |
National Biography Award
 | No Friend But the Mountains by Behrouz Boochani WINNER The Wasp and the Orchid by Danielle Clode The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein Do Oysters Get Bored? A Curious Life by Rozanna Lilley One Hundred Years of Dirt by Rick Morton Miss Ex-Yugoslavia by Sofija Stefanovic |
Discover the year’s best books and award winners for 2019, focussing on the major literary and crime writing awards.
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Check out the other lists from the SMSA’s Year in Review articles.
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