2024 Year In Review: Award Winners
Discover the award winning books of 2024, focusing on the major literary and crime writing awards.
International Booker Prize
 | Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck WINNER Not a River by Selva Almada What I’d Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma The Details by Ia Genberg Crooked Plow by Johnny Lorenz |
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Booker Prize
 | Orbital by Samantha Harvey WINNER Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner Held by Anne Michaels Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden |
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The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
 | Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips WINNER Wednesday’s child by Yiyun Li Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park |
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The Miles Franklin Literary Award
 | Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright WINNER |
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The Stella Prize
 | Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright WINNER The Swift Dark Tide by Katia Ariel Body Friend by Katherine Brabon Feast by Emily O’Grady Abandon every hope: essays for the dead by Hayley Singer |
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Women’s Prize for Fiction
 | Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan WINNER Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville River East, River West by Aube Rey Lescure |
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The Australian/Vogel Literary Award
 | First Year by Kristina Ross WINNER
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The Victorian Premier’s Literary Award (Fiction)
 | Edenglassie by Melissa Lukashenko WINNER Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood But the Girl by Jessica Zhan Mei Yu Only Sound Remains by Hossein Asgari Serengotti by Eugen Bacon |
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Prime Minister’s Literary Award
 | Anam by Andre Dao WINNER Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville The Carnal Fugues by Catherine McNamara |
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The Danger Awards
 | Best Crime Fiction The Tea Ladies by Amanda Hampson WINNER The Unearthed by Lenny Bartulin Apartment 303 by Kelli Hawkins The Wiregrass by Adrian Hyland Everyone on this train is a suspect by Benjamin Stevenson |
 | Best crime fiction debut |
 | Best True Crime |
 | Reader’s Choice |
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The Davitt Awards
 | Best Non-Fiction Crime Book The Schoolgirl, Her Teacher and His Wife by Rebecca Hazel WINNER Reclaim: understanding complex trauma and those who abuse by Ahona Guha Ghosts of the Orphanage by Christine Kenneally Obsession by Nicole Madigan |
 | Best Adult Crime Novel When One of Us Hurts by Monica Vuu WINNER The Tea Ladies by Amanda Hampson The Half Brother by Christine Keighery Exquisite corpse by Marija Pericic The Fall Between by Darcy Tindale
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 | Best Debut Crime Book The Half Brother by Christine Keighery WINNER
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 | Reader’s Choice The Benevolent Society of ill-mannered ladies by Alison Goodman WINNER |
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The Ned Kelly Awards
| Best True Crime Novel Crossing the line by Nick McKenzie WINNER Killing for country by David Marr The Murder Squad by Michael Adams Reckless by Marele Day |
. | Best Crime Fiction Novel Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth WINNER Killer Traitor Spy by Tim Ayliffe Dark Mode by Ashley Kalagian Blunt |
. | Best Debut Crime Fiction Murder in the Pacific: Ifira Point by Matt Francis WINNER Four Dogs missing by Rhys Gard Gus and the missing boy by Troy Hunter |
 | Best International Crime The Only Suspect by Louise Candlish WINNER Dice by Claire Baylis Resurrection Walk by Michael Connelly |
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The Daggers
 | The Gold Dagger (Best Crime Novel) Tell me what I am by Una Mannion WINNER Over my dead body by Maz Evanx The secret hours by Mick Herron Small mercies by Dennis Lehane Black River by Nilanjana Roy Vera Wong’s unsolicited advice for murderers by Jesse Sutanto |
 | Ian Fleming Steel Dagger (Best Espionage, Psychological or Adventure Thriller) Everybody knows by Jordan Harper WINNER All the sinners bleed by SA Cosby Ozark dogs by Eli Cranor Gaslight by Femi Kayode |
 | New Blood Dagger (Best Crime Novel by a First-Time Author) In the blink of an eye by Jo Callaghan WINNER The golden gate by Amy Chua West heart kill by Dann McDorman Go seek by Michelle Teahan |
 | Historical Dagger Viper’s Dream by Jake Lamar WINNER Clara and Olivia by Lucy Ashe Harlem after midnight by Louise Hare A bitter remedy by Alis Hawkins Scarlett Town by Leonora Natrass Voices of the dead by Ambrose Parry |
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