2020 in Australian literature

Literary fiction

• Patrick Allington – Rise & Shine^[1]
• Robbie Arnott – The Rain Heron
• James Bradley – Ghost Species^[2]
• Trent Dalton – All Our Shimmering Skies^[3]
• Jon Doust – Return Ticket^[4]
• Chris Flynn – Mammoth^[5]
• Anna Goldsworthy – Melting Moments^[6]
• Kate Grenville – A Room Made of Leaves
• Gail Jones – Our Shadows^[7]
• Tom Keneally – The Dickens Boy^[8]
• Sofie Laguna – Infinite Splendours^[9]
• Bem Le Hunte – Elephants with Headlights^[10]
• Carol Lefevre – Murmurations^[11]
• S. L. Lim – Revenge
• Amanda Lohrey – The Labyrinth
• Laura Jean McKay – The Animals in That Country
• Andrew Pippos – Lucky's^[12]
• Mirandi Riwoe – Stone Sky Gold Mountain^[13]
• Madeleine Ryan – A Room Called Earth
• Philip Salom – The Fifth Season^[14]
• Ronnie Scott – The Adversary^[15]
• Jock Serong – The Burning Island
• Craig Silvey – Honeybee
• Nardi Simpson – Song of the Crocodile
• Madeleine Watts – The Inland Sea^[16]
• Gina Wilkinson – When the Apricots Bloom
• Pip Williams – The Dictionary of Lost Words
• Daniel Davis Wood – At the Edge of the Solid World^[17]
• Evie Wyld – The Bass Rock

Short stories

• Melissa Manning – Smokehouse

Children's and young adult fiction

• Davina Bell – The End of the World is Bigger than Love^[18]
• Alex Dyson – When It Drops^[19]
• Alison Evans – Euphoria Kids^[20]
• Zana Fraillon – The Lost Soul Atlas^[21]
• Jane Godwin – When Rain Turns to Snow^[22]
• Kate Gordon – Aster's Good, Right Things^[23]
• Libby Hathorn and Lisa Hathorn-Jarman – No! Never!^[24]
• Will Kostakis
  • Rebel Gods^[25]
  • The Greatest Hit^[26]
• Anna McGregor – Anemone Is Not The Enemy
• Cath Moore – Metal Fish, Falling Snow^[27]
• Jaclyn Moriarty – The Stolen Prince of Cloudburst^[28]
• Sally Murphy – Worse Things^[29]
• Katrina Nannestad – We Are Wolves^[30]
• Garth Nix – The Left-Handed Booksellers of London^[31]
• Kirli Saunders – Bindi^[32]
• Shaun Tan – Dog^[33]
• Jessica Townsend – Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow

Crime

• Anne Buist – The Long Shadow^[34]
• Garry Disher – Consolation
• Candice Fox – Gathering Dark^[35]
• Sulari Gentill – A Testament of Character^[36]
• Jane Harper – The Survivors^[37]
• Sally Hepworth – The Good Sister^[38]
• Dervla McTiernan – The Good Turn
• J. P. Pomare – Tell Me Lies^[39]
• Michael Robotham – When She Was Good^[40]
• Sarah Thornton – White Throat^[41]
• David Whish-Wilson – True West^[42]

Science Fiction and Fantasy

• Max Barry – Providence
• Trudi Canavan – Maker's Curse^[43]
• Greg Egan – Instantiation
• Dennis Glover – Factory 19
• Sam Hawke – Hollow Empire
• Gillian Polack – Poison & Light^[44]
• Paul Voermans – The White Library^[45]

Poetry

• Laurie Duggan – Homer Street^[46]
• Michael Farrell – Family Trees^[47]
• Kate Llewellyn – Harbour^[48]
• Felicity Plunkett – A Kinder Sea^[49]
• Ellen van Neerven
  • Homeland Calling: Words from a new generation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices (as editor)^[50]
  • Throat^[51]

Non-fiction

• Julia Baird – Phosphorescence: On awe, wonder and things that sustain you when the world goes dark^[52]
• Richard Fidler – The Golden Maze: A History of Prague^[53]
• Michael Gawenda – The Powerbroker: Mark Leibler, an Australian Life^[54]
• Eddie Jaku – The Happiest Man on Earth^[55]
• John Kinsella – Displaced: A Rural Life^[56]
• Grace Karskens – People of the River: Lost worlds of early Australia
• Sophie McNeill – We Can't Say We Didn't Know: Dispatches from an age of impunity^[57]
• Brenda Niall – Friends and Rivals: Four Great Australian Writers: Barbara Baynton, Ethel Turner, Nettie Palmer, Henry Handel Richardson ^[58]
• Caroline Overington – Missing William Tyrrell^[59]
• Christopher Pyne – The Insider: The scoops, the scandals and the serious business within the Canberra bubble^[60]
• Cassandra Pybus – Truganini: Journey Through the Apocalypse
• Miranda Tapsell – Top End Girl^[61]
• Robert Tickner – Ten Doors Down: The Story of an Extraordinary Adoption Reunion^[62]
• Malcolm Turnbull – A Bigger Picture^[63]

Lifetime achievement

Literary

Fiction

Children and Young Adult

Crime and Mystery

Science fiction

Poetry

Drama

Non-Fiction