Discover some of the best Penguin Random House books of 2024 with this list of award-winning and shortlisted titles this year.
Congratulations to all the Penguin Random House authors who have been honoured by awards this year.
Across a wide range of genres, these shortlisted and awarded-winning books are great feats of literature from some of our amazing authors.
Scroll on to see the award winners and be prepared to discover a new favourite on this list.
Editorial Note: This list will be continuously updated throughout 2024 as awards are announced.
Shortlisted and award-winning books 2024
Award winners
- Han Kang, 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature
- A Day in the Life of Abed Salama by Nathan Thrall, Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
- Anam by André Dao, 2024 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing
- Brotherless Night by V. V. Ganeshananthan, 2024 Women's Prize for Fiction
- Challenger by Adam Higginbotham, Kirkus Prize for nonfiction
- Close to Home by Michael Magee, Nero Book Awards, Debut Fiction 2023
- Doppelganger by Naomi Klein, 2024 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction
- Girl in a Pink Dress by Kylie Needham, 2024 MUD Literary Prize
- Lenny Marks Gets Away With Murder by Kerryn Mayne, 2024 Danger Award for Debut Fiction
- Orbital by Samantha Harvey, 2024 Booker Prize for Fiction
- Question 7 by Richard Flanagan, Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2024
- Scar Town by Tristan Bancks, CBCA Book of the Year: Younger Readers; YABBA, Fiction for Years 7-9; KOALA, Fiction for Years 7-9
- The Bee Sting by Paul Murray, Nero Book Awards, Fiction 2023
- The Swifts by Beth Lincoln, Nero Book Awards, Children's Fiction 2023
- The Tea Ladies by Amanda Hampson, 2024 Danger Award for Crime Fiction
- Wifedom by Anna Funder, 2024 Book People Non-Fiction Book of the Year; 2024 Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger – Essai
Shortlisted titles
- A Flat Place by Noreen Masud, 2024 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction
- Anam by André Dao, 2024 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Multicultural Award; 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award; Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction
- Archives of Despair by Caleb Finn, Aurealis Awards, Best Young Adult Novel
- Being Jimmy Baxter by Fiona Lloyd, CBCA Book of the Year: Younger Readers; South Australian Literary Awards, Children's Literature
- But the Girl by Jessica Zhan Mei Yu, 2024 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, Fiction; 2024 Age Book of the Year; 2024 Readings New Australian Fiction Prize
- Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner, 2024 Booker Prize for Fiction
- Dark Corners by Megan Goldin, Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction
- Eleanor Jones is Not a Murderer by Amy Doak 2024 Davitt Award: Best Young Adult Novel
- Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad, 2024 Women's Prize for Fiction
- Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson, Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction
- Frank Moorhouse: Strange Paths by Matthew Lamb, 2024 Age Book of the Year
- Graft by Maggie MacKellar, Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-fiction
- Lenny marks Gets Away With Murder by Kerryn Mayne, 2024 Indie Book Awards, Debut Fiction; 2024 International Thriller Awards, Best First Novel
- Nuclear War by Annie Jacobsen, Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2024
- Revolusi by David Van Reybrouck, Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2024
- Scar Town by Tristan Bancks, South Australian Literary Awards, Children's Literature
- Shirley by Ronnie Scott, 2024 Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
- The Fall Between by Darcy Tindale, Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction
- The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden, 2024 Booker Prize for Fiction
- The Schoolgirl, Her Teacher and his Wife by Rebecca Hazel 2024 Davitt Award: Best Non-fiction Book
- The Spider and Her Demons by sydney khoo, Aurealis Awards, Best Young Adult Novel
- The Tea Ladies by Amanda Hampson 2024 Davitt Award: Best Adult Novel; Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction
- The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright, 2024 Women's Prize for Fiction
- This Camp is Doomed by Anna Zobel 2024 Davitt Award: Best Children's Novel
- Thunderclap by Laura Cumming, 2024 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2024
- Wifedom by Anna Funder, 2024 Indie Book Awards, Nonfiction; Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award
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