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Award-winning and shortlisted books of 2024

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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