![]() The following feature, which appears in ABR's February 2010 issue, lists the top twenty novels as selected by ABR readers.īelow we list all 290 nominated titles, purely in alphabetical order. Bronwyn Parry Her first novel, AS DARKNESS FALLS, won a prestigious Romance Writers of America Golden Heart Award for best romantic suspense manuscript in 2007. Particularly heartening was the large number of nineteenth-century novels and those published before the remarkable expansion of fiction publishing in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Tim Winton’s Cloudstreet, a perennial favourite since its publication in 1991, was the overwhelming favourite – by a margin of three to one to its nearest rival, Henry Handel Richardson’s The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, which was closely followed by Patrick White’s Voss and Winton’s most recent novel, Breath. Actually, many more publications were nominated, but these included short story collections and autobiographies and overseas publications, all of which were ineligible. Still, we hadn’t anticipated the flood of emails and letters and faxes that followed.īy December 15, 2009, readers had voted in their thousands for some 290 individual novels. When we sought readers’ nominations for the ABR Favourite Australian Novel (any era, any genre), we anticipated goodly interest because ABR readers are a passionate and well-read bunch. Announcing the 2009 ABR Favourite Australian Novel ![]()
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