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
- A Day in the Life of Abed Salama by Nathan Thrall, Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
- Close to Home by Michael Magee, Nero Book Awards, Debut Fiction 2023
- Girl in a Pink Dress by Kylie Needham, 2024 MUD Literary Prize
- The Bee Sting by Paul Murray, Nero Book Awards, Fiction 2023
- The Swifts by Beth Lincoln, Nero Book Awards, Children's Fiction 2023
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 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, UT Glenda Adams Award for New Writing
- 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
- Brotherless Night by V. V. Ganeshananthan, 2024 Women's Prize for Fiction
- But the Girl by Jessica Zhan Mei Yu, 2024 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, Fiction; 2024 Age Book of the Year
- Doppelganger by Naomi Klein, 2024 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction
- Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad, 2024 Women's Prize for Fiction
- Frank Moorhouse: Strange Paths by Matthew Lamb, 2024 Age Book of the Year
- Lenny marks Gets Away With Murder by Kerryn Mayne, 2024 Indie Book Awards, Debut Fiction; 2024 International Thriller Awards, Best First Novel
- Scar Town by Tristan Bancks, CBCA Book of the Year: Younger Readers
- Shirley by Ronnie Scott, 2024 Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
- The Spider and Her Demons by sydney khoo, Aurealis Awards, Best Young Adult Novel
- The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright, 2024 Women's Prize for Fiction
- Thunderclap by Laura Cumming, 2024 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2024
- Wifedom by Anna Funder, 2024 Indie Book Awards, Nonfiction
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