CBCA Book of the Year: Older Readers checklist
Every CBCA Book of the Year: Older Readers book on our site, newest first. Print it and tick off the ones you have read.
| Read | Year | Title | By | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Darkest Night, Brightest Star | Barry Jonsberg | Winner | |
| 2025 | I'm Not Really Here | Gary Lonesborough | Winner | |
| 2024 | Grace Notes | Karen Comer | Winner | |
| 2023 | Neverlanders | Tom Taylor | Winner | |
| 2022 | Tiger Daughter | Rebecca Lim | Winner | |
| 2021 | The End of the World is Bigger than Love | Davina Bell | Winner | |
| 2020 | This Is How We Change the Ending | Vikki Wakefield | Winner | |
| 2019 | Between Us | Clare Atkins | Winner | |
| 2018 | Take Three Girls | Cath Crowley, Fiona Wood, and Simmone Howell | Winner | |
| 2017 | One Would Think the Deep | Claire Zorn | Winner | |
| 2016 | Cloudwish | Fiona Wood | Winner | |
| 2015 | The Protected | Claire Zorn | Winner | |
| 2014 | Wildlife | Fiona Wood | Winner | |
| 2013 | Sea Hearts | Margo Lanagan | Winner | |
| 2012 | The Dead I Know | Scot Gardner | Winner | |
| 2011 | The Midnight Zoo | Sonya Hartnett | Winner | |
| 2010 | Jarvis 24 | David Metzenthen | Winner | |
| 2009 | Tales from Outer Suburbia | Shaun Tan | Winner | |
| 2008 | The Ghost's Child | Sonya Hartnett | Winner | |
| 2007 | Red Spikes | Margo Lanagan | Winner | |
| 2006 | The Story of Tom Brennan | J. C. Burke | Winner | |
| 2005 | The Running Man | Michael Gerard Bauer | Winner | |
| 2004 | Saving Francesca | Melina Marchetta | Winner | |
| 2003 | The Messenger | Markus Zusak | Winner | |
| 2002 | Forest | Sonya Hartnett | Winner | |
| 2001 | Wolf on the Fold | Judith Clarke | Winner | |
| 2000 | 48 Shades of Brown | Nick Earls | Winner | |
| 1999 | Deadly, Unna? | Phillip Gwynne | Winner | |
| 1998 | Eye to Eye | Catherine Jinks | Winner | |
| 1997 | A Bridge to Wiseman's Cove | James Moloney | Winner | |
| 1996 | Pagan's Vows | Catherine Jinks | Winner | |
| 1995 | Foxspell | Gillian Rubinstein | Winner | |
| 1994 | Angel's Gate | Gary Crew | Winner | |
| 1994 | The Gathering | Isobelle Carmody | Winner | |
| 1993 | Looking for Alibrandi | Melina Marchetta | Winner | |
| 1992 | The House Guest | Eleanor Nilsson | Winner | |
| 1991 | Strange Objects | Gary Crew | Winner | |
| 1990 | Came Back to Show You I Could Fly | Robin Klein | Winner | |
| 1989 | Beyond the Labyrinth | Gillian Rubinstein | Winner | |
| 1988 | So Much to Tell You | John Marsden | Winner | |
| 1987 | All We Know | Simon French | Winner | |
| 1986 | The Green Wind | Thurley Fowler | Winner | |
| 1985 | The True Story of Lilli Stubeck | James Aldridge | Winner | |
| 1984 | A Little Fear | Patricia Wrightson | Winner | |
| 1983 | Master of the Grove | Victor Kelleher | Winner | |
| 1982 | The Valley Between | Colin Thiele | Winner | |
| 1981 | Playing Beatie Bow | Ruth Park | Winner | |
| 1980 | Displaced Person | Lee Harding | Winner | |
| 1979 | The Plum-Rain Scroll | Ruth Manley | Winner | |
| 1978 | The Ice is Coming | Patricia Wrightson | Winner | |
| 1977 | The October Child | Eleanor Spence | Winner | |
| 1976 | Fly West | Ivan Southall | Winner | |
| 1974 | The Nargun and the Stars | Patricia Wrightson | Winner | |
| 1973 | Family at the Lookout | Noreen Shelley | Winner | |
| 1973 | An Older Kind of Magic | Patricia Wrightson | Commended | |
| 1973 | Everyday Inventions | Meredith Hooper | Commended | |
| 1972 | Longtime Passing | H. F. Brinsmead | Winner | |
| 1972 | Hughie | David Martin | Commended | |
| 1972 | The Windmill at Magpie Creek | Christobel Mattingley | Commended | |
| 1971 | Bread and Honey | Ivan Southall | Winner | |
| 1971 | Climb a Lonely Hill | Lilith Norman | Commended | |
| 1971 | James Cook, Royal Navy | George Finkel | Commended | |
| 1971 | The Story of China | Hui-min Lo | Commended | |
| 1970 | Uhu | Annette Macarthur-Onslow | Winner | |
| 1970 | Blue Fin | Colin Thiele | Commended | |
| 1970 | Finn's Folly | Ivan Southall | Commended | |
| 1970 | Ombley-Gombley | P. W. Smith | Commended | |
| 1970 | Over the Bridge | Diedre Hill | Commended | |
| 1970 | Six Days Between a Second | Marjory O'Dea | Commended | |
| 1970 | The Bates Family | Reginald Ottley | Commended | |
| 1969 | When Jays Fly to Barbmo | Margaret Balderson | Winner | |
| 1969 | Children of the Desert | Phil and Noel Wallace | Commended | |
| 1969 | Cricket the Australian Way | Jack Pollard | Commended | |
| 1969 | I Own the Racecourse | Patricia Wrightson | Commended | |
| 1969 | Let the Balloon Go | Ivan Southall | Commended | |
| 1969 | The Loyall Virginian | George Finkel | Commended | |
| 1969 | Wandjina: Children of the Dream Time | Robert Shaw | Commended | |
| 1969 | Wood, Wire and Fabric | John Goode | Commended | |
| 1968 | To the Wild Sky | Ivan Southall | Winner | |
| 1968 | A Sapphire for September | H. F. Brinsmead | Commended | |
| 1968 | Blue Above the Trees | Mavis Thorpe Clark | Commended | |
| 1968 | Mathinna's People | Nan Chauncy | Commended | |
| 1968 | Midnite | Randolph Stow | Commended | |
| 1968 | The Fox Hole | Ivan Southall | Commended | |
| 1967 | The Min-Min | Mavis Thorpe Clark | Winner | |
| 1967 | Cocky's Castle | Celia Syred | Commended | |
| 1967 | The River Kings | Max Fatchen | Commended | |
| 1967 | The Roan Colt of Yamboorah | Reginald Ottley | Commended | |
| 1966 | Ash Road | Ivan Southall | Winner | |
| 1966 | By the Sandhills of Yamboorah | Reginald Ottley | Commended | |
| 1966 | February Dragon | Colin Thiele | Commended | |
| 1966 | Indonesian Journey | Ivan Southall | Commended | |
| 1966 | The Year of the Currawong | Eleanor Spence | Commended | |
| 1965 | Pastures of the Blue Crane | H. F. Brinsmead | Winner | |
| 1965 | A Day at the Zoo | Carol Odell | Commended | |
| 1965 | High and Haunted Island | Nan Chauncy | Commended | |
| 1965 | Jamie's Summer Visitor | Betty Roland | Commended | |
| 1965 | The Courteous Savage | Mary Durack | Commended | |
| 1965 | The Wonderland of Nature | Nuri Mass | Commended | |
| 1965 | Winged Skis | Elyne Mitchell | Commended | |
| 1964 | The Green Laurel | Eleanor Spence | Winner | |
| 1964 | Storm Boy | Colin Thiele | Commended | |
| 1964 | The Roaring 40 | Nan Chauncy | Commended | |
| 1964 | Threat to the Barkers | Joan Phipson | Commended | |
| 1963 | The Family Conspiracy | Joan Phipson | Winner | |
| 1962 | Rafferty Rides a Winner | Joan Woodberry | Winner | |
| 1962 | The Racketty Street Gang | L. H. Evers | Winner | |
| 1962 | Sun on the Stubble | Colin Thiele | Commended | |
| 1962 | The Forbidden Bridge | Betty Roland | Commended | |
| 1962 | The Hole in the Hill | Ruth Park | Commended | |
| 1961 | Tangara | Nan Chauncy | Winner | |
| 1961 | Doctor With Wings | Alan Aldous | Commended | |
| 1961 | Lillipilly Hill | Eleanor Spence | Commended | |
| 1961 | Silver Brumby's Daughter | Elyne Mitchell | Commended | |
| 1960 | All the Proud Tribesmen | Kylie Tennant | Winner | |
| 1960 | Anzac Adventure | Dale Collins | Commended | |
| 1960 | Rangatira | Norman Barnett Tindale and H. A. Lindsay | Commended | |
| 1960 | The Summer in Between | Eleanor Spence | Commended | |
| 1959 | Devil's Hill | Nan Chauncy | Winner | |
| 1959 | Sea Menace | John Gunn | Winner | |
| 1959 | Australian and New Zealand Ships of Today | Frank Norton | Commended | |
| 1959 | Exploring Australia | Eve Pownall | Commended | |
| 1959 | The Bunyip Hole | Patricia Wrightson | Commended | |
| 1959 | The Silver Brumby | Elyne Mitchell | Commended | |
| 1958 | Tiger in the Bush | Nan Chauncy | Winner | |
| 1957 | The Boomerang Book of Legendary Tales | Enid Moodie Heddle (ed.) | Winner | |
| 1956 | The Crooked Snake | Patricia Wrightson | Winner | |
| 1955 | The First Walkabout | Norman B. Tindale and Harold Arthur Lindsay | Winner | |
| 1954 | Australian Legendary Tales | K. Langloh Parker, edited by Henrietta Drake-Brockman | Winner | |
| 1953 | Aircraft of Today and Tomorrow | James H. Martin and W. D. Martin | Winner | |
| 1953 | Good Luck to the Rider | Joan Phipson | Winner | |
| 1952 | The Australia Book | Eve Pownall | Winner | |
| 1951 | Verity of Sydney Town | Ruth C. Williams | Winner | |
| 1950 | Whalers of the Midnight Sun | Alan J. Villiers | Winner | |
| 1948 | Shackleton's Argonauts: A Saga of the Antarctic Icepacks | Frank Hurley | Winner | |
| 1948 | Beetles A'Hoy! | Ada Jackson | Commended | |
| 1948 | Bush Cobbers | Musette Morell | Commended | |
| 1948 | Ponny the Penguin | Veronica Basser | Commended | |
| 1948 | The Australian Book of Trains | James H. Martin and W. D. Martin | Commended | |
| 1948 | The Story of Shadow, the Rock Wallaby | Leslie Rees | Commended | |
| 1946 | The Story of Karrawingi the Emu | Leslie Rees | Winner |
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