| Year | Fiction | Non-fiction | Young adult fiction | Children's fiction | Poetry | Australian history |
|---|
| 2008 [6] | The Zookeeper's War by Steven Conte | Ochre and Rust: Artefacts and Encounters on Australian Frontiers by Philip Jones | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 2009 [7] [8] [9] | The Boat by Nam Le | House of Exile: The Life and Times of Heinrich Mann, and Nelly-Kroeger Mann by Evelyn Juers, and
Drawing the Global Colour Line by Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 2010 [10] [11] | Dog Boy by Eva Hornung [12] | The Colony: A History of Early Sydney by Grace Karskens | Confessions of a Liar, Thief and Failed Sex God by Bill Condon | Star Jumps by Lorraine Marwood | NA | NA |
| 2011 | Traitor by Stephen Daisley [12] | The Hard Light of Day by Rod Moss | Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley | Shake a Leg by Boori Monty Pryor and Jan Ormerod | NA | NA |
| 2012 [13] [14] | Foal's Bread by Gillian Mears | An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark by Mark McKenna | When We Were Two by Robert Newton | Goodnight, Mice!, written by Frances Watts and illustrated by Judy Watson | Interferon Psalms by Luke Davies | The Biggest Estate on Earth by Bill Gammage |
| 2013 [15] | Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser | The Australian Moment by George Megalogenis | Fog a Dox by Bruce Pascoe | Red by Libby Gleeson | Jam Tree Gully: Poems by John Kinsella | Farewell, Dear People by Ross McMullin |
| 2014 [15] [16] | A World of Other People by Steven Carroll, and The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan [17] | Moving Among Strangers by Gabrielle Carey, and
Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John by Helen Trinca | The Incredible Here and Now by Felicity Castagna | Silver Buttons by Bob Graham | Drag Down to Unlock or Place an Emergency Call by Melinda Smith | Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War by Joan Beaumont, and
Australia's Secret War: How Unionists Sabotaged Our Troops in World War II by Hal G.P. Colebatch |
| 2015 [18] | The Golden Age by Joan London | John Olsen: An Artist's Life by Darleen Bungey, and
Wild Bleak Bohemia: Marcus Clarke, Adam Lindsay Gordon and Henry Kendall by Michael Wilding | The Protected by Claire Zorn | One Minute's Silence by David Metzenthen and illustrated by Michael Camilleri | Poems 1957–2013 by Geoffrey Lehmann | Charles Bean by Ross Coulthart, and
The Spy Catchers – The Official History of ASIO Vol 1 by David Horner |
| 2016 [18] | The Life of Houses by Lisa Gorton and The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood | On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics by Sheila Fitzpatrick, and
Thea Astley: Inventing her own Weather by Karen Lamb | A Single Stone by Meg McKinlay | Sister Heart by Sally Morgan | The Hazards by Sarah Holland-Batt | The Story of Australia's People. The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia by Geoffrey Blainey, and
Let My People Go: The untold story of Australia and the Soviet Jews 1959–89 by Sam Lipski and Suzanne D Rutland |
| 2017 [18] | Their Brilliant Careers by Ryan O'Neill | Quicksilver by Nicolas Rothwell | Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley | Home in the Rain by Bob Graham, and
Dragonfly Song by Wendy Orr | Headwaters by Anthony Lawrence | Atomic Thunder: The Maralinga Story by Elizabeth Tynan |
| 2018 [19] [20] [21] | Border Districts by Gerald Murnane | Asia's Reckoning by Richard McGregor | This Is My Song by Richard Yaxley | Pea Pod Lullaby by Glenda Millard and Stephen Michael King | Blindness and Rage: A Phantasmagoria by Brian Castro | John Curtin's War: The coming of war in the Pacific, and reinventing Australia, volume 1 by John Edwards |
| 2019 [22] [23] | The Death of Noah Glass by Gail Jones | The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History by Meredith Lake | The Things That Will Not Stand by Michael Gerard Bauer | His Name Was Walter by Emily Rodda | Sun Music: New and Selected Poems by Judith Beveridge | Half the Perfect World: Writers, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra, 1955–1964 by Paul Genoni and Tanya Dalziell |
| 2020 [24] [25] [26] | The Yield by Tara June Winch | Songspirals: Sharing Women's Wisdom of Country through Songlines by Gay'Wu Group of Womenand
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson | How It Feels to Float by Helena Fox | Cooee Mittigar: A Song on Darug Songlines by Jasmine Seymour and Leanne Mulgo Watson (illustrator) | The Lost Arabs by Omar Sakr | Meeting the Waylo: Aboriginal Encounters in the Archipelago by Tiffany Shellam |
| 2021 [27] [28] [29] | The Labyrinth by Amanda Lohrey | The Stranger Artist: Life at the edge of Kimberley painting by Quentin Sprague | Metal Fish, Falling Snow by Cath Moore | Fly on the Wall by Remy Lai and
How to Make a Bird by Meg McKinlay and Matt Ottley (illustrator) | The Strangest Place: New and selected poems by Stephen Edgar | People of the River: Lost worlds of early Australia by Grace Karskens |
| 2022 [30] [31] | Red Heaven by Nicolas Rothwell | Rogue Forces: An Explosive Insiders’ Account of Australian SAS War Crimes in Afghanistan by Mark Willacy | The Gaps by Leanne Hall | Mina and the Whole Wide World by Sherryl Clark and Briony Stewart (illustrator) | Human Looking by Andy Jackson | Semut: The Untold Story of a Secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo by Christine Helliwell |
| 2023 [32] | Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au | My Father and Other Animals by Sam Vincent | The Greatest Thing by Sarah Winifred Searle | Open Your Heart to Country by Jasmine Seymour | At the Altar of Touch by Gavin Yuan Gao | Unmaking Angas Downs by Shannyn Palmer |
| 2024 [33] | Anam by André Dao | Close to the Subject: Selected Works by Daniel Browning | We Could Be Something by Will Kostakis | Tamarra: A Story of Termites on Gurindji Country by Violet Wadrill, Topsy Dodd Ngarnjal, Leah Leaman, Cecelia Edwards, Cassandra Algy, Felicity Meakins, Briony Barr & Gregory Crocetti | Aphrodite by Amy Crutchfield | Donald Horne: A Life in the Lucky Country by Ryan Cropp |
