Australia’s Radio National top 100 books of the 21st century

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ABC Radio national, 100 Books

ABC RN launched this as an annual, Hottest-100-style books poll: Australians voted for their 21st-century favourites (fiction and nonfiction), and RN counted them down over a weekend special. The inaugural winner was Trent Dalton’s Boy Swallows Universe, with Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief at #2; ABC’s summary also breaks down voting patterns by gender, age, and state

This list was originally published in 2025 and was added to this site 8 months ago.

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