CBCA Book of the Year: Older Readers
The Children's Book Council of Australia's award for books for older readers. Australia. 141 books on this site.
2026
- Darkest Night, Brightest Star by Barry Jonsberg Winner
2025
- I'm Not Really Here by Gary Lonesborough Winner
2024
- Grace Notes by Karen Comer Winner
2023
- Neverlanders by Tom Taylor Winner
2022
- Tiger Daughter by Rebecca Lim Winner
2021
- The End of the World is Bigger than Love by Davina Bell Winner
2020
- This Is How We Change the Ending by Vikki Wakefield Winner
2019
- Between Us by Clare Atkins Winner
2018
- Take Three Girls by Cath Crowley, Fiona Wood, and Simmone Howell Winner
2017
- One Would Think the Deep by Claire Zorn Winner
2016
- Cloudwish by Fiona Wood Winner
2015
- The Protected by Claire Zorn Winner
2014
- Wildlife by Fiona Wood Winner
2013
- Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan Winner
2012
- The Dead I Know by Scot Gardner Winner
2011
- The Midnight Zoo by Sonya Hartnett Winner
2010
- Jarvis 24 by David Metzenthen Winner
2009
- Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan Winner
2008
- The Ghost's Child by Sonya Hartnett Winner
2007
- Red Spikes by Margo Lanagan Winner
2006
- The Story of Tom Brennan by J. C. Burke Winner
2005
- The Running Man by Michael Gerard Bauer Winner
2004
- Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta Winner
2003
- The Messenger by Markus Zusak Winner
2002
- Forest by Sonya Hartnett Winner
2001
- Wolf on the Fold by Judith Clarke Winner
2000
- 48 Shades of Brown by Nick Earls Winner
1999
- Deadly, Unna? by Phillip Gwynne Winner
1998
- Eye to Eye by Catherine Jinks Winner
1997
- A Bridge to Wiseman's Cove by James Moloney Winner
1996
- Pagan's Vows by Catherine Jinks Winner
1995
- Foxspell by Gillian Rubinstein Winner
1994
- Angel's Gate by Gary Crew Winner
- The Gathering by Isobelle Carmody Winner
1993
- Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta Winner
1992
- The House Guest by Eleanor Nilsson Winner
1991
- Strange Objects by Gary Crew Winner
1990
- Came Back to Show You I Could Fly by Robin Klein Winner
1989
- Beyond the Labyrinth by Gillian Rubinstein Winner
1988
- So Much to Tell You by John Marsden Winner
1987
- All We Know by Simon French Winner
1986
- The Green Wind by Thurley Fowler Winner
1985
- The True Story of Lilli Stubeck by James Aldridge Winner
1984
- A Little Fear by Patricia Wrightson Winner
1983
- Master of the Grove by Victor Kelleher Winner
1982
- The Valley Between by Colin Thiele Winner
1981
- Playing Beatie Bow by Ruth Park Winner
1980
- Displaced Person by Lee Harding Winner
1979
- The Plum-Rain Scroll by Ruth Manley Winner
1978
- The Ice is Coming by Patricia Wrightson Winner
1977
- The October Child by Eleanor Spence Winner
1976
- Fly West by Ivan Southall Winner
1974
- The Nargun and the Stars by Patricia Wrightson Winner
1973
- Family at the Lookout by Noreen Shelley Winner
- An Older Kind of Magic by Patricia Wrightson Commended
- Everyday Inventions by Meredith Hooper Commended
1972
- Longtime Passing by H. F. Brinsmead Winner
- Hughie by David Martin Commended
- The Windmill at Magpie Creek by Christobel Mattingley Commended
1971
- Bread and Honey by Ivan Southall Winner
- Climb a Lonely Hill by Lilith Norman Commended
- James Cook, Royal Navy by George Finkel Commended
- The Story of China by Hui-min Lo Commended
1970
- Uhu by Annette Macarthur-Onslow Winner
- Blue Fin by Colin Thiele Commended
- Finn's Folly by Ivan Southall Commended
- Ombley-Gombley by P. W. Smith Commended
- Over the Bridge by Diedre Hill Commended
- Six Days Between a Second by Marjory O'Dea Commended
- The Bates Family by Reginald Ottley Commended
1969
- When Jays Fly to Barbmo by Margaret Balderson Winner
- Children of the Desert by Phil and Noel Wallace Commended
- Cricket the Australian Way by Jack Pollard Commended
- I Own the Racecourse by Patricia Wrightson Commended
- Let the Balloon Go by Ivan Southall Commended
- The Loyall Virginian by George Finkel Commended
- Wandjina: Children of the Dream Time by Robert Shaw Commended
- Wood, Wire and Fabric by John Goode Commended
1968
- To the Wild Sky by Ivan Southall Winner
- A Sapphire for September by H. F. Brinsmead Commended
- Blue Above the Trees by Mavis Thorpe Clark Commended
- Mathinna's People by Nan Chauncy Commended
- Midnite by Randolph Stow Commended
- The Fox Hole by Ivan Southall Commended
1967
- The Min-Min by Mavis Thorpe Clark Winner
- Cocky's Castle by Celia Syred Commended
- The River Kings by Max Fatchen Commended
- The Roan Colt of Yamboorah by Reginald Ottley Commended
1966
- Ash Road by Ivan Southall Winner
- By the Sandhills of Yamboorah by Reginald Ottley Commended
- February Dragon by Colin Thiele Commended
- Indonesian Journey by Ivan Southall Commended
- The Year of the Currawong by Eleanor Spence Commended
1965
- Pastures of the Blue Crane by H. F. Brinsmead Winner
- A Day at the Zoo by Carol Odell Commended
- High and Haunted Island by Nan Chauncy Commended
- Jamie's Summer Visitor by Betty Roland Commended
- The Courteous Savage by Mary Durack Commended
- The Wonderland of Nature by Nuri Mass Commended
- Winged Skis by Elyne Mitchell Commended
1964
- The Green Laurel by Eleanor Spence Winner
- Storm Boy by Colin Thiele Commended
- The Roaring 40 by Nan Chauncy Commended
- Threat to the Barkers by Joan Phipson Commended
1963
- The Family Conspiracy by Joan Phipson Winner
1962
- Rafferty Rides a Winner by Joan Woodberry Winner
- The Racketty Street Gang by L. H. Evers Winner
- Sun on the Stubble by Colin Thiele Commended
- The Forbidden Bridge by Betty Roland Commended
- The Hole in the Hill by Ruth Park Commended
1961
- Tangara by Nan Chauncy Winner
- Doctor With Wings by Alan Aldous Commended
- Lillipilly Hill by Eleanor Spence Commended
- Silver Brumby's Daughter by Elyne Mitchell Commended
1960
- All the Proud Tribesmen by Kylie Tennant Winner
- Anzac Adventure by Dale Collins Commended
- Rangatira by Norman Barnett Tindale and H. A. Lindsay Commended
- The Summer in Between by Eleanor Spence Commended
1959
- Devil's Hill by Nan Chauncy Winner
- Sea Menace by John Gunn Winner
- Australian and New Zealand Ships of Today by Frank Norton Commended
- Exploring Australia by Eve Pownall Commended
- The Bunyip Hole by Patricia Wrightson Commended
- The Silver Brumby by Elyne Mitchell Commended
1958
- Tiger in the Bush by Nan Chauncy Winner
1957
- The Boomerang Book of Legendary Tales by Enid Moodie Heddle (ed.) Winner
1956
- The Crooked Snake by Patricia Wrightson Winner
1955
- The First Walkabout by Norman B. Tindale and Harold Arthur Lindsay Winner
1954
- Australian Legendary Tales by K. Langloh Parker, edited by Henrietta Drake-Brockman Winner
1953
- Aircraft of Today and Tomorrow by James H. Martin and W. D. Martin Winner
- Good Luck to the Rider by Joan Phipson Winner
1952
- The Australia Book by Eve Pownall Winner
1951
- Verity of Sydney Town by Ruth C. Williams Winner
1950
- Whalers of the Midnight Sun by Alan J. Villiers Winner
1948
- Shackleton's Argonauts: A Saga of the Antarctic Icepacks by Frank Hurley Winner
- Beetles A'Hoy! by Ada Jackson Commended
- Bush Cobbers by Musette Morell Commended
- Ponny the Penguin by Veronica Basser Commended
- The Australian Book of Trains by James H. Martin and W. D. Martin Commended
- The Story of Shadow, the Rock Wallaby by Leslie Rees Commended
1946
- The Story of Karrawingi the Emu by Leslie Rees Winner