This year's ‘50 Books You Can't Put Down' includes 28 books available in ebook format, as well as 18 available as audio books.
The list is strong on local titles, with 35 Australian titles and 15 international titles, and fiction wins out over nonfiction, with 39 fiction titles versus 11 nonfiction.
This year's list features 12 children's/YA titles and 38 adult titles.
As was the case in 2009, the ‘giveaway' this year is a choice of two titles--a collection of short stories featuring the work of Maggie Alderson, Georgia Blain, Mark Dapin, Nick Earls, Alex Miller, Judy Nunn, Malla Nunn, Craig Silvey, Rachael Treasure and Christos Tsiolkas, or the children's book Tickled Onions by Morris Gleitzman.
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The full list of the' 50 Books You Can't Put Down' is:
- The World Beneath (Cate Kennedy, Scribe)
- Jasper Jones (Craig Silvey, A&U)
- Ransom (David Malouf, Random House)
- The Boat (Nam Le, Penguin)
- Life in His Hands (Susan Wyndham, Pan Macmillan)
- The Brain That Changes Itself (Norman Doidge, Scribe)
- The Happiest Refugee (Anh Do, A&U)
- Ray: Stories of My Life (Ray Martin, William Heinemann)
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (Stieg Larsson, Quercus)
- King of the Cross (Mark Dapin, Macmillan)
- Bleed for Me (Michael Robotham, Sphere)
- Under the Dome (Stephen King, Hodder & Stoughton)
- Truth (Peter Temple, Text)
- Lovesong (Alex Miller, A&U)
- Maralinga (Judy Nunn, Random House)
- Riding the Black Cockatoo (John Danalis, A&U)
- The Gallipoli Letter (Keith Murdoch, A&U)
- Australians: Origins to Eureka (Thomas Keneally, A&U)
- Johnny Lewis: The Biography (Paul Kent, A&U)
- First Tests (Steve Cannane, ABC Books)
- Open (Andre Agassi, HarperCollins)
- The Cattleman's Daughter (Rachael Treasure, Penguin)
- Itsy Bitsy Babies (Margaret Wild & Jan Ormerod, Little Hare)
- The Wonky Donkey (Craig Smith & Katz Cowley, Scholastic New Zealand)
- The Help (Kathryn Stockett, Penguin)
- Homecoming (Cathy Kelly, HarperCollins)
- Bittersweet (Melanie La'Brooy, Penguin)
- Campaign Ruby (Jessica Rudd, Text)
- The Elusive Bride (Stephanie Laurens, Avon)
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith, Titan Books)
- Pearl in a Cage (Joy Dettman, Pan)
- Summer at Mount Hope (Rosalie Ham, Duffy & Snellgrove)
- Still Alice (Lisa Genova, S&S)
- Cleo (Helen Brown, Arena)
- Juliet (Anne Fortier, HarperCollins)
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Muriel Barbery, Gallic)
- Her Fearful Symmetry (Audrey Niffenegger, Vintage)
- Wonders of a Godless World (Andrew McGahan, A&U)
- Meltdown (Ben Elton, Black Swan)
- Loathing Lola (William Kostakis, Pan)
- Dead Until Dark (Charlaine Harris, Gollancz)
- Marked (PC Cast & Kristin Cast, Little, Brown)
- Chasers (James Phelan, Lothian)
- Halo (Alexandra Adornetto, HarperCollins)
- The Magician's Apprentice (Trudi Canavan, Orbit)
- The Dragons: Camelot (Colin Thompson, Random House)
- Beatle Meets Destiny (Gabrielle Williams, Penguin)
- Everything Beautiful (Simmone Howell, Pan)
- Trouble at the Zoo (Bindi Irwin, Random House)
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Jeff Kinney, Viking).
