Want some suggestions for a great read during the National Year of Reading?

[Lindach]

The Shortlists for the Miles Franklin and National Biography Award have just been announced. Perhaps you will find something to tempt and add to your " Must Read" List for National Year of Reading 2012.

Miles Franklin Award Shortlist

• Tony Birch, Blood
• Anna Funder, All That I Am
• Gillian Mears, Foal's Bread
• Frank Moorhouse, Cold Light
• Favel Parrett, Past The Shallows

National Biography Award Shortlist

• Tim Bonyhady Good Living Street: The Fortunes of My Viennese Family, Allen & Unwin
• A J Brown Michael Kirby: Paradoxes & Principles, The Federation Press
• Delia Falconer Sydney, NewSouth Publishing
• Paul Kelly How to Make Gravy, Penguin
• Mark McKenna An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark, Melbourne University Publishing
• Martin Thomas The Many Worlds of R.H. Mathews: In Search of an Australian Anthropologist, Allen & Unwin
• The winner of the 2012 National Biography Award will be announced at a special presentation at the State Library of NSW on Monday 14 May... as part of the Sydney Writers’ Festival.

[Merilyn]

I am over the moon to see All that I am and Foal's Bread shortlisted for Miles Franklin! Both brilliant. Trying to get around to reading the others, especially Past the shallows but my pile is very high at the moment!!!