1. Henry Kinsley The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn
2. Rolf Boldrewood Robbery Under Arms
3. Adam Lindsay Gordon The Sick Stockrider
4. Marcus Clarke For the Term of His Natural Life
5. Joseph Furphy Such Is Life
6. Henry Lawson The Drover's Wife
7. A. B. Paterson The Man from the Snowy River
8. Steele Rudd On Our Selection
9. Louis Stone Jonah
10. Henry Handel Ri- The Fortunes of Richard Mahony chardson
11. Miles Franklin My Brilliant Career
12. Katherine Susannah Coonardoo Prichard
13. Vance Palmer Tobacco
14. Frank Dalby Davison Man-shy
15. Martin Boyd Lucinda Brayford
16. Xavier Herbert Capricornia
17. Christina Stead For Love Alone
18. John Morrison Christ, the Devil and the Lunatic
19. Judah Waten To a Country Town
20. A. D. Hope The Death of the Bird
21. Judith Wright Eve to Her Daughters
22. Hal Porter First Live
23. Patrick White The Tree of Man
24. Ray Lawler Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
25. Bruce Dawe Homecoming
26. Thomas Keneally Bring Larks and Heroes
27. Peter Carey The Journey of a Lifetime
28. Katherine Mansfield Miss Brill
29. Frank Sargeson A Man of Good Will
30. John Mulgan Man Alone
31. Janet Frame Owls Do Cry
32. Maurice Duggan A Small Story
33. Vincent Eri The Crocodile
34. Albert Wendt The Banyan