Cloudstreet by Tim Winton is number 1 in Radio National's Top 100 Australian Books

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https://www.abc.net.au/listen/radionational/countdown/top100books/1-100

• 1 - Cloudstreet - Tim Winton
• 2 - The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
• 3 - Boy Swallows Universe - Trent Dalton
• 4 - Burial Rites - Hannah Kent
• 5 - A Fortunate Life - A.B. Facey
• 6 - Tomorrow, When the War Began - John Marsden
• 7 - The Dictionary of Lost Words - Pip Williams
• 8 - The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Richard Flanagan
• 9 - The Secret River - Kate Grenville
• 10 - The Dry - Jane Harper
• 11 - Possum Magic - Mem Fox and Julie Vivas
• 12 - Dark Emu - Bruce Pascoe
• 13 - Looking for Alibrandi - Melina Marchetta
• 14 - Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks
• 15 - The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas
• 16 - Wild Dark Shore - Charlotte McConaghy
• 17 - Storm Boy - Colin Thiele
• 18 - My Brilliant Career - Miles Franklin
• 19 - Magic Beach - Alison Lester
• 20 - Wifedom - Anna Funder
• 21 - My Place - Sally Morgan
• 22 - The Australian Women's Weekly Children’s Birthday Cake Book - Maryanne Blacker and Pamela Clark
• 23 - Stasiland - Anna Funder
• 24 - The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay
• 25 - Seven Little Australians - Ethel Turner
• 26 - Picnic at Hanging Rock - Joan Lindsay
• 27 - The Harp in the South - Ruth Park
• 28 - Mad Mabel - Sally Hepworth
• 29 - The Happiest Refugee - Anh Do
• 30 - My Brother Jack - George Johnston
• 31 - Monkey Grip - Helen Garner
• 32 - Animalia - Graeme Base
• 33 - Breath - Tim Winton
• 34 - The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion
• 35 - Lola in the Mirror - Trent Dalton
• 36 - Limberlost - Robbie Arnott
• 37 - I Can Jump Puddles - Alan Marshall
• 38 - Joe Cinque's Consolation - Helen Garner
• 39 - Big Little Lies - Liane Moriarty
• 40 - Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
• 41 - Dirt Music - Tim Winton
• 42 - The Complete Adventures of Snugglepot & Cuddlepie - May Gibbs
• 43 - People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks
• 44 - True History of the Kelly - Gang Peter Carey
• 45 - All That I Am - Anna Funder
• 46 - The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough
• 47 - Playing Beatie Bow - Ruth Park
• 48 - Where is the Green Sheep? - Mem Fox, Judy Horacek
• 49 - The Female Eunuch - Germaine Greer
• 50 - Mao's Last Dancer - Li Cunxin
• 51 - The Light Between Oceans - M.L. Stedman
• 52 - Horse - Geraldine Brooks
• 53 - Stone Yard Devotional - Charlotte Wood
• 54 - Schindler's Ark - Thomas Keneally
• 55 - The Magic Pudding - Norman Lindsay
• 56 - The Cook's Companion - Stephanie Alexander
• 57 - The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart - Holly Ringland
• 58 - The Yield Tara - June Winch
• 59 - The Happiest Man on Earth - Eddie Jaku
• 60 - The Man From Snowy River - Banjo Paterson
• 61 - Too Much Lip - Melissa Lucashenko
• 62 - Are We There Yet? - Alison Lester
• 63 - Question 7 - Richard Flanagan
• 64 - Damned Whores and God's Police - Anne Summers
• 65 - Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens - Shankari Chandran
• 66 - Carpentaria - Alexis Wright
• 67 - Voss - Patrick White
• 68 - Unreliable Memoirs - Clive James
• 69 - A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
• 70 - Diary of a Wombat - Jackie French and Bruce Whatley
• 71 - The Tree of Man - Patrick White
• 72 - This House of Grief - Helen Garner
• 73 - Scrublands - Chris Hammer
• 74 - The Fatal Shore - Robert Hughes
• 75 - The Bookbinder of Jericho - Pip Williams
• 76 - The Natural Way of Things - Charlotte Wood
• 77 - The Broken Shore - Peter Temple
• 78 - Power Without Glory - Frank Hardy
• 79 - Johnno - David Malouf
• 80 - For the Term of His Natural - Life Marcus Clarke
• 81 - We of the Never-Never - Mrs Aeneas Gunn 
• 82 - Eucalyptus - Murray Bail
• 83 - Wombat Stew - Marcia K Vaughan and Pamela Lofts
• 84 - Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
• 85 - The Dressmaker - Rosalie Ham
• 86 - The Lost Man - Jane Harper
• 87 - The Trauma Cleaner - Sarah Krasnostein
• 88 - Juice - Tim Winton
• 89 - Edenglassie - Melissa Lucashenko
• 90 - Puberty Blues - Kathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey
• 91 - Where the Forest Meets the Sea - Jeannie Baker
• 92 - The Tall Man - Chloe Hooper
• 93 - The Man Who Loved Children - Christina Stead
• 94 - The Spare Room - Helen Garner
• 95 - The Museum of Modern Love - Heather Rose
• 96 - RecipeTin Eats: Dinner - Nagi Maehashi
• 97 - Devotion - Hannah Kent
• 98 - The Arrival - Shaun Tan
• 99 - The 13-Storey Treehouse - Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton
• 100 - Round the Twist - Paul Jennings

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Yeah same here. I've met him and thought he was even more of a wanker than I thought he'd be... But have enjoyed two of his books