The ABC’s Top 100 books poll lacks diversity. Here are my 10 First Nations ‘books of the 21st century’
- Written by Melanie Saward, Lecturer, Creative Writing, The University of Queensland
More than 280,000 people have voted for the Top 100 Books of the 21st Century in a Radio National poll, with Trent Dalton’s Boy Swallows Universe taking the top spot. The vote considered books by Australian and overseas authors (fiction and non-fiction), with four of the top 10 and 26 of the top 100 being works written by Australians.





