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Radio National's Top 100 Books

Top 100 Books of the 21st Century

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23 Days, 20 Hours, 49 Minutes

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Top 100 Books Voting Opens
Sept 1
8:00AM AEST
Top 100 Books Voting Closes
Oct 2
5:00PM AEST
Top 100 Books Countdown Day 1
Oct 18
1:00PM AEDT
Top 100 Books Countdown Day 2
Oct 19
1:00PM AEDT

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Stolen Focus - why you can't pay attention

Author Johann Hari argues our collective attention span is declining rapidly, and there are sinister reasons behind it.

a woman in a yellow cardigan is looking at her mobile phone with a worried expression

Duration: 36 minutes 58 seconds

Truganini: beyond the myth

For a long time she was misunderstood, erroneously known as the “last of her race”, and almost invariably depicted as tragic figure. But there is so much more to indigenous Tasmanian woman, Truganini.

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Duration: 54 minutes 6 seconds

Topic: Indigenous Australians

Carly-Jay on dying, living, and learning to breathe

Carly-Jay Metcalfe lives with cystic fibrosis, and has faced a double lung transplant, a rare cancer and other huge medical challenges.

Duration: 52 minutes 24 seconds

Topic: Human Interest

Author Rick Morton on money

Rick Morton grew up with no money and no financial back up. His memoir 'One Hundred Years of Dirt' describes a childhood of desperate poverty in rural Queensland.

Author Rick Morton sits at a desk and stares thoughtfully into the distance

Duration: 15 minutes 4 seconds

Topic: Monetary Policy

What is the Top 100 Books countdown?

This is ABC Radio National’s new annual vote, where you get to tell us what your favourite Top 100 Books are, and we’ll count them down over a big weekend broadcast! This year, the theme is The Top 100 Books of the 21 Century (so far!) across fiction and nonfiction.

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