ACT Book of the Year
The ACT Book of the Year is an annual prize of $10,000 awarded for a literary work of fiction, nonfiction or poetry written by an author from the Australian Capital Territory. The award was inaugurated in 1993 with $5,000 prize money.
Winners
| Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Notes |
| 1993 | Marion Halligan | Lovers' Knot | Heinemann | Joint winners |
| 1993 | A. D. Hope | Chance Encounters | Melbourne University Press | Joint winners |
| 1994 | John Foulcher | New and Selected Poems | Brandl & Schlesinger | |
| 1995 | Sara Dowse | Sapphires | Penguin Group | |
| 1996 | Paul Hetherington | Shadow Swimmer | Molonglo Press | |
| 1997 | Imago | Spinifex Press | ||
| 1998 | Lee Chittick | Travelling With Percy : A South Coast Journey | Aboriginal Studies Press | |
| 1999 | Craig Cormick | Unwritten Histories | Aboriginal Studies Press | |
| 2000 | Adrian Caesar | The White: Last days in the Antarctic Journeys of Scott and Mawson 1911-1913 | Picador | |
| 2001 | Alan Gould | The Schoonermaster's Dance | Flamingo | Joint Winners |
| 2001 | Dorothy Johnston | The Trojan Dog | Wakefield Press | Joint Winners |
| 2002 | Jackie French | In the Blood | Angus & Robertson | |
| 2003 | John Clanchy | The Hard Word | University of Queensland Press | |
| 2004 | Marion Halligan | The Point | Allen & Unwin | |
| 2005 | Tony Kevin | A Certain Maritime Incident : the sinking of SIEV X | Scribe Publications | |
| 2006 | John Clanchy | Vincenzo's Garden | University of Queensland Press | |
| 2007 | Sunday Menu : selected short stories of Pham Thi Hoai | Pandanus | ||
| 2008 | Tony Kevin | Walking the Camino : A Modern Pilgrimage to Santiago | Scribe Publications | |
| 2009 | Nicholas Drayson | A Guide to the Birds of East Africa: A Novel | Viking | |
| 2010 | Marion Halligan | Valley of Grace | Allen & Unwin | |
| 2011 | Chris Hammer | The River : a journey through the Murray-Darling Basin | Melbourne University Press | |
| 2012 | Bill Gammage | The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia | Allen & Unwin | |
| 2013 | Frank Bongiorno | The Sex Lives of Australians : A History | Black Inc. | |
| 2014 | Gordon Peake | Beloved land: stories, Struggles and secrets from Timor-Leste | Scribe Publications | |
| 2015 | Mark Henshaw | The Snow Kimono | Text Publishing | |
| 2016 | Frank Bongiorno | The Eighties : the decade that transformed Australia | Black Inc. | |
| 2017 | Tom Griffiths | The Art of Time Travel : Historians and their craft | Black Inc. | |
| 2018 | Paul Collis | Dancing Home | University of Queensland Press | |
| 2019 | Robyn Cadwallader | Book of Colours | HarperCollins |