Claire Nicholls

Cloud Street by the master Tim Winton.

Looking for Alabrandi.

Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey.

Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton.

And I'm going to throw in number six as well because it's a relatively new book, but it has had an incredible life already.

And that is Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaughey.

That book, my husband has not read a book in 10 years and I gave that to him and he read it in a week.

Fantastic read.

I just saw a woman on the bus on my way home reading it like this.

Absolutely.

Thanks to everyone for doing a little vote in the room today.

Of course, we have the big vote to come.

But the top 10 books we have seen come in from the audience today, Seven Little Australians, Burial Rites, The Spare Room by Helen Garner,

The Dry by Jane Harper, Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaughey, Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton, Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey, Cloud Street by the master Tim Winton, Looking for Alabrandi and at number one in the room today, The Book Thief by Marcus Suzak.

Interesting.

I'm very excited.

We've got to tell people when the voting is going to start.

Voting's going to begin on the last day of August.

It's going to run for five weeks, so you're going to be able to nominate 10 of your favourite books, send them in to us between that last day of August and on the 17th and 18th of October, we are going to announce the results live on the radio, Kate Evans.

Well, we can keep thinking we've got until the 31st of August to put our votes in.