The Walkley Book Award is an Australian award presented annually by the Walkley Foundation for excellence in long-form journalism and nonfiction, with subjects ranging from biography to true crime to investigative journalism and reporting.[1][2]
- 2005: Bob Connolly, Making Black Harvest[3]
- 2006: Neil Chenoweth, Packer's Lunch: A Rollicking Tale of Swiss Bank Accounts and Money-Making[4]
- 2007: Chris Masters, Jonestown: The Power and the Myth of Alan Jones[5]
- 2008: Don Watson, American Journeys[6]
- 2009: Graham Freudenberg, Churchill and Australia[7]
- 2010: Shirley Shackleton, The Circle of Silence: A Personal Testimony Before, During and After Balibo[8]
- 2011: Russell Skelton, King Brown Country: The Betrayal of Papunya[9]
- 2012: George Megalogenis, The Australian Moment: How We Were Made For These Times[10]
- 2013: Pamela Williams, Killing Fairfax: Packer, Murdoch and the Ultimate Revenge[11]
- 2014: Paul Kelly, Triumph and Demise: The Broken Promise of a Labor Generation[12]
- 2015: Chip Le Grand, The Straight Dope: The Inside Story of Sport's Biggest Drug Scandal[13]
- 2016: Stan Grant, Talking To My Country[3]
- 2017: Louise Milligan, Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell[14]
- 2018: Helen Pitt, The House: The dramatic story of the Sydney Opera House and the people who made it[15]
- 2019: Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day : Blindsides, Resilience and What Happens After the Worst Day of Your Life[16]
- 2020: Lucie Morris-Marr, Fallen: The inside story of the secret trial and conviction of Cardinal George Pell[17]
- 2021: Kate Holden, The Winter Road[18]
- 2022: Bronwyn Adcock, Currowan: The story of a fire and a community during Australia’s worst summer[19]
- 2023: Antony Loewenstein, The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel exports the technology of occupation around the world[20]