Only the Astronauts selected by the Grattan Institute's Prime Minister's Summer Reading List 2024

    Prize: Other distinction

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    We are delighted to announce our Prime Minister’s Summer Reading List for 2024.

    Each year, Grattan Institute selects its best books of the past 12 months – recommended reading for the Prime Minister, and indeed all Australians, over the summer holidays.

    This year’s list is:

    Näku Dhäruk The Bark Petitions: How the People of Yirrkala Changed the Course of Australian Democracy, by Clare Wright
    Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space, by Adam Higginbotham
    Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World, by J. Doyne Farmer
    Seventy Miles in Hell, by Caitlin Dickerson
    Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI, by Madhumita Murgia 
    Only the Astronauts, by Ceridwen Dovey.
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