What is Australia’s best book? Our experts pick their favourites

Key points

• Radio National will count down its Top 100 Australian books poll this weekend, with the winner announced on Sunday. Ahead of the countdown, authors and editors were asked to name their two best Australian books of all time, one fiction or poetry and one non-fiction.
• Their picks range widely, from Patrick White's The Tree of Man to Helen Garner's Joe Cinque's Consolation and Alexis Wright's Carpentaria.
• The list spans novels, memoirs, histories and poetry collections across many decades.