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The ORF best list is an Austrian list of what judges consider the best new literary publications from Austria and the world.

The best list has been drawn up since May 2003 by a jury made up of independent literary critics and booksellers. It was initiated by ORF literary journalist Günter Kaindlstorfer .

Once a month in the ORF telecast matinee the top ten presents -Books. Die Zeit im Bild , Ö1 radio, ORF-ON and Teletext also report regularly on the books of the month .

The more than 40 members of the jury (as of 2014) independently award 7, 5, 3 and 1 points for their personal four best titles. The points awarded are added up and result in the order. Each jury member is free to nominate fewer (or even none) titles. As soon as a title has been ranked three times on the ORF best list, it can no longer be considered.

2003

May: Daniel Kehlmann , me and Kaminski
- 2nd place: Wilhelm Genazino , A woman, an apartment, a novel
- 3rd place: Sabine Gruber , Die Unutung
June: Jeffrey Eugenides , Middlesex
July: Josef Winkler , corpse, watching his family
August: Josef Winkler , corpse, watching his family
September: Norbert Gstrein , The craft of killing
October: Raoul Schrott , Tristan da Cunha or Half of the Earth
November: Imre Kertész , liquidation
December: Imre Kertész , liquidation

2004

January: Antal Szerb , journey in the moonlight
February: Antal Szerb , Journey in the moonlight
March: John Updike , How was it really
April: Karl-Markus Gauß , The Dog Eaters from Svinia
May: Thomas Glavinic , How to Live
June: Marlene Streeruwitz , Jessica, 30.
July: Richard Powers , The Sound of Time
August: Lojze Kovačič , The Newcomers
September: Peter Handke , Don Juan (told by himself)
October: Martin Pollack , The Dead in the Bunker
November: Ralf Rothmann , Young Light
December: Friederike Mayröcker , Collected Poems

2005

January: Friederike Mayröcker , Collected Poems
February: John Updike , Find my face
March: Wilhelm Genazino , Die Liebesblödigkeit
April: Eva Menasse , Vienna
May: Orhan Pamuk , snow
June: Orhan Pamuk , snow
July: Joyce Carol Oates , exposed
August: Fred Wander , The Seventh Well
September: Ian McEwan , Saturday
October: Arno Geiger , we are fine
November: Daniel Kehlmann , Measuring the World
December: Daniel Kehlmann , Measuring the World

2006

January: Margit Schreiner , Book of Disappointments
February: Ulrich Weinzierl , Hofmannsthal
March: Margriet de Moor , storm surge
April: Franz Schuh , serious allegations, dirty laundry
May: Franz Schuh , serious allegations, dirty laundry
June: Richard Yates , Eleven Kinds of Solitude
July: Péter Esterházy , introduction to beautiful literature
August: Thomas Glavinic , The Night's Work
September: Paulus Hochgatterer , The Sweetness of Life
October: Peter Waterhouse , War and World
November: Christoph Ransmayr , The Flying Mountain
December: Imre Kertész , Dossier K.

2007

January: Orhan Pamuk , Istanbul
February: Silvia Bovenschen , getting older
March: Anna Mitgutsch , Two Lives and One Day
April: Karl-Markus Gauß , Too early, too late
May: Karl-Markus Gauß , Too early, too late
June: Werner Bräunig , fairground
July: Ilija Trojanow , nomad on four continents
August: Richard Ford , The State of the Country
September: Thomas Glavinic , that's me
October: Michael Köhlmeier , Occident
November: Gerhard Roth , The Alphabet of Time
December: Ferdinand Schmatz , fluoroscopy

2008

January: Mircea Cartarescu , The Knowing
February: Peter Handke , The Moravian Night
March: Peter Handke , The Moravian Night
April: Philip Roth , Exit Ghost
May: Franz Schuh , Memoirs - An Interview Against Myself
June: Thomas Pynchon , Against the Day
July: György Dragomán , The White King
August: Reiner Stach , Kafka. The years of knowledge
September: Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan , Herzzeit - Correspondence
October: Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan , Herzzeit - Correspondence
November: Gerbrand Bakker , it's quiet upstairs
December: Aravind Adiga , The White Tiger

2009

January: Yuri Andruchowytsch , secret
February: Thomas Bernhard , My Prices
March: Philip Roth , outrage
April: Sibylle Lewitscharoff , Apostoloff
May: Thomas Stangl , What is coming
June: Cees Nooteboom , the foxes come at night
July: Thomas Wolfe , look homeward, angel
August: Gernot Wolfgruber , On the loose
September: Gerhard Roth , The City. Discovery inside Vienna
October: Terézia Mora , the only man on the continent
November: Herta Müller , breathing swing
December: David Grossman , a woman flees from a message

2010

January: Thomas Bernhard and Siegfried Unseld , The Correspondence
February: Thomas Bernhard and Siegfried Unseld, The Correspondence
March: Arno Geiger , Everything about Sally
April: Arno Geiger, Everything about Sally
May: Anna Mitgutsch , when you come back
June: Anna Mitgutsch, when you come back
July: Friederike Mayröcker , I'm in the institution
August: Karl-Markus Gauß , In the forest of the metropolises
September: Karl-Markus Gauß, In the forest of the metropolises
October: Jonathan Franzen , freedom
November: Peter Handke , Still storm
December: Peter Handke, Still storm

2011

January: Péter Esterházy , A production novel (Two production novels)
February: Arno Geiger , the old king in his exile
March: Arno Geiger, the old king in his exile
April: Arno Geiger, the old king in his exile
May: Gerhard Roth , Orkus
June: Gerhard Roth, Orkus
July: Gerhard Roth, Orkus
August: Sabine Gruber , Stillbach or Die Sehnsucht
September: Josef Haslinger , Jáchymov
October: Sabine Gruber , Stillbach or Die Sehnsucht
November: Eugen Ruge , In Times of Waning Light
December: Edmund de Waal , The hare with the amber eyes

2012

January Julian Barnes , From the end of a story
February Julian Barnes, From the End of a Story
March Walter Kappacher , land of red stones
April Péter Nádas , parallel stories
May: Péter Nádas, parallel stories
June: Bettina Balàka , Kassiopeia
July: Ivan Goncharov , Oblomov
August: Gerhard Roth , portraits
September: Vea Kaiser , brass music pop or How science got into the mountains.
October: Clemens J. Setz , Indigo.
November: Christoph Ransmayr : Atlas of an anxious man.

2013

January: Mark Twain , My Secret Autobiography.
March: Eva Menasse , quasicrystals.
May: Péter Esterházy , Esti.
June: Andrea Winkler , king, court jester and people.
July: Andrea Winkler, king, court jester and people.
August: Fernando Pessoa , My gaze is open like a sunflower ...
September: Karl-Markus Gauß , the first thing I saw.
October: Terézia Mora , The Monster.
November: Thomas Stangl , Rules of Dance.
December: Christoph W. Bauer , In a bar under the sea.

2014

January: Wolfgang Herrndorf , work and structure.
February: Wolfgang Herrndorf, work and structure.
March: Antonio Fian , The Polykrates Syndrome
April: Katja Petrowskaja , maybe Esther
May: Krisztina Tóth , Pixel
June: Angelika Reitzer , We Heirs
July: Erich Hackl , Three tearless stories
August and September: Marlene Streeruwitz , descendants.
October: Gerhard Roth : Outline of a riddle
November and December: Lydia Davis , Can't and won't

2015

January: Lydia Davis : Can't and won't
February: Ian McEwan : Child welfare
March: Arno Geiger : Self-portrait with a hippopotamus
April: Valerie Fritsch : Winter's garden
May: Péter Esterházy : The coat-and-sword version
June and July: Siri Hustvedt , The glittering world
August and September: Anna Baar , The color of the pomegranate
October: Clemens Setz , The Hour Between Woman and Guitar
November: Karl Ove Knausgård , Mein Kampf (Original title: Min Kamp )
December: Drago Jančar : The night I saw her

2016

January: György Dragomán : funeral pyre
February: Christoph W. Bauer : Stromern. poems
March: Hans Platzgumer : At the edge
April and May: Dževad Karahasan : The comfort of the night sky
June: Antoine Leiris : You don't get my hatred
July: Ann Cotten : Banished!
August, September and October: Sabine Gruber : Daldossi or The Life of the Moment
November: Teresa Präauer : Oh Schimmi
December: Christoph Ransmayr : Cox or Der Lauf der Zeit

2017

January: Terézia Mora : Love among aliens
February: Andrei Platonow : The excavation pit , translated from the Russian by Gabriele Leupold

March: Anna Kim : The great homecoming

April: Julian Barnes : The Noise of Time

May and June: Brigitta Falkner : Strategies for finding a host

July: Karl Ove Knausgård : Fighting

August: Oswald Egger : Val di Non

September: Paulus Hochgatterer : The day my grandfather was a hero

October: Robert Menasse : The capital

November: Daniel Kehlmann : Tyll

December: Peter Handke : The fruit thief

2018

January: Peter Handke : The fruit thief
February and March: Arno Geiger : Under the Drachenwand
April: Esther Kinsky : Hain. Terrain novel
May: Norbert Gstrein : The coming years
June and July: George Saunders : Lincoln in the Bardo
August and September: Erich Hackl : On the rope
October: Michael Köhlmeier : brother and sister Lenobel
November and December: Philipp Weiss : On the edge of the world people sit and laugh

2019

January and February: Judith Schalansky : List of some losses
March: Laura Freudenthaler : Ghost story
April: Karl-Markus Gauß : Adventurous journey through my room
May: Saša Stanišić : Origin
June: Undiné Radzevičiūtė : The blood is blue
July: Thomas Stangl : The history of the body
August and September: Norbert Gstrein : When I was young
October: Drago Jančar : When love rests
November and December: Mircea Cărtărescu : Solenoid

2020

January: Olga Tokarczuk : The Jacob books
February: Sigrid Nunez : The friend
March and April: Monika Helfer : Die Bagage
May: Birgit Birnbacher : Me by my side
June: Xaver Bayer : Stories with Marianne
July: Melitta Breznik : Mother. Chronicle of a farewell and Zsófia Bán : Keep breathing
August: Iris Hanika : Echo's chambers