Cloudstreet was the recipient of the National Book Council Banjo Award for Fiction, the Western Australian Fiction Award and the Deo Gloria Award in 1991, and a Miles Franklin Award in 1992.[12] In 2003, members of the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) voted Cloudstreet as their favourite Australian novel.[13] The same year, Cloudstreet came out on top in a readers' poll organised by the ASA and ABC Radio National.[14] Cloudstreet was the "overwhelming favourite" in the 2010 "ABR Favourite Australian Novel" poll conducted by the Australian Book Review,[15] and in 2012, viewers of First Tuesday Book Club voted Cloudstreet #1 on a list of "10 Aussie Books You Must Read Before You Die".[16] On 5 November 2019, BBC News listed Cloudstreet on its list of the 100 most influential novels.[17]
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