The ABIA Book shortlists 2016
The Australian Book Industry Awards Academy has announced the ABIA Book shortlists for 2016. Congratulations to all the authors, illustrators and publishers.
Biography Book of the Year
- Reckoning: A Memoir by Magda Szubanski (Text Publishing)
- Flesh Wounds by Richard Glover (ABC Books)
- A Mother’s Story by Rosie Batty (HarperCollins Publishers)
- The Anti-Cool Girl by Rosie Waterland (HarperCollins Publishers)
General Fiction Book of the Year
- The Perfumer’s Secret by Fiona McIntosh (Penguin Random House)
- The Lake House by Kate Morton, Allen & Unwin)
- Close Your Eyes by Michael Robotham (Hachette)
- The Patterson Girls by Rachael Johns (Harlequin)
General Non-fiction Book of the Year
- Australia’s Second Chance by George Megalogenis (Penguin Random House)
- One Life: My Mother’s Story by Kate Grenville (Text Publishing)
- The Dismissal by Paul Kelly and Troy Bramston (Penguin Random House)
- Island Home by Tim Winton (Penguin Random House)
Illustrated Book of the Year
- Cornersmith by Alex Elliott-Howery and James Grant (Murdoch Books)
- The Happy Cookbook by Lola Berry (Pan Macmillan)
- I Quit Sugar: Simplicious by Sarah Wilson (Pan Macmillan)
- Wendy Whiteley and the Secret Garden by Janet Hawley (Penguin Random House)
International Book of the Year
- Grandpa’s Great Escape by David Walliams (HarperCollins Publishers)
- The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante (Text Publishing)
- Gut: the inside story of our body’s most under-rated organ by Giulia Enders (Scribe)
- The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (Penguin Random House)
Literary Fiction Book of the Year
- The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood (Allen & Unwin)
- The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks (Hachette)
- The World Without Us by Mireille Juchau (Bloomsbury Publishing)
- The Other Side of the World by Stephanie Bishop (Hachette)
Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year
- Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar (Pan Macmillan)
- Reckoning: A Memoir by Magda Szubanski (Text Publishing)
- The Anti-Cool Girl by Rosie Waterland (HarperCollins Publishers)
- Rush Oh! by Shirley Barrett (Pan Macmillan)
Book of the Year Older Children (age range 8 to 14 years)
- Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (Allen & Unwin)
- Cloudwish by Fiona Wood (Pan Macmillan)
- The Cat With the Coloured Tail by Gillian Mears (Walker Books)
- Friday Barnes 2: Under Suspicion by R.A. Spratt (Penguin Random House)
Book of the Year for Younger Children (age range 0 to 8 years)
- The 65-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths and illustrated by Terry Denton (Pan Macmillan)
- This is a Ball by Beck and Matt Stanton (ABC Books)
- Perfect by Danny Parker and Freya Blackwood (Hardie Grant)
- The Amazing True Story Of How Babies Are Made by Fiona Katauskas (ABC Books)
Small Publishers’ Children’s Book of the Year
- Numerical Street by Antonia Pesenti and Hilary Bell (New South Books)
- My Pop is a Pirate by Damon Young and illustrated by Peter Carnavas (University of Queensland Press)
- The Underwater Fancy-Dress Parade by Davina Bell and illustrated by Allison Colpoys (Scribe)
- Kookoo Kookaburra by Gregg Dreise (Magabala Books)
Small Publishers’ Adult Book of the Year
- Body Lengths by Leisel Jones (Black Inc.)
- All Fall Down by Matthew Condon (University of Queensland Press)
- The Art of Free Travel by Patrick Jones and Meg Ulman (New South Books)
- Give the Devil His Due by Sulari Gentill (Pantera Press)
