ABA Booksellers' Choice Book of the Year Awards longlists 2020
The longlists for the Australian Booksellers Association’s (ABA) Booksellers’ Choice Book of the Year Awards have been announced. These awards recognise the titles that booksellers most enjoyed reading and hand-selling during 2019.
This year, for the first time, the awards will be presented in three categories: adult fiction, nonfiction and children’s. Below are this year’s longlisted titles for each category.
Adult fiction
- The White Girl by Tony Birch
- Peace by Garry Disher
- Silver by Chris Hammer
- Cilka’s Journey by Heather Morris
- There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett
- Call Me Evie by JP Pomare
- Good Girl, Bad Girl by Michael Robotham
- Bruny by Heather Rose
- Wolfe Island by Lucy Treloar
- Damascus by Christos Tsolkias
- The Wife and the Widow by Christian White
- The Yield by Tara June Winch
- The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
Nonfiction
- Thirty Thousand Bottles of Wine and a Pig Called Helga by Todd Alexander
- Your Own Kind of Girl by Clare Bowditch
- The Lost Boys by Paul Byrnes
- Against All Odds by Craig Challen & Richard Harris with Ellis Henican
- When All Is Said & Done by Neale Daniher
- Banking Bad by Adele Ferguson
- Kitty Flanagan’s 488 Rules for Life by Kitty Flanagan
- Australia Day by Stan Grant
- See What You Made Me Do by Jess Hill
- Finding the Heart of the Nation by Thomas Mayor
- The Whole Fish Cookbook by Josh Niland
- Tell Me Why by Archie Roach
- Sand Talk by Tyson Yunkaporta
Children’s
- Bluey: The Beach
- Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Ugly Animals by Sami Bayly
- All The Factors of Why I Love Tractors by Davina Bell & Jenny Løvlie
- The Tiny Star by Mem Fox, illus by Freya Blackwood
- Explore Your World: Weird, Wild, Amazing by Tim Flannery & Sam Caldwell
- As Happy As Here by Jane Godwin
- Mr Chicken All Over Australia by Leigh Hobbs
- It Sounded Better In My Head by Nina Kenwood
- Young Dark Emu: A Truer History by Bruce Pascoe
- The Glimme by Emily Rodda, illus by Marc McBride
- Lunch at 10 Pomegranate Street by Felicita Sala
- Sick Bay by Nova Weetman
- Eddie Woo’s Wonderful World of Maths by Eddie Woo
The 2020 shortlists will be announced on Thursday, 4 June, with the winners to be revealed on Wednesday, 8 July.