The shortlisted titles for this year’s Australian Book Industry Awards have been announced. See below for the full list of titles in each category:

Literary Fiction Book of the Year

• Amnesia by Peter Carey
• Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke
• The Golden Age by Joan London
• Golden Boys by Sonya Hartnett
• When the Night Comes by Favel Parrett

General Fiction Book of the Year

• Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
• Laurinda by Alice Pung
• Life or Death by Michael Robotham
• Lost & Found by Brooke Davis
• The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion

General Non-fiction Book of the Year:

• The Bush by Don Watson
• The Wife Drought by Annabel Crabb
• Where Song Began: Australia’s Birds and How They Changed the World by Tim Low
• Gallipoli by Peter Fitzsimons
• This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial by Helen Garner

Biography of the Year

• A Bone of Fact by David Walsh
• Love Your Sister by Samuel Johnson, Connie Johnson
• My Story by Julia Gillard
• The Never, Um, Ever Ending Story by Ian ‘Molly’ Meldrum
• Optimism: Reflections on a Life of Action by Bob Brown

The Matt Richell Award for New Writer

• Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke
• Lost & Found by Brooke Davis
• Here Come The Dogs by Omar Musa
• Only the Animals by Ceridwen Dovey
• The Tea Chest by Josephine Moon

Illustrated Book of the Year

• Anzac Treasures: The Gallipoli Collection of the Australian War Memorial by Peter Pedersen
• Australian Art: A History by Sasha Grishin
• Community: Salad Recipes from Arthur Street Kitchen by Hetty McKinnon
• New Feast: Modern Middle Eastern Vegetarian by Greg Malouf and Lucy Malouf
• What a Croc!: Legendary Front Pages from the NT News

International Book of the Year

• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham
• Plenty More by Yotam Ottolenghi
• We are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
• Yes Please by Amy Poehler

Older Children Book of the Year

• Alice-Miranda in Japan by Jacqueline Harvey
• Brotherband: Scorpion Mountain by John Flanagan
• Clariel by Garth Nix
• Withering-By-Sea by Judith Rossell
• Friday Barnes 1: Girl Detective by R. A. Sprat
• Loyal Creatures by Morris Gleitzman

Younger Children Book of the Year

• Noni the Pony Goes to the Beach by Alison Lester
• Mr Chicken Lands on London by Leigh Hobbs
• The 52-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths
• Clementine Rose and the Seaside Escape by Jacqueline Harvey
• The Last King of Angkor Wat by Graeme Base

Small Publishers’ Adult Book of the Year

• Australian Notebooks by Betty Churcher
• Diary of a Foreign Minister by Bob Carr
• How I Rescued My Brain by David Roland
• A Murder Unmentioned by Sulari Gentill
• The Voice: My Story by Ray Warren with Andrew Webster

Small Publisher Children’s Book of the Year

• Captain Thunderbolt by Jane Smith
• I Could Wear That Hat! by Ben Sanders
• A Secret Safe to Tell by Naomi Hunter & Karen Erasmus
• Sticks and Stones - Animal Homes by Tai Snaith
• Tea and Sugar Christmas by Jane Jolly & Robert Ingpen

For further information about the awards, visit the ABIA website.