Congratulations to all the authors longlisted for the Indie Book Awards 2017.

Each year, independent booksellers from around the nation get together and vote for their favourite titles in four different categories, as well as their favourite book overall. Here are the longlistees for each category.

Fiction

• The Easy Way Out by Steven Amsterdam
• Between a Wolf and a Dog by Georgia Blain
• The Better Son by Katherine Johnson
• The Good People by Hannah Kent
• An Isolated Incident by Emily Maguire
• Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil by Melina Marchetta
• Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty
• The Rules of Backyard Cricket by Jock Serong
• Where the Trees Were by Inga Simpson
• The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith

Non-fiction

• Songs of a War Boy by Deng Thiak Adut and Ben Mckelvey
• Working Class Boy by Jimmy Barnes
• The Hate Race by Maxine Beneba Clarke
• Penguin Bloom by Cameron Bloom and Bradley Trevor Greive
• Ghost Empire by Richard Fidler
• Fight Like a Girl by Clementine Ford
• Everywhere I Look by Helen Garner
• Talking To My Country by Stan Grant
• True Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia by David Hunt
• The Boy Behind the Curtain by Tim Winton

Debut Fiction

• The Birdman’s Wife by Melissa Ashley
• The Memory Artist by Katherine Brabon
• The Windy Season by Sam Carmody
• The Midnight Watch by David Dyer
• The Dry by Jane Harper
• Skylarking by Kate Mildenhall
• Music and Freedom by Zoe Morrison
• The Toymaker by Liam Pieper
• Ruins by Rajith Savanadasa
• Goodwood by Holly Throsby

Children’s

• Circle by Jeannie Baker
• Pig the Winner by Aaron Blabey
• Charlie and the War Against the Grannies by Alan Brough
• What do they do with all the Poo from all the Animals at the Zoo? by Anh Do and Laura Wood
• The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon
• The 78-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton
• Welcome To Country by Joy Murphy and Lisa Kennedy
• Molly and Mae by Danny Parker and Freya Blackwood
• Wormwood Mire by Judith Rossell
• Artie and the Grime Wave by Richard Roxburgh

Young Adult

• When Michael Met Mina by Randa Abdel-Fattah
• Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley
• The Other Side of Summer by Emily Gale
• Breathing Under Water by Sophie Hardcastle
• Gemina by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
• The Sidekicks by Will Kostakis
• My Sister Rosa by Justine Larbalestier
• The Road to Winter by Mark Smith
• Our Chemical Hearts by Krystal Sutherland
• One Would Think the Deep by Claire Zorn

The Shortlist will be announced on 16 January 2017, with the Category Winners and the Overall Book of the Year Winner being announced at the Leading Edge Books 2017 Conference on Monday, 20th March 2017 at the Marriott, Surfers Paradise. Find out more here.