Congratulations to all the authors, illustrators and publishers longlisted for the Indie Book Awards 2018!

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

Fiction

• A Long Way from Home by Peter Carey
• The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser
• First Person by Richard Flanagan
• Force of Nature by Jane Harper
• The Choke by Sofie Laguna
• The Passage of Love by Alex Miller
• The Secrets She Keeps by Michael Robotham
• Taboo by Kim Scott
• On the Java Ridge by Jock Serong
• City of Crows by Chris Womersley

Non-fiction

• Danger Music by Eddie Ayres
• Working Class Man by Jimmy Barnes
• The Museum of Words by Georgia Blain
• Saga Land by Richard Fidler & Kári Gíslason
• Mrs Kelly by Grantlee Kieza
• The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein
• Call of the Reed Warbler by Charles Massy
• Detours by Tim Rogers
• First, We Make the Beast Beautiful by Sarah Wilson
• Tracker by Alexis Wright

Debut Fiction

• The Dark Lake by Sarah Bailey
• Wimmera by Mark Brandi
• Australia Day by Melanie Cheng
• Terra Nullius by Claire Coleman
• The Last Man in Europe by Dennis Glover
• The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book Club by Sophie Green
• To Become a Whale by Ben Hobson
• Storyland by Catherine McKinnon
• See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt
• Half Wild by Pip Smith

Illustrated non-fiction

• Maggie’s Recipe For Life by Maggie Beer with Professor Ralph Martins
• Ostro by Julia Busuttil Nishimura
• Ferment by Holly Davis
• Cornersmith: Salads and Pickles by Alex Elliott-Howery & Sabine Spindler
• Native: Art & Design with Australian Plants by Kate Herd & Jela Ivankovic-Waters
• Paris: Through a Fashion Eye by Megan Hess
• Beyond the Rock by Janelle McCulloch
• Hummus & Co by Michael Rantissi & Kristy Frawley
• Dreamscapes by Claire Takacs
• Flowersmith by Jennifer Tran

Children’s

• Pig the Star by Aaron Blabey
• Mopoke by Philip Bunting
• I’m Australian Too by Mem Fox & Ronojoy Ghosh
• The Very Noisy Baby by Alison Lester
• I Just Ate My Friend by Heidi McKinnon
• Tales From a Tall Forest by Shaun Micallef
• The Extremely Inconvenient adventures of Bronte Mettlestone by Jaclyn Moriarty
• The Wayward Witch and the Feelings Monster (Polly and Buster Book 1) by Sally Rippin
• Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend
• Florette by Anna Walker

Young Adult

• Take Three Girls by Cath Crowley, Fiona Wood & Simmone Howell
• Beautiful Mess by Claire Christian
• Wilder Country by Mark Smith
• Untidy Towns by Kate O'Donnell
• Sparrow by Scot Gardner
• The Silent Invasion by James Bradley
• Finding Nevo by Nevo Zisin
• Draekora by Lynette Noni
• My Life as a Hashtag by Gabrielle Williams
• The Secret Science of Magic by Melissa Keil

The shortlist will be announced on 15 January 2018, with the category winners and the overall Book of the Year winner being announced at the Leading Edge Books Annual Conference Awards Dinner to be held on Monday 26 March, 2018 in Hobart, Tasmania. Find out more here.