The shortlist for the Indie Book Awards 2016 has been announced.

Each year, independent booksellers from around the nation get together and vote for their favourite titles in four different categories. Here are the shortlisted books in each category.

Fiction

• A Guide to Berlin by Gail Jones (Read our review)
• The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood (Read our review)
• The Other Side of the World by Stephanie Bishop (Read our review)
• The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks (Read our review)

Non-fiction

• Flesh Wounds by Richard Glover
• One Life by Kate Grenville (Read our review)
• Reckoning: A Memoir by Magda Szubanski
• The Anti-Cool Girl by Rosie Waterland (Read our review)

Debut Fiction

• Relativity by Antonia Hayes (Read our review)
• Rush Oh! by Shirley Barrett (Read our review)
• Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar (Read our review)
• The Anchoress by Robyn Cadwallader (Read our review)

Children’s

• Olive of Groves by Katrina Nannestad & Lucia Masciullo (Read our review)
• The 65-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton
• The Bad Guys, Episode 1 by Aaron Blabey (Read our review)
• The Singing Bones by Shaun Tan

Young Adult

• Cloudwish by Fiona Wood (Read our review)
• Prince of Afghanistan by Louis Nowra
• Ranger’s Apprentice: The Early Years 1: The Tournament at Gorlan by John Flanagan
• Soon by Morris Gleitzman

The category winners and the overall ‘Book of the Year’ winner will be announced in Sydney on 22 March 2016. Find out more here.