This year’s shortlist for the Indie Book Awards has been announced.

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 shortlisted titles in each category.

Fiction

• The Lost Man by Jane Harper
• Shell by Kristina Olsson
• The Shepherd’s Hut by Tim Winton
• Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak

Non-fiction

• The Land Before Avocado by Richard Glover
• The Arsonist by Chloe Hooper
• Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee
• Any Ordinary Day by Leigh Sales

Debut Fiction

• Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
• Scrublands by Chris Hammer
• The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
• The Nowhere Child by Christian White

Illustrated non-fiction

• A Painted Landscape: Across Australia from Bush to Coast by Amber Creswell Bell
• Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country by Marcia Langton
• Family: New vegetable classics to comfort and nourish by Hetty McKinnon
• Australian Dreamscapes by Claire Takacs

Children’s

• All the Ways to be Smart by Davina Bell & Allison Colpoys
• Lenny’s Book of Everything by Karen Foxlee
• Tales from the Inner City by Shaun Tan
• Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend

Young Adult

• Hive by A. J. Betts
• Amelia Westlake by Erin Gough
• A Song Only I Can Hear by Barry Jonsberg
• Catching Teller Crow by Ambelin Kwaymullina & Ezekiel Kwaymullina

The category winners, as well as the overall Book of the Year winner, will be announced at the Leading Edge Books Annual Conference Awards Dinner to be held on Monday 18 March, 2019. Find out more here.