Congratulations to all the authors longlisted for the Indie Book Awards 2016.

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

• A Guide to Berlin by Gail Jones
• Close Your Eyes by Michael Robotham
• Hope Farm by Peggy Frew
• Quicksand by Steve Toltz
• The Lake House by Kate Morton
• The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
• The Other Side of the World by Stephanie Bishop
• The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks
• The Wonder Lover by Malcolm Knox
• Useful by Debra Oswald

Non-fiction

• A Mother’s Story by Rosie Batty &Bryce Corbett
• Adam Spencer’s World of Numbers by Adam Spencer
• Bad Behaviour by Rebecca Starford
• Flesh Wounds by Richard Glover
• Green Nomads by Bob Brown
• Island Home by Tim Winton
• Keating by Kerry O'Brien
• One Life by Kate Grenville
• Reckoning: A Memoir by Magda Szubanski
• The Anti-Cool Girl by Rosie Waterland

Debut Fiction

• Anchor Point by Alice Robinson
• Fever of Animals by Miles Allinson
• In The Quiet by Eliza Henry-Jones
• The Lost Swimmer by Ann Turner
• Relativity by Antonia Hayes
• Rush Oh! by Shirley Barrett
• Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar
• The Anchoress by Robyn Cadwallader
• The Secrets of Midwives by Sally Hepworth
• When There’s Nowhere Else to Run by Murray Middleton

Children’s

• Mr Huff by Anna Walker
• My Dog Bigsy by Alison Lester
• Olive of Groves by Katrina Nannestad & Lucia Masciullo
• Paper Planes by Steve Worland
• Pig the Fibber by Aaron Blabey
• The 65-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton
• The Bad Guys, Episode 1 by Aaron Blabey
• The Cat with the Coloured Tail by Gillian Mears & Dinalie Dabarera
• The Singing Bones by Shaun Tan
• Thelma the Unicorn by Aaron Blabey

Young Adult

• Cloudwish by Fiona Wood
• Green Valentine by Lili Wilkinson
• Pieces of Sky by Trinity Doyle
• Prince of Afghanistan by Louis Nowra
• Ranger’s Apprentice: The Early Years 1: The Tournament at Gorlan by John Flanagan
• The Red Queen: Obernewtyn, Book 7 by Isobel Carmody
• Risk by Fleur Ferris
• Sister Heart by Sally Morgan
• Soon by Morris Gleitzman
• The Flywheel by Erin Gough

The shortlist will be announced on 19 January 2016. The category winners and the overall ‘Book of the Year’ winner will be announced in Sydney on 22 March 2016. Find out more here.