The longlists for the 2022 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced! The ABIAs celebrate the best books of the year, as judged by Australian book industry members.
Below are the longlisted titles from across the 12 ABIA categories.
Biography Book of the Year
- Emotional Female by Yumiko Kadota
- The Mother Wound by Amani Haydar
- Daring to Fly by Lisa Millar
- Turns Out, I’m Fine by Judith Lucy
- Power Play by Julia Banks
- How We Love by Clementine Ford
- It Wasn’t Meant to be Like This by Lisa Wilkinson
- My Adventurous Life by Dick Smith
- How to End a Story: Diaries 1995–1998 by Helen Garner
General Fiction Book of the Year
- After Story by Larissa Behrendt
- The Younger Wife by Sally Hepworth
- Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
- Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray by Anita Heiss
- Treasure and Dirt by Chris Hammer
- Before You Knew My Name by Jacqueline Bublitz
- The Way It Is Now by Garry Disher
- When Things are Alive They Hum by Hannah Bent
General Non-fiction Book of the Year
- Another Day in the Colony by Chelsea Watego
- Toxic by Richard Flanagan
- She’s on the Money by Victoria Devine
- Heartsick by Jessie Stephens
- So You Think You Know What’s Good for You? by Norman Swan
- Who Gets to Be Smart by Bri Lee
- Love Stories by Trent Dalton
- My Year of Living Vulnerably by Rick Morton
Illustrated Book of the Year
- A Life in Pattern by Anna Spiro
- Still Life by Amber Creswell Bell
- Garden Like a Nonno by Jaclyn Crupi
- Death to Jar Sauce by Nat’s What I Reckon
- You’re Doing it Wrong by Kaz Cooke
- Christine Manfield’s Indian Cooking Class by Christine Manfield
- Take One Fish by Josh Niland
- Dear Son by Thomas Mayor
- Everything I Love to Cook by Neil Perry
- Costa’s World by Costa Georgiadis
International Book of the Year
- These Precious Days by Ann Patchett
- The Promise by Damon Galgut
- Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love by Yotam Ottolenghi and Noor Murad
- The Magician by Colm Tóibín
- The Storyteller by Dave Grohl
- Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
- Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Still Life by Sarah Winman
Literary Fiction Book of the Year
- One Hundred Days by Alice Pung
- Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
- Devotion by Hannah Kent
- Seven and a Half by Christos Tsiolkas
- Love Objects by Emily Maguire
- Wild Abandon by Emily Bitto
- The Truth About Her by Jacqueline Maley
- Love & Virtue by Diana Reid
Small Publishers’ Adult Book of the Year
- The Stoning Peter Papathanasiou
- Wild Mushrooming by Alison Pouliot and Tom May
- The Game: A Portrait of Scott Morrison by Sean Kelly
- Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen
- Caught in the Act by Shane Jenek
- Flight of the Budgerigar by Penny Olsen
- Black and Blue by Veronica Gorrie
- The Shape of Sound by Fiona Murphy
The Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year
- Small Joys of Real Life by Allee Richards
- The First Scientists by Corey Tutt
- New Animal by Ella Baxter
- Before You Knew My Name by Jacqueline Bublitz
- The Truth About Her by Jacqueline Maley
- The Mother Wound by Amani Haydar
- When Things are Alive They Hum by Hannah Bent
- Love & Virtue by Diana Reid
CHILDREN & YOUNG ADULT
Book of the Year for Older Children (ages 13+)
- The Prison Healer by Lynette Noni
- Anything but Fine by Tobias Madden
- Tell Me Why for Young Adults by Archie Roach
- Dark Rise by C S Pacat
- The Boy from the Mish by Gary Lonesborough
- The Gaps by Leanne Hall
- If Not Us by Mark Smith
- Welcome to Consent by Yumi Stynes & Dr Melissa Kang
Book of the Year for Younger Children (ages 7-12)
- My Brother Ben by Peter Carnavas
- Exit Through the Gift Shop by Maryam Master
- The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Peculiar Pairs in Nature by Sami Bayly
- Wandi by Favel Parrett
- The First Scientists by Corey Tutt
- Heroes, Rebels and Innovators by Karen Wyld & Jaelyn Biumaiwai
- Dragon Skin by Karen Foxlee
- Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief by Katrina Nannestad
Children’s Picture Book of the Year (ages 0-6)
- The Tiny Explorers by Kat Macleod
- Walk of the Whales by Nick Bland
- Day Break by Amy McQuire and Matt Chun
- Bedtime Sorted by Jimmy Rees, illustrated by Briony Stewart
- Winner Winner Bin Chicken Dinner by Kate & Joel Temple, illustrated by Ronojoy Gosh
- The Curiosities by Zana Fraillon & Phil Lesnie
- Somebody’s Land: Welcome to Our Country by Adam Goodes & Ellie Laing, illustrated by David Hardy
- Boss of Your Own Body by Byll & Beth Stephen, illustrated by Simon Howe
Small Publishers’ Children’s Book of the Year
- The Edge of Thirteen by Nova Weetman
- Wiradjuri Country by Larry Brandy
- A Pair of Pears and an Orange by Anna McGregor
- Let’s Eat Weeds by Annie Raser-Rowland & Adam Grubb, illustrated by Evie Barrow
- Tomorrow is a Brand-New Day by Davina Bell, illustrated by Allison Colpoys
- Albert Namatjira by Vincent Namatjira
- The River by Sally Morgan, illustrated by Johnny Warrkatja Malibirr
- Kunyi Kunyi by June Anne McInerney
