The Australian Book Industry Awards Academy has announced the ABIA Book longlists for 2016. Congratulations to all the authors, illustrators and publishers.

Biography Book of the Year

• Inside by Chris Judd (Allen & Unwin)
• Second Half First by Drusilla Modjeska (Penguin Random House)
• Plain-speaking Jane by Jane Caro (Pan Macmillan)
• Keating by Kerry O’Brien (Allen & Unwin)
• Reckoning: A Memoir by Magda Szubanski (Text Publishing)
• Born to Rule by Paddy Manning (Melbourne University Publishing)
• Flesh Wounds by Richard Glover (ABC Books)
• A Mother’s Story by Rosie Batty (HarperCollins Publishers)
• The Anti-Cool Girl by Rosie Waterland (HarperCollins Publishers)

General Fiction Book of the Year

• In the Quiet by Eliza Henry Jones (HarperCollins Publishers)
• The Perfumer’s Secret by Fiona McIntosh (Penguin Random House)
• The Heat by Garry Disher (Text Publishing)
• Spirits of the Ghan by Judy Nunn (Penguin Random House)
• The Lake House by Kate Morton, Allen & Unwin)
• Close Your Eyes by Michael Robotham (Hachette)
• Hope Farm by Peggy Frew (Scribe)
• The Patterson Girls by Rachael Johns (Harlequin)

General Non-fiction Book of the Year

• Green Nomads: Across Australia’s Wild Heritage by Bob Brown (Hardie Grant)
• Worst Words: A Compendium of Contemporary Cant, Gibberish and Jargon by Don Watson (Penguin Random House)
• Australia’s Second Chance by George Megalogenis (Penguin Random House)
• One Life: My Mother’s Story by Kate Grenville (Text Publishing)
• The Dismissal by Paul Kelly and Troy Bramston (Penguin Random House)
• Fromelles & Pozières: In the Trenches of Hell by Peter Fitzsimons (Penguin Random House)
• Atmosphere of Hope: Searching for Solutions to the Climate Crisis by Tim Flannery (Text Publishing)
• Island Home by Tim Winton (Penguin Random House)

Illustrated Book of the Year

• Cornersmith by Alex Elliott-Howery and James Grant (Murdoch Books)
• Special Delivery by Annabel Crabb and Wendy Sharpe (Murdoch Books)
• The Forgotten Notebook by Betty Churcher (Melbourne University Publishing)
• Shelter by Kara Rosenlund (Penguin Random House)
• The Happy Cookbook by Lola Berry (Pan Macmillan)
• Falafel For Breakfast by Michael Rantissi and Kristy Frawley (Murdoch Books)
• Super Green Smoothies by Sally Obermeder and Maha Koraiem (Allen & Unwin)
• I Quit Sugar: Simplicious by Sarah Wilson (Pan Macmillan)
• Wendy Whiteley and the Secret Garden by Janet Hawley (Penguin Random House)

International Book of the Year

• Grandpa’s Great Escape by David Walliams (HarperCollins Publishers)
• The Day The Crayons Came Home by Drew Daywalt and illustrated by Oliver Jeffers (HarperCollins Publishers)
• The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante (Text Publishing)
• Gut: the inside story of our body’s most under-rated organ by Giulia Enders (Scribe)
• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (Pan Macmillan)
• Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee (Penguin Random House)
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone: Illustrated Edition by J.K. Rowling and illustrated by Jim Kay (Bloomsbury Publishing)
• The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (Penguin Random House)

Literary Fiction Book of the Year

• The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood (Allen & Unwin)
• A Guide to Berlin by Gail Jones (Penguin Random House)
• The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks (Hachette)
• The World Without Us by Mireille Juchau (Bloomsbury Publishing)
• The Anchoress by Robyn Cadwallader (HarperCollins Publishers)
• The Other Side of the World by Stephanie Bishop (Hachette)
• Six Bedrooms by Tegan Bennet Daylight (Penguin Random House)
• Napoleon’s Last Island by Tom Keneally (Penguin Random House)

Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year

• Hot Little Hands by Abigail Ulman (Penguin Random House)
• Relativity by Antonia Hayes (Penguin Random House)
• Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar (Pan Macmillan)
• Reckoning: A Memoir by Magda Szubanski (Text Publishing)
• Fever of Animals by Miles Allinson (Scribe)
• The Anchoress by Robyn Cadwallader (HarperCollins Publishers)
• The Anti-Cool Girl by Rosie Waterland (HarperCollins Publishers)
• Rush Oh! by Shirley Barrett (Pan Macmillan)

Book of the Year Older Children (age range 8 to 14 years)

• Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (Allen & Unwin)
• Cloudwish by Fiona Wood (Pan Macmillan)
• The Cat With the Coloured Tail by Gillian Mears (Walker Books)
• The Red Queen by Isobelle Carmody (Penguin Random House)
• Soon by Morris Gleitzman (Penguin Random House)
• Friday Barnes 2: Under Suspicion by R.A. Spratt (Penguin Random House)
• The Singing Bones by Shaun Tan (Allen & Unwin)
• Paper Planes by Steve Worland (Penguin Random House)

Book of the Year for Younger Children (age range 0 to 8 years)

• My Dog Bigsy by Alison Lester (Penguin Random House)
• The 65-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths and illustrated by Terry Denton (Pan Macmillan)
• Being Agatha by Anna Pignataro (The Five Mile Press)
• This is a Ball by Beck and Matt Stanton (ABC Books)
• Perfect by Danny Parker and Freya Blackwood (Hardie Grant)
• The Amazing True Story Of How Babies Are Made by Fiona Katauskas (ABC Books)
• A is for Australia by Frane Lessac (Walker Books)
• Eye to Eye by Graeme Base (Penguin Random House)

Small Publishers’ Children’s Book of the Year

• Anzac Sons: The story of five brothers on the Western Front by Allison Paterson (Big Sky Publishing)
• Numerical Street by Antonia Pesenti and Hilary Bell (New South Books)
• Torri the Great Reef Surfing Turtle by B.B Byrnes with Bron Simpson (Renbro Publishing)
• My Pop is a Pirate by Damon Young and illustrated by Peter Carnavas (University of Queensland Press)
• The Underwater Fancy-Dress Parade by Davina Bell and illustrated by Allison Colpoys (Scribe)
• Kookoo Kookaburra by Gregg Dreise (Magabala Books)
• Horace the Baker’s Horse by Jackie French (National Museum of Australia)
• One Step at a Time by Jane Jolly and Sally Heinrich (MidnightSun Publishing)

Small Publishers’ Adult Book of the Year

• Australia Remember When by Bob Byrne (New South Books)
• Long Tan: The start of a life long battle by Harry Smith (Big Sky Publishing)
• Body Lengths by Leisel Jones (Black Inc.)
• Ningaloo: Reflections on the Reef by Leith Holtzman (Renbro Publishing)
• All Fall Down by Matthew Condon (University of Queensland Press)
• The Art of Free Travel by Patrick Jones and Meg Ulman (New South Books)
• Global Megatrends: Seven Patterns of Change Shaping Our Future by Stefan Hajkowicz (Csiro Publishing)
• Give the Devil His Due by Sulari Gentill (Pantera Press)

The shortlist will be announced on Monday 2 May, and ABIA winners will be announced on Thursday 19 May. Find out more about the ABIA Book awards here.