Congratulations to all the authors, illustrators and publishers longlisted for the Indie Book Awards 2019!

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 longlistees for each category.

Fiction

• The Lost Man by Jane Harper
• The Fragments by Toni Jordan
• Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
• The Clockmaker’s Daughter by Kate Morton
• The Children’s House by Alice Nelson
• Shell by Kristina Olsson
• The Other Wife by Michael Robotham
• Cedar Valley by Holly Throsby
• The Shepherd’s Hut by Tim Winton
• Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak

Non-fiction

• The Ship That Never Was by Adam Courtenay
• Boys Will be Boys by Clementine Ford
• The Land Before Avocado by Richard Glover
• Butterfly on a Pin by Alannah Hill
• The Arsonist by Chloe Hooper
• Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee
• The Barefoot Investor for Families by Scott Pape
• Any Ordinary Day by Leigh Sales
• Teacher by Gabbie Stroud
• Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin

Debut Fiction

• Flames by Robbie Arnott
• The Helpline by Katherine Collette
• Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
• Scrublands by Chris Hammer
• The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan
• The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
• The Earth Does Not Get Fat by Julia Prendergast
• The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart by Holly Ringland
• The Lucky Galah by Tracy Sorensen
• The Nowhere Child by Christian White

Illustrated non-fiction

• Special Guest by Annabel Crabb, Wendy Sharpe
• A Painted Landscape: Across Australia from Bush to Coast by Amber Creswell Bell
• The Great Australian Bucket List by Robin Esrock
• Mirka & Georges by Lesley Harding, Kendrah Morgan
• Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country by Marcia Langton
• Bohemian Living: Creative Homes Around the World by Robyn Lea
• Smith & Deli-cious by Shannon Martinez & Mo Wyse
• Family: New vegetable classics to comfort and nourish by Hetty McKinnon
• Gardens on the Edge by Christine Reid
• Australian Dreamscapes by Claire Takacs

Children’s

• All the Ways to be Smart by Davina Bell & Allison Colpoys
• The Tales of Mr Walker by Jess Black & Sara Acton
• A-Z of Australian Animals by Jennifer Cossins
• Lenny’s Book of Everything by Karen Foxlee
• Claris: The Chicest Mouse in Paris by Megan Hess
• Jane Doe and the Cradle of All Worlds by Jeremy Lachlan
• Cicada by Shaun Tan
• Tales from the Inner City by Shaun Tan
• Room on Our Rock by Kate Temple, Jo Temple & Terri Rose Baynton
• Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend

Young Adult

• Hive by A. J. Betts
• Just Breathe by Andrew Daddo
• Small Spaces by Sarah Epstein
• Amelia Westlake by Erin Gough
• P is for Pearl by Eliza Henry Jones
• A Song Only I Can Hear by Barry Jonsberg
• Obsidio: The Illuminae Files_03 by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
• Lifel1k3 by Jay Kristoff
• Catching Teller Crow by Ambelin Kwaymullina & Ezekiel Kwaymullina
• Tin Heart by Shivaun Plozza

The shortlist will be announced on 16 January 2019, with the category winners and the overall Book of the Year winner being announced at the Leading Edge Books Annual Conference Awards Dinner to be held on Monday 18 March, 2019 in Adelaide, SA. Tasmania. Find out more here.