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 White Girl by Tony Birch
• The Rip by Mark Brandi
• Silver by Chris Hammer
• There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett
• Maybe the Horse Will Talk by Elliot Perlman
• Bruny by Heather Rose
• Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas
• The Wife and the Widow by Christian White
• The Yield by Tara June Winch
• The Weekend by Charlotte Wood

Non-fiction

• Thirty Thousand Bottles of Wine and a Pig Called Helga by Todd Alexander
• Your Own Kind of Girl by Clare Bowditch
• Against All Odds by Craig Challen & Richard Harris with Ellis Henican
• Banking Bad by Adele Ferguson
• Kitty Flanagan’s 488 Rules for Life by Kitty Flanagan
• Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume 1 1978–1987 by Helen Garner
• See What You Made Me Do by Jess Hill
• Tell Me Why by Archie Roach
• Back on Track by Bernie Shakeshaft with James Knight
• Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta

Debut Fiction

• A Constant Hum by Alice Bishop
• Wearing Paper Dresses by Anne Brinsden
• Allegra in Three Parts by Suzanne Daniel
• Hitch by Kathryn Hind
• Act of Grace by Anna Krien
• Crossings by Alex Landragin
• Six Minutes by Petronella McGovern
• The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone by Felicity McLean
• Heart of the Grass Tree by Molly Murn
• Taking Tom Murray Home by Tim Slee

Illustrated non-fiction

• The Lost Boys by Paul Byrnes
• The Leaf Supply Guide to Creating Your Indoor Jungle by Lauren Camilleri & Sophia Kaplan
• Australia Modern by Philip Goad & Hannah Lewi
• Finding the Heart of the Nation by Thomas Mayor
• The Whole Fish Cookbook by Josh Niland
• Ben Quilty by Ben Quilty
• Australian Designers at Home by Jenny Rose-Innes
• Sydney Art Deco by Peter Sheridan
• Warndu Mai (Good Food) by Rebecca Sullivan & Damien Coulthard
• In an Australian Light edited by Jo Turner

Children’s

• The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Ugly Animals by Sami Bayly
• Into the Wild (Wolf Girl Book 1) by Anh Do, illustrated by Jeremy Ley
• Tilly by Jane Godwin, illustrated by Anna Walker
• The Tiny Star by Mem Fox & Freya Blackwood
• How to Make a Movie in 12 Days by Fiona Hardy
• Mr Chicken All Over Australia by Leigh Hobbs
• The Painted Ponies by Alison Lester
• Young Dark Emu: A Truer History by Bruce Pascoe
• A Trip to the Beach by Gwyn Perkins
• The Glimme by Emily Rodda, illustrated by Marc McBride

Young Adult

• The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling by Wai Chim
• How It Feels to Float by Helena Fox
• Aurora Rising (The Aurora Cycle Book 1) by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
• It Sounded Better in My Head by Nina Kenwood
• Monuments by Will Kostakis
• Weapon by Lynette Noni
• Invisible Boys by Holden Sheppard
• Land of Fences by Mark Smith
• This Is How We Change the Ending by Vikki Wakefield
• I Am Change by Suzy Zail

The Shortlist will be announced on 15 January 2020, 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 23 March 2020 in Brisbane. Find out more here.