This year’s shortlist for the Indie Book Awards has been announced.
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 shortlisted titles in each category.
Fiction
- There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett
- Bruny by Heather Rose
- The Wife and the Widow by Christian White
- The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
Non-fiction
- Your Own Kind of Girl by Clare Bowditch
- Kitty Flanagan’s 488 Rules for Life by Kitty Flanagan
- Tell Me Why by Archie Roach
- Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta
Debut Fiction
- Wearing Paper Dresses by Anne Brinsden
- Allegra in Three Parts by Suzanne Daniel
- The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone by Felicity McLean
- Heart of the Grass Tree by Molly Murn
Illustrated non-fiction
- The Lost Boys by Paul Byrnes
- Finding the Heart of the Nation by Thomas Mayor
- The Whole Fish Cookbook by Josh Niland
- 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
- The Tiny Star by Mem Fox & Freya Blackwood
- Young Dark Emu: A Truer History by Bruce Pascoe
Young Adult
- The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling by Wai Chim
- 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
