The shortlisted titles for this year’s Australian Book Industry Awards have been announced. See below for the full list of titles in each category:
Literary Fiction Book of the Year
- Amnesia by Peter Carey
- Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke
- The Golden Age by Joan London
- Golden Boys by Sonya Hartnett
- When the Night Comes by Favel Parrett
General Fiction Book of the Year
- Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
- Laurinda by Alice Pung
- Life or Death by Michael Robotham
- Lost & Found by Brooke Davis
- The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion
General Non-fiction Book of the Year:
- The Bush by Don Watson
- The Wife Drought by Annabel Crabb
- Where Song Began: Australia’s Birds and How They Changed the World by Tim Low
- Gallipoli by Peter Fitzsimons
- This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial by Helen Garner
Biography of the Year
- A Bone of Fact by David Walsh
- Love Your Sister by Samuel Johnson, Connie Johnson
- My Story by Julia Gillard
- The Never, Um, Ever Ending Story by Ian ‘Molly’ Meldrum
- Optimism: Reflections on a Life of Action by Bob Brown
The Matt Richell Award for New Writer
- Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke
- Lost & Found by Brooke Davis
- Here Come The Dogs by Omar Musa
- Only the Animals by Ceridwen Dovey
- The Tea Chest by Josephine Moon
Illustrated Book of the Year
- Anzac Treasures: The Gallipoli Collection of the Australian War Memorial by Peter Pedersen
- Australian Art: A History by Sasha Grishin
- Community: Salad Recipes from Arthur Street Kitchen by Hetty McKinnon
- New Feast: Modern Middle Eastern Vegetarian by Greg Malouf and Lucy Malouf
- What a Croc!: Legendary Front Pages from the NT News
International Book of the Year
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham
- Plenty More by Yotam Ottolenghi
- We are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
- Yes Please by Amy Poehler
Older Children Book of the Year
- Alice-Miranda in Japan by Jacqueline Harvey
- Brotherband: Scorpion Mountain by John Flanagan
- Clariel by Garth Nix
- Withering-By-Sea by Judith Rossell
- Friday Barnes 1: Girl Detective by R. A. Sprat
- Loyal Creatures by Morris Gleitzman
Younger Children Book of the Year
- Noni the Pony Goes to the Beach by Alison Lester
- Mr Chicken Lands on London by Leigh Hobbs
- The 52-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths
- Clementine Rose and the Seaside Escape by Jacqueline Harvey
- The Last King of Angkor Wat by Graeme Base
Small Publishers’ Adult Book of the Year
- Australian Notebooks by Betty Churcher
- Diary of a Foreign Minister by Bob Carr
- How I Rescued My Brain by David Roland
- A Murder Unmentioned by Sulari Gentill
- The Voice: My Story by Ray Warren with Andrew Webster
Small Publisher Children’s Book of the Year
- Captain Thunderbolt by Jane Smith
- I Could Wear That Hat! by Ben Sanders
- A Secret Safe to Tell by Naomi Hunter & Karen Erasmus
- Sticks and Stones - Animal Homes by Tai Snaith
- Tea and Sugar Christmas by Jane Jolly & Robert Ingpen
For further information about the awards, visit the ABIA website.
