The 2023 BookPeople Book of the Year longlists have been announced! These awards celebrate the best books of the year, as judged by Australian book industry members.
Below are the longlisted titles from across the three categories.
Adult fiction book of the year
- Limberlost by Robbie Arnott
- Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au
- Sunbathing by Isobel Beech
- Horse by Geraldine Brooks
- This Devastating Fever by Sophie Cunningham
- Exiles by Jane Harper
- All That’s Left Unsaid by Tracey Lien
- The Murder Rule by Dervla McTiernan
- Iris by Fiona Kelly McGregor
- Seeing Other People by Diana Reid
- Willowman by Inga Simpson
- Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
Adult nonfiction book of the year
- The Boy from Boomerang Crescent by Eddie Betts
- Faith, Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave & Seán O’Hagan
- Reasons Not to Worry by Brigid Delaney
- The Book of Roads and Kingdoms by Richard Fidler
- Ten Steps to Nanette by Hannah Gadsby
- Not Now, Not Ever edited by Julia Gillard
- Bedtime Story by Chloe Hooper
- Tripping Over Myself by Shaun Micallef
- Around the Table by Julia Busuttil Nishimura
- Bulldozed by Niki Savva
- So You Want To Live Younger Longer? by Norman Swan
- The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner by Grace Tame
Children’s book of the year
- Farmhouse by Sophie Blackall
- Come Together by Isaiah Firebrace
- Back On Country: Welcome to our Country by Adam Goodes & Ellie Laing
- Guardians: Wylah the Koorie warrior 1 by Jordan Gould & Richard Pritchard
- Unnecessary Drama by Nina Kenwood
- A Tiny Light by Alison Lester
- The Killing Code by Ellie Marney
- The Bookseller’s Apprentice by Amelia Mellor
- A Girl Called Corpse by Carter Reece
- Runt by Craig Silvey
- The Dangerous Business of Being Trilby Moffat by Kate Temple
- Snap! by Anna Walker
