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
- Force of Nature by Jane Harper
- The Choke by Sofie Laguna
- On the Java Ridge by Jock Serong
- City of Crows by Chris Womersley
Non-fiction
- Working Class Man by Jimmy Barnes
- The Museum of Words by Georgia Blain
- Saga Land by Richard Fidler & Kári Gíslason
- The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein
Debut Fiction
- Wimmera by Mark Brandi
- Australia Day by Melanie Cheng
- The Last Man in Europe by Dennis Glover
- See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt
Illustrated non-fiction
- Maggie’s Recipe For Life by Maggie Beer with Professor Ralph Martins
- Cornersmith: Salads and Pickles by Alex Elliott-Howery & Sabine Spindler
- Native: Art & Design with Australian Plants by Kate Herd & Jela Ivankovic-Waters
- Beyond the Rock by Janelle McCulloch
Children’s
- Pig the Star by Aaron Blabey
- I’m Australian Too by Mem Fox & Ronojoy Ghosh
- The Wayward Witch and the Feelings Monster (Polly and Buster Book 1) by Sally Rippin
- Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend
Young Adult
- Beautiful Mess by Claire Christian
- Take Three Girls by Cath Crowley, Fiona Wood & Simmone Howell
- Untidy Towns by Kate O'Donnell
- Wilder Country by Mark Smith
