The Australian Book Industry Awards Academy has announced the ABIA Book shortlists for 2016. Congratulations to all the authors, illustrators and publishers.
Biography Book of the Year
- Reckoning: A Memoir by Magda Szubanski (Text Publishing)
- Flesh Wounds by Richard Glover (ABC Books)
- A Mother’s Story by Rosie Batty (HarperCollins Publishers)
- The Anti-Cool Girl by Rosie Waterland (HarperCollins Publishers)
General Fiction Book of the Year
- The Perfumer’s Secret by Fiona McIntosh (Penguin Random House)
- The Lake House by Kate Morton, Allen & Unwin)
- Close Your Eyes by Michael Robotham (Hachette)
- The Patterson Girls by Rachael Johns (Harlequin)
General Non-fiction Book of the Year
- Australia’s Second Chance by George Megalogenis (Penguin Random House)
- One Life: My Mother’s Story by Kate Grenville (Text Publishing)
- The Dismissal by Paul Kelly and Troy Bramston (Penguin Random House)
- Island Home by Tim Winton (Penguin Random House)
Illustrated Book of the Year
- Cornersmith by Alex Elliott-Howery and James Grant (Murdoch Books)
- The Happy Cookbook by Lola Berry (Pan Macmillan)
- I Quit Sugar: Simplicious by Sarah Wilson (Pan Macmillan)
- Wendy Whiteley and the Secret Garden by Janet Hawley (Penguin Random House)
International Book of the Year
- Grandpa’s Great Escape by David Walliams (HarperCollins Publishers)
- The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante (Text Publishing)
- Gut: the inside story of our body’s most under-rated organ by Giulia Enders (Scribe)
- The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (Penguin Random House)
Literary Fiction Book of the Year
- The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood (Allen & Unwin)
- The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks (Hachette)
- The World Without Us by Mireille Juchau (Bloomsbury Publishing)
- The Other Side of the World by Stephanie Bishop (Hachette)
Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year
- Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar (Pan Macmillan)
- Reckoning: A Memoir by Magda Szubanski (Text Publishing)
- The Anti-Cool Girl by Rosie Waterland (HarperCollins Publishers)
- Rush Oh! by Shirley Barrett (Pan Macmillan)
Book of the Year Older Children (age range 8 to 14 years)
- Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (Allen & Unwin)
- Cloudwish by Fiona Wood (Pan Macmillan)
- The Cat With the Coloured Tail by Gillian Mears (Walker Books)
- Friday Barnes 2: Under Suspicion by R.A. Spratt (Penguin Random House)
Book of the Year for Younger Children (age range 0 to 8 years)
- The 65-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths and illustrated by Terry Denton (Pan Macmillan)
- This is a Ball by Beck and Matt Stanton (ABC Books)
- Perfect by Danny Parker and Freya Blackwood (Hardie Grant)
- The Amazing True Story Of How Babies Are Made by Fiona Katauskas (ABC Books)
Small Publishers’ Children’s Book of the Year
- Numerical Street by Antonia Pesenti and Hilary Bell (New South Books)
- My Pop is a Pirate by Damon Young and illustrated by Peter Carnavas (University of Queensland Press)
- The Underwater Fancy-Dress Parade by Davina Bell and illustrated by Allison Colpoys (Scribe)
- Kookoo Kookaburra by Gregg Dreise (Magabala Books)
Small Publishers’ Adult Book of the Year
- Body Lengths by Leisel Jones (Black Inc.)
- All Fall Down by Matthew Condon (University of Queensland Press)
- The Art of Free Travel by Patrick Jones and Meg Ulman (New South Books)
- Give the Devil His Due by Sulari Gentill (Pantera Press)
