The Australian Book Design Awards celebrate the bravest and brightest, the most original and beautiful books published in Australia each year.

Here are some of the 2018 shortlistees for the different award categories…

Best Designed Commercial Fiction Cover

• Deadly Kerfuffle, design by Josh Durham (Design by Committee)
• The Girl in Kellers Way, design by Adam Laszczuk
• The Hot Guy, design by Alissa Dinallo
• The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book Club, design by Christa Moffitt (Christabella Designs)
• The Student, design by Alissa Dinallo

Best Designed Literary Fiction Cover

• Disappearing off the Face of the Earth, design by Josh Durham (Design by Committee)
• Some Tests, design by Josh Durham (Design by Committee)
• The Gulf, design by Emily O’Neill
• The Quantum Astrologer’s Handbook, design by Allison Colpoys

Best Designed Autobiography/Biography/Memoir Non-Fiction Cover

• First, we make the beast beautiful, design by Daniel New
• The Museum of Words, design by Allison Colpoys
• The Trauma Cleaner, design by W. H. Chong
• Things That Helped, design by Allison Colpoys

You can view the shortlisted books across all the category here.

The winners of the 2018 Australian Book Design Awards will be announced at the Awards Party on Friday 25 May at The Craft & Co in Melbourne. Find out more here.