INDIE AWARDS 2024 LONGLIST ANNOUNCED

 

Established in 2008, the Indie Book Awards celebrate the best Australian writing; and who better to nominate and judge the best-of-the-best than indie booksellers! What makes indie booksellers uniquely placed to judge and recommend the best Aussie books of the past year, is their incredible passion and knowledge, their contribution to the cultural diversity of the Australian reading public, by recommending beyond the big brands, and above all, their love of quality writing. The Awards recognise and celebrate indie booksellers as the number one supporters of Australian authors.

Australian independent booksellers nominate books for six categories shown below. The shortlist will be announced on the 17th of January, 2024 with the Category Winners and the Overall Book of the Year Winner being announced on the 25th of March, 2024.

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• Lola in the Mirror by Trent Dalton (Fourth Estate Australia)
• Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville (Text Publishing)
• The Seven by Chris Hammer (Allen & Unwin)
• Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko (University of Queensland Press)
• The Hummingbird Effect by Kate Mildenhall (Scribner Australia)
• Homecoming by Kate Morton (Allen & Unwin)
• God Forgets About the Poor by Peter Polites (Ultimo Press)
• Everyone on this Train is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson (Michael Joseph Australia)
• The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams (Affirm Press)
• Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood (Allen & Unwin)

• Bright Shining by Julia Baird (Fourth Estate Australia)
• The Man Who Wasn't There by Dan Box (Ultimo Press)
• Showing Up by Nedd Brockmann (Simon & Schuster Australia)
• The Last Charge of the Australian Light Horse by Peter FitzSimons (Hachette Australia)
• Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder (Hamish Hamilton)
• Best Wishes by Richard Glover (ABC Books, HarperCollins Australia)
• The Queen is Dead by Stan Grant (Fourth Estate Australia)
• The Remarkable Mrs Reibey by Grantlee Kieza (ABC Books, HarperCollins Australia)
• Killing for Country: A Family Story by David Marr (Black Inc.)
• Heartbake by Charlotte Ree (Allen & Unwin)

• The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer (Penguin Australia)
• Fed to Red Birds by Rijn Collins (Simon & Schuster Australia)
• The House of Now and Then by Jo Dixon (HQ Fiction, HarperCollins)
• Green Dot by Madeleine Gray (Allen & Unwin)
• The Visitors by Jane Harrison (Fourth Estate Australia)
• Duck à l'Orange for Breakfast by Karina May (Macmillan Australia)
• Lenny Marks Gets Away With Murder by Kerryn Mayne (Bantam Australia)
• At the Foot of the Cherry Tree by Alli Parker (HarperCollins Australia)
• Salt River Road by Molly Schmidt (Fremantle Press)
• Things That Matter Most by Gabbie Stroud (Allen & Unwin)

• Paul Bangay by Paul Bangay (Thames & Hudson Australia)
• The Year I Met My Brain by Matilda Boseley (Penguin Life Australia)
• The Milkwood Permaculture Living Handbook by Kirsten Bradley (Murdoch Books)
• The New Modernist House by Patricia Callan (Thames & Hudson Australia)
• The Bird Art of William T. Cooper by Wendy Cooper (National Library of Australia)
• Bush Flowers by Cassandra Hamilton & Michael Pavlou (Thames & Hudson Australia)
• Getting To Know the Birds In Your Neighbourhood: A Field Guide by Darryl Jones (NewSouth Publishing)
• A Seat at My Table: Philoxenia by Kon Karapanagiotidis (Hardie Grant Books)
• Good Life Growing by Hannah Moloney (Affirm Press)
• Songs from the Kitchen Table by Archie Roach & Ruby Hunter (Simon & Schuster Australia)

• If I Was a Horse by Sophie Blackall (Lothian Children's Books)
• Australian Animals: From Beach to Bush by Brentos (Affirm Press)
• The Lonely Lighthouse of Elston-Fright: An Elston-Fright Tale by Reece Carter (Allen & Unwin Children's)
• Walk With Us: Welcome to Our Country by Adam Goodes and Ellie Laing, illustrated by David Hardy (Allen & Unwin Children's)
• The 169-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton (Pan Australia)
• Neil, the Amazing Sea Cucumber by Amelia McInerney, illustrated by Lucinda Gifford (Affirm Press)
• The Impossible Secret of Lillian Velvet by Jaclyn Moriarty (Allen & Unwin Children's)
• Silver Linings by Katrina Nannestad (ABC Books, HarperCollins Australia)
• Kimmi by Favel Parrett (Hachette Australia)
• Millie Mak the Maker by Alice Pung, illustrated by Sher Rill Ng (HarperCollins Australia)

• Saltwater Boy by Bradley Christmas (Walker Books Australia)
• Grace Notes by Karen Comer (Lothian Children's Books)
• The Lorikeet Tree by Paul Jennings (Allen & Unwin Children's)
• Welcome to Sex by Dr Melissa Kang & Yumi Stynes (Hardie Grant Children's Publishing)
• The Isles of the Gods by Amie Kaufman (Allen & Unwin Children's)
• We Could Be Something by Will Kostakis (Allen & Unwin Children's)
• Some Shall Break by Ellie Marney (Allen & Unwin Children's)
• The Sinister Booksellers of Bath by Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin Children's)
• Stuck Up & Stupid by Angourie Rice & Kate Rice (Walker Books Australia)
• Robert Runs by Mariah Sweetman (Magabala Books)