INDIE AWARDS 2025

 

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 Category Winners and the Overall Book of the Year Winner were announced on March 24, 2025.

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• DUSK - ROBBIE ARNOTT (Picador)

 

• WINNER Dusk - Robbie Arnott (Picador Australia)
• Cherrywood - Jock Serong (Fourth Estate Australia)
• The Ledge - Christian White (Affirm Press)
• Juice - Tim Winton (Hamish Hamilton)

 

• We Are the Stars - Gina Chick (Summit Books)
• The Season - Helen Garner (Text Publishing)
• Sister Viv - Grantlee Kieza (ABC Books, HarperCollins Australia)
• WINNER Three Wild Dogs and the Truth - Markus Zusak (Picador Australia)

 

• The Deed - Susannah Begbie (Hachette Australia)
• The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife - Anna Johnston (Michael Joseph)
• WINNER All The Bees in the Hollows - Lauren Keegan (Affirm Press)
• Pheasants Nest - Louise Milligan (Allen & Unwin)

 

• WINNER The Paintings of Criss Canning - Criss Canning (Thames & Hudson Australia)
• RecipeTin Eats: Tonight - Nagi Maehashi (Macmillan Australia)
• The Diaries of Fred Williams 1963–1970 - Patrick McCaughey (Miegunyah Press)
• Tony Tan's Asian Cooking Class - Tony Tan (Murdoch Books

 

• To Stir with Love - Kate Mildenhall, illustrated by Jess Racklyeft (Simon & Schuster Australia)
• WINNER All the Beautiful Things - Katrina Nannestad (ABC Books, HarperCollins Australia)
• The Midwatch - Judith Rossell (Hardie Grant Children's Publishing)
• The 113th Assistant Librarian - Stuart Wilson (Penguin Australia)

 

• Comes the Night - Isobelle Carmody (Allen & Unwin Children's)
• Eleanor Jones Can’t Keep a Secret - Amy Doak (Penguin Australia)
• WINNER My Family and Other Suspects - Kate Emery (Allen & Unwin Children's)
• Immortal Dark - Tigest Girma (Lothian Children's Books)