Indie Book Awards 2023 longlists announced
Thursday, 8 December 2022 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing
Leading Edge Books has announced the longlists for the 2023 Indie Book Awards.
The longlisted titles in each category are:
Fiction
- Limberlost (Robbie Arnott, Text)
- Cold Enough for Snow (Jessica Au, Giramondo)
- Horse (Geraldine Brooks, Hachette)
- The Tilt (Chris Hammer, A&U)
- Salt and Skin (Eliza Henry-Jones, Ultimo)
- The Sun Walks Down (Fiona McFarlane, A&U)
- Seeing Other People (Diana Reid, Ultimo)
- The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding (Holly Ringland, Fourth Estate)
- Willowman (Inga Simpson, Hachette)
- Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone (Benjamin Stevenson, Michael Joseph)
Nonfiction
- The Boy from Boomerang Crescent (Eddie Betts, S&S)
- The Ballad of Abdul Wade (Ryan Butta, Affirm)
- The Girl Who Fell From the Sky (Emma Carey, A&U)
- The Book Of Roads And Kingdoms (Richard Fidler, ABC Books)
- Ten Steps to Nanette (Hannah Gadsby, A&U)
- The First Astronomers (Duane Hamacher, with Elders and Knowledge Holders, A&U)
- Raised by Wolves (Jess Ho, Affirm)
- Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here (Heather Rose, A&U)
- The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner (Grace Tame, Macmillan)
- The Jane Austen Remedy (Ruth Wilson, A&U)
Debut fiction
- Sunbathing (Isobel Beech, A&U)
- The Islands (Emily Brugman, A&U)
- Wake (Shelley Burr, Hachette)
- The Mother (Jane Caro, A&U)
- Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls (Anne Casey-Hardy, Scribner)
- Every Version of You (Grace Chan, Affirm)
- Jesustown (Paul Daley, A&U)
- All That’s Left Unsaid (Tracey Lien, HQ Fiction)
- Son of Sin (Omar Sakr, Affirm)
- Dirt Town (Hayley Scrivenor, Macmillan)
Illustrated nonfiction
- Bush Life (Beauty in the Bush Collective, Affirm)
- Eat Weeds (Diego Bonetto, Thames & Hudson)
- With Nature (Fiona Brockhoff, Hardie Grant)
- Sons of War (Paul Byrnes, Affirm)
- First Nations Food Companion (Damien Coulthard & Rebecca Sullivan, Murdoch Books)
- Big Beautiful Female Theory (Eloise Grills, Affirm)
- Cressida Campbell (National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Australia)
- RecipeTin Eats: Dinner (Nagi Maehashi (Macmillan)
- Tenderheart (Hetty McKinnon (Plum)
- Creature: Paintings, Drawings and Reflections by Shaun Tan (Windy Hollow)
Children’s
- Frank’s Red Hat (Sean E Avery, Walker Books)
- Come Together (Isaiah Firebrace, illus by Jaelyn Biumaiwai, Hardie Grant Explore)
- Market Day (Carrie Gallasch, illus by Hannah Sommerville, HGCP)
- Ceremony: Welcome to Our Country (Adam Goodes & Ellie Laing, illus by David Hardy, A&U Children’s)
- Guardians: Wylah the Koorie Warrior 1 (Jordan Gould & Richard Pritchard, Albert Street)
- Floof (Heidi McKinnon, Albert Street)
- The Bookseller’s Apprentice (Amelia Mellor, Affirm)
- All The World Says Goodnight (Jess Racklyeft, Affirm)
- Runt (Craig Silvey, A&U)
- My Strange Shrinking Parents (Zeno Sworder, Thames & Hudson)
Young adult
- Cop and Robber (Tristan Bancks, Puffin)
- The Museum of Broken Things (Lauren Draper, Text)
- Completely Normal (and Other Lies) (Biffy James, HGCP)
- A Little Spark (Barry Jonsberg, A&U Children’s)
- Sugar (Carly Nugent, Text)
- A Walk in the Dark (Jane Godwin, Lothian)
- Unnecessary Drama (Nina Kenwood, Text)
- Only a Monster (Vanessa Len, A&U Children’s)
- The Brink (Holden Sheppard, Text)
- Where You Left Us (Rhiannon Wilde, UQP).
Established in 2008, the Indie Book Awards are nominated by independent booksellers from around the country.
The shortlist will be announced on 18 January 2023, and the category winners and overall book of the year will be announced at a virtual event on Monday, 20 March 2023.
The winner of the 2022 Indie Book of the Year was Love Stories by Trent Dalton (Fourth Estate).
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