BookPeople 2023 Book of the Year longlists announced
BookPeople has announced the longlists for the 2023 Book of the Year Awards, formerly the Booksellers Choice awards.
The longlisted titles in each category are:
Adult fiction book of the year
- Limberlost (Robbie Arnott, Text)
- Cold Enough for Snow (Jessica Au, Giramondo)
- Sunbathing: A novel (Isobel Beech, A&U)
- Horse (Geraldine Brooks, Hachette)
- This Devastating Fever (Sophie Cunningham, Ultimo)
- Exiles (Jane Harper, Macmillan)
- All That’s Left Unsaid (Tracey Lien, HQ)
- The Murder Rule (Dervla McTiernan, HarperCollins)
- Iris (Fiona Kelly McGregor, Picador)
- Seeing Other People (Diana Reid, Ultimo)
- Willowman (Inga Simpson, Hachette)
- Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone (Benjamin Stevenson, Michael Joseph)
Adult nonfiction book of the year
- The Boy from Boomerang Crescent (Eddie Betts, S&S)
- Faith, Hope and Carnage (Nick Cave & Seán O’Hagan, Text)
- Reasons Not to Worry: How to be Stoic in chaotic times (Brigid Delaney, A&U)
- The Book of Roads and Kingdoms (Richard Fidler, ABC Books)
- Ten Steps to Nanette: A memoir situation (Hannah Gadsby, A&U)
- Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech (Julia Gillard, Vintage)
- Bedtime Story (Chloe Hooper, Scribner Australia)
- Tripping Over Myself: A memoir of a life in comedy (Shaun Micallef, Hardie Grant)
- Around the Table: Delicious food for every day (Julia Busuttil Nishimura, Plum)
- Bulldozed: Scott Morrison’s fall and Anthony Albanese’s rise (Niki Savva, Scribe)
- So You Want To Live Younger Longer? (Norman Swan, Hachette)
- The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner: A memoir (Grace Tame, Macmillan)
Children’s book of the year
- Farmhouse (Sophie Blackall, Lothian)
- Come Together: Things every Aussie kid should know about the First Peoples (Isaiah Firebrace, Explore)
- Back On Country: Welcome to our Country (Adam Goodes & Ellie Laing, A&U Children’s)
- Guardians: Wylah the Koorie warrior 1 (Jordan Gould & Richard Pritchard, A&U Children’s)
- Unnecessary Drama (Nina Kenwood, Text)
- A Tiny Light (Alison Lester, UQP)
- The Killing Code (Ellie Marney, A&U Children’s)
- The Bookseller’s Apprentice (Amelia Mellor, Affirm)
- A Girl Called Corpse (Reece Carter, A&U Children’s)
- Runt (Craig Silvey, A&U Children’s)
- The Dangerous Business of Being Trilby Moffat (Kate Temple, Lothian)
- Snap! (Anna Walker, Scribe)
The BookPeople Book of the Year Awards recognise the best Australian titles released in 2022 that booksellers have selected as their favourite hand-sells. Members can log in to the BookPeople website to vote for their favourite titles.
Shortlists will be announced on 21 April. The winners will be announced on Sunday, 18 June at the BookPeople conference gala dinner and awards night in Adelaide.
Last year’s winners were Love & Virtue (Diana Reid, Ultimo), Love Stories (Trent Dalton, Fourth Estate) and Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief (Katrina Nannestad, ABC Books).
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