BookPeople 2023 Book of the Year winners announced

BookPeople has announced the winners of the 2023 Book of the Year Awards, formerly the Booksellers Choice awards, and the Bookseller of the Year awards.

The winning titles and booksellers are:

Adult fiction book of the year

• Limberlost (Robbie Arnott, Text)

Adult nonfiction book of the year

• Bulldozed: Scott Morrison’s fall and Anthony Albanese’s rise (Niki Savva, Scribe)

Children’s book of the year

• Runt (Craig Silvey, A&U Children’s)

Bookseller of the year (joint winners)

• Bronwyn Druce, Red Kangaroo Books (Nparntwe/Alice Springs, NT)
• Mark Rubbo, Readings (Carlton, Vic)

Young Bookseller of the Year

• Emily Westmoreland, Avenue Bookstore (Melbourne, Vic)

Children’s Bookseller of the Year

• Rachel Robson, Gleebooks (Glebe, NSW).

The BookPeople Book of the Year Awards recognise the best Australian titles released in 2022 that booksellers have selected as their favourite hand-sells. The Bookseller of the Year awards recognise an individual bookseller for their outstanding achievement in the past 12 months, with the young bookseller of the year award rewarding a bookseller 35 or under.

The winners were announced on Sunday, 18 June at the BookPeople conference gala dinner and awards night in Adelaide.

Last year’s book award winners were Love & Virtue (Diana Reid, Ultimo), Love Stories (Trent Dalton, Fourth Estate) and Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief (Katrina Nannestad, ABC Books); last year’s bookseller award winners were Melanie Peacock, Constant Reader (Crows Nest, NSW), Kimaya Charlton, Where the Wild Things Are (West End, Qld) and Becky Lucas, Shakespeare’s Bookshop (Blackwood, SA).

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