BookPeople Book of the Year longlists announced

BookPeople has announced the longlists for its Book of the Year awards.

The longlists for each category are:

Adult fiction

• Lola in the Mirror (Trent Dalton, Fourth Estate)
• Green Dot (Madeleine Gray, A&U)
• The Seven (Chris Hammer, A&U)
• Darling Girls (Sally Hepworth, Macmillan)
• Edenglassie (Melissa Lucashenko, UQP)
• Prima Facie (Suzie Miller, Picador)
• Homecoming (Kate Morton, A&U)
• Return to Valetto (Dominic Smith, A&U)
• Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Benjamin Stevenson, Michael Joseph)
• The In-Between (Christos Tsiolkas, A&U)
• The Bookbinder of Jericho (Pip Williams, Affirm)
• Stone Yard Devotional (Charlotte Wood, A&U)

Adult nonfiction

• Bright Shining: How grace changes everything (Julia Baird, Fourth Estate)
• Question 7 (Richard Flanagan, Knopf)
• Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s invisible life (Anna Funder, Hamish Hamilton)
• Best Wishes (Richard Glover, ABC Books)
• The Queen Is Dead (Stan Grant, Fourth Estate)
• The Great Divide: Australia’s housing mess and how to fix it: Quarterly Essay (Alan Kohler, Quarterly Essay)
• First Knowledges: Law: The way of the ancestors (Marcia Langton & Aaron Corn, T&H)
• Killing for Country: A family story (David Marr, Black Inc.)
• The Voice to Parliament Handbook (Thomas Mayo & Kerry O’Brien, HG Explore)
• Best Australian Political Cartoons 2023 (ed by Russ Radcliffe, Scribe)
• Storytellers: Questions, answers and the craft of journalism (Leigh Sales, Scribner)
• I’d Rather Not (Robert Skinner, Black Inc.)

Children’s

• Scar Town (Tristan Bancks, Puffin)
• Cat of Death! (Aaron Blabey, Scholastic)
• If I Was a Horse (Sophie Blackall, Lothian)
• The 169-Story Treehouse (Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, Pan)
• Welcome to Sex (Melissa Kang & Yumi Stynes, HGCP)
• Ghost Book (Remy Lai, A&U Children’s)
• Kaldoras (Lynette Noni, Pantera)
• Artichoke to Zucchini (Alice Oehr, Scribble)
• Ember and the Island of Lost Creatures (Jason Pamment, A&U Children’s)
• Kimmi (Favel Parrett, Lothian)
• Stuck Up & Stupid (Angourie Rice & Kate Rice, Walker)
• A Life Song (Jane Godwin & Anna Walker, Puffin).

Booksellers have already cast their votes for the shortlist, which will be announced on 16 April. The winners will then be announced at the BookPeople conference’s gala dinner and awards night on 16 June at the Pullman Melbourne on the Park.

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