BookPeople 2024 Book of the Year shortlists announced
Wednesday, 17 April 2024 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing
BookPeople has announced the shortlists for its Book of the Year awards.
The shortlists for each category are:
Adult fiction
- Lola in the Mirror (Trent Dalton, Fourth Estate)
- Green Dot (Madeleine Gray, A&U)
- Edenglassie (Melissa Lucashenko, UQP)
- Prima Facie (Suzie Miller, Picador)
- 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)
- Killing for Country: A family story (David Marr, Black Inc.)
- The Voice to Parliament Handbook (Thomas Mayo & Kerry O’Brien, HG Explore)
- I’d Rather Not (Robert Skinner, Black Inc.)
Children’s
- Scar Town (Tristan Bancks, Puffin)
- If I Was a Horse (Sophie Blackall, Lothian)
- A Life Song (Jane Godwin & Anna Walker, Puffin)
- Welcome to Sex (Melissa Kang & Yumi Stynes, HGCP)
- Artichoke to Zucchini (Alice Oehr, Scribble)
- Kimmi (Favel Parrett, Lothian).
The shortlists were created by bookseller votes on the award longlists. The winners will 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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