Indie Book Awards 2025 longlists announced

• Dusk (Robbie Arnott, Picador)
• Safe Haven (Shankari Chandran, Ultimo)
• The Valley (Chris Hammer, A&U)
• Rapture (Emily Maguire, A&U)
• Highway 13 (Fiona McFarlane, A&U)
• Here One Moment (Liane Moriarty, Macmillan)
• Cherrywood (Jock Serong, Fourth Estate)
• The Thinning (Inga Simpson, Hachette)
• The Ledge (Christian White, Affirm)
• Juice (Tim Winton, Hamish Hamilton)

• The Chairman’s Lounge (Joe Aston, Scribner)
• Australian Gospel (Lech Blaine, Black Inc.)
• We Are the Stars (Gina Chick, Summit)
• Milk (Matthew Evans, Murdoch)
• The Season (Helen Garner, Text)
• Mr and Mrs Gould (Grantlee Kieza, ABC Books)
• Sister Viv (Grantlee Kieza, ABC Books)
• The Way We Are (Hugh Mackay, A&U)
• Kosciuszko (Anthony Sharwood, Hachette)
• Three Wild Dogs and the Truth (Markus Zusak, Picador)

• The Death of Dora Black (Lainie Anderson, Hachette)
• The Deed (Susannah Begbie, Hachette)
• Dirt Poor Islanders (Winnie Dunn, Hachette)
• A Town Called Treachery (Mitch Jennings, HarperCollins)
• The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife (Anna Johnston, Michael Joseph)
• All The Bees in the Hollows (Lauren Keegan, Affirm)
• The Work (Bri Lee, A&U)
• Pheasants Nest (Louise Milligan, A&U)
• The Hitwoman’s Guide to Reducing Household Debt (Mark Mupotsa-Russell, Affirm)
• Tilda Is Visible (Jane Tara, Affirm)

Illustrated nonfiction

• Bake with Brooki (Brooke Bellamy, Penguin)
• The Paintings of Criss Canning (Criss Canning, Thames & Hudson)
• My Mediterranean Life (Sarah Di Lorenzo, S&S)
• How to Do It in the Garden (Sabrina Hahn, Fremantle)
• What Can I Bring? (Sophie Hansen, Murdoch)
• RecipeTin Eats: Tonight (Nagi Maehashi, Macmillan)
• The Diaries of Fred Williams 1963–1970 (Patrick McCaughey, Miegunyah)
• Tony Tan’s Asian Cooking Class (Tony Tan, Murdoch)
• The Natural Gardener (Richard Unsworth, Thames & Hudson)
• Salad for Days (Alice Zaslavsky, Murdoch)

• Thunderhead (Sophie Beer (A&U Children’s)
• The Garden of Broken Things (Freya Blackwood, HarperCollins)
• Hazel’s Treehouse (Zanni Louise, Walker)
• To Stir with Love (Kate Mildenhall, S&S)
• All the Beautiful Things (Katrina Nannestad, ABC Books)
• The Midwatch (Judith Rossell, HGCP)
• How to Move a Zoo (Kate Simpson, illus by Owen Swan, A&U Children’s)
• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Tooth Fairy (And Some Things You Didn’t) (Briony Stewart, Lothian)
• Reading to Baby (Margaret Wild, illus by Hannah Sommerville, Affirm)
• The 113th Assistant Librarian (Stuart Wilson, Penguin)

Young adult

• Comes the Night (Isobelle Carmody, A&U Children’s)
• Eleanor Jones Can’t Keep a Secret (Amy Doak, Penguin)
• Return to Sender (Lauren Draper, Macmillan)
• My Family and Other Suspects (Kate Emery, A&U Children’s)
• Immortal Dark (Tigest Girma, Lothian)
• My Brother, Finch (Kate Gordon, Riveted Press)
• White Noise (Raelke Grimmer, UWA Publishing)
• I’m Not Really Here (Gary Lonesborough, A&U Children’s)
• The Skin I’m In (Steph Tisdell, Macmillan)
• Deep Is the Fen (Lili Wilkinson, A&U Children’s).

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