Indie Book Awards 2025 shortlists announced

The shortlists for the 2025 Indie Book Awards have been announced.

The shortlisted titles in each category are:

• Dusk (Robbie Arnott, Picador)
• Cherrywood (Jock Serong, Fourth Estate)
• The Ledge (Christian White, Affirm)
• Juice (Tim Winton, Hamish Hamilton)

Nonfiction

• We Are the Stars (Gina Chick, Summit)
• The Season (Helen Garner, Text)
• Sister Viv (Grantlee Kieza, ABC Books)
• Three Wild Dogs and the Truth (Markus Zusak, Picador)

Debut fiction 

• The Deed (Susannah Begbie, Hachette)
• The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife (Anna Johnston, Michael Joseph)
• All The Bees in the Hollows (Lauren Keegan, Affirm)
• Pheasants Nest (Louise Milligan, A&U)

Illustrated nonfiction

• The Paintings of Criss Canning (Criss Canning, Thames & Hudson)
• 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)

Children’s

• To Stir with Love (Kate Mildenhall, S&S)
• All the Beautiful Things (Katrina Nannestad, ABC Books)
• The Midwatch (Judith Rossell, HGCP)
• 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)
• My Family and Other Suspects (Kate Emery, A&U Children’s)
• Immortal Dark (Tigest Girma, Lothian).

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