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The Indie Book Awards were established in 2008 with the aim of creating a unique award recognising and rewarding the best Australian writing as chosen by Australian independent booksellers. The Awards celebrate the enormous depth and range of literary talent in this nation.

The Indie Book Awards differ from other literary awards because they are chosen by independent booksellers who are renowned for their love of books and reading, support new and emerging Australian authors and foster a love of quality writing.

Vision Australia Library has a wide selection of winners, shortlisted and longlisted books from the Australian Indie book awards available in the catalogue.

We encourage you to embrace this opportunity to discover a new author, delve into a new book and download it to your device!

How to access these titles from the Australian Indie book awards

To access these titles, you must be a member of the Vision Australia and logged into the Library website. From there you can search for each book's title.

Book of the year

Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

A novel of heartstopping twists, dizzying beauty and ferocious love, Wild Dark Shore is a story about the impossible choices we make to protect the people we love, even as the world around us is ending.

Fiction

  • Lyrebird by Jane Caro 
  • Gravity Let Me Go by Trent Dalton 
  • Legacy by Chris Hammer
  • Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth
  • Tenderfoot by Toni Jordan 
  • One Hundred Years of Betty by Debra Oswald
  • I Am Nannertgarrook by Tasma Walton

Non-Fiction

  • Australia: A History by Tony Abbott
  • Defiance: Stories from Nature and Its Defenders by Bob Brown
  • The Mushroom Tapes by Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper & Sarah Krasnostein
  • The Mushroom Murders by Greg Haddrick
  • Always Home, Always Homesick by Hannah Kent 
  • Nature's Last Dance by Natalie Kyriacou
  • A Bunker in Kyiv by John Lyons

Debut Fiction

  • The Grapevine by Kate Kemp 
  • The Butterfly Women by Madeleine Cleary 
  • Very Impressive For Your Age by Eleanor Kirk
  • Stillwater by Tanya Scott

Children’s / Young Adult

  • Silverborn: The Mystery of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend 
  • Runt and the Diabolical Dognapping by Craig Silvey
  • Darkest Night, Brightest Star by Barry Jonsberg 
  • Wandering Wild by Lynette Noni

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