The Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction is a prize category in the annual Indie Book Awards (Australia) presented by Australian Independent Booksellers.
The award was established in 2008.
Winners and shortlists
2008–2009 +Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – FictionYearAuthorTitleResultRef. 2008 Tim WintonBreath Winner 2009 Craig SilveyJasper Jones Winner
2010–2019 +Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – FictionYearAuthorTitleResultRef. 2010 Not awarded 2011 Chris WomersleyBereft Winner 2012 Elliot Perlman The Street Sweeper Winner Geraldine Brooks Caleb's Crossing Finalist Gillian Mears Foal's Bread Finalist Gail Jones Five Bells Finalist 2013 Toni Jordan Nine Days Winner Christopher Koch Lost Voices Finalist Michelle de Kretser Questions of Travel Finalist Drusilla Modjeska The Mountain Finalist 2014 Richard Flanagan The Narrow Road to the Deep North Winner Christos Tsiolkas Barracuda Finalist Alex Miller Coal Creek Finalist Tim Winton Eyrie Finalist 2015 Sonya Hartnett Golden Boys Winner Favel Parrett When the Night Comes Finalist Peter Carey Amnesia Finalist Graeme Simsion The Rosie Effect Finalist 2016 Charlotte Wood The Natural Way of Things Winner Gail Jones A Guide to Berlin Finalist Stephanie Bishop The Other Side of the World Finalist Geraldine Brooks The Secret Chord Finalist 2017 Dominic Smith The Last Painting of Sara de Vos Winner Hannah Kent The Good People Finalist Liane Moriarty Truly Madly Guilty Finalist Inga Simpson Where the Trees Are Finalist 2018 Sofie Laguna The Choke Winner Jane Harper Force of Nature Finalist Jock Serong On the Java Ridge Finalist Chris Womersley City of Crows Finalist 2019 Markus Zusak Bridge of Clay Winner Jane Harper The Lost Man Finalist Kristina Olsson Shell Finalist Tim Winton The Shepherd's Hut Finalist
2020– +Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – FictionYearAuthorTitleResultRef.2020 Favel Parrett There Was Still Love Winner Heather Rose Bruny Finalist Christian White The Wife and the Widow Finalist Charlotte Wood The Weekend Finalist 2021 Craig Silvey Honeybee Winner Trent Dalton All Our Shimmering Skies Finalist Richard Flanagan The Living Sea of Waking Dreams Finalist Chris Flynn Mammoth Finalist 2022 Charlotte McConaghy Once There Were Wolves Winner Chris Hammer Treasure and Dirt Finalist Hannah Kent Devotion Finalist Inga Simpson The Last Woman in the World Finalist 2023 Geraldine Brooks Horse Winner Robbie Arnott Limberlost Finalist Diana Reid Seeing Other People Finalist Holly Ringland The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding Finalist 2024 Melissa Lucashenko Edenglassie Winner Trent Dalton Lola in the Mirror Finalist Chris Hammer The Seven Finalist Pip Williams The Bookbinder of Jericho Finalist 2025 Robbie Arnott Dusk Winner Jock Serong Cherrywood Finalist Christian White The Ledge Finalist Tim Winton Juice Finalist 2026 Charlotte McConaghy Wild Dark Shore Winner Toni Jordan Tenderfoot Finalist Debra Oswald One Hundred Years of Betty Finalist Sally Hepworth Mad Mabel Finalist
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