The Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Debut 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 – Debut FictionYearAuthorTitleResultRef. 2008 Toni Jordan Addition Winner 2009 Sonia Orchard The Virtuoso Winner
2010–2019 +Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Debut FictionYearAuthorTitleResultRef. 2010 Not awarded 2011 Jon Bauer Rocks in the Belly Winner 2012 Anna Funder All That I Am Winner Favel Parrett Past the Shallows Finalist Rohan Wilson The Roving Party Finalist Adrienne Ferreira Watercolours Finalist 2013 M. L. Stedman The Light Between Oceans Winner Paul D. Carter Eleven Seasons Finalist Peter Twohig The Cartographer Finalist Hannah Richell Secrets of the Tides Finalist 2014 Hannah Kent Burial Rites Winner Inga Simpson Mr Wigg Finalist Graeme Simsion The Rosie Project Finalist Fiona McFarlane The Night Guest Finalist 2015 Maxine Beneba Clarke Foreign Soil Winner Brooke Davis Lost & Found Finalist Emily Bitto The Strays Finalist Christine Piper After Darkness Finalist 2016 Lucy Treloar Salt Creek Winner Shirley Barrett Rush Oh! Finalist Robyn Cadwallader The Anchoress Finalist Antonia Hayes Relativity Finalist 2017 Jane Harper The Dry Winner Melissa Ashley The Birdman's Wife Finalist David Dyer The Midnight Watch Finalist Holly Throsby Goodwood Finalist 2018 Mark Brandi Wimmera Winner Melanie Cheng Australia Day Finalist Dennis Glover The Last Man in Europe Finalist Sarah Schmidt See What I Have Done Finalist 2019 Trent Dalton Boy Swallows Universe Winner Chris Hammer Scrublands Finalist Heather Morris The Tattooist of Auschwitz Finalist Christian White The Nowhere Child Finalist
2020– +Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Debut FictionYearAuthorTitleResultRef.2020 Suzanne Daniel Allegra in Three Parts Winner Anne Brinsden Wearing Paper Dresses Finalist Felicity McLean The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone Finalist Molly Murn Heart of the Grass Tree Finalist 2021 Pip Williams The Dictionary of Lost Words Winner Kyle Perry The Bluffs Finalist Nardi Simpson Song of the Crocodile Finalist Jessie Tu A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing Finalist 2022 Lyn Yeowart The Silent Listener Winner Hannah Bent When Things Are Alive They Hum Finalist Campbell Mattinson We Are Not Men Finalist Diana Reid Love & Virtue Finalist 2023 Tracey Lien All That's Left Unsaid Winner Shelley Burr Wake Finalist Omar Sakr Son of Sin Finalist Hayley Scrivener Dirt Town Finalist 2024 Jane Harrison The Visitors Winner Madeleine Gray Green Dot Finalist Kerryn Mayne Lenny Marks Gets Away With Murder Finalist Molly Schmidt Salt River Road Finalist 2025 Lauren Keegan All the Bees in the Hollows Winner Susannah Begbie The Deed Finalist Anna Johnston The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife Finalist Louise Milligan Pheasants Nest Finalist 2026 Emma Pei Yin When Sleeping Women Wake Winner Madeleine Cleary The Butterfly Women Finalist Stefanie Koens Daughters of Batavia Finalist Angie Faye Martin Melaleuca Finalist
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