The Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Non-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 – Non-FictionYearAuthorTitleResultRef. 2008 Don Watson American Journeys Winner 2009 Chloe Hooper The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island Winner
2010–2019 +Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Non-FictionYearAuthorTitleResultRef. 2010 Not awarded 2011 Anh Do The Happiest Refugee Winner 2012 William McInnes & Sarah Watt Worse Things Happen at Sea Winner Betty Churcher Notebooks Finalist Paul Keating After Words Finalist Michael Kirby A Private Life: Fragments, Memories, Friends Finalist 2013 Richard de Crespigny QF32 Winner Paul Ham Sandakan Finalist Michael Leunig The Essential Leunig: Cartoons from a Winding Path Finalist Paul Lockyer Lake Eyre Finalist 2014 David Hunt Girt Winner Hugh Mackay The Good Life Finalist John Safran Murder in Mississippi Finalist Kerry-Anne Walsh The Stalking of Julia Gillard Finalist 2015 Don Watson The Bush: Travels in the Heart of Australia Winner Emma Ayres Cadence Finalist Tim Low Where Song Began Finalist Helen Garner This House of Grief Finalist 2016 Magda Szubanski Reckoning: A Memoir Winner Richard Glover Flesh Wounds Finalist Kate Grenville One Life Finalist Rosie Waterland The Anti-Cool Girl Finalist 2017 Helen Garner Everywhere I Look Winner Maxine Beneba Clarke The Hate Race Finalist Richard Fidler Ghost Empire Finalist Clementine Ford Fight Like a Girl Finalist 2018 Richard Fidler & Kári Gíslason Saga Land Winner Jimmy Barnes Working Class Man Finalist Georgia Blain The Museum of Words Finalist Sarah Krasnostein The Trauma Cleaner Finalist 2019 Chloe Hooper The Arsonist Winner Richard Glover The Land Before Avocado Finalist Bri Lee Eggshell Skull Finalist Leigh Sales Any Ordinary Day Finalist
2020– +Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Non-FictionYearAuthorTitleResultRef.2020 Archie Roach Tell Me Why Winner Claire Bowditch Your Own Kind of Girl Finalist Kitty Flanagan 488 Rules for Life: The Thankless Art of Being Correct Finalist Tyson Yunkaporta Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World Finalist 2021 Julia Baird Phosphorescence Winner Eddie Jaku The Happiest Man on Earth Finalist Grace Karskens People of the River Finalist Cassandra Pybus Truganini: Journey Through the Apocalypse Finalist 2022 Trent Dalton Love Stories Winner Bri Lee Who Gets to Be Smart Finalist Richard Flanagan Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry Finalist Caroline Graham and Kylie Stevenson Larrimah Finalist 2023 Richard Fidler The Book of Roads and Kingdoms Winner Duane Hamacher, with Elders and Knowledge Holders The First Astronomers Finalist Heather Rose Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here Finalist Grace Tame The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner Finalist 2024 David Marr Killing for Country: A Family Story Winner Julia Baird Bright Shining Finalist Anna Funder Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life Finalist Grantlee Kieza The Remarkable Mrs Reibey Finalist 2025 Markus Zusak Three Wild Dogs and the Truth Winner Gina Chick We Are the Stars Finalist Helen Garner The Season Finalist Grantlee Kieza Sister Viv Finalist 2026 Hannah Kent Always Home, Always Homesick Winner Geraldine Brooks Memorial Days Finalist Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein The Mushroom Tapes Finalist John Lyons A Bunker in Kyiv Finalist
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