Well the book award season is really in full swing. Longlists. Shortlists. Winners already. The Australian Independent Bookseller Awards, the Indies, were announced this week. I'm going to include the longlisted books as there are many, many worthy books included there. Actually I think a number of surprising books were left off the shortlists, but I guess someone has to be.
I have bought quite a number of these books. And yet I've only read three!
Shortlist Fiction
The Good People - Hannah Kent
Truly Madly Guilty - Liane Moriarty
Where the Trees Were - Inga Simpson
The Last Painting of Sara De Vos - Dominic Smith WINNER
Longlist Fiction
The Easy Way Out - Steven Amsterdam
Between a Wolf and a Dog - Georgia Blain
The Better Son - Katherine Johnson
An Isolated Incident - Emily Maguire
Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil - Melina Marchetta
The Rules of Backyard Cricket - Jock Serong
Shortlist Non- Fiction
The Hate Race - Maxine Beneba Clarke
Ghost Empire - Richard Fidler
Fight Like a Girl - Clementine Ford
Everywhere I Look - Helen Garner WINNER
Longlist Non-Fiction
Songs of a War Boy - Deng Thiak Adut
Working Class Boy - Jimmy Barnes
Penguin Bloom - Cameron Bloom and Bradley Trevor Greive
Talking to My Country - Stan Grant
True Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia
The Boy Behind the Curtain - Tim Winton
Shortlist Debut Fiction
The Birdman's Wife - Melissa Ashley
The Midnight Watch - David Dyer
The Dry - Jane Harper WINNER
Goodwood - Holly Throsby
Longlist Debut Fiction
The Memory Artist - Katherine Brabon
The Windy Season - Sam Carmody
Skylarking - Kate Mildenhall
Music and Freedome - Zoe Morrison
The Toymaker - Liam Pieper
Ruins - Rajith Savanadasa
Shortlist Children's
Circle - Jeannie Baker WINNER (see my review)
Pig the Winner - Aaron Blabey
The 78- Storey Treehouse - Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton
Wormwood Mire - Judith Rossell
Longlist Children's
Charlie and the War Against the Grannies - Alan Brough (see my review)
What do the do with all the Poo from all the Animals at the Zoo? - Anh Do and Laura Wood
The Bone Sparrow - Zana Fraillon
Welcome to Country - Joy Murphy and Lisa Kennedy
Molly and Mae - Danny Parker and Freya Blackwood
Artie and the Grime Wave - Richard Roxburgh
Shortlist Young Adult
Words in Deep Blue - Cath Crowley WINNER
Gemina - Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
The Road to Winter - Mark Smith
Our Chemical Hearts - Krystal Sutherland
Longlist Young Adult
When Michael Met Mina - Rand Abdel-Fattah
The Other Side of Summer - Emily Gale
Breathing Under Water - Sophie Hardcastle
The Sidekicks - Will Kostakis
My Sister Rosa - Justine Larbalestier
One Would Think the Deep - Claire Zorn
BOOK of the YEAR is the Debut Fiction winner The Dry! It's on my shelf. Has been for ages. I need to read it. Soon...
1 comment:
You post great lists... I've read Helen Garner's book and really enjoyed it. Then I heard Lee Sales & Annabelle Crab speaking about it and wanted to read it again.. I'd also like to read Stan Grants book.
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