2025 Longlist
Fiction
Dusk by Robbie Arnott (Picador Australia)
Safe Haven by Shankari Chandran (Ultimo Press)
The Valley by Chris Hammer (Allen & Unwin)
Rapture by Emily Maguire (Allen & Unwin)
Highway 13 by Fiona McFarlane (Allen & Unwin)
Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty (Macmillan Australia)
Cherrywood by Jock Serong (Fourth Estate Australia)
The Thinning by Inga Simpson (Hachette Australia)
The Ledge by Christian White (Affirm Press)
Juice by Tim Winton (Hamish Hamilton)
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Non-Fiction
The Chairman's Lounge by Joe Aston (Scribner Australia)
Australian Gospel by Lech Blaine (Black Inc.)
We Are the Stars by Gina Chick (Summit Books)
Milk by Matthew Evans (Murdoch Books)
The Season by Helen Garner (Text Publishing)
Mr and Mrs Gould by Grantlee Kieza (ABC Books, HarperCollins Australia)
Sister Viv by Grantlee Kieza (ABC Books, HarperCollins Australia)
The Way We Are by Hugh Mackay (Allen & Unwin)
Kosciuszko by Anthony Sharwood (Hachette Australia)
Three Wild Dogs and the Truth by Markus Zusak (Picador Australia)
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Debut Fiction
The Death of Dora Black by Lainie Anderson (Hachette Australia)
The Deed by Susannah Begbie (Hachette Australia)
Dirt Poor Islanders by Winnie Dunn (Hachette Australia)
A Town Called Treachery by Mitch Jennings (HarperCollins Australia)
The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna Johnston (Michael Joseph)
All The Bees in the Hollows by Lauren Keegan (Affirm Press)
The Work by Bri Lee (Allen & Unwin)
Pheasants Nest by Louise Milligan (Allen & Unwin)
The Hitwoman's Guide to Reducing Household Debt by Mark Mupotsa-Russell (Affirm Press)
Tilda Is Visible by Jane Tara (Affirm Press)
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Illustrated Non-Fiction
Bake with Brooki by Brooke Bellamy (Penguin Australia)
The Paintings of Criss Canning by Criss Canning (Thames & Hudson Australia)
My Mediterranean Life by Sarah Di Lorenzo (Simon & Schuster Australia)
How to Do It in the Garden by Sabrina Hahn (Fremantle Press)
What Can I Bring? by Sophie Hansen (Murdoch Books)
RecipeTin Eats: Tonight by Nagi Maehashi (Macmillan Australia)
The Diaries of Fred Williams 1963–1970 by Patrick McCaughey (Miegunyah Press)
Tony Tan's Asian Cooking Class by Tony Tan (Murdoch Books)
The Natural Gardener by Richard Unsworth (Thames & Hudson Australia)
Salad for Days by Alice Zaslavsky (Murdoch Books)
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Children's
Thunderhead by Sophie Beer (Allen & Unwin Children's)
The Garden of Broken Things by Freya Blackwood (HarperCollins Australia)
Hazel's Treehouse by Zanni Louise (Walker Books Australia)
To Stir with Love by Kate Mildenhall (Simon & Schuster Australia)
All the Beautiful Things by Katrina Nannestad (ABC Books, HarperCollins Australia)
The Midwatch by Judith Rossell (Hardie Grant Children's Publishing)
How to Move a Zoo by Kate Simpson, illustrated by Owen Swan (Allen & Unwin Children's)
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Tooth Fairy (And Some Things You Didn't) by Briony Stewart (Lothian Children's Books)
Reading to Baby by Margaret Wild, illustrated by Hannah Sommerville (Affirm Press)
The 113th Assistant Librarian by Stuart Wilson (Penguin Australia)
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Young Adult
Comes the Night by Isobelle Carmody (Allen & Unwin Children's)
Eleanor Jones Can’t Keep a Secret by Amy Doak (Penguin Australia)
Return to Sender by Lauren Draper (Macmillan Australia)
My Family and Other Suspects by Kate Emery (Allen & Unwin Children's)
Immortal Dark by Tigest Girma (Lothian Children's Books)
My Brother, Finch by Kate Gordon (Riveted Press)
White Noise by Raelke Grimmer (UWA Publishing)
I'm Not Really Here by Gary Lonesborough (Allen & Unwin Children's)
The Skin I'm In by Steph Tisdell (Macmillan Australia)
Deep Is the Fen by Lili Wilkinson (Allen & Unwin Children's)
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Shortlist announced 15 January 2025
Book of the Year announced 24 March 2025
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