2025 Shortlist
Fiction
Dusk by Robbie Arnott (Picador Australia)
Cherrywood by Jock Serong (Fourth Estate Australia)
The Ledge by Christian White (Affirm Press)
Juice by Tim Winton (Hamish Hamilton)
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Non-Fiction
We Are the Stars by Gina Chick (Summit Books)
The Season by Helen Garner (Text Publishing)
Sister Viv by Grantlee Kieza (ABC Books, HarperCollins Australia)
Three Wild Dogs and the Truth by Markus Zusak (Picador Australia)
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Debut Fiction
The Deed by Susannah Begbie (Hachette Australia)
The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna Johnston (Michael Joseph)
All The Bees in the Hollows by Lauren Keegan (Affirm Press)
Pheasants Nest by Louise Milligan (Allen & Unwin)
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Illustrated Non-Fiction
The Paintings of Criss Canning by Criss Canning (Thames & Hudson Australia)
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)
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Children's
To Stir with Love by Kate Mildenhall, illustrated by Jess Racklyeft (Simon & Schuster Australia)
All the Beautiful Things by Katrina Nannestad (ABC Books, HarperCollins Australia)
The Midwatch by Judith Rossell (Hardie Grant Children's Publishing)
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)
My Family and Other Suspects by Kate Emery (Allen & Unwin Children's)
Immortal Dark by Tigest Girma (Lothian Children's Books)
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