The Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Book of the Year is a prize category in the annual Indie Book Awards (Australia) presented by Australian Independent Booksellers.
The prize is awarded to the book considered to be the best from among the other Indie Book Awards Book of the Year categories.
The award was established in 2008.
Winners
+Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Book of the YearYearAuthorTitleCategoryRef. 2008 Tim Winton Breath Fiction 2009 Craig SilveyJasper Jones Fiction 2010 Not awarded 2011 Anh Do The Happiest Refugee Non-Fiction 2012 Anna Funder All That I Am Debut Fiction 2013 M. L. Stedman The Light Between Oceans Debut Fiction 2014 Richard Flanagan The Narrow Road to the Deep North Fiction 2015 Don Watson The Bush: Travels in the Heart of Australia Non-Fiction 2016 Charlotte Wood The Natural Way of Things Fiction 2017 Jane Harper The Dry Debut Fiction 2018 Jessica Townsend Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow Children's 2019 Trent Dalton Boy Swallows Universe Debut Fiction 2020 Favel Parrett There Was Still Love Fiction 2021 Pip Williams The Dictionary of Lost Words Debut Fiction 2022 Trent Dalton Love Stories Non-Fiction 2023 Craig Silvey Runt Children's 2024 David Marr Killing for Country: A Family Story Non-Fiction 2025 Robbie Arnott Dusk Fiction 2026 Charlotte McConaghy Wild Dark Shore Fiction
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