Winners of the Indie Book Awards 2022 Announced!

Australian independent booksellers are thrilled to announce Love Stories by Trent Dalton as their favourite book from last year, and the winner of The Indie Book Awards 2022 Book of the Year.

The Awards recognise and celebrate indie booksellers as the number one supporters of Australian authors. What makes our Indies uniquely placed to judge and recommend the best Aussie books of the past year to their customers and readers, is their incredible passion and knowledge, their contribution to the cultural diversity of the Australian reading public by recommending books beyond the big brands, and their love of quality writing.

The individual category winners in Fiction, Debut Fiction, Non-Fiction, Illustrated Non-Fiction, Children’s and Young Adult were also announced. From these six category winners, the independent booksellers selected the best of the best – The 2022 Indie Book of the Year.

The winners of the Indie Book Awards 2022 are:

BOOK OF THE YEAR

Love Stories by Trent Dalton (Fourth Estate Australia)

 FICTION

Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy (Hamish Hamilton Australia)

 NON-FICTION

Love Stories by Trent Dalton (Fourth Estate Australia)

DEBUT FICTION

The Silent Listener by Lyn Yeowart (Viking Australia)

ILLUSTRATED NON-FICTION

Still Life by Amber Creswell Bell (Thames & Hudson Australia)

CHILDREN’S

Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief by Katrina Nannestad (ABC Books, HarperCollins Australia)

YOUNG ADULT

The Monster of Her Age by Danielle Binks (Lothian Children’s Books)