BookPeople is delighted to announce the winners of the BookPeople 2024 Book of the Year Awards announced at the BookPeople Conference Gala Dinner and Awards Night in Melbourne on Sunday 16 June.
The BookPeople Book of the Year Awards recognise the Australian books published in 2023 that our booksellers have selected as their favourite books to personally recommend as part of their ongoing commitment to bring writers and readers together. These awards celebrate the unique role played by booksellers in sharing their knowledge and passion with communities across the country.
Previous winners include Limberlost by Robbie Arnott, The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams, Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton, Reckoning: A Memoir by Magda Szubanski, All That I Am by Anna Funder, and The 52-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton.
BookPeople BookData - Adult Fiction Book of the Year
- Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko (University of Queensland Press)
BookPeople BookData - Adult Non-Fiction Book of the Year
- Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder (Hamish Hamilton)
BookPeople Kids' Reading Guide - Children's Book of the Year
- If I Was A Horse by Sophie Blackall (Lothian Children's Books)
BookPeople 2024 Book Awards Shortlists
BookPeople BookData - Adult Fiction Book of the Year
- Lola in the Mirror by Trent Dalton (HarperCollins Publishers Australia)
- Green Dot by Madeleine Gray (Allen & Unwin)
- Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko (University of Queensland Press)
- Prima Facie by Suzie Miller (Picador Australia)
- The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams (Affirm Press)
- Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood (Allen & Unwin)
BookPeople BookData - Adult Non-Fiction Book of the Year
- Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything by Julia Baird (HarperCollins Publishers Australia)
- Question 7 by Richard Flanagan (Penguin Random House Australia)
- Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder (Hamish Hamilton)
- Killing for Country: A Family Story by David Marr (Black Inc.)
- The Voice to Parliament Handbook by Thomas Mayo & Kerry O'Brien (Hardie Grant Explore)
- I'd Rather Not by Robert Skinner, Black Inc.
BookPeople Kids' Reading Guide - Children's Book of the Year
- Scar Town by Tristan Bancks (Puffin)
- If I Was A Horse by Sophie Blackall (Lothian Children's Books)
- A Life Song by Jane Godwin & Anna Walker (Puffin)
- Welcome to Sex by Dr. Melissa Kang & Yumi Stynes (Hardie Grant Children’s Publishers)
- Artichoke to Zucchini by Alice Oehr (Scribble)
- Kimmi by Favel Parrett (Hachette)