Fiction

There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett (Hachette Australia)

Bruny by Heather Rose (Allen and Unwin)

The Wife and the Widow by Christian White (Affirm Press)

The Weekend by Charlotte Wood (Allen and Unwin)

Non-Fiction

Your Own Kind of Girl by Clare Bowditch (Allen and Unwin)

488 Rules for Life: The Thankless Art of Being Correct by Kitty Flanagan (Allen and Unwin)

Tell Me Why by Archie Roach (Simon & Schuster Australia)

Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta (Text Publishing)

Debut Fiction

Wearing Paper Dresses by Anne Brinsden (Macmillan Australia)

Allegra in Three Parts by Suzanne Daniel (Macmillan Australia)

The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone by Felicity McLean (Fourth Estate Australia)

Heart of the Grass Tree by Molly Murn (Vintage Australia)

Illustrated Non-Fiction

The Lost Boys by Paul Byrnes (Affirm Press)

Finding the Heart of the Nation by Thomas Mayor (Hardie Grant Books)

The Whole Fish Cookbook by Josh Niland (Hardie Grant Books)

In an Australian Light edited by Jo Turner (Thames & Hudson Australia)

Children's

The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Ugly Animals by Sami Bayly (Lothian Children's Books)

Into the Wild: Wolf Girl, Book 1 by Anh Do, illustrated by Jeremy Ley (Allen and Unwin Children's)

The Tiny Star by Mem Fox & Freya Blackwood (Puffin Australia)

Young Dark Emu: A Truer History by Bruce Pascoe (Magabala Books)

Young Adult

The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling by Wai Chim (Allen and Unwin Children's)

Aurora Rising: The Aurora Cycle 1 by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (Allen and Unwin Children's)

It Sounded Better in My Head by Nina Kenwood (Text Publishing)

Monuments by Will Kostakis (Lothian Children's Books)