Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) 2025

The Australian Book Industry Awards celebrate the achievements of authors and publishers in bringing Australian books to readers. The first award winners were announced in 2001, making the 2025 awards the 25th year of celebration!

Updated May 19, 2025
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Voice Inside, The
Farnham, John
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 ABIA BIOGRAPHY BOOK OF THE YEAR At last, the unflinching and unforgettable memoir of music and life from the much-loved Australian legend. Growing up in London and Melbourne, music was always part of John Farnham's world. But the...
My family and other suspects
Emery, Kate
The Truck Cat
Frenkel, Deborah.
Paper Book
The Truck Cat is a story about cats and humans, immigration and identity, and homes lost and found. With illustrations by multi-award-winning artist Danny Snell and words by acclaimed new writer Deborah Frenkel, The Truck Cat is the perfect book...
What happened to Nina?
McTiernan, Dervla
Paper Book
From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an emotional novel of suspense about two families pitted against each other. 'Addictive. Propulsive. Dervla McTiernan is a thriller master.' Trent Dalton Shortlisted for ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year...
Chairman's lounge, the
Aston, Joe
Paper Book
Shortlisted for the 2025 ABIA Awards, General Nonfiction Book of the Year and The Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year From the must-read journalist on how power, money and influence work in this country, the full story of how one of the...
Tonight
Maehashi, Nagi
Paper Book
Original Australian edition, includes metric measurements Australia's favourite home cook, Nagi Maehashi, is back to solve the perennial problem of what's for dinner tonight ... and every night. Following on from her record-breaking first cookbook, Dinner, Nagi brings us Tonight with more than 150...
The Ministry of Time
Bradley, Kaliane.
Paper Book
A 2024 literary highlight in the Sunday Times, BBC, Grazia, Dazed, Sunday Express, GQ, i-D, Stylist, Bookseller and Literary Friction'Outrageously brilliant' ELEANOR CATTON'Make room on your bookshelves for a new...
Dusk
Arnott, Robbie
Paper Book
'Magnificent' Tim WintonIn the distant highlands, a puma named Dusk is killing shepherds. Down in the lowlands, twins Iris and Floyd are out of work, money and friends. When they hear that a bounty has been placed on Dusk, they reluctantly decide to join the hunt. As they journey up into this wild,...
Out of the blue
Field, Anthony
Paper Book
Revealing his fight against a diagnosis of 'incurable' brain cancer, this is the remarkable story of 2024 co-Australian of the Year Richard Scolyer.
We are the stars: ; a misfit's story of love, connection and the glorious power of letting go
Chick, Gina.

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