Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Non-Fiction
Prize category in Australian book awards
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The Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Non-Fiction is a prize category in the annual Indie Book Awards (Australia) presented by Australian Independent Booksellers.[1]
The award was established in 2008.
Winners and shortlists
2008–2009
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Don Watson | American Journeys | Winner | [2] |
| 2009 | Chloe Hooper | The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island | Winner | [2] |
2010–2019
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Not awarded | [2] | ||
| 2011 | Anh Do | The Happiest Refugee | Winner | [2] |
| 2012 | William McInnes & Sarah Watt | Worse Things Happen at Sea | Winner | [2] |
| Betty Churcher | Notebooks | Finalist | [3] | |
| Paul Keating | After Words | Finalist | [3] | |
| Michael Kirby | A Private Life: Fragments, Memories, Friends | Finalist | [3] | |
| 2013 | Richard de Crespigny | QF32 | Winner | [4] |
| Paul Ham | Sandakan | Finalist | [5] | |
| Michael Leunig | The Essential Leunig: Cartoons from a Winding Path | Finalist | [5] | |
| Paul Lockyer | Lake Eyre | Finalist | [5] | |
| 2014 | David Hunt | Girt | Winner | [6] |
| Hugh Mackay | The Good Life | Finalist | [7] | |
| John Safran | Murder in Mississippi | Finalist | [7] | |
| Kerry-Anne Walsh | The Stalking of Julia Gillard | Finalist | [7] | |
| 2015 | Don Watson | The Bush: Travels in the Heart of Australia | Winner | [8] |
| Emma Ayres | Cadence | Finalist | [9] | |
| Tim Low | Where Song Began | Finalist | [9] | |
| Helen Garner | This House of Grief | Finalist | [9] | |
| 2016 | Magda Szubanski | Reckoning: A Memoir | Winner | [10] |
| Richard Glover | Flesh Wounds | Finalist | [11] | |
| Kate Grenville | One Life | Finalist | [11] | |
| Rosie Waterland | The Anti-Cool Girl | Finalist | [11] | |
| 2017 | Helen Garner | Everywhere I Look | Winner | [12] |
| Maxine Beneba Clarke | The Hate Race | Finalist | [13] | |
| Richard Fidler | Ghost Empire | Finalist | [13] | |
| Clementine Ford | Fight Like a Girl | Finalist | [13] | |
| 2018 | Richard Fidler & Kári Gíslason | Saga Land | Winner | [14] |
| Jimmy Barnes | Working Class Man | Finalist | [15] | |
| Georgia Blain | The Museum of Words | Finalist | [15] | |
| Sarah Krasnostein | The Trauma Cleaner | Finalist | [15] | |
| 2019 | Chloe Hooper | The Arsonist | Winner | [16] |
| Richard Glover | The Land Before Avocado | Finalist | [17] | |
| Bri Lee | Eggshell Skull | Finalist | [17] | |
| Leigh Sales | Any Ordinary Day | Finalist | [17] | |
2020–
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Archie Roach | Tell Me Why | Winner | [18] |
| Claire Bowditch | Your Own Kind of Girl | Finalist | [19] | |
| Kitty Flanagan | 488 Rules for Life: The Thankless Art of Being Correct | Finalist | [19] | |
| Tyson Yunkaporta | Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World | Finalist | [19] | |
| 2021 | Julia Baird | Phosphorescence | Winner | [20] |
| Eddie Jaku | The Happiest Man on Earth | Finalist | [21] | |
| Grace Karskens | People of the River | Finalist | [21] | |
| Cassandra Pybus | Truganini: Journey Through the Apocalypse | Finalist | [21] | |
| 2022 | Trent Dalton | Love Stories | Winner | [22] |
| Bri Lee | Who Gets to Be Smart | Finalist | [23] | |
| Richard Flanagan | Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry | Finalist | [23] | |
| Caroline Graham and Kylie Stevenson | Larrimah | Finalist | [23] | |
| 2023 | Richard Fidler | The Book of Roads and Kingdoms | Winner | [24] |
| Duane Hamacher, with Elders and Knowledge Holders | The First Astronomers | Finalist | [25] | |
| Heather Rose | Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here | Finalist | [25] | |
| Grace Tame | The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner | Finalist | [25] | |
| 2024 | David Marr | Killing for Country: A Family Story | Winner | [26] |
| Julia Baird | Bright Shining | Finalist | [27] | |
| Anna Funder | Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life | Finalist | [27] | |
| Grantlee Kieza | The Remarkable Mrs Reibey | Finalist | [27] | |
| 2025 | Markus Zusak | Three Wild Dogs and the Truth | Winner | [28] |
| Gina Chick | We Are the Stars | Finalist | [29] | |
| Helen Garner | The Season | Finalist | [29] | |
| Grantlee Kieza | Sister Viv | Finalist | [29] | |
| 2026 | Hannah Kent | Always Home, Always Homesick | Winner | [30] |
| Geraldine Brooks | Memorial Days | Finalist | [31] | |
| Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein | The Mushroom Tapes | Finalist | [31] | |
| John Lyons | A Bunker in Kyiv | Finalist | [31] | |