2022 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) shortlist

23 May 2022

The 2022 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) shortlist has been announced. Sixty-five titles are vying for recognition in thirteen award categories, including audiobook, biography, fiction, non-fiction, children, and literary fiction.

Across these categories, together with The Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year, shortlisted titles — in no particular order — include:

Still Life by Amber Creswell Bell
The Storyteller by Dave Grohl
Love & Virtue by Diana Reid
Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen
Wild Abandon by Emily Bitto
and the aforementioned Love Stories by Trent Dalton

The winners will be named at a ceremony on the evening of Thursday 9 June 2022, at the ICC Sydney.