2023 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) shortlists

19 April 2023

Another day, another literary award shortlist announcement, this time it’s the 2023 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) shortlists. All up, seventy-one books have been shortlisted across fourteen categories, including Audiobook of the Year, Biography Book of the Year, several Children’s and The Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year, with five titles selected in two fiction categories:

Literary Fiction Book of the Year

All That’s Left Unsaid by Tracey Lien
The Sun Walks Down by Fiona McFarlane
Horse by Geraldine Brooks
Seeing Other People by Diana Reid
Limberlost by Robbie Arnott

General Fiction Book of the Year

Dirt Town by Hayley Scrivenor
The Tilt by Chris Hammer
Exiles by Jane Harper
Day’s End by Garry Disher
Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson

The ABIAs are pretty close to Australia’s equivalent of the Oscars (or Logies), but for books rather than movies. Accordingly, winners will be named at a ceremony on the evening of Thursday 25 May 2023, in Sydney.