The Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Book of the Year is a prize category in the annual Indie Book Awards (Australia) presented by Australian Independent Booksellers.[1]
The prize is awarded to the book considered to be the best from among the other Indie Book Awards Book of the Year catgeories.
The award was established in 2008.
| 2008 | Tim Winton | Breath | Fiction | [2] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Craig Silvey | Jasper Jones | Fiction | |
| 2010 | Not awarded | |||
| 2011 | Anh Do | The Happiest Refugee | Non-Fiction | |
| 2012 | Anna Funder | All That I Am | Debut Fiction | |
| 2013 | M. L. Stedman | The Light Between Oceans | Debut Fiction | [3] |
| 2014 | Richard Flanagan | The Narrow Road to the Deep North | Fiction | [4] |
| 2015 | Don Watson | The Bush: Travels in the Heart of Australia | Non-Fiction | [5] |
| 2016 | Charlotte Wood | The Natural Way of Things | Fiction | [6] |
| 2017 | Jane Harper | The Dry | Debut Fiction | [7] |
| 2018 | Jessica Townsend | Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow | Children's | [8] |
| 2019 | Trent Dalton | Boy Swallows Universe | Debut Fiction | [9] |
| 2020 | Favel Parrett | There Was Still Love | Fiction | [10] |
| 2021 | Pip Williams | The Dictionary of Lost Words | Debut Fiction | [11] |
| 2022 | Trent Dalton | Love Stories | Non-Fiction | [12] |
| 2023 | Craig Silvey | Runt | Children's | [13] |
| 2024 | David Marr | Killing for Country: A Family Story | Non-Fiction | [14] |