The Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Debut Fiction is a prize category in the annual Indie Book Awards (Australia) presented by Australian Independent Booksellers.[1]
The award was established in 2008.
| 2008 | Toni Jordan | Addition | Winner | [2] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Sonia Orchard | The Virtuoso | Winner | [3] |
| 2010 | Not awarded | [4] | ||
| 2011 | Jon Bauer | Rocks in the Belly | Winner | [5] |
| 2012 | Anna Funder | All That I Am | Winner | [6] |
| Favel Parrett | Past the Shallows | Finalist | [7] | |
| Rohan Wilson | The Roving Party | Finalist | ||
| Adrienne Ferreira | Watercolours | Finalist | ||
| 2013 | M. L. Stedman | The Light Between Oceans | Winner | [8] |
| Paul D. Carter | Eleven Seasons | Finalist | [9] | |
| Peter Twohig | The Cartographer | Finalist | ||
| Hannah Richell | Secrets of the Tides | Finalist | ||
| 2014 | Hannah Kent | Burial Rites | Winner | [10] |
| Inga Simpson | Mr Wigg | Finalist | [11] | |
| Graeme Simsion | The Rosie Project | Finalist | ||
| Fiona McFarlane | The Night Guest | Finalist | ||
| 2015 | Maxine Beneba Clarke | Foreign Soil | Winner | [12] |
| Brooke Davis | Lost & Found | Finalist | [13] | |
| Emily Bitto | The Strays | Finalist | ||
| Christine Piper | After Darkness | Finalist | ||
| 2016 | Lucy Treloar | Salt Creek | Winner | [14] |
| Shirley Barrett | Rush Oh! | Finalist | [15] | |
| Robyn Cadwallader | The Anchoress | Finalist | ||
| Antonia Hayes | Relativity | Finalist | ||
| 2017 | Jane Harper | The Dry | Winner | [16] |
| Melissa Ashley | The Birdman's Wife | Finalist | [17] | |
| David Dyer | The Midnight Watch | Finalist | ||
| Holly Throsby | Goodwood | Finalist | ||
| 2018 | Mark Brandi | Wimmera | Winner | [18] |
| Melanie Cheng | Australia Day | Finalist | [19] | |
| Dennis Glover | The Last Man in Europe | Finalist | ||
| Sarah Schmidt | See What I Have Done | Finalist | ||
| 2019 | Trent Dalton | Boy Swallows Universe | Winner | [20] |
| Chris Hammer | Scrublands | Finalist | [21] | |
| Heather Morris | The Tattooist of Auschwitz | Finalist | ||
| Christian White | The Nowhere Child | Finalist | ||
| 2020 | Suzanne Daniel | Allegra in Three Parts | Winner | [22] |
| Anne Brinsden | Wearing Paper Dresses | Finalist | [23] | |
| Felicity McLean | The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone | Finalist | ||
| Molly Murn | Heart of the Grass Tree | Finalist | ||
| 2021 | Pip Williams | The Dictionary of Lost Words | Winner | [24] |
| Kyle Perry | The Bluffs | Finalist | [25] | |
| Nardi Simpson | Song of the Crocodile | Finalist | ||
| Jessie Tu | A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing | Finalist | ||
| 2022 | Lyn Yeowart | The Silent Listener | Winner | [26] |
| Hannah Bent | When Things Are Alive They Hum | Finalist | [27] | |
| Campbell Mattinson | We Are Not Men | Finalist | ||
| Diana Reid | Love & Virtue | Finalist | ||
| 2023 | Tracey Lien | All That's Left Unsaid | Winner | [28] |
| Shelley Burr | Wake | Finalist | [29] | |
| Omar Sakr | Son of Sin | Finalist | ||
| Hayley Scrivener | Dirt Town | Finalist | ||
| 2024 | Jane Harrison | The Visitors | Winner | [30] |
| Madeleine Gray | Green Dot | Finalist | [31] | |
| Kerryn Mayne | Lenny Marks Gets Away With Murder | Finalist | ||
| Molly Schmidt | Salt River Road | Finalist | ||