ABIA Awards 2024
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the shortlists for the 2024 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs).
Two of the shortlists are below.
General fiction book of the year
- The Bookbinder of Jericho (Pip Williams, Affirm)
- Dark Mode (Ashley Kalagian-Blunt, Ultimo)
- Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Benjamin Stevenson, Michael Joseph)
- Green Dot (Madeleine Gray, A&U)
- Homecoming (Kate Morton, A&U)
- Mr Einstein’s Secretary (Matthew Reilly, Macmillan)
Literary fiction book of the year
- The Hummingbird Effect (Kate Mildenhall, Scribner) *
- The In-Between (Christos Tsiolkas, A&U) *
- Lola in the Mirror (Trent Dalton, Fourth Estate) *
- Prima Facie (Suzie Miller, Picador)
- Stone Yard Devotional (Charlotte Wood, A&U) *
- Women & Children (Tony Birch, UQP)
Books marked * have been reviewed by QRC. To read our reviews, click on the book’s title.
The category winners and the overall Book of the Year winner will be announced at an awards event in Melbourne on Thursday 9 May.
To see all the shortlists and for more information, visit the ABIA website – 2024 Book Awards Shortlist Announcement – ABIA (abiawards.com.au)