BookPeople Awards 2025

BookPeople Book of the Year Awards 2025

BookPeople has announced the winners of the 2025 Book of the Year Awards, and the Bookseller of the Year awards.

Adult fiction  Dusk (Robbie Arnott, Picador) *

Adult nonfiction  The Season (Helen Garner, Text)

Children’s  The Midwatch (Judith Rossell, HGCP)

Bookseller of the year  Sally Tabner, Bookoccino, Avalon Beach, NSW

Young bookseller of the year  Sophie Wigan, Harry Hartog, Carindale, Queensland

Children’s bookseller of the year  Allyx Lathrope, Kinokuniya, Sydney.

The winners were announced at the BookPeople conference’s gala dinner and awards night on 15 June at the Brisbane City Hall.

Dusk has been reviewed by QRC.  Click on the title to read our review.

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