# Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Debut Fiction

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.
The award was established in 2008.

## Winners and shortlists

Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Debut Fiction :
| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 2008 | Toni Jordan | Addition | Winner |
| 2009 | Sonia Orchard | The Virtuoso | Winner |
| 2010 | Not awarded | | |
| 2011 | Jon Bauer | Rocks in the Belly | Winner |
| 2012 | Anna Funder | All That I Am | Winner |
| 2012 | Favel Parrett | Past the Shallows | Finalist |
| 2012 | Rohan Wilson | The Roving Party | Finalist |
| 2012 | Adrienne Ferreira | Watercolours | Finalist |
| 2013 | M. L. Stedman | The Light Between Oceans | Winner |
| 2013 | Paul D. Carter | Eleven Seasons | Finalist |
| 2013 | Peter Twohig | The Cartographer | Finalist |
| 2013 | Hannah Richell | Secrets of the Tides | Finalist |
| 2014 | Hannah Kent | Burial Rites | Winner |
| 2014 | Inga Simpson | Mr Wigg | Finalist |
| 2014 | Graeme Simsion | The Rosie Project | Finalist |
| 2014 | Fiona McFarlane | The Night Guest | Finalist |
| 2015 | Maxine Beneba Clarke | Foreign Soil | Winner |
| 2015 | Brooke Davis | Lost & Found | Finalist |
| 2015 | Emily Bitto | The Strays | Finalist |
| 2015 | Christine Piper | After Darkness | Finalist |
| 2016 | Lucy Treloar | Salt Creek | Winner |
| 2016 | Shirley Barrett | Rush Oh! | Finalist |
| 2016 | Robyn Cadwallader | The Anchoress | Finalist |
| 2016 | Antonia Hayes | Relativity | Finalist |
| 2017 | Jane Harper | The Dry | Winner |
| 2017 | Melissa Ashley | The Birdman's Wife | Finalist |
| 2017 | David Dyer | The Midnight Watch | Finalist |
| 2017 | Holly Throsby | Goodwood | Finalist |
| 2018 | Mark Brandi | Wimmera | Winner |
| 2018 | Melanie Cheng | Australia Day | Finalist |
| 2018 | Dennis Glover | The Last Man in Europe | Finalist |
| 2018 | Sarah Schmidt | See What I Have Done | Finalist |
| 2019 | Trent Dalton | Boy Swallows Universe | Winner |
| 2019 | Chris Hammer | Scrublands | Finalist |
| 2019 | Heather Morris | The Tattooist of Auschwitz | Finalist |
| 2019 | Christian White | The Nowhere Child | Finalist |
| 2020 | Suzanne Daniel | Allegra in Three Parts | Winner |
| 2020 | Anne Brinsden | Wearing Paper Dresses | Finalist |
| 2020 | Felicity McLean | The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone | Finalist |
| 2020 | Molly Murn | Heart of the Grass Tree | Finalist |
| 2021 | Pip Williams | The Dictionary of Lost Words | Winner |
| 2021 | Kyle Perry | The Bluffs | Finalist |
| 2021 | Nardi Simpson | Song of the Crocodile | Finalist |
| 2021 | Jessie Tu | A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing | Finalist |
| 2022 | Lyn Yeowart | The Silent Listener | Winner |
| 2022 | Hannah Bent | When Things Are Alive They Hum | Finalist |
| 2022 | Campbell Mattinson | We Are Not Men | Finalist |
| 2022 | Diana Reid | Love & Virtue | Finalist |
| 2023 | Tracey Lien | All That's Left Unsaid | Winner |
| 2023 | Shelley Burr | Wake | Finalist |
| 2023 | Omar Sakr | Son of Sin | Finalist |
| 2023 | Hayley Scrivener | Dirt Town | Finalist |
| 2024 | Jane Harrison | The Visitors | Winner |
| 2024 | Madeleine Gray | Green Dot | Finalist |
| 2024 | Kerryn Mayne | Lenny Marks Gets Away With Murder | Finalist |
| 2024 | Molly Schmidt | Salt River Road | Finalist |
| 2025 | Susannah Begbie | The Deed | Finalist |
| 2025 | Anna Johnston | The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife | Finalist |
| 2025 | Lauren Keegan | All the Bees in the Hollows | Finalist |
| 2025 | Louise Milligan | Pheasants Nest | Finalist |