# Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Non-Fiction

The Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Non-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 – Non-Fiction :
| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 2008 | Don Watson | American Journeys | Winner |
| 2009 | Chloe Hooper | The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island | Winner |
| 2010 | Not awarded | | |
| 2011 | Anh Do | The Happiest Refugee | Winner |
| 2012 | William McInnes & Sarah Watt | Worse Things Happen at Sea | Winner |
| 2012 | Betty Churcher | Notebooks | Finalist |
| 2012 | Paul Keating | After Words | Finalist |
| 2012 | Michael Kirby | A Private Life: Fragments, Memories, Friends | Finalist |
| 2013 | Richard de Crespigny | QF32 | Winner |
| 2013 | Paul Ham | Sandakan | Finalist |
| 2013 | Michael Leunig | The Essential Leunig: Cartoons from a Winding Path | Finalist |
| 2013 | Paul Lockyer | Lake Eyre | Finalist |
| 2014 | David Hunt | Girt | Winner |
| 2014 | Hugh Mackay | The Good Life | Finalist |
| 2014 | John Safran | Murder in Mississippi | Finalist |
| 2014 | Kerry-Anne Walsh | The Stalking of Julia Gillard | Finalist |
| 2015 | Don Watson | The Bush: Travels in the Heart of Australia | Winner |
| 2015 | Emma Ayres | Cadence | Finalist |
| 2015 | Tim Low | Where Song Began | Finalist |
| 2015 | Helen Garner | This House of Grief | Finalist |
| 2016 | Magda Szubanski | Reckoning: A Memoir | Winner |
| 2016 | Richard Glover | Flesh Wounds | Finalist |
| 2016 | Kate Grenville | One Life | Finalist |
| 2016 | Rosie Waterland | The Anti-Cool Girl | Finalist |
| 2017 | Helen Garner | Everywhere I Look | Winner |
| 2017 | Maxine Beneba Clarke | The Hate Race | Finalist |
| 2017 | Richard Fidler | Ghost Empire | Finalist |
| 2017 | Clementine Ford | Fight Like a Girl | Finalist |
| 2018 | Richard Fidler & Kári Gíslason | Saga Land | Winner |
| 2018 | Jimmy Barnes | Working Class Man | Finalist |
| 2018 | Georgia Blain | The Museum of Words | Finalist |
| 2018 | Sarah Krasnostein | The Trauma Cleaner | Finalist |
| 2019 | Chloe Hooper | The Arsonist | Winner |
| 2019 | Richard Glover | The Land Before Avocado | Finalist |
| 2019 | Bri Lee | Eggshell Skull | Finalist |
| 2019 | Leigh Sales | Any Ordinary Day | Finalist |
| 2020 | Archie Roach | Tell Me Why | Winner |
| 2020 | Claire Bowditch | Your Own Kind of Girl | Finalist |
| 2020 | Kitty Flanagan | 488 Rules for Life: The Thankless Art of Being Correct | Finalist |
| 2020 | Tyson Yunkaporta | Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World | Finalist |
| 2021 | Julia Baird | Phosphorescence | Winner |
| 2021 | Eddie Jaku | The Happiest Man on Earth | Finalist |
| 2021 | Grace Karskens | People of the River | Finalist |
| 2021 | Cassandra Pybus | Truganini: Journey Through the Apocalypse | Finalist |
| 2022 | Trent Dalton | Love Stories | Winner |
| 2022 | Bri Lee | Who Gets to Be Smart | Finalist |
| 2022 | Richard Flanagan | Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry | Finalist |
| 2022 | Caroline Graham and Kylie Stevenson | Larrimah | Finalist |
| 2023 | Richard Fidler | The Book of Roads and Kingdoms | Winner |
| 2023 | Duane Hamacher, with Elders and Knowledge Holders | The First Astronomers | Finalist |
| 2023 | Heather Rose | Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here | Finalist |
| 2023 | Grace Tame | The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner | Finalist |
| 2024 | David Marr | Killing for Country: A Family Story | Winner |
| 2024 | Julia Baird | Bright Shining | Finalist |
| 2024 | Anna Funder | Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life | Finalist |
| 2024 | Grantlee Kieza | The Remarkable Mrs Reibey | Finalist |
| 2025 | Gina Chick | We Are the Stars | Finalist |
| 2025 | Helen Garner | The Season | Finalist |
| 2025 | Grantlee Kieza | Sister Viv | Finalist |
| 2025 | Markus Zusak | Three Wild Dogs and the Truth | Finalist |