# Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction

The Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – 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 – Fiction :
| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 2008 | Tim Winton | Breath | Winner |
| 2009 | Craig Silvey | Jasper Jones | Winner |
| 2010 | Not awarded | | |
| 2011 | Chris Womersley | Bereft | Winner |
| 2012 | Elliot Perlman | The Street Sweeper | Winner |
| 2012 | Geraldine Brooks | Caleb's Crossing | Finalist |
| 2012 | Gillian Mears | Foal's Bread | Finalist |
| 2012 | Gail Jones | Five Bells | Finalist |
| 2013 | Toni Jordan | Nine Days | Winner |
| 2013 | Christopher Koch | Lost Voices | Finalist |
| 2013 | Michelle de Kretser | Questions of Travel | Finalist |
| 2013 | Drusilla Modjeska | The Mountain | Finalist |
| 2014 | Richard Flanagan | The Narrow Road to the Deep North | Winner |
| 2014 | Christos Tsiolkas | Barracuda | Finalist |
| 2014 | Alex Miller | Coal Creek | Finalist |
| 2014 | Tim Winton | Eyrie | Finalist |
| 2015 | Sonya Hartnett | Golden Boys | Winner |
| 2015 | Favel Parrett | When the Night Comes | Finalist |
| 2015 | Peter Carey | Amnesia | Finalist |
| 2015 | Graeme Simsion | The Rosie Effect | Finalist |
| 2016 | Charlotte Wood | The Natural Way of Things | Winner |
| 2016 | Gail Jones | A Guide to Berlin | Finalist |
| 2016 | Stephanie Bishop | The Other Side of the World | Finalist |
| 2016 | Geraldine Brooks | The Secret Chord | Finalist |
| 2017 | Dominic Smith | The Last Painting of Sara de Vos | Winner |
| 2017 | Hannah Kent | The Good People | Finalist |
| 2017 | Liane Moriarty | Truly Madly Guilty | Finalist |
| 2017 | Inga Simpson | Where the Trees Are | Finalist |
| 2018 | Sofie Laguna | The Choke | Winner |
| 2018 | Jane Harper | Force of Nature | Finalist |
| 2018 | Jock Serong | On the Java Ridge | Finalist |
| 2018 | Chris Womersley | City of Crows | Finalist |
| 2019 | Markus Zusak | Bridge of Clay | Winner |
| 2019 | Jane Harper | The Lost Man | Finalist |
| 2019 | Kristina Olsson | Shell | Finalist |
| 2019 | Tim Winton | The Shepherd's Hut | Finalist |
| 2020 | Favel Parrett | There Was Still Love | Winner |
| 2020 | Heather Rose | Bruny | Finalist |
| 2020 | Christian White | The Wife and the Widow | Finalist |
| 2020 | Charlotte Wood | The Weekend | Finalist |
| 2021 | Craig Silvey | Honeybee | Winner |
| 2021 | Trent Dalton | All Our Shimmering Skies | Finalist |
| 2021 | Richard Flanagan | The Living Sea of Waking Dreams | Finalist |
| 2021 | Chris Flynn | Mammoth | Finalist |
| 2022 | Charlotte McConaghy | Once There Were Wolves | Winner |
| 2022 | Chris Hammer | Treasure and Dirt | Finalist |
| 2022 | Hannah Kent | Devotion | Finalist |
| 2022 | Inga Simpson | The Last Woman in the World | Finalist |
| 2023 | Geraldine Brooks | Horse | Winner |
| 2023 | Robbie Arnott | Limberlost | Finalist |
| 2023 | Diana Reid | Seeing Other People | Finalist |
| 2023 | Holly Ringland | The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding | Finalist |
| 2024 | Melissa Lucashenko | Edenglassie | Winner |
| 2024 | Trent Dalton | Lola in the Mirror | Finalist |
| 2024 | Chris Hammer | The Seven | Finalist |
| 2024 | Pip Williams | The Bookbinder of Jericho | Finalist |
| 2025 | Robbie Arnott | Dusk | Finalist |
| 2025 | Jock Serong | Cherrywood | Finalist |
| 2025 | Christian White | The Ledge | Finalist |
| 2025 | Tim Winton | Juice | Finalist |