The Indie Book Awards are the only awards curated exclusively by independent bookshops. They showcase the best paperback reads for the summer and help demonstrate the impact of independent booksellers building readerships for the books they love.
The Indie Book Awards comprise four categories: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Children’s Fiction and Picture Book. Publishers can submit up to three titles per imprint, per category (submission forms will be available in January). Independent booksellers across the UK and Ireland curate the shortlist from the publisher submissions and a panel of judges then decide on the four winners. The Indie Book Awards shortlist and winners are promoted to and by all bookshops participating in Independent Bookshop Week.
The full shortlists are available below. If you spot anything missing, it's one it's way back into the bookshop so do get in touch if you'd like to order a copy!
Fiction
James by Percival Everett (Picador)
There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak (Penguin General)
The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry (Canongate Books)
Caledonian Road by Andrew O’Hagan (Faber)
The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier (The Borough Press)
Think Again by Jacqueline Wilson (Bantam, Transworld, Penguin)
Non-Fiction
A Bookshop of One’s Own: How a group of women set out to change the world by Jane Cholmeley (Mudlark)
Dispersals: On Plants, Borders and Belonging by Jessica J. Lee (Transworld)
Ingrained: The making of a craftsman by Callum Robinson (Doubleday Books)
Reading Lessons: An English Teacher’s Love Letter to the Books that Shape Us by Carol Atherton (Fig Tree)
The Garden Against Time: In Search Of A Common Paradise by Olivia Laing (Picador)
Welcome to the Club: The Life and Lessons of a Black Woman DJ by DJ Paulette (Manchester University Press)
Children’s Fiction
Finding Bear by Hannah Gold, illustrated by Levi Pinfold (HarperCollins Children's Books)
Ghostlines by Katya Balen (Bloomsbury Children’s Books)
Murder for Two by Niyla Farook (Piccadilly Press)
The Falling Boy by David Almond (Hodder Children's Books)
Brielle and Bear: Once Upon a Time by Salomey Doku (Harper Fire)
Reek by Alastair Chisholm, illustrated by George Caltsoudas (Barrington Stoke)
Picture Book
Bear by Natalia Shaloshvili (Frances Lincoln Children's Books)
The Dinosaur Next Door by David Litchfield (Magic Cat Publishing)
Farah Loves Mangoes by Sarthak Sinha (Flying Eye Books)
The Golden Hare by Paddy Donnelly (The O’Brien Press)
Invisible Dogs by Ruby Wright (Rocket Bird Books)
Runaway Cone by Morag Hood (Two Hoots)
