Fiction

• The Life of Houses by Lisa Gorton (Giramondo) (Winner)
• The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood (Allen & Unwin) (Winner)
• Forever Young by Steven Carroll (HarperCollins Publishers)
• The World Repair Video Game by David Ireland AM (Island Magazine Inc.)
• Quicksand by Steve Toltz (Penguin)

Poetry

• The Hazards by Sarah Holland-Batt (University of Queensland Press) (Winner)
• Net Needle by Robert Adamson (Black Inc.)
• Cocky’s Joy by Michael Farrell (Giramondo)
• Waiting for the Past by Les Murray AO (Black Inc.)
• The Ladder by Simon West (Puncher & Wattmann)

Non-fiction

• On Stalin’s Team: the Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics by Sheila Fitzpatrick (Melbourne University Press) (Winner)
• Thea Astley: Inventing her own Weather by Karen Lamb (University of Queensland Press) (Winner)
• Tom Roberts and the Art of Portraiture by Julie Cotter (Thames & Hudson)
• Second Half First by Drusilla Modjeska (Penguin Random House Australia)
• Island Home by Tim Winton (Penguin)

Prize for Australian History

• The Story of Australia’s People. The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia by Geoffrey Blainey AC (Penguin) (Winner)
• Let My People Go: the Untold Story of Australia and the Soviet Jews 1959–89 by Sam Lipski AM and Suzanne D Rutland OAM (Hybrid Publishers) (Winner)
• Red Professor: the Cold War Life of Fred Rose by Peter Monteath and Valerie Munt (Wakefield Press )
• Ned Kelly: A Lawless Life by Doug Morrissey (Connor Court Publishing)
• The War with Germany: Volume III—The Centenary History of Australia and the Great War by Robert Stevenson (Oxford University Press)

Young Adult fiction

• A Single Stone by Meg McKinlay (Walker Books Australia) (Winner)
• Becoming Kirrali Lewis by Jane Harrison (Magabala Books)
• Illuminae: The Illuminae Files _01 by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (Allen & Unwin)
• Inbetween Days by Vikki Wakefield (Text Publishing)
• Green Valentine by Lili Wilkinson (Allen & Unwin)

Children’s fiction

• Sister Heart by Sally Morgan (Fremantle Press) (Winner)
• Adelaide’s Secret World by Elise Hurst (Allen & Unwin)
• Perfect by Danny Parker and illustrated by Freya Blackwood (Hardie Grant Egmont)
• The Greatest Gatsby : A Visual Book of Grammar by Tohby Riddle (Penguin Random House Australia)
• Mr Huff by Anna Walker (Penguin Random House Australia)