Indie book awards: fiction shortlist
Pao
The shortlists for 2026's Indie Book Awards are here!
The Indies are the only book awards curated exclusively by independent bookshops. Focused on paperbacks, they celebrate the role of booksellers in building readerships and reach for the books we love the most.
This year, our Pao was part of the jury for the fiction and non-fiction categories. You can explore the fiction shortlist below, and the non-fic list here!
Linked Books
- title
- Wild Dark Shore
- author
- McConaghy, Charlotte
- title
- Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
- author
- Hendrix, Grady
- title
- Fundamentally
- author
- Younis, Nussaibah
- title
- The Names
- author
- Knapp, Florence
- title
- Muckle Flugga
- author
- Pedersen, Michael
- title
- Katabasis
- author
- Kuang, R. F.