Luke Carman, An Elegant Young Man (Giramondo)

Hannah Kent, Burial Rites (Picador)

Eleanor Limprecht, What Was Left (Sleepers)

Alex Miller, Coal Creek (Allen & Unwin)

Christos Tsiolkas, Barracuda (Allen & Unwin)

Alexis Wright, The Swan Book (Giramondo)

Evie Wyld, All The Birds, Singing (Random House)

Tim Winton, Eyrie (Penguin)

Cory Taylor, My Beautiful Enemy (Text)

Fiona McFarlane, The Night Guest (Penguin)

Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Random House)