The judges for the 2026 Voss Literary Prize for the best novel published in Australia in 2025 short-listed the following titles from the 47 titles which were submitted by publishers:

Randa Abdel-Fattah Discipline (University of Queensland Press)

Natalia Figueroa Barroso Hailstones Fell Without Rain (University of Queensland Press)

Raaza Jamshed What Kept You? (Giramondo Publishing Company)

Gail Jones The Name of the Sister (The Text Publishing Company)

Omar Musa Fierceland (Penguin Books)