Indie Book Awards: non-fic 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 non-fiction shortlist below, and the fiction list here!
Linked Books
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- Is a River Alive?
- author
- Macfarlane, Robert
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- Careless People : A story of where I used to work
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- Wynn-Williams, Sarah
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- Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal : My Adventures in Neurodiversity
- author
- Robin Ince
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- Minority Rule : Adventures in the Culture War
- author
- Ash Sarkar
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- Mother Mary Comes To Me
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- Roy, Arundhati
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- The New Age of Sexism : How the AI Revolution is Reinventing Misogyny
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- Bates, Laura