Adventure
- Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone, The by Jacqueline Moriarty, Kelly Canby (illustrator)
Contemporary Fiction
- Digging Up Dirt by Pamela Hart
- Last Love Note, The by Emma Grey
- the Near Daphne Experience by Alison Reynolds
Cozy Mystery
- Bittersweet Murder, A (Hart of Texas #1) by Kaz Delaney
- Preserving the Evidence (Hart of Texas #2) by Kaz Delaney
- Candy-Coated Conspiracy (Hart of Texas #3) by Kaz Delaney
General Fiction
- Shades of Grey (Shades of Grey #1) by Jasper Fforde
Historical Fiction
- Dictionary of Lost Words, The by Pip Williams
Junior Fiction
- Beatrice Zinker, Upside Down Thinker (Beatrice Zinker #1) by Shelley Johannes
- Juno Jones, Word Ninja (Juno Jones #1) by Kate Gordon
- Queen Narelle by Sally Murphy, Simon O'Carrigan (illustrator)
Middle Fiction
- Melody Trumpet by Gabrielle Tozer
- Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone, The by Jacqueline Moriarty, Kelly Canby (illustrator)
Mystery
- Digging Up Dirt by Pamela Hart
- Bittersweet Murder, A (Hart of Texas #1) by Kaz Delaney
- Preserving the Evidence (Hart of Texas #2) by Kaz Delaney
- Candy-Coated Conspiracy (Hart of Texas #3) by Kaz Delaney
Picture Book
- Leaf Called Greaf, A by Kelly Canby, Kelly Canby (illustrator)
- Anchored by Debra Tidball, Arielle Li (illustrator)
- Because by Mo Willems, Amber Ren (Illustrator)
- Bidhi Galing by Anita Heiss, Samantha Campbell (illustrator)
- Count the Stars by Raewyn Caisley, Gabriel Evans (illustrator)
- Engilina's Trains (Engibear #3) by Andrew King, Benjamin Johnston (illustrator)
- Frank's Red Hat by Sean E Avery
- Freddy the Not-Teddy by Kristen Schroeder, Hilary Jean Tapper (illustrator)
- Grumpy Monkey by Suzanne Lang, Max Lang (illustrator)
- Last-Place Lin by Wai Chim, Freda Chiu (illustrator)
- Miss Understood by Kat Apel, Beau Wylie (illustrator)
- Black Book of Colours, The by Menena Cottin, Rosana Faria (illustrator)
- Circles All Around Us, The by Brad Montague, Kristi Montague (illustrator)
- Wheelbarrow Express, The by Sue Whiting, Cate James (illustrator)
- What Feelings Do When No One's Looking by Tina Oziewicz, Aleksandra Zajac (illustrator)
- My Heart is a Compass by Deborah Marcero, Deborah Marcero (illustrator)
The Five Mile Press
- Wonder, The by Faye Hanson