This is the list I’ll be making my 2024 Stella Prize longlist predictions from. Sing out if there are errors (for example the book was not actually published in 2023) or if there are books I’ve missed – my compilation of this list involves absolutely no quality control.
The longlist will be announced on March 4, 2024.
FICTION
Where I Slept by Libby Angel
The Naturalist of Amsterdam by Melissa Ashley
Bitter & Sweet by Amal Awad
Serengotti by Eugen Bacon
The Anniversary by Stephanie Bishop
The Modern by Anna Kate Blair
Dark Mode by Ashley Klagian Blunt
Body Friend by Katherine Brabon
The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer
Ravenous Girls by Rebecca Burton
House of Longing by Tara Calaby
Everyone and Everything by Nadine J. Cohen
One Illuminated Thread by Sally Colin-James
Fed to Red Birds by Rijn Collins
Glass Houses by Anne Coombs
Storylines by Carrie Cox
Strangers at the Port by Lauren Aimee Curtis
Call Me Marlowe by Catherine de Saint Phalle
Why We Are Here by Briohny Doyle
Sad Girl Novel by Pip Finkemeyer
The Scope of Permissibility by Zeynab Gamieldien
The Gifted Son by Genevieve Gannon
Green Dot by Madeleine Gray
Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville
Resistance by Jacinta Halloran
The Visitors by Jane Harrison
Weyward by Emilia Hart
One Day We’re All Going to Die by Elise Esther Hearst
Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth
On a Bright Hillside in Paradise by Annette Higgs
Between You and Me by Joanna Horton
Untethered by Ayesha Inoon
Roseghetto by Kirsty Jagger
Orphia and Eurydicius by Elyse John
Maggie by Catherine Johns
Prettier if She Smiled More by Toni Jordan
Doll’s Eye by Leah Kaminsky
Vincent & Sien by Silvia Kwon
Funny Ethics by Shirley Le
Mistakes and Other Lovers by Amy Lovat
Thirst for Salt by Madelaine Lucas
Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko
Inheritance by Kath O’Connor
Feast by Emily O’Grady
The Days Toppled Over by Vidya Madabushi
Never Look Desperate by Rachel Matthews
Born For You by Magdalena McGuire
Gunflower by Laura Jean McKay
Little Plum by Laura McPhee-Brown
Higher Education by Kira McPherson
The Art of Breaking Ice by Rachael Mead
The Hummingbird Effect by Kate Mildenhall
Prima Facie by Suzie Miller
Sisters Under the Rising Sun by Heather Morris
Homecoming by Kate Morton
Notes on her Color by Jennifer Neal
Girl in a Pink Dress by Kylie Needham
Crushing by Genevieve Novak
The Sitter by Angela O’Keeffe
Once a Stranger by Zoya Patel
Where Light Meets Water by Susan Paterson
Exquistie Corpse by Marija Pericic
A Light in the Dark by Allee Richards
Sunbirds by Mirandi Riwoe
The Heart is a Star by Megan Rogers
Blackwater by Jacqueline Ross
Songs for the Dead and the Living by Sara M Saleh
Burn by Melanie Saward
Salt River Road by Molly Schmidt
Compulsion by Kate Scott
Perfect-ish by Jessica Seaborn
The Matchmaker by Saman Shad
The Crying Room by Gretchen Shirm
Willowman by Inga Simpson
After the Rain by Aisling Smith
Twelve Steps to a Long and Fulfilling Death by Sarah Smith
Beatrix and Fred by Emily Spurr
Something Bad is Going to Happen by Jessie Stephens
The Things That Matter Most by Gabbie Stroud
Search History by Amy Taylor
The Opposite of Success by Eleanor Elliot Thomas
The Love Contract by Steph Vizard
The Albatross by Nina Wan
Judgement Day by Mali Waugh
The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
West Girls by Laura Elizabeth Woollett
Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright
The Wakes by Dianne Yarwood
The Disorganisation of Celia Stone by Emma Young
But the Girl by Jessica Zhan Mei Yu
MEMOIR
Emboldened by Belinda Alexandre
Inconceivable by Alexandra Collier
Unfinished Woman by Robyn Davidson
Reckless by Marele Day
Eleven Letters to You by Helen Elliott
Tell Her She’s Dreamin’by Simone Amelia Jordan
Fat Girl Dancing by Kris Kneen
Infidelity and Other Affairs by Kathy Legge
I Don’t Need Therapy (and Other Lies I’ve Told Myself) by Toni Lodge
Graft by Maggie MacKellar
The Last Daughter by Brenda Matthews
Heartbake by Charlotte Ree
The Vitals by Tracy Sorensen
I Had a Father in Karratha by Annette Trevitt
Personal Score by Ellen van Neerven
The God of No Good by Sita Walker
NON FICTION
O’Leary of the Underworld by Kate Auty
Taking to the Field by Jane Carey
The Catch by Anna Clark
Her Sunburnt Country by Deborah FitzGerald
Wifedom by Anna Funder
Inner Song by Jillian Graham
Frank Moorhouse: A Life by Catharine Lumby
The Good Death Through Time by Caitlin Mahar
Cloud Land by Penny van Oosterzee
Underground Lovers by Alison Pouliot
You Talk, We Die by Judy Ryan
On Red Earth Walking by Anne Scrimgeour
Abandon Every Hope by Hayley Singer
Who Cares? by Eve Vincent
Media Monsters by Sally Young
POETRY
The Exclusion Zone by Shastra Deo
She is the Earth by Ali Cobby Eckermann
Dress Rehearsals by Madison Godfrey
The Drama Student by Autumn Royal