2015 in Australian literature

Literary fiction

Tony Birch – Ghost River

Geraldine Brooks – The Secret Chord

Stephen Daisley – Coming Rain

Gregory Day – Archipelago of Souls

Peggy Frew – Hope Farm

Susan Johnson – The Landing

Gail Jones – A Guide to Berlin

Myfanwy Jones – Leap

Mireille Juchau – The World Without Us

Malcolm Knox – The Wonder Lover

Amanda Lohrey – A Short History of Richard Kline

A. S. Patrić – Black Rock White City

Steve Toltz – Quicksand

Lucy Treloar – Salt Creek

Charlotte Wood – The Natural Way of Things

Children's and Young Adult fiction

Nick Earls – New Boy

Andy Griffiths – The 65-Storey Treehouse

Maureen McCarthy – Stay With Me

Sophie Masson – Hunter's Moon

Gillian Mears – The Cat with the Coloured Tail

Louis Nowra – Prince of Afghanistan

Emily Rodda – Two Moons

Lili Wilkinson – Green Valentine

Fiona Wood – Cloudwish

Crime

Peter Corris – Gun Control

Garry Disher – The Heat

Mark Dapin – R&R

Candice Fox – Fall

Katherine Howell – Tell the Truth

Adrian McKinty – Gun Street Girl

Barry Maitland – Ash Island

Michael Robotham – Close Your Eyes

Emma Viskic – Resurrection Bay

Dave Warner – Before It Breaks

Science Fiction and Fantasy

K. A. Bedford – Black Light

John Birmingham – Resistance

James Bradley – Clade

Trudi Canavan — Angel of Storms

Isobelle Carmody – The Red Queen

Kate Forsyth — The Beast's Garden

Jane Rawson – Formaldehyde

Poetry

Robert Adamson – Net Needle

David Brooks – Open House

Clive James – Sentenced to Life

Les Murray – Waiting for the Past

Biographies

David Day – Paul Keating : The Biography

Peter Garrett – Big Blue Sky : A Memoir

Kate Grenville – One Life : My Mother's Story

Gerald Murnane – Something for the Pain : A Memoir of the Turf

Brenda Niall – Mannix

Magda Szubanski – Reckoning : A Memoir

Tim Winton – Island Home : A Landscape Memoir

Non-fiction

Gideon Haigh – Certain Admissions

Lucy Sussex – Blockbuster! : Fergus Hume and the Mystery of the Hansom Cab

Awards and honours

Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.

Deaths

29 January — Colleen McCullough, novelist (born 1937)

24 February — James Aldridge, novelist (born 1918)

24 March – Alan Seymour, playwright (born 1927)

20 May – J. S. Harry, poet (born 1939)