After a lot of deliberation, and some very industrious reading, the Great Reads Committee is ready to announce the longlist for the 2023 award. So many Great Reads in one place!! Thanks to all the publishers that submitted entries for consideration and to all those who put in the hard work to finalise the list. Do YOU want to get a head start and see if you can predict a shortlist?? Definitely try on the new longlist for size and hopefully one of your favourites makes our official Shortlist in September 🙂
Happy Reading!
Junior Category
- Nick Brooks for Promise Boys
- Meabh Collins for Freya Harte is Not a Puzzle
- Amy Clarkin for What Walks These Halls
- Anika Hussain for This is How You Fall in Love
- Xena Knox for Sh!t Bag
- Aislinn O’Loughlin for Big Bad Me
- Amara Sage for Influential
- Josh Silver for Happy Head
- M.J. Sullivan for Game Over: Rise of the Raid Mob
- Trang Thanh Tran for She is a Haunting
Senior Category
- James Acker for The Long Run
- Sam Blake for Something Terrible Happened Last Night
- Candice Braithwaite for Cuts Both Ways
- Triona Campbell for A Game of Life or Death
- Sarah Daniels for The Stranded
- Jenny Éclair for The Writing on the Wall
- Bryony Gordon for Let Down Your Hair
- Ravena Guron for This Book Kills
- Jenny Ireland for The First Move
- Clara Kumagai for Catfish Rolling
- Krystal Marquis for The Davenports

