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The Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Illustrated Non-Fiction is a prize category in the annual Indie Book Awards (Australia) presented by Australian Independent Booksellers.[1]
The award was established in 2018.
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Kate Herd & Jela Ivankovic-Waters | Native: Art & Design with Australian Plants | Winner | [2] |
| Maggie Beer with Professor Ralph Martins | Maggie's Recipe For Life | Finalist | [3] | |
| Alex Elliott-Howery & Sabine Spindler | Cornersmith: Salads and Pickles | Finalist | [3] | |
| Janelle McCulloch | Beyond the Rock | Finalist | [3] | |
| 2019 | Marcia Langton | Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country | Winner | [4] |
| Amber Creswell Bell | A Painted Landscape: Across Australia from Bush to Coast | Finalist | [5] | |
| Hetty McKinnon | Family: New vegetable classics to comfort and nourish | Finalist | [5] | |
| Claire Takacs | Australian Dreamscapes | Finalist | [5] | |
| 2020 | Paul Byrnes | The Lost Boys | Winner | [6] |
| Thomas Mayor | Finding the Heart of the Nation | Finalist | [7] | |
| Josh Niland | The Whole Fish Cookbook | Finalist | [7] | |
| Jo Turner (editor) | In an Australian Light | Finalist | [7] | |
| 2021 | Lauren Camilleri & Sophia Kaplan | Plantopedia | Winner | [8] |
| Samantha Bloom, Cameron Bloom & Bradley Trevor | Sam Bloom: Heartache & Birdsong | Finalist | [9] | |
| Natalie Paull | Beatrix Bakes | Finalist | [9] | |
| Alice Zaslavsky | In Praise of Veg | Finalist | [9] | |
| 2022 | Amber Creswell Bell | Still Life | Winner | [10] |
| Jane & Jimmy Barnes | Where the River Bends | Finalist | [11] | |
| Jaclyn Crupi | Garden Like a Nonno | Finalist | [11] | |
| Costa Georgiadis | Costa's World | Finalist | [11] | |
| 2023 | Damien Coulthard and Rebecca Sullivan | First Nations Food Companion | Winner | [12] |
| Eloise Grills | Big Beautiful Female Theory | Finalist | [13] | |
| National Gallery of Australia | Cressida Campbell | Finalist | [13] | |
| Nagi Maehashi | RecipeTin Eats: Dinner | Finalist | [13] | |
| 2024 | Wendy Cooper | The Bird Art of William T. Cooper | Winner | [14] |
| Paul Bangay | Paul Bangay | Finalist | [15] | |
| Patricia Callan | The New Modernist House | Finalist | [15] | |
| Hannah Moloney | Good Life Growing | Finalist | [15] | |
| 2025 | Criss Canning | The Paintings of Criss Canning | Finalist | [16] |
| Nagi Maehashi | RecipeTin Eats : Tonight | Finalist | [16] | |
| Patrick McCaughey | The Diaries of Fred Williams 1963-1970 | Finalist | [16] | |
| Tony Tan | Tony Tan's Asian Cooking Class | Finalist | [16] |