Western Australian Premier's Book Awards - 1999 Shortlist
Fiction | Poetry | Young Adult's Books | Children's Books | Historical & Critical Studies | Special
| Prowler - Marion Campbell |
| Our Man K - Nicholas Hasluck |
| Benang : From the Heart - Kim Scott |
| Blue - Ken Spillman |
| Poe's Cat - Brenda Walker |
| Editing the Moon - Caroline Caddy |
| Kangaroo Virus - John Kinsella & Ron Sims |
| The Willing Eye - Tracy Ryan |
| Going Off - Colin Bowles |
| Surf's Up - Diana Chase |
| Scooterboy - Glyn Parry |
| About This Little Devil and This Little Fella - Albert Barunga (dec), Stephen Muecke & Julie Dowling |
| Showtime! Over 75 Ways to Put on a Show - Reg Bolton |
| Angel in a Gum Tree - Diana Chase, Valerie Krantz & Heather Hummel |
| Straggler's Reef - Elaine Forrestal |
| Broken Lives - Estelle Blackburn |
| Claremont : a History - Geoffrey Bolton & Jenny Gregory |
| Miles of Post and Wire - Florence Corrigan & Loreen Brehaut |
| Fiction and the Law : Legal discourse in Victorian and Modernist Literature - Kieran Dolin |
| The Myth of Privilege : Aboriginal status, Media Visions, Public Ideas - Steve Mickler |
| Voyage of Discovery to Terra Australis : by Willem de Vlamingh in 1696-97 - Phillip Playford |
| Kangkushot : the Life of Nyamal lawman Peter Coppin - Jolly Read & Peter Coppin |
| Fairbridge : Empire and Child Migration - Geoffrey Sherington & Chris Jeffery |
| Sister Kate : a Life Dedicated to Children in Need of Care - Vera Whittington |
| The Song of the Earth (Script) - John Aitken |
| Cray Tales - Annie De Monchaux |
| Carrying the Banner : Women, Leadership and Activism in Australia - Joan Eveline & Lorraine Hayden |
| Abrolhos Islands : Conversations - Victor France, Larry Mitchell & Alison Wright |
| William Dampier in New Holland : Australia's First Natural Historian - Alexander George |
| Material Women '99 : Quilts That Tell Stories - Katie Hill & Margaret Ross |
| Landbridge : Contemporary Australian Poetry - John Kinsella |