Books considered for the 2018 DSBA longlist included:

• The Case of the Forked Road by John Allison
• The One Memory of Flora Banks by Emily Barr
• Iron Fist by Andy Briggs
• Ink by Alice Broadway
• Mega Robo Bros by Neil Cameron
• Girlhood by Cat Clarke
• Delilah Dirk and the King’s Shilling by Tony Cliff
• Margot and Me by Juno Dawson
• We Are Giants by Amber Lee Dodd
• Unbecoming by Jenny Downham
• Mind the Gap by Phil Earle
• The Many Worlds of Albie Bright by Christopher Edge
• A Very Good Chance by Sarah Moore Fitzgerald
• The Trap by Alan Gibbons
• Rabbit’s Bad Habits by Julian Gough
• A Boy Called Christmas by Matt Haig
• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
• The Invincible Tony Spears by Neil Layton
• Beetle Boy by M.G. Leonard
• Blame by Simon Mayo
• Think Twice by Sarah Mlynowski
• The Nest by Kenneth Oppel
• Unboxed by Non Pratt
• The Harder They Fall by Bali Rai
• If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
• Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt
• Black Powder by Ally Sherrick
• A Seven Letter Word by Kim Slater
• Arthur and the Golden Rope by Joe Dodd Stanton
• Contagion by Teri Terry
• Dreaming the Bear by Mimi Thebo
• The Goldfish Boy by Lisa Thompson
• How to Capture an Invisible Cat by Paul Tobin
• The Pearl Thief by Elizabeth Wein
• What Not To Do If You Turn Invisible by Ross Welford