Current and historical winners of the BookBrowse Awards, with links to further information at BookBrowse.

BookBrowse Awards

Since 2000, BookBrowse has asked its members and subscribers to select the best books published each year. Through a rigorous voting process, this shortlist is then honed down to find the BookBrowse Awards Winners.

Current and Previous Award Winners:

• 2023
• 2022
• 2021
• 2020
• 2019
• 2018
• 2017
• 2016
• 2015
• 2014
• 2013
• 2012
• 2011
• 2010
• 2009
• 2008
• 2007
• 2006
• 2005

• 2023

  
  BookBrowse Fiction Award:
  The Covenant of Water  by  Abraham Verghese
  
  BookBrowse Nonfiction Award:
  The Wager  by  David Grann
  
  BookBrowse YA Award:
  Remember Us  by  Jacqueline Woodson
  
  BookBrowse Debut Book Award:
  In Memoriam  by  Alice Winn

• 2022

  
  BookBrowse Fiction Award:
  Horse  by  Geraldine Brooks
  
  BookBrowse Nonfiction Award:
  In Love  by  Amy Bloom
  
  BookBrowse Debut Book Award:
  Remarkably Bright Creatures  by  Shelby Van Pelt

• 2021

  
  BookBrowse Fiction Award:
  The Lincoln Highway  by  Amor Towles
  
  BookBrowse Nonfiction Award:
  The Code Breaker  by  Walter Isaacson
  
  BookBrowse YA Award:
  Firekeeper's Daughter  by  Angeline Boulley
  
  BookBrowse Debut Book Award:
  A Million Things  by  Emily Spurr

• 2020

  
  BookBrowse Fiction Award:
  The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue  by  Victoria Schwab
  
  BookBrowse Nonfiction Award:
  The Splendid and the Vile  by  Erik Larson
  
  BookBrowse YA Award:
  We Are Not from Here  by  Jenny Torres Sanchez
  
  BookBrowse Debut Book Award:
  The Mountains Sing  by  Nguyen Phan Que Mai

• 2019

  
  BookBrowse Fiction Award:
  Olive, Again  by  Elizabeth Strout
  
  BookBrowse Nonfiction Award:
  Becoming  by  Michelle Obama
  
  BookBrowse YA Award:
  Butterfly Yellow  by  Thanhha Lai
  
  BookBrowse Debut Book Award:
  Solitary  by  Albert Woodfox

• 2018

  
  BookBrowse Fiction Award:
  Circe  by  Madeline Miller
  
  BookBrowse Nonfiction Award:
  Educated  by  Tara Westover
  
  BookBrowse YA Award:
  Children of Blood and Bone  by  Tomi Adeyemi
  
  BookBrowse Debut Book Award:
  Where the Crawdads Sing  by  Delia Owens

• 2017

  
  BookBrowse Fiction Award:
  Little Fires Everywhere  by  Celeste Ng
  
  BookBrowse Nonfiction Award:
  Killers of the Flower Moon  by  David Grann
  
  BookBrowse YA Award:
  La Belle Sauvage  by  Philip Pullman
  
  BookBrowse Debut Book Award:
  The Dry  by  Jane Harper

• 2016

  
  BookBrowse Fiction Award:
  A Great Reckoning  by  Louise Penny
  
  BookBrowse Nonfiction Award:
  When Breath Becomes Air  by  Paul Kalanithi
  
  BookBrowse YA Award:
  All We Have Left  by  Wendy Mills
  
  BookBrowse Debut Book Award:
  Homegoing  by  Yaa Gyasi

• 2015

  
  BookBrowse Fiction Award:
  The Nightingale  by  Kristin Hannah
  
  BookBrowse Nonfiction Award:
  H Is for Hawk  by  Helen Macdonald
  
  BookBrowse YA Award:
  Goodbye Stranger  by  Rebecca Stead
  
  BookBrowse Debut Book Award:
  Bull Mountain  by  Brian Panowich

• 2014

  
  BookBrowse Fiction Award:
  All the Light We Cannot See  by  Anthony Doerr
  
  BookBrowse Nonfiction Award:
  In the Kingdom of Ice  by  Hampton Sides
  
  BookBrowse YA Award:
  I'll Give You the Sun  by  Jandy Nelson
  
  BookBrowse Debut Book Award:
  A Man Called Ove  by  Fredrik Backman

• 2013

  
  BookBrowse Fiction Award:
  How the Light Gets In  by  Louise Penny
  
  BookBrowse Nonfiction Award:
  Five Days at Memorial  by  Sheri Fink
  
  BookBrowse YA Award:
  Eleanor & Park  by  Rainbow Rowell
  
  BookBrowse Debut Book Award:
  A Constellation of Vital Phenomena  by  Anthony Marra

• 2012

  
  BookBrowse Fiction Award:
  The Light Between Oceans  by  Margot Stedman
  
  BookBrowse Nonfiction Award:
  Behind the Beautiful Forevers  by  Katherine Boo
  
  BookBrowse YA Award:
  Wonder  by  R.J. Palacio

• 2011

  
  BookBrowse YA Award:
  Wonderstruck  by  Brian Selznick
  
  BookBrowse Debut Book Award:
  The Night Circus  by  Erin Morgenstern
  
  Best Book:
  Unbroken  by  Laura Hillenbrand
  
  Runner Up:
  The Greater Journey  by  David McCullough

• 2010

  
  BookBrowse Debut Book Award:
  Major Pettigrew's Last Stand  by  Helen Simonson
  
  Best Book:
  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks  by  Rebecca Skloot

• 2009

  
  BookBrowse Nonfiction Award:
  Abigail Adams  by  Woody Holton
  
  BookBrowse YA Award:
  The Magician's Elephant  by  Kate DiCamillo
  
  BookBrowse Debut Book Award:
  Cutting For Stone  by  Abraham Verghese
  
  Runner Up:
  Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet  by  Jamie Ford
  
  Runner Up:
  The Housekeeper and the Professor  by  Yoko Ogawa
  
  Best Book:
  The Help  by  Kathryn Stockett

• 2008

  
  BookBrowse Debut Book Award:
  A Long Way Gone  by  Ishmael Beah
  
  Runner Up:
  By the Time You Read This  by  Giles Blunt
  
  Runner Up:
  The Uncommon Reader  by  Alan Bennett
  
  Best Book:
  Someone Knows My Name  by  Lawrence Hill

• 2007

  
  BookBrowse Debut Book Award:
  The Book Thief  by  Markus Zusak
  
  Best Book:
  Water for Elephants  by  Sara Gruen

• 2006

  
  BookBrowse Debut Book Award:
  The Penderwicks  by  Jeanne Birdsall
  
  Best Book:
  The Closers  by  Michael Connelly
  
  Ruby Award:
  The Year of Magical Thinking  by  Joan Didion

• 2005

  
  BookBrowse Debut Book Award:
  Love in the Driest Season  by  Neely Tucker
  
  Best Book:
  My Sister's Keeper  by  Jodi Picoult
  
  Ruby Award:
  The Enemy  by  Lee Child