Libby Book Awards
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| Libby Book Awards | |
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| First award | 2024 |
The Libby Book Awards are a series of annual literary awards presented by the digital book service Libby. The awards were launched in 2024, with the finalists being announced alongside the creation of the awards in February 2024 and the inaugural winners being declared on March 12, 2024.[1][2]
Categories
[edit source]The inaugural set of awards were given in the following categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Young Adult, Audiobook, Debut Author, Diverse Author, Comic Graphic Novel, Memoir & Autobiography, Cookbook, Mystery, Thriller, Romance, Fantasy, Romantasy, Science Fiction, Historical Fiction, and Book Club Pick. The nominations were picked and voted on by over 1,700 librarians.[1][3]
The 2025 edition of the awards removed the Diverse Author category, and added new categories Business Book, Horror, Middle Grade, and Picture Book.[4]
For 2026, the awards dropped the Business Book category, and added a new category for Personal Improvement Books. It also created a Readers' Choice category, in which non-librarians could vote for a book.[5][6]
Libby Book Awards
[edit source]| Year | Category | Author | Title | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024[7][8][9] | Fiction | James McBride | The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store | Won |
| Ann Patchett | Tom Lake | Honor | ||
| Eleanor Catton | Birnam Wood | Finalist | ||
| Jesmyn Ward | Let Us Descend | Finalist | ||
| Zadie Smith | The Fraud | Finalist | ||
| Nonfiction | David Grann | The Wager | Won | |
| Jonathan Rosen | The Best Minds | Finalist | ||
| Ilyon Woo | Master Slave Husband Wife | Finalist | ||
| Claire Dederer | Monsters | Finalist | ||
| Donovan X. Ramsey | When Crack Was King | Finalist | ||
| Young Adult Fiction | Rebecca Ross | Divine Rivals | Won | |
| Isabel Ibañez | What the River Knows | Honor | ||
| Brandy Colbert | The Blackwoods | Finalist | ||
| Krystal Marquis | The Davenports | Finalist | ||
| Angeline Boulley | Warrior Girl Unearthed | Finalist | ||
| Audiobook | Rebecca Makkai | I Have Some Questions for You | Won | |
| S. A. Cosby | All the Sinners Bleed | Finalist | ||
| Jonathan Eig | King: A Life | Finalist | ||
| Matthew Desmond | Poverty, By America | Finalist | ||
| Mick Herron | The Secret Hours | Finalist | ||
| Debut Author | Ana Reyes | The House in the Pines | Won | |
| Selby Wynn Schwartz | After Sappho | Finalist | ||
| Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah | Chain-Gang All Stars | Finalist | ||
| Mac Crane | I Keep Exoskeletons to Myself | Finalist | ||
| Alice Winn | In Memoriam | Finalist | ||
| Diverse Author | Michelle Min Sterling | Camp Zero | Won | |
| Stephen Kearse | Liquid Snakes | Finalist | ||
| Victor LaValle | Lone Women | Finalist | ||
| Annalee Newitz | The Terraformers | Finalist | ||
| Chana Porter | The Thick and the Lean | Finalist | ||
| Comic/Graphic Novel | Darrin Bell | The Talk | Won | |
| E. M. Carroll | A Guest in the House | Finalist | ||
| Tom King and Mitch Gerads | One Bad Day: The Riddler (Batman) | Finalist | ||
| Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki | Roaming | Finalist | ||
| Deena Mohamed | Shubeik Lubeik | Finalist | ||
| Memoir & Autobiography | Elliot Page | Pageboy | Won | |
| Naomi Klein | Doppelganger | Finalist | ||
| Safiya Sinclair | How to Say Babylon | Finalist | ||
| Barbra Streisand | My Name is Barbra | Finalist | ||
| Maggie Smith | You Could Make This Place Beautiful | Finalist | ||
| Cookbook | Sohla El-Waylly | Start Here | Won | |
| Dan Pelosi | Let's Eat | Honor | ||
| Leah Koenig | Portico | Finalist | ||
| Erika Council | Still We Rise | Finalist | ||
| Hetty Lui McKinnon | Tenderheart | Finalist | ||
| Mystery | Jesse Q. Sutanto | Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers | Won | |
| Deepti Kapoor | Age of Vice | Finalist | ||
| Angie Kim | Happiness Falls | Finalist | ||
| Brendan Slocumb | Symphony of Secrets | Finalist | ||
| Richard Osman | The Last Devil to Die | Finalist | ||
| Thriller | Jessica Knoll | Bright Young Women | Won | |
| S. A. Cosby | All the Sinners Bleed | Finalist | ||
| Catherine Chidgey | Pet | Finalist | ||
| Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi | The Centre | Finalist | ||
| Mick Herron | The Secret Hours | Finalist | ||
| Romance | Kate Clayborn | Georgie, All Along | Won | |
| Cat Sebastian | We Could Be So Good | Honor | ||
| Liana De la Rosa | Ana María and the Fox | Finalist | ||
| Rachel Lynn Solomon | Business or Pleasure | Finalist | ||
| KJ Charles | A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel | Finalist | ||
| Fantasy | Rebecca Yarros | Fourth Wing | Won | |
| Samantha Shannon | A Day of Fallen Night | Finalist | ||
| Leigh Bardugo | Hell Bent | Finalist | ||
| Moniquill Blackgoose | To Shape a Dragon's Breath | Finalist | ||
| Martha Wells | Witch King | Finalist | ||
| Romantasy | Rebecca Yarros | Iron Flame | Won | |
| Heather Fawcett | Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries | Finalist | ||
| Chloe Gong | Immortal Longings | Finalist | ||
| Alexis Hall | Mortal Follies | Finalist | ||
| Thea Guanzon | The Hurricane Wars | Finalist | ||
| Science Fiction | Martha Wells | System Collapse | Won | |
| M. R. Carey | Infinity Gate | Finalist | ||
| Emily Tesh | Some Desperate Glory | Finalist | ||
| Yume Kitasei | The Deep Sky | Finalist | ||
| Ann Leckie | Translation State | Finalist | ||
| Historical Fiction | Jesmyn Ward | Let Us Descend | Won | |
| David Diop | Beyond the Door of No Return | Finalist | ||
| Tania James | Loot | Finalist | ||
| Daniel Mason | North Woods | Finalist | ||
| Rachel Heng | The Great Reclamation | Finalist | ||
| Book Club Pick | R. F. Kuang | Yellowface | Won | |
| Ann Napolitano | Hello Beautiful | Finalist | ||
| Jessica George George | Maame | Finalist | ||
| Ann Patchett | Tom Lake | Finalist | ||
| Nathan Hill | Wellness | Finalist | ||
| 2025[10][11] | Fiction | Kristin Hannah | The Women | Won |
| Percival Everett | James | Honor | ||
| Liz Moore | The God of the Woods | Finalist | ||
| Taffy Brodesser-Akner | Long Island Compromise | Finalist | ||
| Richard Powers | Playground | Finalist | ||
| Nonfiction | Erik Larson | The Demon of Unrest | Won | |
| Rebecca Nagle | By the Fire We Carry | Honor | ||
| Adam Higginbotham | Challenger | Finalist | ||
| Malcolm Gladwell | Revenge of the Tipping Point | Finalist | ||
| Hanif Abdurraqib | There's Always This Year | Finalist | ||
| Young Adult Fiction | Sabaa Tahir | Heir | Won | |
| Jason Reynolds | Twenty-Four Seconds from Now | Honor | ||
| Olivia A. Cole | Ariel Crashes a Train | Finalist | ||
| C. G. Drews | Don't Let the Forest In | Finalist | ||
| K. A. Cabell | Looking for Smoke | Finalist | ||
| Audiobook | Erik Larson, read by Will Patton and Erik Larson | The Demon of Unrest | Won | |
| Kaveh Akbar, read by Arian Moayed | Martyr! | Honor | ||
| Sylvie Cathrall, read by Claire Morgan, Joshua Riley, Justin Avoth and Kit Griffiths | A Letter to the Luminous Deep | Finalist | ||
| Simon Van Booy, read by Christine Rendel | Sipsworth | Finalist | ||
| Alina Grabowski, read by Abigail Reno, EJ Lavery, Maria McCann, Vernonica Giguere & Jordan Claire McCraw | Women and Children First | Finalist | ||
| Debut Author | Kaliane Bradley | The Ministry of Time | Won | |
| Natalie Sue | I Hope This Finds You Well | Honor | ||
| Rita Bullwinkel | Headshot | Finalist | ||
| Kaveh Akbar | Martyr! | Finalist | ||
| Essie Chambers | Swift River | Finalist | ||
| Book Club Pick | Rufi Thorpe | Margo's Got Money Troubles | Won | |
| Rachel Khong | Real Americans | Honor | ||
| Danzy Senna | Colored Television | Finalist | ||
| Louise Erdrich | The Mighty Red | Finalist | ||
| Betsy Lerner | Shred Sisters | Finalist | ||
| Business Book | Denise Young | When We Are Seen | Won | |
| Mary C. Murphy | Cultures of Growth | Honor | ||
| Peg Fitzpatrick | The Art of Small Business Social Media | Finalist | ||
| Salman Khan | Brave New Words | Finalist | ||
| Steven G. Rogelberg | Glad We Met | Finalist | ||
| Comic/Graphic Novel | Tessa Hulls | Feeding Ghosts | Won | |
| Maurice Vellekoop | I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together | Honor | ||
| Takeru Hokazono | Kagurabachi, Volume 1 | Finalist | ||
| Daniel Warren Johnson | Transformers | Finalist | ||
| Richard Adams | Watership Down | Finalist | ||
| Cookbook | Dan Pashman | Anything's Pastable | Won | |
| Janusz Domagala | Baking with Pride | Honor | ||
| Khushbu Shah | Amrikan | Finalist | ||
| Steve Sando | The Bean Book | Finalist | ||
| Christine De Witte | Noodles, Rice, and Everything Spice | Finalist | ||
| Fantasy | Sarah Beth Durst | The Spellshop | Won | |
| Leigh Bardugo | The Familiar | Honor | ||
| Lev Grossman | The Bright Sword | Finalist | ||
| Danielle L. Jensen | A Fate Inked in Blood | Finalist | ||
| Tigest Girma | Immortal Dark | Finalist | ||
| Historical Fiction | Percival Everett | James | Won | |
| Silvia Moreno-Garcia | The Seventh Veil of Salome | Honor | ||
| Carys Davies | Clear | Finalist | ||
| Kevin Barry | The Heart in Winter | Finalist | ||
| Claire Messud | This Strange Eventful History | Finalist | ||
| Horror | Chuck Tingle | Bury Your Gays | Won | |
| Stephen Graham Jones | I Was a Teenage Slasher | Honor | ||
| Paul Tremblay | Horror Movie | Finalist | ||
| Kailee Pedersen | Sacrificial Animals | Finalist | ||
| Mariana Enriquez | A Sunny Place for Shady People | Finalist | ||
| Memoir & Autobiography | Salman Rushdie | Knife | Won | |
| Sloane Crosley | Grief Is for People | Honor | ||
| Carvell Wallace | Another Word for Love | Finalist | ||
| Lydia Millet | We Loved It All | Finalist | ||
| Deborah Jackson Taffa | Whiskey Tender | Finalist | ||
| Middle Grade Book | Katherine Rundell | Impossible Creatures | Won | |
| Tony Weaver, Jr. | Weirdo | Honor | ||
| Kate DiCamillo | Ferris | Finalist | ||
| John Schu | Louder Than Hunger | Finalist | ||
| Allie Millington | Olivetti | Finalist | ||
| Mystery | Richard Osman | We Solve Murders | Won | |
| Tana French | The Hunter | Honor | ||
| Ruby Todd | Bright Objects | Finalist | ||
| Francis Spufford | Cahokia Jazz | Finalist | ||
| Jahmal Mayfield | Smoke Kings | Finalist | ||
| Picture Book | Akiko Miyakoshi | Little Shrew | Won | |
| X. Fang | We Are Definitely Human | Honor | ||
| Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston | The Dictionary Story | Finalist | ||
| Lesa Cline-Ransome, illustrated by James E. Ransome | Fighting with Love | Finalist | ||
| Breanna J. McDaniel, illustrated by April Harrison | Go Forth and Tell | Finalist | ||
| Romance | Emily Henry | Funny Story | Won | |
| Danica Nava | The Truth According to Ember | Honor | ||
| Adib Khorram | I'll Have What He's Having | Finalist | ||
| KT Hoffman | The Prospects | Finalist | ||
| Kennedy Ryan | This Could Be Us | Finalist | ||
| Romantasy | Sarah J. Maas | House of Flame and Shadow | Won | |
| Saara El-Arifi | Faebound | Honor | ||
| Mai Corland | Five Broken Blades | Finalist | ||
| Hannah Whitten | The Hemlock Queen | Finalist | ||
| Alexandria Warwick | The North Wind | Finalist | ||
| Science Fiction | Kaliane Bradley | The Ministry of Time | Won | |
| Yume Kitasei | The Stardust Grail | Honor | ||
| Marie-Helene Bertino | Beautyland | Finalist | ||
| Helen Phillips | Hum | Finalist | ||
| James S. A. Corey | The Mercy of Gods | Finalist | ||
| Thriller | Nicola Yoon | One of Our Kind | Won | |
| Abbott Kahler | Where You End | Honor | ||
| Matthew Blake | Anna O | Finalist | ||
| Thomas Perry | Hero | Finalist | ||
| Jesse Q. Sutanto | You Will Never Be Me | Finalist | ||
| 2026[5][12][13] | Adult Fiction | Taylor Jenkins Reid | Atmosphere | Won |
| Patrick Ryan | Buckeye | Honor | ||
| Megha Majumdar | A Guardian and a Thief | Finalist | ||
| Kiran Desai | The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny | Finalist | ||
| Angela Flournoy | The Wilderness | Finalist | ||
| Adult Nonfiction | Sophie Elmhirst | A Marriage at Sea | Won | |
| Haley Cohen Gilliland | A Flower Traveled in My Blood | Honor | ||
| Imani Perry | Black in Blues | Finalist | ||
| Robert Macfarlane | Is a River Alive? | Finalist | ||
| Siddharth Kara | The Zorg | Finalist | ||
| Young Adult Fiction | Suzanne Collins | Sunrise on the Reaping | Won | |
| Angeline Boulley | Sisters in the Wind | Honor | ||
| Mahogany L. Browne | A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe | Finalist | ||
| Jihyun Yun | And The River Drags Her Down | Finalist | ||
| Tiffany D. Jackson | The Scammer | Finalist | ||
| Audiobook | Fredrik Backman | My Friends | Won | |
| R. F. Kuang | Katabasis | Honor | ||
| Virginia Evans | The Correspondent | Finalist | ||
| Garrett M. Graff | The Devil Reached Toward the Sky | Finalist | ||
| Laila Lalami | The Dream Hotel | Finalist | ||
| Debut Author | SenLinYu | Alchemised | Won | |
| Virginia Evans | The Correspondent | Honor | ||
| Patrick Ryan | Buckeye | Finalist | ||
| Florence Knapp | The Names | Finalist | ||
| Eliana Ramage | To the Moon and Back | Finalist | ||
| Book Club Pick | Catherine Newman | Wreck | Won | |
| Anna North | Bog Queen | Honor | ||
| Bruce Holsinger | Culpability | Finalist | ||
| Lily King | Heart the Lover | Finalist | ||
| Laila Lalami | The Dream Hotel | Finalist | ||
| Comic/Graphic Novel | Alison Bechdel | Spent | Won | |
| Kelly Thompson, Hayden Sherman, Mattia De Iulis | Absolute Wonder Woman: Volume 1 | Honor | ||
| Ben Passmore | Black Arms to Hold You Up | Finalist | ||
| Lee Lai | Cannon | Finalist | ||
| Joe Sacco | The Once and Future Riot | Finalist | ||
| Cookbook | B. Dylan Hollis | Baking Across America | Won | |
| Sean Sherman | Turtle Island | Honor | ||
| Rick Martinez | Salsa Daddy | Finalist | ||
| Joshua McFadden | Six Seasons of Pasta | Finalist | ||
| Alison Roman | Something from Nothing | Finalist | ||
| Fantasy | V. E. Schwab | Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil | Won | |
| SenLinYu | Alchemised | Honor | ||
| R. F. Kuang | Katabasis | Finalist | ||
| James Islington | The Strength of the Few | Finalist | ||
| Sotto Yambao | Water Moon | Finalist | ||
| Historical Fiction | Allegra Goodman | Isola | Won | |
| Karen Russell | The Antidote | Honor | ||
| Nathan Harris | Amity | Finalist | ||
| Xenobe Purvis | The Hounding | Finalist | ||
| Andrew Miller | The Land in Winter | Finalist | ||
| Horror | Stephen Graham Jones | The Buffalo Hunter Hunter | Won | |
| Silvia Moreno-Garcia | The Bewitching | Honor | ||
| Kylie Lee Baker | Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng | Finalist | ||
| Nat Cassidy | When the Wolf Comes Home | Finalist | ||
| Andrew Joseph White | You Weren’t Meant to Be Human | Finalist | ||
| Memoir & Autobiography | Omar El Akkad | One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This | Won | |
| Chloe Dalton | Raising Hare | Honor | ||
| Geraldine Brooks | Memorial Day | Finalist | ||
| Arundhati Roy | Mother Mary Comes to Me | Finalist | ||
| Yiyun Li | Things in Nature Merely Grow | Finalist | ||
| Middle Grade Book | ND Stevenson | Scarlet Morning | Won | |
| Renée Watson | All the Blues in the Sky | Honor | ||
| Daniel Miyares | How to Say Goodbye In Cuban | Finalist | ||
| Karina Yan Glaser | The Nine Moons of Han Yu and Luli | Finalist | ||
| James Robinson | Whale Eyes | Finalist | ||
| Mystery | Sherry Thomas | The Librarians | Won | |
| Laura Lippman | Murder Takes a Vacation | Honor | ||
| Uzma Jalaluddin | Detective Aunty | Finalist | ||
| Susie Dent | Guilty by Definition | Finalist | ||
| Vanessa Lillie | The Bone Thief | Finalist | ||
| Personal Improvement | Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, and Amanda Doyle | We Can Do Hard Things | Won | |
| Ethan Kross | Shift: Managing Your Emotions—So They Don’t Manage You | Honor | ||
| Rose Han | Add a Zero: A Step-by-Step Guide to Financial Freedom and Getting to Your First Million | Finalist | ||
| Maggie Smith | Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life | Finalist | ||
| Will Packer | Who Better Than You?: The Art of Healthy Arrogance & Dreaming Big | Finalist | ||
| Picture Book | Neil Sharpson, illustrated by Dan Santat | Don't Trust Fish | Won | |
| Corey R. Tabor | Cranky, Crabby Crow (Saves the World) | Honor | ||
| James Ransome | A Place for Us | Finalist | ||
| Jashar Awan | Every Monday Mabel | Finalist | ||
| Shawn Harris | Let’s Be Bees | Finalist | ||
| Romance | Sarah MacLean | These Summer Storms | Won | |
| Adib Khorram | It Had to Be Him | Honor | ||
| Regina Black | August Lane | Finalist | ||
| TJ Alexander | A Gentleman’s Gentleman | Finalist | ||
| Iman Hariri-Kia | Female Fantasy | Finalist | ||
| Romantasy | Rebecca Yarros | Onyx Storm | Won | |
| Rachel Gillig | The Knight and the Moth | Honor | ||
| Devney Perry | Shield of Sparrows | Finalist | ||
| Akwaeke Emezi | Son of the Morning | Finalist | ||
| Tasha Suri | The Isle in the Silver Sea | Finalist | ||
| Science Fiction | Nnedi Okorafor | Death of the Author | Won | |
| Ian McEwan | What We Can Know | Honor | ||
| Ken Liu | All That We See or Seem | Finalist | ||
| Yume Kitasei | Saltcrop | Finalist | ||
| Claire North | Slow Gods | Finalist | ||
| Thriller | Liann Zhang | Julie Chan Is Dead | Won | |
| Julie Clark | The Ghostwriter | Honor | ||
| Jennifer Givhan | Salt Bones | Finalist | ||
| Chris Pavone | The Doorman | Finalist | ||
| Alafair Burke | The Note | Finalist | ||
| Readers’ Choice Award | Emily Henry | Great Big Beautiful Life | Won | |
| Rebecca Yarros | Onyx Storm | Honor | ||
| Callie Hart | Brimstone | Finalist | ||
| Freida McFadden | The Crash | Finalist | ||
| Jeneva Rose | The Perfect Divorce | Finalist |
References
[edit source]- 1 2 Community (2024-02-22). "Libby Announces Their New Book Awards — Along With the Finalists". BOOK RIOT. Retrieved 2026-08-25.
- ↑ Tagen-Dye, Carly (February 21, 2024). "Barbra Streisand, Elliot Page and Fourth Wing Among Finalists for Inaugural Libby Book Awards — See the Full List!". People.
- ↑ locusmag (2024-03-14). "2023 Libby Book Awards Winners". Locus. Retrieved 2026-08-26.
- ↑ locusmag (2025-03-06). "2025 Libby Book Awards Winners". Locus. Retrieved 2026-08-26.
- 1 2 gmendicino@overdrive.com (2026-01-05). "Announcing the Nominees of the 2026 Libby Book Awards". OverDrive. Retrieved 2026-08-25.
- ↑ Merlene, Kate. "Winners of Libby Book Awards Are Revealed | Book Pulse". Library Journal. Retrieved 2026-08-26.
- ↑ Yang, Sarah (2024-03-13). "These Are the Best Books to Add to Your Reading List, According to Librarians". Sunset Magazine. Retrieved 2026-08-25.
- ↑ "And the award goes to...: The winners of the first Libby Book Awards". Libby Life: Blog, Podcast, Book Clubs & More. Retrieved 2026-08-25.
- ↑ "Announcing the finalists for the first annual Libby Book Awards, aka The Libbys". Libby Life: Blog, Podcast, Book Clubs & More. Retrieved 2026-08-25.
- ↑ "The winners of the 2025 Libby Book Awards". Libby Life: Blog, Podcast, Book Clubs & More. Retrieved 2026-08-25.
- ↑ "Announcing the finalists for the 2025 Libby Book Awards". Libby Life: Blog, Podcast, Book Clubs & More. Retrieved 2026-08-25.
- ↑ "Announcing the 2026 Libby Book Award finalists". Libby Life: Blog, Podcast, Book Clubs & More. Retrieved 2026-08-25.
- ↑ "The 2026 Libby Book Award winners are here!". Libby Life: Blog, Podcast, Book Clubs & More. Retrieved 2026-08-25.