Foyles Books of the Year

The Foyles Books of the Year have been announced annually since 2017 by the British bookseller chain Foyles. They recognise outstanding literature in three categories: Fiction, Non-fiction, and Children's. A fiction award was conferred in 2016, before the other two categories were added.

The selectors say that they choose "our favourite, most interesting, most important, most year-defining titles published, recommended and sold this year".[1]

Previous winners

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Fiction

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Year Author Book Ref[1][2]
2016 Paul Beatty The Sellout [3]
2017 Naomi Alderman The Power [4][5]
2018 Sayaka Murata Convenience Store Woman [6]
2019 Ocean Vuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous [7][8][9]
2020 Brandon Taylor Real Life [10]
2021 Natasha Brown Assembly [11][12]
2022 Sheena Patel I'm a Fan [13][14]
2023 R. F. Kuang Yellowface [15][16][17][18]

Non-fiction

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Year Author Book Ref[1][2]
2017 Reni Eddo-Lodge Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race [4]
2018 Akala Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire [6]
2019 Lisa Taddeo Three Women [8]
2020 Doireann Ní Ghríofa A Ghost in the Throat [19][10]
2021 Warren Ellis Nina Simone's Gum [20][21]
2022 Thomas Halliday Otherlands: A World in the Making [22][14]
2023 Cat Bohannon Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution [16][23]

Children's

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Year Author Book Ref[1][2]
2017 Elena Favilli Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls [4][5]
2018 Tomi Adeyemi Children of Blood and Bone [24][6]
2019 Katherine Rundell The Good Thieves [25][8][9]
2020 Myriam Dahman The Wolf’s Secret [26][10][27][28]
2021 Tom Gauld The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess [29][30][12][28]
2022 S. F. Said Tyger [28][14]
2023 Katherine Rundell Impossible Creatures [31][16][17][32][33]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Foyles Books of the Year". Foyles. Archived from the original on 12 September 2024. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  2. ^ a b c "Foyles Winners". www.brownsbfs.co.uk. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  3. ^ "Foyles picks The Sellout as book of the year". The Bookseller. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  4. ^ a b c "Foyles' Books of the Year champion women's voices". The Bookseller. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  5. ^ a b "The Power and Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls announced as Foyles Books of the Year". www.penguin.co.uk. 30 November 2017. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  6. ^ a b c "Convenience Store Woman crowned Foyles' Fiction Book of the Year". The Bookseller. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  7. ^ "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous". Foyles. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  8. ^ a b c "Foyles reveals Books of the Year 2019". The Bookseller. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  9. ^ a b "2019 Foyles Book of the Year Winners". www.fictiondb.com. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  10. ^ a b c "Real Life, A Ghost in the Throat and The Wolf's Secret named Foyles Books of the Year". The Bookseller. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  11. ^ "Brown, Ellis and Gauld named in Foyles Books of the Year". The Bookseller. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  12. ^ a b "2021 Foyles Book of the Year Winners". www.fictiondb.com. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  13. ^ "I'm a Fan". Foyles. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  14. ^ a b c "Foyles names works by Patel, Halliday and Said as Books of the Year". The Bookseller. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  15. ^ "Yellowface". Foyles. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  16. ^ a b c "Works by Kuang, Rundell and Bohannon crowned Foyles' Books of the Year". The Bookseller. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  17. ^ a b "2023 Foyles Books of the Year Winners". Locus Online. 1 December 2023. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  18. ^ "Foyles Fiction". www.brownsbfs.co.uk. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  19. ^ "A Ghost in the Throat". Foyles. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  20. ^ "Nina Simone's Gum: A Memoir of Things Lost and Found". Foyles. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  21. ^ "Brown, Ellis and Gauld named in Foyles Books of the Year". The Bookseller. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  22. ^ "Otherlands". Foyles. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  23. ^ "Foyles Non Fiction". www.brownsbfs.co.uk. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  24. ^ "Adeyemi Wins Foyles Book of the Year Award". Locus Online. 3 December 2018. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  25. ^ "The Good Thieves". Foyles. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  26. ^ "The Wolf's Secret". Foyles. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  27. ^ "Children's Book Awards 2020: Shortlists and Winners". Toppsta. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  28. ^ a b c "Children's Book Awards 2022: Shortlists and Winners". Toppsta. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  29. ^ "The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess". Foyles. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  30. ^ "Brown, Ellis and Gauld named in Foyles Books of the Year". The Bookseller. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  31. ^ "Impossible Creatures". Foyles. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  32. ^ "Foyles Childrens". www.brownsbfs.co.uk. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  33. ^ Kan, Toni (7 November 2023). "Foyles Book of the Year unveils diverse shortlist, from historical drama to poetic reverie to kid's adventure". The Lagos Review. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
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