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The BookBrowse Awards - BookBrowse's Best of Year Books

BookBrowse's Best of Year Books

So many books, such little time.....

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 the find the BookBrowse Awards Winners! Below are the shortlists by year.

Top 20 Best Books of 2025

Top 20 Best Books of 2024

Top 20 Best Books of 2023

Top 20 Best Books of 2022

Top 20 Best Books of 2021

Top 20 Best Books of 2020

Top 20 Best Books of 2019

Top 20 Best Books of 2018

Top 20 Best Books of 2017

Top 20 Best Books of 2016

Top 20 Best Books of 2015

Top 20 Best Books of 2014

Top 20 Best Books of 2013

Top Books of 2012

Top Books of 2011

Top Books of 2010

Top Books of 2009

Top Books of 2008

Top Books of 2007

2006 Favorite Books by Debut Authors

2006 Favorites by Established Authors

2005 Favorite Books by Debut Authors

2005 Favorites by Established Authors

2004 Favorite Books by Debut Authors

2004 Favorites by Established Authors

2003 Favorite Books by Debut Authors

2003 Favorites by Established Authors

2002 Favorite Books by Debut Authors

2002 Favorites by Established Authors

2001 Favorite Books by Debut Authors

2001 Favorites by Established Authors

BookBrowse Awards

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Theo of Golden by Allen Levi

One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why…

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A Pair of Aces
by Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
Two women on opposite sides of the law team up to bring down gangster Lucky Luciano in this gripping novel.

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    Somebody Worth Killing
    by Jessica Payne
    Meet Nadia Davis, loving mom, devoted wife, secret assassin… and she needs a babysitter.
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    The Reimagining of Thornwood House
    by Jaleigh Johnson
    A witch and her ward discover a magical walking house and find the true meaning of home.
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    Summer's Never Over
    by Darby Bozeman
    A woman revisits a Southern summer camp where a counselor's death may not have been an accident.
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