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

BookBrowse Awards Award Winners

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:
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2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005

2019

Best Fiction Book:
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout

Best Debut Author:
Solitary by Albert Woodfox

Best Nonfiction Book:
Becoming by Michelle Obama

Best Young Adult Book:
Butterfly Yellow by Daniel Suarez
2018

Best Fiction Book:
Circe by Madeline Miller

Best Debut Author:
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Best Nonfiction Book:
Educated by Tara Westover

Best Young Adult Book:
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
2017

Best Fiction Book:
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

Best Debut Author:
The Dry by Jane Harper

Best Nonfiction Book:
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

Best Young Adult Book:
La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman
2016

Best Fiction Book:
A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny

Best Debut Author:
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Best Nonfiction Book:
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

Best Young Adult Book:
All We Have Left by Wendy Mills
2015

Best Fiction Book:
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

Best Debut Author:
Bull Mountain by Brian Panowich

Best Nonfiction Book:
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

Best Young Adult Book:
Goodbye Stranger by Rebecca Stead
2014

Best Fiction Book:
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Best Debut Author:
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

Best Nonfiction Book:
In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides

Best Young Adult Book:
I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
2013

Best Fiction Book:
How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny

Best Debut Author:
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra

Best Nonfiction Book:
Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink

Best Young Adult Book:
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
2012

Best Fiction Book:
The Light Between Oceans by Margot Stedman

Best Nonfiction Book:
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo

Best Young Adult Book:
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
2011

Best Book:
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

Best Debut Author:
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Best Young Adult Book:
Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick

Runner Up:
The Greater Journey by David McCullough
2010

Best Book:
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Best Debut Author:
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
2009

Best Book:
The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Best Debut Author:
Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese

Best Nonfiction Book:
Abigail Adams by Woody Holton

Best Young Adult Book:
The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo

Runner Up:
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

Runner Up:
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
2008

Best Book:
Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill

Best Debut Author:
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
2007

Best Book:
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

Best Debut Author:
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
2006

Best Book:
The Closers by Michael Connelly

Best Debut Author:
The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall

Ruby Award:
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
2005

Best Book:
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Best Debut Author:
Love in the Driest Season by Neely Tucker

Ruby Award:
The Enemy by Lee Child

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