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:

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

• 2020

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

• 2019

  
  Best Fiction Book:
  Olive, Again  by  Elizabeth Strout
  
  Best Nonfiction Book:
  Becoming  by  Michelle Obama
  
  Best Young Adult Book:
  Butterfly Yellow  by  Daniel Suarez
  
  Best Debut:
  Solitary  by  Albert Woodfox

• 2018

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

• 2017

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

• 2016

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

• 2015

  
  Best Fiction Book:
  The Nightingale  by  Kristin Hannah
  
  Best Nonfiction Book:
  H is for Hawk  by  Helen Macdonald
  
  Best Young Adult Book:
  Goodbye Stranger  by  Rebecca Stead
  
  Best Debut:
  Bull Mountain  by  Brian Panowich

• 2014

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

• 2013

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

• 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 Young Adult Book:
  Wonderstruck  by  Brian Selznick
  
  Best Debut:
  The Night Circus  by  Erin Morgenstern
  
  Best Book:
  Unbroken  by  Laura Hillenbrand
  
  Runner Up:
  The Greater Journey  by  David McCullough

• 2010

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

• 2009

  
  Best Nonfiction Book:
  Abigail Adams  by  Woody Holton
  
  Best Young Adult Book:
  The Magician's Elephant  by  Kate DiCamillo
  
  Best Debut:
  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

  
  Best Debut:
  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

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

• 2006

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

• 2005

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