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

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:

• 2022
• 2021
• 2020
• 2019
• 2018
• 2017
• 2016
• 2015
• 2014
• 2013
• 2012
• 2011
• 2010
• 2009
• 2008
• 2007
• 2006
• 2005

• 2022

  
  Best Fiction Book:
  Horse  by  Geraldine Brooks
  
  Best Nonfiction Book:
  In Love  by  Amy Bloom
  
  Best Debut:
  Remarkably Bright Creatures  by  Shelby Van Pelt

• 2021

  
  Best Fiction Book:
  The Lincoln Highway  by  Amor Towles
  
  Best Nonfiction Book:
  The Code Breaker  by  Walter Isaacson
  
  Best Young Adult Book:
  Firekeeper's Daughter  by  Angeline Boulley
  
  Best Debut:
  A Million Things  by  Emily Spurr

• 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  Thanhha Lai
  
  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