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

BookBrowse Awards Award Winners

BookBrowse Awards

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Current and Previous Award Winners:
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2015
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2016

Best Fiction Book:
A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny

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

Best Book:
The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Best Debut:
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:
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:
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
2006

Best Book:
The Closers by Michael Connelly

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

Ruby Award:
The Enemy by Lee Child

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