Libby by Overdrive has announced the winners of the inaugural Libby Book Awards. The titles on this list represent the best books of 2023, as selected by an expert team of OverDrive librarians, and voted on by over 1700 public librarians and library staff.
Many of the titles on this list are still experiencing surges of popularity and may be checked out, with some still experiencing hold lists!
Best Fiction Book of the Year Winner
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
Finalists
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
The Fraud by Zadie Smith
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
(Honorable Mention) Tom Lake by Anne Patchett
Best Nonfiction Book of the Year Winner
The Wager by David Grann
Finalists
The Best Minds by Jonathan Rosen
Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo
Monsters by Claire Dederer
When Crack Was King by Donovan X. Ramsey
Best Young Adult Book of the Year Winner
Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
Finalists
The Blackwoods by Brandy Colbert
The Davenports by Krystal Marquis
Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley
(Honorable Mention) What the River Knows by Isabel
Ibanez
Best Audiobook of the Year Winner
I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai
Finalists
All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby. Read by Adam
Lazarre-White
King: A Life by Jonathan Eig. Read by Dion Graham
Poverty, By America by Matthew Desmond
The Secret Hours by Mick Herron
Best Book Club Book of the Year Winner
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
Finalists
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
Maame by Jessica George
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
Wellness by Nathan Hill
Best Comic/Graphic Novel of the Year Winner
The Talk by Darrin Bell
Finalists
Batman — One Bad Day: Riddler by Tom King and Mitch
Gerads
A Guest in the House by Emily Carroll
Roaming by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki
Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed
Best Debut Author of the Year Winner
Ana Reyes, author of The House in the Pines
Finalists
Alice Winn, author of In Memoriam
Marisa Crane, author of I Keep My Exoskeletons toMyself
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Chain Gang AllStars
Selby Wynn Schwartz, author of After Sappho
Diverse Author of the Year Winner
Michelle Min Sterling, author of Camp Zero
Finalists
Annalee Newitz, author of The Terraformers
Chana Porter, author of The Thick and the Lean
Stephen Kearse, author of Liquid Snakes
Victor LaValle, author of Lone Women
Best Fantasy Book of the Year Winner
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Finalists
A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon
Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo
To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose
Witch King by Martha Wells
Best Historical Fiction Book of the Year Winner
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
Finalists
Beyond the Door of No Return by David Diop
The Great Reclamation by Rachel Heng
Loot by Tania James
North Woods by Daniel Mason
Best Mystery Book of the Year Winner
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse
Q. Sutanto
Finalists
Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor
Happiness Falls by Angie Kim
The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman
Symphony of Secrets by Brendan Slocumb
Best Romance Book of the Year Winner
Georgie All Along by Kate Clayborn
Finalists
Ana Maria and theFox by Liana De la Rosa
Business or Pleasure by Rachel Lynn Solomon
A Nobleman’s Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel by K.J.
Charles
(Honorable Mention) We Could Be So Good by Cat
Sebastian
Best Romantasy Book of the Year Winner
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather
Fawcett
Finalists
The Hurricane Wars by Thea Guanzon
Immortal Longings by Chloe Gong
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
Mortal Follies by Alexis Hall
Best Science Fiction Book of the Year Winner
System Collapse by Martha Wells
Finalists
The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei
Infinity Gate by M.R. Carey
Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
Translation State by Ann Leckie
Best Thriller Book of the Year Winner
Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll
Finalists
All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby
The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
Pet by Catherine Chidgey
The Secret Hours by Mick Herron
Best Cookbook of the Year Winner
Start Here by Sohla El-Waylly
Finalists
Portico by Leah Koenig
Still We Rise by Erika Council
Tenderheart by Hetty McKinnon
(Honorable Mention) Let’s Eat by Dan Pelosi
Best Memoir of the Year Winner
Pageboy by Elliot Page
Finalists
Doppelganger by Naomi Klein
How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair
My Name is Barbra by Barbra Streisand
You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith
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