2021 Amazon Editors' Picks (Awarded by amazon.com)

Awards List

Children's Books

The Beatryce Prophecy
(Winner)
Kate DiCamillo

The Monsters of Rookhaven
(*)
Padraig Kenny

Amari and the Night Brothers
(*)
B.B. Alston

Eyes That Kiss in the Corners
(*)
Joanna Ho

Mothering Heights
(*)
Dav Pilkey

Starfish
(*)
Lisa Fipps

Change Sings
(*)
Amanda Gorman

Egg Marks the Spot
(*)
Amy Timberlake

Every Little Kindness
(*)
Marta Bartolj

It Fell from the Sky
(*)
Terry Fan; Eric Fan

The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne
(*)
Jonathan Stroud

Pony
(*)
R.J. Palacio

Road Crew, Coming Through!
(*)
Sherri Duskey Rinker

Woodland Dance
(*)
Sandra Boynton

Born on the Water
(*)
Nikole Hannah-Jones

Daughter of the Deep
(*)
Rick Riordan

Gladys the Magic Chicken
(*)
Adam Rubin

Out of My Heart
(*)
Sharon M. Draper

Room for Everyone
(*)
Naaz Khan

Stuntboy, in the Meantime
(*)
Jason Reynolds

Literature & Fiction

The Lincoln Highway
(Winner)
Amor Towles

The Prophets
(*)
Robert Jones Jr.

The Four Winds
(*)
Kristin Hannah

Infinite Country
(*)
Patricia Engel

Klara and the Sun
(*)
Kazuo Ishiguro

What's Mine and Yours
(*)
Naima Coster

Great Circle
(*)
Maggie Shipstead

How Lucky
(*)
Will Leitch

Count the Ways
(*)
Joyce Maynard

Beautiful World, Where Are You
(*)
Sally Rooney

Bewilderment
(*)
Richard Powers

The Book of Form and Emptiness
(*)
Ruth L. Ozeki

Harlem Shuffle
(*)
Colson Whitehead

Cloud Cuckoo Land
(*)
Anthony Doerr

Crossroads
(*)
Jonathan Franzen

Sankofa
(*)
Chibundu Onuzo

What Storm, What Thunder
(*)
Myriam J.A. Chancy

Our Country Friends
(*)
Gary Shteyngart

The Sentence
(*)
Louise Erdrich

Dava Shastri's Last Day
(*)
Kirthana Ramisetti

Mysteries & Thrillers

Razorblade Tears
(Winner)
S.A. Cosby

We Begin at the End
(*)
Chris Whitaker

The Good Sister
(*)
Sally Hepworth

The First Day of Spring
(*)
Nancy Tucker

How Lucky
(*)
Will Leitch

The Last Thing He Told Me
(*)
Laura Dave

The Plot
(*)
Jean Hanff Korelitz

The Maidens
(*)
Alex Michaelides

Falling
(*)
T.J. Newman

False Witness
(*)
Karin Slaughter

Billy Summers
(*)
Stephen King

Chasing the Boogeyman
(*)
Richard Chizmar

Clark and Division
(*)
Naomi Hirahara

Lightning Strike
(*)
William Kent Krueger

The Madness of Crowds
(*)
Louise Penny

Apples Never Fall
(*)
Liane Moriarty

When Ghosts Come Home
(*)
Wiley Cash

The Man Who Died Twice
(*)
Richard Osman

The Dark Hours
(*)
Michael Connelly

The Stolen Hours
(*)
Allen Eskens

Romance

The Love Hypothesis
(Winner)
Ali Hazelwood

Roommate
(*)
Sarina Bowen

Nantucket Threads
(*)
Pamela M. Kelley

Wild Rain
(*)
Beverly Jenkins

Act Your Age, Eve Brown
(*)
Talia Hibbert

Trusting Taylor
(*)
Susan Stoker

Life's Too Short
(*)
Abby Jimenez

Second First Impressions
(*)
Sally Thorne

State of Affairs
(*)
Marie Force

The Heart Principle
(*)
Helen Hoang

People We Meet On Vacation
(*)
Emily Henry

Freed: Fifty Shades Freed as Told by Christian
(*)
E.L. James

One Last Stop
(*)
Casey McQuiston

When Stars Collide
(*)
Susan Elizabeth Phillips

The Mixtape
(*)
Brittainy C. Cherry

Devil in Disguise
(*)
Lisa Kleypas

Breaking Badger
(*)
Shelly Laurenston

The Legacy
(*)
Elle Kennedy

Last Seen Alone
(*)
Laura Griffin

How to Marry Keanu Reeves in 90 Days
(*)
K.M. Jackson

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Project Hail Mary
(Winner)
Andy Weir

Lore
(*)
Alexandra Bracken

A Court of Silver Flames
(*)
Sarah J. Maas

A Desolation Called Peace
(*)
Arkady Martine

Klara and the Sun
(*)
Kazuo Ishiguro

The Unbroken
(*)
C.L. Clark

The Crown of Gilded Bones
(*)
Jennifer L. Armentrout

The Last Watch
(*)
J.S. Dewes

The Blacktongue Thief
(*)
Christopher Buehlman

Fugitive Telemetry
(*)
Martha Wells

A Master of Djinn
(*)
P. Djeli Clark

Appleseed
(*)
Matt Bell

A Psalm for the Wild-Built
(*)
Becky Chambers

Constance
(*)
Matthew Fitzsimmons

Iron Widow
(*)
Xiran Jay Zhao

Under the Whispering Door
(*)
T.J. Klune

The Last Graduate
(*)
Naomi Novik

The Extinction Trials
(*)
A.G. Riddle

Leviathan Falls
(*)
James S.A. Corey

You Sexy Thing
(*)
Cat Rambo

Teen & Young Adult

All of Us Villains
(Winner)
Amanda Foody; Christine Lynn Herman

Concrete Rose
(*)
Angie Thomas

Lore
(*)
Alexandra Bracken

The Desolations of Devil's Acre
(*)
Ransom Riggs

Firekeeper's Daughter
(*)
Angeline Boulley

Tokyo Ever After
(*)
Emiko Jean

Ace of Spades
(*)
Faridah Abike-Iyimide

Instructions for Dancing
(*)
Nicola Yoon

The Passing Playbook
(*)
Isaac Fitzsimons

How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe
(*)
Raquel Vasquez Gilliland

In the Wild Light
(*)
Jeff Zentner

Iron Widow
(*)
Xiran Jay Zhao

Beasts of Prey
(*)
Ayana Gray

Bluebird
(*)
Sharon Cameron

Little Thieves
(*)
Margaret Owen

Once Upon a Broken Heart
(*)
Stephanie Garber

Gilded
(*)
Marissa Meyer

Roxy
(*)
Neal Shusterman

Skin of the Sea
(*)
Natasha Bowen

You'll Be the Death of Me
(*)
Karen M. McManus

Award Categories

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

Mysteries & Thrillers

Mysteries & Thrillers: Series

Romance

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Teen & Young Adult

Award Years

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019