Library Journal Best Books - Pop Fiction (Awarded by Library Journal)

Awards List

2023

Pandora
(*)
Susan Stokes-Chapman

The Flames
(*)
Sophie Haydock

I Have Some Questions for You
(*)
Rebecca Makkai

What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
(*)
Claire Jimenez

Only the Beautiful
(*)
Susan Meissner

Yellowface
(*)
R.F. Kuang

Lucky Red
(*)
Claudia Cravens

The Breakaway
(*)
Jennifer Weiner

One Blood
(*)
Denene Millner

A Grandmother Begins the Story
(*)
Michelle Porter

2022

Four Treasures of the Sky
(*)
Jenny Tinghui Zhang

Take My Hand
(*)
Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Oleander City
(*)
Matt Bondurant

Elsewhere
(*)
Alexis Schaitkin

Mademoiselle Revolution
(*)
Zoe Sivak

The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
(*)
Jamie Ford

Happyish
(*)
Jeanette Escudero

Miss del Rio
(*)
Barbara Mujica

Small Game
(*)
Blair Braverman

2021

A Splendid Ruin
(*)
Megan Chance

Annie and the Wolves
(*)
Andromeda Romano-Lax

Girls with Bright Futures
(*)
Tracy Dobmeier

Libertie
(*)
Kaitlyn Greenidge

The Great Mistake
(*)
Jonathan Lee

Nightbitch
(*)
Rachel Yoder

The Personal Librarian
(*)
Marie Benedict; Murray Victoria Christopher

The Reading List
(*)
Sara Nisha Adams

L.A. Weather
(*)
Maria Amparo Escandon

Smile and Look Pretty
(*)
Amanda Pellegrino

2020

Such a Fun Age
(*)
Kiley Reid

The Authenticity Project
(*)
Clare Pooley

Big Girl, Small Town
(*)
Michelle Gallen

The Girl with the Louding Voice
(*)
Abi Dare

Mercy House
(*)
Alena Dillon

The Other Bennet Sister
(*)
Janice Hadlow

Saving Ruby King
(*)
Catherine Adel West

Self Care
(*)
Leigh Stein

His Only Wife
(*)
Peace Adzo Medie

The Talented Miss Farwell
(*)
Emily Gray Tedrowe

2019

Grace After Henry
(*)
Eithne Shortall

Miracle Creek
(*)
Angie Kim

Women Talking
(*)
Miriam Toews

In West Mills
(*)
De'Shawn Charles Winslow

The Dearly Beloved
(*)
Cara Wall

The Oysterville Sewing Circle
(*)
Susan Wiggs

The Secrets We Kept
(*)
Lara Prescott

Today We Go Home
(*)
Kelli Estes

All This Could Be Yours
(*)
Jami Attenberg

The Giver of Stars
(*)
JoJo Moyes

2018

Halsey Street
(*)
Naima Coster

An American Marriage
(*)
Tayari Jones

America Is Not the Heart
(*)
Elaine Castillo

The Ensemble
(*)
Aja Gabel

That Kind of Mother
(*)
Rumaan Alam

How to Be Famous
(*)
Caitlin Moran

Rust & Stardust
(*)
T. Greenwood

Award Categories

Crime Fiction

Graphic Novels

Horror

Literary Fiction

Pop Fiction

Romance

SF/Fantasy

Short Stories

World Literature

Award Years

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018