2019 Amazon Editors' Picks (Awarded by amazon.com)

Awards List

Children's Books

Dear Sweet Pea
(Winner)
Julie Murphy

The Neighbors
(*)
Einat Tsarfati

The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise
(*)
Dan Gemeinhart

Rumple Buttercup
(*)
Matthew Gray Gubler

The Pigeon HAS to Go to School!
(*)
Mo Willems

Truman
(*)
Jean Reidy

For Whom the Ball Rolls
(*)
Dav Pilkey

How Do You Dance?
(*)
Thyra Heder

Beverly, Right Here
(*)
Kate DiCamillo

Guts
(*)
Raina Telgemeier

Just Because
(*)
Mac Barnett

The Proudest Blue
(*)
Ibtihaj Muhammad

The Hippo at the End of the Hall
(*)
Helen Cooper

Look Both Ways
(*)
Jason Reynolds

Roll with It
(*)
Jamie Sumner

Sulwe
(*)
Lupita Nyong'o

Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
(*)
Kwame Mbalia

White Bird
(*)
R.J. Palacio

Why?
(*)
Adam Rex

Literature & Fiction

The Testaments
(Winner)
Margaret Atwood

Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead
(*)
Olga Tokarczuk

The Night Tiger
(*)
Yangsze Choo

Daisy Jones & The Six
(*)
Taylor Jenkins Reid

A Woman Is No Man
(*)
Etaf Rum

The Parisian
(*)
Isabella Hammad

Ask Again, Yes
(*)
Mary Beth Keane

City of Girls
(*)
Elizabeth Gilbert

Mrs. Everything
(*)
Jennifer Weiner

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
(*)
Ocean Vuong

Deep River
(*)
Karl Marlantes

The Nickel Boys
(*)
Colson Whitehead

The Dutch House
(*)
Ann Patchett

Quichotte
(*)
Salman Rushdie

Red at the Bone
(*)
Jacqueline Woodson

The Water Dancer
(*)
Ta-Nehisi Coates

The World That We Knew
(*)
Alice Hoffman

All This Could Be Yours
(*)
Jami Attenberg

Grand Union: Stories
(*)
Zadie Smith

The Starless Sea
(*)
Erin Morgenstern

Mysteries & Thrillers

The Silent Patient
(Winner)
Alex Michaelides

The Current
(*)
Tim Johnston

The Killer Collective
(*)
Barry Eisler

Ninth House
(*)
Leigh Bardugo

American Spy
(*)
Lauren Wilkinson

The Chain
(*)
Adrian McKinty

Lock Every Door
(*)
Riley Sager

The Need
(*)
Helen Phillips

The New Girl
(*)
Daniel Silva

The Perfect Wife
(*)
J.P. Delaney

The Whisper Man
(*)
Alex North

The Whisperer
(*)
Karin Fossum

A Better Man
(*)
Louise Penny

The Chestnut Man
(*)
Soren Sveistrup

The Institute
(*)
Stephen King

Land of Wolves
(*)
Craig Johnson

Blue Moon
(*)
Lee Child

Full Throttle: Stories
(*)
Joe Hill

The Guardians
(*)
John Grisham

The Night Fire
(*)
Michael Connelly

Romance

The Bromance Book Club
(Winner)
Lyssa Kay Adams

Motion
(*)
Penny Reid

When Ashes Fall
(*)
Marni Mann

Polaris Rising
(*)
Jessie Mihalik

Defending Morgan
(*)
Susan Stoker

In a Badger Way
(*)
Shelly Laurenston

Every Last Breath
(*)
Juno Rushdan

Fatal Reckoning
(*)
Marie Force

The Bride Test
(*)
Helen Hoang

Red, White & Royal Blue
(*)
Casey McQuiston

The Unhoneymooners
(*)
Christina Lauren

The Friend Zone
(*)
Sariah Wilson

Letters to Molly
(*)
Devney Perry

The Friend Zone
(*)
Abby Jimenez

The Wedding Party
(*)
Jasmine Guillory

Brazen and the Beast
(*)
Sarah MacLean

The Right Swipe
(*)
Alisha Rai

The Wallflower Wager
(*)
Tessa Dare

Fallen
(*)
Rebecca Zanetti

Get a Life, Chloe Brown
(*)
Talia Hibbert

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Gideon the Ninth
(Winner)
Tamsyn Muir

The Winter of the Witch
(*)
Katherine Arden

Tiamat's Wrath
(*)
James S.A. Corey

The Kingdom of Copper
(*)
S.A. Chakraborty

The Priory of the Orange Tree
(*)
Samantha Shannon

The Rage of Dragons
(*)
Evan Winter

Winter World
(*)
A.G. Riddle

A Memory Called Empire
(*)
Arkady Martine

A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
(*)
C.A. Fletcher

Storm of Locusts
(*)
Rebecca Roanhorse

Gods of Jade and Shadow
(*)
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

This Is How You Lose the Time War
(*)
Amal El-Mohtar; Max Gladstone

Blood of an Exile
(*)
Brian Naslund

Cry Pilot
(*)
Joel Dane

A Little Hatred
(*)
Joe Abercrombie

Steel Crow Saga
(*)
Paul Krueger

The Ten Thousand Doors of January
(*)
Alix E. Harrow

The Testaments
(*)
Margaret Atwood

The Deep
(*)
Rivers Solomon

The Starless Sea
(*)
Erin Morgenstern

Teen & Young Adult

The Grace Year
(Winner)
Kim Liggett

Juliet Takes a Breath
(*)
Gabby Rivera

Two Can Keep a Secret
(*)
Karen M. McManus

Finale
(*)
Stephanie Garber

Patron Saints of Nothing
(*)
Randy Ribay

Queen of the Sea
(*)
Dylan Meconis

Sorcery of Thorns
(*)
Margaret Rogerson

House of Salt and Sorrows
(*)
Erin A. Craig

American Royals
(*)
Katharine McGee

Frankly in Love
(*)
David Yoon

Pet
(*)
Akwaeke Emezi

Serpent & Dove
(*)
Shelby Mahurin

The Fountains of Silence
(*)
Ruta Sepetys

The Secret Commonwealth
(*)
Philip Pullman

Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All
(*)
Laura Ruby

Call Down the Hawk
(*)
Maggie Stiefvater

The Queen of Nothing
(*)
Holly Black

The Toll
(*)
Neal Shusterman

Children of Virtue and Vengeance
(*)
Tomi Adeyemi

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