2019 Booklist Editors Choice (Awarded by ALA: The American Library Association)

Awards List

Adult

Quichotte
(Top of the List)
Salman Rushdie

Ayesha At Last
(*)
Uzma Jalaluddin

Fall Back Down When I Die
(*)
Joe Wilkins

The Far Field
(*)
Madhuri Vijay

The Border
(*)
Don Winslow

Lady Derring Takes a Lover
(*)
Julie Anne Long

Lost Children Archive
(*)
Valeria Luiselli

A People's Future of the United States
(*)
Victor Lavalle

Daisy Jones & The Six
(*)
Taylor Jenkins Reid

Feast Your Eyes
(*)
Myla Goldberg

Normal People
(*)
Sally Rooney

Exhalation: Stories
(*)
Ted Chiang

The Farm
(*)
Joanne Ramos

Red Birds
(*)
Mohammed Hanif

Red, White & Royal Blue
(*)
Casey McQuiston

Evvie Drake Starts Over
(*)
Linda Holmes

Side Chick Nation
(*)
Aya De Leon

The Chain
(*)
Adrian McKinty

Fleishman Is in Trouble
(*)
Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Growing Things and Other Stories
(*)
Paul Tremblay

Lady in the Lake
(*)
Laura Lippman

The Nickel Boys
(*)
Colson Whitehead

The Redeemed
(*)
Tim Pears

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

Never Have I Ever
(*)
Joshilyn Jackson

After the Flood
(*)
Kassandra Montag

Gideon the Ninth
(*)
Tamsyn Muir

Night Boat to Tangier
(*)
Kevin Barry

The Water Dancer
(*)
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Sarah Jane
(*)
James Sallis

Your House Will Pay
(*)
Steph Cha

The Deep
(*)
Rivers Solomon

Find Me
(*)
Andre Aciman

Girl, Woman, Other
(*)
Bernardine Evaristo

Media

Bowlaway
(Top of the List)
Elizabeth McCracken

Youth

This Was Our Pact
(Top of the List)
Ryan Andrews

Home in The Woods
(Top of the List)
Eliza Wheeler

On the Come Up
(*)
Angie Thomas

The Bell Rang
(*)
James E. Ransome

The Music of What Happens
(*)
Bill Konigsberg

The Runaways
(*)
Ulf Stark

The Storm Keeper's Island
(*)
Catherine Doyle

The Bridge Home
(*)
Padma Venkatraman

Pay Attention, Carter Jones
(*)
Gary D. Schmidt

We Set the Dark on Fire
(*)
Tehlor Kay Mejia

Lovely War
(*)
Julie Berry

Sal and Gabi Break the Universe
(*)
Carlos Hernandez

Sweety
(*)
Andrea Zuill

The True History of Lyndie B. Hawkins
(*)
Gail Shepherd

The Last Last-Day-of-Summer
(*)
Lamar Giles

The Line Tender
(*)
Kate Allen

My Cat Looks Like My Dad
(*)
Thao Lam

Camp Tiger
(*)
Susan Choi

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me
(*)
Mariko Tamaki

Let Me Hear a Rhyme
(*)
Tiffany D. Jackson

The Lost Coast
(*)
Amy Rose Capetta

My Papi Has a Motorcycle
(*)
Isabel Quintero

Other Words for Home
(*)
Jasmine Warga

A Place to Belong
(*)
Cynthia Kadohata

We Are the Perfect Girl
(*)
A.E. Kaplan

When Aidan Became a Brother
(*)
Kyle Lukoff

Ordinary Girls
(*)
Blair Thornburgh

This Was Our Pact
(*)
Ryan Andrews

Vroom!
(*)
Barbara McClintock

The Downstairs Girl
(*)
Stacey Lee

For Black Girls Like Me
(*)
Mariama J. Lockington

The Revolution of Birdie Randolph
(*)
Brandy Colbert

Scary Stories for Young Foxes
(*)
Christian McKay Heidicker

Butterfly Yellow
(*)
Thanhha Lai

Indian No More
(*)
Charlene Willing McManis

Lalani of the Distant Sea
(*)
Erin Entrada Kelly

The Proudest Blue
(*)
Ibtihaj Muhammad

Small in the City
(*)
Sydney Smith

Stargazing
(*)
Jen Wang

A Stone Sat Still
(*)
Brendan Wenzel

The Very, Very Far North
(*)
Dan Bar-el

Who Wet My Pants?
(*)
Bob Shea

Fry Bread
(*)
Kevin Noble Maillard

Home in The Woods
(*)
Eliza Wheeler

The Last True Poets of the Sea
(*)
Julia Drake

Look Both Ways
(*)
Jason Reynolds

Pokko and the Drum
(*)
Matthew Forsythe

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

Pluto Gets the Call
(*)
Adam Rex

Award Categories

Adult

Adult Books for Young Adults

Adult: Audio

Adult: Genre Fiction

Adult: Graphic Novel

Youth

Youth: Audio

Youth: Graphic Novel

Youth: Middle Readers

Youth: Older Readers

Youth: Younger Readers

Award Years

2024

2023

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