2020 Booklist Editors Choice (Awarded by ALA: The American Library Association)

Awards List

Adult

Year of the Rabbit
(Top of the List)
Tian Veasna

These Ghosts Are Family
(Top of the List)
Maisy Card

Media

The Girl with the Louding Voice
(Top of the List)
Abi Dare

Clap When You Land
(Top of the List)
Elizabeth Acevedo

Youth

Dragon Hoops
(Top of the List)
Gene Luen Yang

Burn
(Top of the List)
Patrick Ness

Nana Akua Goes to School
(Top of the List)
Patricia Elam Walker

Adult

The Janes
(*)
Louisa Luna

Real Life
(*)
Brandon Taylor

The Sun Down Motel
(*)
Simone St. James

Upright Women Wanted
(*)
Sarah Gailey

The City We Became
(*)
N.K. Jemisin

Deacon King Kong
(*)
James McBride

Eight Perfect Murders
(*)
Peter Swanson

Love, Death & Rare Books
(*)
Robert Hellenga

The Night Watchman
(*)
Louise Erdrich

On the Corner of Hope and Main
(*)
Beverly Jenkins

Code Name Helene
(*)
Ariel Lawhon

Book of the Little Axe
(*)
Lauren Francis-Sharma

Catherine House
(*)
Elisabeth Thomas

Exile Music
(*)
Jennifer Steil

Network Effect
(*)
Martha Wells

A Burning
(*)
Megha Majumdar

Parakeet
(*)
Marie-Helene Bertino

Party of Two
(*)
Jasmine Guillory

The Vanishing Half
(*)
Brit Bennett

Blacktop Wasteland
(*)
S.A. Cosby

Crooked Hallelujah
(*)
Kelli Jo Ford

The Lives of Edie Pritchard
(*)
Larry Watson

Utopia Avenue
(*)
David Mitchell

Well-Behaved Indian Women
(*)
Saumya Dave

The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows
(*)
Olivia Waite

Here We Are
(*)
Graham Swift

Homeland Elegies
(*)
Ayad Akhtar

The Last Great Road Bum
(*)
Hector Tobar

When No One Is Watching
(*)
Alyssa Cole

Leave the World Behind
(*)
Rumaan Alam

Plain Bad Heroines
(*)
Emily M. Danforth

Ring Shout
(*)
P. Djeli Clark

The Searcher
(*)
Tana French

Tiny Nightmares
(*)
Lincoln Michel

The Office of Historical Corrections
(*)
Danielle Evans

The Chicken Sisters
(*)
K.J. Dell'Antonia

Media

The Vanished Birds
(*)
Simon Jimenez

The Vineyards of Champagne
(*)
Juliet Blackwell

Apeirogon
(*)
Colum McCann

The Case of the Reincarnated Client
(*)
Tarquin Hall

The Resisters
(*)
Gish Jen

Deacon King Kong
(*)
James McBride

Miss Austen
(*)
Gill Hornby

My Mother's House
(*)
Francesca Momplaisir

The Lehman Trilogy
(*)
Stefano Massini

Saving Ruby King
(*)
Catherine Adel West

Tokyo Ueno Station
(*)
Yu Miri

The Vanishing Half
(*)
Brit Bennett

The Switch
(*)
Beth O'Leary

All the Devils Are Here
(*)
Louise Penny

A Deadly Education
(*)
Naomi Novik

Youth

Black Is a Rainbow Color
(*)
Angela Joy

Given
(*)
Nandi Taylor

The Old Truck
(*)
Jarrett Pumphrey; Jerome Pumphrey

Overground Railroad
(*)
Lesa Cline-Ransome

Foul Is Fair
(*)
Hannah Capin

King and the Dragonflies
(*)
Kacen Callender

Ohana Means Family
(*)
Ilima Loomis

Red Hood
(*)
Elana K. Arnold

Up On Bob
(*)
Mary Sullivan

Hike
(*)
Pete Oswald

We Are Water Protectors
(*)
Carole Lindstrom

A Wish in the Dark
(*)
Christina Soontornvat

Efren Divided
(*)
Ernesto Cisneros

They Went Left
(*)
Monica Hesse

Camp
(*)
L.C. Rosen

Felix Ever After
(*)
Kacen Callender

Dress Coded
(*)
Carrie Firestone

Gimme Everything You Got
(*)
Iva-Marie Palmer

The Voting Booth
(*)
Brandy Colbert

Everything Sad Is Untrue
(*)
Daniel Nayeri

Fighting Words
(*)
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Isaiah Dunn is My Hero
(*)
Kelly J. Baptist

Lobizona
(*)
Romina Garber

The Magic in Changing Your Stars
(*)
Leah Henderson

The Ocean Calls
(*)
Tina Cho

The Time of Green Magic
(*)
Hilary McKay

The Barnabus Project
(*)
Terry Fan; Eric Fan

Flamer
(*)
Mike Curato

Fly on the Wall
(*)
Remy Lai

Grown
(*)
Tiffany D. Jackson

I Am Every Good Thing
(*)
Derrick Barnes

If You Come to Earth
(*)
Sophie Blackall

Legendborn
(*)
Tracy Deonn

Lupe Wong Won't Dance
(*)
Donna Barba Higuera

The Paper Boat
(*)
Thao Lam

See the Cat
(*)
David LaRochelle

Skunk and Badger
(*)
Amy Timberlake

Spindlefish and Stars
(*)
Christiane M. Andrews

111 Trees
(*)
Rina Singh

Ana on the Edge
(*)
A.J. Sass

Dear Justyce
(*)
Nic Stone

Dungeon Critters
(*)
Natalie Riess

The Last Mirror on the Left
(*)
Lamar Giles

The Magic Fish
(*)
Trung Le Nguyen

The Puppetmaster's Apprentice
(*)
Lisa DeSelm

Twins
(*)
Varian Johnson

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

2025

2024

2023

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