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Awards List

Best Fiction

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
(#1)
Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

Detransition, Baby
(#9)
Torrey Peters

A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself
(#8)
Peter Ho Davies

The Prophets
(#12)
Robert Jones Jr.

Milk Fed
(#13)
Melissa Broder

How Beautiful We Were
(#19)
Imbolo Mbue

Klara and the Sun
(#17)
Kazuo Ishiguro

What Comes After
(#20)
JoAnne Tompkins

Great Circle
(#2)
Maggie Shipstead

Light Perpetual
(#16)
Francis Spufford

In: A Graphic Novel
(#14)
Will McPhail

Hell of a Book
(#5)
Jason Mott

Damnation Spring
(#11)
Ash Davidson

Gordo
(#18)
Jaime Cortez

The Book of Form and Emptiness
(#7)
Ruth L. Ozeki

Harlem Shuffle
(#3)
Colson Whitehead

Matrix
(#6)
Lauren Groff

Cloud Cuckoo Land
(#4)
Anthony Doerr

Crossroads
(#15)
Jonathan Franzen

The Lincoln Highway
(#10)
Amor Towles

Best Middle Grade & Chapter Books

The Last Cuentista
(#1)
Donna Barba Higuera

Too Small Tola
(#3)
Atinuke

Legacy
(#4)
Nikki Grimes

The Sea in Winter
(#9)
Christine Day

Red, White, and Whole
(#6)
Rajani LaRocca

Amber and Clay
(#5)
Laura Amy Schlitz

Leonard (My Life as a Cat)
(#7)
Carlie Sorosiak

Ahmed Aziz's Epic Year
(#2)
Nina Hamza

Kiki Kallira Breaks a Kingdom
(#8)
Sangu Mandanna

Black Boy Joy
(#10)
Kwame Mbalia

Best Mystery & Suspense

Silverview
(#1)
John Le Carre

The Other Passenger
(#7)
Louise Candlish

Bad Moon Rising
(#9)
John Galligan

Dead Dead Girls
(#4)
Nekesa Afia

Razorblade Tears
(#3)
S.A. Cosby

Clark and Division
(#2)
Naomi Hirahara

The Madness of Crowds
(#6)
Louise Penny

Velvet Was the Night
(#5)
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Man Who Died Twice
(#8)
Richard Osman

Mango, Mambo, and Murder
(#10)
Raquel V. Reyes

Best Picture Books

Wishes
(#1)
Muon Thi Van

Shy Willow
(#8)
Cat Min

Watercress
(#3)
Andrea Wang

Have You Ever Seen a Flower?
(#10)
Shawn Harris

When Lola Visits
(#6)
Michelle Sterling

I Can Make a Train Noise
(#5)
Michael Emberley

Little Witch Hazel
(#9)
Phoebe Wahl

Keep Your Head Up
(#7)
Aliya King Neil

Mr. Watson's Chickens
(#4)
Jarrett Dapier

Best Romance

All the Feels
(#1)
Olivia Dade

Big Bad Wolf
(#10)
Suleikha Snyder

Act Your Age, Eve Brown
(#3)
Talia Hibbert

Hana Khan Carries On
(#5)
Uzma Jalaluddin

Second First Impressions
(#9)
Sally Thorne

People We Meet On Vacation
(#2)
Emily Henry

Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake
(#4)
Alexis Hall

One Last Stop
(#6)
Casey McQuiston

Seven Days in June
(#7)
Tia Williams

Payback's a Witch
(#8)
Lana Harper

Best Science Fiction & Fantasy

She Who Became the Sun
(#1)
Shelley Parker-Chan

The Tangleroot Palace
(#8)
Marjorie M. Liu
in Never After

Remote Control
(#4)
Nnedi Okorafor

The Witch's Heart
(#9)
Genevieve Gornichec

A Desolation Called Peace
(#5)
Arkady Martine

The Helm of Midnight
(#10)
Marina Lostetter

Black Water Sister
(#3)
Zen Cho

A Psalm for the Wild-Built
(#7)
Becky Chambers

The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina
(#2)
Zoraida Cordova

Light From Uncommon Stars
(#6)
Ryka Aoki

Best Young Adult

Switch
(#1)
A.S. King

Last Night at the Telegraph Club
(#2)
Malinda Lo

City of the Uncommon Thief
(#4)
Lynne Bertrand

The Girls I've Been
(#6)
Tess Sharpe

When We Were Infinite
(#3)
Kelly Loy Gilbert

A Sitting in St. James
(#5)
Rita Williams-Garcia

Indestructible Object
(#9)
Mary McCoy

Me (Moth)
(#7)
Amber McBride

The City Beautiful
(#10)
Aden Polydoros

The Heartbreak Bakery
(#8)
A.R. Capetta

Award Categories

Best AudioBooks

Best Fiction

Best Middle Grade & Chapter Books

Best Mystery & Suspense

Best Picture Books

Best Romance

Best Science Fiction & Fantasy

Best Young Adult

Top 10

Award Years

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2017