2023 Amazon Editors' Picks (Awarded by amazon.com)

Awards List

Children's Books

The Lost Library
(Winner)
Wendy Mass; Rebecca Stead

The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels
(*)
Beth Lincoln

Agents of S.U.I.T.
(*)
John Patrick Green

Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea
(*)
Dav Pilkey

Big
(*)
Vashti Harrison

The Eyes and the Impossible
(*)
Dave Eggers

The Search for the Giant Arctic Jellyfish
(*)
Chloe Savage

The Skull
(*)
Jon Klassen

The Chalice of the Gods
(*)
Rick Riordan

The Imaginary Alphabet
(*)
Sylvie Daigneault

Just Because
(*)
Matthew McConaughey

Dragon's First Taco
(*)
Adam Rubin

Every Dreaming Creature
(*)
Brendan Wenzel

If I Was a Horse
(*)
Sophie Blackall

The Puppets of Spelhorst
(*)
Kate DiCamillo

Remember Us
(*)
Jacqueline Woodson

Something, Someday
(*)
Amanda Gorman

Taking Flight!
(*)
Sherri Duskey Rinker

Wrecker
(*)
Carl Hiaasen

Literature & Fiction

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
(Winner)
James McBride

The Covenant of Water
(*)
Abraham Verghese

Biography of X
(*)
Catherine Lacey

Birnam Wood
(*)
Eleanor Catton

Hello Beautiful
(*)
Ann Napolitano

Weyward
(*)
Emilia Hart

Hang the Moon
(*)
Jeannette Walls

Juno Loves Legs
(*)
Karl Geary

Pomegranate
(*)
Helen Elaine Lee

Yellowface
(*)
R.F. Kuang

Lady Tan's Circle of Women
(*)
Lisa See

Crook Manifesto
(*)
Colson Whitehead

Tom Lake
(*)
Ann Patchett

Happiness Falls
(*)
Angie Kim

North Woods
(*)
Daniel Mason

The River We Remember
(*)
William Kent Krueger

Wellness
(*)
Nathan Hill

Let Us Descend
(*)
Jesmyn Ward

Absolution
(*)
Alice McDermott

The Berry Pickers
(*)
Amanda Peters

Mysteries & Thrillers

Small Mercies
(Winner)
Dennis Lehane

Age of Vice
(*)
Deepti Kapoor

Murder Your Employer
(*)
Rupert Holmes

All That Is Mine I Carry With Me
(*)
William Landay

The White Lady
(*)
Jacqueline Winspear

Going Zero
(*)
Anthony McCarten

A House With Good Bones
(*)
T. Kingfisher

Symphony of Secrets
(*)
Brendan Slocumb

Those Empty Eyes
(*)
Charlie Donlea

All the Sinners Bleed
(*)
S.A. Cosby

Drowning
(*)
T.J. Newman

The Only One Left
(*)
Riley Sager

The Quiet Tenant
(*)
Clemence Michallon

Strange Sally Diamond
(*)
Liz Nugent

Pet
(*)
Catherine Chidgey

The Golden Gate
(*)
Amy Chua

Happiness Falls
(*)
Angie Kim

Mother-Daughter Murder Night
(*)
Nina Simon

Bright Young Women
(*)
Jessica Knoll

Kill Show
(*)
Daniel Sweren-Becker

Mysteries & Thrillers: Series

The Mystery Guest
(Winner)
Nita Prose

The Death Comes to Marlow
(*)
Robert Thorogood

Exiles
(*)
Jane Harper

Lying Beside You
(*)
Michael Robotham

My Father's House
(*)
Joseph O'Connor

Cold-Blooded Liar
(*)
Karen Rose

Red Queen
(*)
Juan Gomez-Jurado

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
(*)
Jesse Q. Sutanto

City of Dreams
(*)
Don Winslow

Dark Angel
(*)
John Sandford

The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies
(*)
Alison Goodman

After That Night
(*)
Karin Slaughter

Gangsters Don't Die
(*)
Tod Goldberg

The Last Devil to Die
(*)
Richard Osman

The Bell in the Fog
(*)
Lev A.C. Rosen

Glory Be
(*)
Danielle Arceneaux

Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Lord
(*)
Celeste Connally

Blood Sisters
(*)
Vanessa Lillie

Resurrection Walk
(*)
Michael Connelly

The Spy Coast
(*)
Tess Gerritsen

Romance

Things We Left Behind
(Winner)
Lucy Score

King of Greed
(*)
Ana Huang

The Love Wager
(*)
Lynn Painter

The Marriage Auction: Season One, Volume One
(*)
Audrey Carlan

Tastes Like Shakkar
(*)
Nisha Sharma

The Build Up
(*)
Tati Richardson

Fourth Wing
(*)
Rebecca Yarros

Happy Place
(*)
Emily Henry

Practice Makes Perfect
(*)
Sarah Adams

Love, Theoretically
(*)
Ali Hazelwood

Business or Pleasure
(*)
Rachel Lynn Solomon

Forget Me Not
(*)
Julie Soto

Hello Stranger
(*)
Katherine Center

The Seven Year Slip
(*)
Ashley Poston

The Art of Scandal
(*)
Regina Black

The Blonde Identity
(*)
Ally Carter

Dragged to the Wedding
(*)
Andrew Grey

Shadows of You
(*)
Catherine Cowles

Iron Flame
(*)
Rebecca Yarros

Love Redesigned
(*)
Lauren Asher

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fourth Wing
(Winner)
Rebecca Yarros

Hell Bent
(*)
Leigh Bardugo

The Ferryman
(*)
Justin Cronin

A Crown of Ivy and Glass
(*)
Claire Legrand

Witch King
(*)
Martha Wells

Camp Damascus
(*)
Chuck Tingle

Immortal Longings
(*)
Chloe Gong

Thornhedge
(*)
T. Kingfisher

Whalefall
(*)
Daniel Kraus

Assistant to the Villain
(*)
Hannah Nicole Maehrer

Fall of Ruin and Wrath
(*)
Jennifer L. Armentrout

Starter Villain
(*)
John Scalzi

The Fragile Threads of Power
(*)
V.E. Schwab

Starling House
(*)
Alix E. Harrow

Two Twisted Crowns
(*)
Rachel Gillig

Bookshops & Bonedust
(*)
Travis Baldree

The Future
(*)
Naomi Alderman

Iron Flame
(*)
Rebecca Yarros

Murtagh
(*)
Christopher Paolini

The Princess of Thornwood Drive
(*)
Khalia Moreau

Teen & Young Adult

Divine Rivals
(Winner)
Rebecca Ross

The Stolen Heir
(*)
Holly Black

The Davenports
(*)
Krystal Marquis

Gwen and Art Are Not in Love
(*)
Lex Croucher

Warrior Girl Unearthed
(*)
Angeline Boulley

Bonesmith
(*)
Nicki Pau Preto

One of Us Is Back
(*)
Karen M. McManus

Their Vicious Games
(*)
Joelle Wellington

The Brothers Hawthorne
(*)
Jennifer Lynn Barnes

My Father, the Panda Killer
(*)
Jamie Jo Hoang

Phoebe's Diary
(*)
Phoebe Wahl

Before the Devil Knows You're Here
(*)
Autumn Krause

A Curse for True Love
(*)
Stephanie Garber

Thieves' Gambit
(*)
Kayvion Lewis

Artifice
(*)
Sharon Cameron

Check & Mate
(*)
Ali Hazelwood

Emmett
(*)
L.C. Rosen

Murtagh
(*)
Christopher Paolini

What the River Knows
(*)
Isabel Ibanez

Betting on You
(*)
Lynn Painter

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