2023 Barnes & Noble Booksellers' Favorites (Awarded by Barnes and Noble)

Awards List

Christian Children's Books

You Come from Greatness
(*)
Sara Chinakwe

Being Baxters
(*)
Karen Kingsbury

The Best Worst Day Ever
(*)
Mark Batterson

When I talk to God, I Talk About You
(*)
Chrissy Metz; Bradley Collins

Your Brave Song
(*)
Ann Voskamp

God is Kind
(*)
Jamie Calloway-Hanauer

God Is Here
(*)
Lisa Tawn Bergren

A Message in the Moon
(*)
Roma Downey

Fantasy

Hell Bent
(*)
Leigh Bardugo

A Day of Fallen Night
(*)
Samantha Shannon

Fourth Wing
(*)
Rebecca Yarros

Assistant to the Villain
(*)
Hannah Nicole Maehrer

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

The Hurricane Wars
(*)
Thea Guanzon

Starling House
(*)
Alix E. Harrow

Throne of the Fallen
(*)
Kerri Maniscalco

Bookshops & Bonedust
(*)
Travis Baldree

Iron Flame
(*)
Rebecca Yarros

Fiction

I Have Some Questions for You
(*)
Rebecca Makkai

The God of Endings
(*)
Jacqueline Holland

Hello Beautiful
(*)
Ann Napolitano

Hang the Moon
(*)
Jeannette Walls

Chain-Gang All-Stars
(*)
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Yellowface
(*)
R.F. Kuang

The Rachel Incident
(*)
Caroline O'Donoghue

Tom Lake
(*)
Ann Patchett

Bright Young Women
(*)
Jessica Knoll

The Berry Pickers
(*)
Amanda Peters

Graphic Novels

Last On His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century
(*)
Adrian Matejka

A Guest in the House
(*)
Emily Carroll

The Naked Tree
(*)
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

Roaming
(*)
Jillian Tamaki

This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America
(*)
Navied Mahdavian

I Must Be Dreaming
(*)
Roz Chast

Lore Olympus: Volume Five
(*)
Rachel Smythe

Monica
(*)
Daniel Clowes

The Mysteries
(*)
Bill Watterson

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin--Lost Years
(*)
Kevin B. Eastman

Horror

The Dead Take the A Train
(*)
Richard Kadrey

How to Sell a Haunted House
(*)
Grady Hendrix

Don't Fear the Reaper
(*)
Stephen Graham Jones

Monstrilio
(*)
Gerardo Samano Cordova

A House With Good Bones
(*)
T. Kingfisher

Lone Women
(*)
Victor Lavalle

Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird: Stories
(*)
Agustina Bazterrica

What Kind of Mother
(*)
Clay McLeod Chapman

A Haunting on the Hill
(*)
Elizabeth Hand

Out There Screaming
(*)
Jordan Peele

Literary Fiction

The Covenant of Water
(*)
Abraham Verghese

This Other Eden
(*)
Paul Harding

Ladies' Lunch
(*)
Lore Segal

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
(*)
James McBride

The Fraud
(*)
Zadie Smith

North Woods
(*)
Daniel Mason

The Vaster Wilds
(*)
Lauren Groff

Death Valley
(*)
Melissa Broder

Let Us Descend
(*)
Jesmyn Ward

Absolution
(*)
Alice McDermott

Mysteries & Thrillers

Murder Your Employer
(*)
Rupert Holmes

Small Mercies
(*)
Dennis Lehane

You Shouldn't Have Come Here
(*)
Jeneva Rose

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

The Only One Left
(*)
Riley Sager

Zero Days
(*)
Ruth Ware

After That Night
(*)
Karin Slaughter

The Last Devil to Die
(*)
Richard Osman

The Raging Storm
(*)
Ann Cleeves

The River We Remember
(*)
William Kent Krueger

Picture Books

Noticing
(*)
Kobi Yamada

When Things Aren't Going Right, Go Left
(*)
Marc Colagiovanni

Gustav Is Missing!
(*)
Andrea Zuill

Big
(*)
Vashti Harrison

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Sleigh!
(*)
Mo Willems

Begin Again: The Story of How We Got Here and Where We Might Go
(*)
Oliver Jeffers

Something, Someday
(*)
Amanda Gorman

The Big Cheese
(*)
Jory John; Pete Oswald

Down the Hole
(*)
Scott Slater

Romance Novels

The Wall of Winnipeg and Me
(*)
Mariana Zapata

Wildfire
(*)
Hannah Grace

Yours Truly
(*)
Abby Jimenez

Happy Place
(*)
Emily Henry

Love, Theoretically
(*)
Ali Hazelwood

A Soul of Ash and Blood
(*)
Jennifer L. Armentrout

The Long Game
(*)
Elena Armas

Things We Left Behind
(*)
Lucy Score

The Graham Effect
(*)
Elle Kennedy

Hunt on Dark Waters
(*)
Katee Robert

Science Fiction

The Terraformers
(*)
Annalee Newitz

The Mimicking of Known Successes
(*)
Malka Older

Some Desperate Glory
(*)
Emily Tesh

Fractal Noise
(*)
Christopher Paolini

On Earth as It Is on Television
(*)
Emily Jane

Translation State
(*)
Ann Leckie

Star Bringer
(*)
Tracy Wolff

Light Bringer
(*)
Pierce Brown

From a Certain Poin of View: Return of the Jedi
(*)
Random House

Starter Villain
(*)
John Scalzi

Young Adult Books

Divine Rivals
(*)
Rebecca Ross

Foxglove
(*)
Adalyn Grace

The Brothers Hawthorne
(*)
Jennifer Lynn Barnes

A Study in Drowning
(*)
Ava Reid

Beholder
(*)
Ryan La Sala

A Curse for True Love
(*)
Stephanie Garber

Check & Mate
(*)
Ali Hazelwood

Murtagh
(*)
Christopher Paolini

Betting on You
(*)
Lynn Painter

Heartstopper Volume Five
(*)
Alice Oseman

Young Reader's Books

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

Big Tree
(*)
Brian Selznick

School Trip
(*)
Jerry Craft

The One and Only Ruby
(*)
Katherine Applegate

The World Behind The Door
(*)
Pari Thomson

The Chalice of the Gods
(*)
Rick Riordan

No Brainer
(*)
Jeff Kinney

The Puppets of Spelhorst
(*)
Kate DiCamillo

Remember Us
(*)
Jacqueline Woodson

Influencers
(*)
Dav Pilkey

Award Categories

Christian Children's Books

Fantasy

Fiction

Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels & Comics

Horror

Literary Fiction

Manga

Mysteries & Thrillers

Picture Books

Romance Novels

Science Fiction

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Young Adult Books

Young Adult SF & Fantasy

Young Reader Graphic Novels

Young Reader's Books

Award Years

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