Amazon Editors' Picks - Literature & Fiction (Awarded by amazon.com)

Awards List

2023

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

2022

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
(Winner)
Gabrielle Zevin

Reminders of Him
(*)
Colleen Hoover

Lessons in Chemistry
(*)
Bonnie Garmus

Memphis
(*)
Tara M. Stringfellow

Take My Hand
(*)
Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Young Mungo
(*)
Douglas Stuart

Remarkably Bright Creatures
(*)
Shelby Van Pelt

Nightcrawling
(*)
Leila Mottley

NSFW
(*)
Isabel Kaplan

All The Broken Places
(*)
John Boyne

Carrie Soto Is Back
(*)
Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Two Lives of Sara
(*)
Catherine Adel West

Demon Copperhead
(*)
Barbara Kingsolver

Mad Honey
(*)
Jodi Picoult; Jennifer Finney Boylan

Our Missing Hearts
(*)
Celeste Ng

Signal Fires
(*)
Dani Shapiro

The Winners
(*)
Fredrik Backman

Now Is Not the Time to Panic
(*)
Kevin Wilson

We All Want Impossible Things
(*)
Catherine Newman

We Are the Light
(*)
Matthew Quick

2021

The Lincoln Highway
(Winner)
Amor Towles

The Prophets
(*)
Robert Jones Jr.

The Four Winds
(*)
Kristin Hannah

Infinite Country
(*)
Patricia Engel

Klara and the Sun
(*)
Kazuo Ishiguro

What's Mine and Yours
(*)
Naima Coster

Great Circle
(*)
Maggie Shipstead

How Lucky
(*)
Will Leitch

Count the Ways
(*)
Joyce Maynard

Beautiful World, Where Are You
(*)
Sally Rooney

Bewilderment
(*)
Richard Powers

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

Harlem Shuffle
(*)
Colson Whitehead

Cloud Cuckoo Land
(*)
Anthony Doerr

Crossroads
(*)
Jonathan Franzen

Sankofa
(*)
Chibundu Onuzo

What Storm, What Thunder
(*)
Myriam J.A. Chancy

Our Country Friends
(*)
Gary Shteyngart

The Sentence
(*)
Louise Erdrich

Dava Shastri's Last Day
(*)
Kirthana Ramisetti

2020

Migrations
(Winner)
Charlotte McConaghy

Apeirogon
(*)
Colum McCann

The Girl with the Louding Voice
(*)
Abi Dare

The Mercies
(*)
Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Oona Out of Order
(*)
Margarita Montimore

Deacon King Kong
(*)
James McBride

Sharks in the Time of Saviors
(*)
Kawai Strong Washburn

Writers & Lovers
(*)
Lily King

Almond
(*)
Won-pyung Sohn

A Burning
(*)
Megha Majumdar

The Jane Austen Society
(*)
Natalie Jenner

The Vanishing Half
(*)
Brit Bennett

Luster
(*)
Raven Leilani

The New Wilderness
(*)
Diane Cook

Anxious People
(*)
Fredrik Backman

The Book of Two Ways
(*)
Jodi Picoult

Fifty Words for Rain
(*)
Asha Lemmie

Transcendent Kingdom
(*)
Yaa Gyasi

The Midnight Library
(*)
Matt Haig

Memorial
(*)
Bryan Washington

2019

The Testaments
(Winner)
Margaret Atwood

Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead
(*)
Olga Tokarczuk

The Night Tiger
(*)
Yangsze Choo

Daisy Jones & The Six
(*)
Taylor Jenkins Reid

A Woman Is No Man
(*)
Etaf Rum

The Parisian
(*)
Isabella Hammad

Ask Again, Yes
(*)
Mary Beth Keane

City of Girls
(*)
Elizabeth Gilbert

Mrs. Everything
(*)
Jennifer Weiner

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
(*)
Ocean Vuong

Deep River
(*)
Karl Marlantes

The Nickel Boys
(*)
Colson Whitehead

The Dutch House
(*)
Ann Patchett

Quichotte
(*)
Salman Rushdie

Red at the Bone
(*)
Jacqueline Woodson

The Water Dancer
(*)
Ta-Nehisi Coates

The World That We Knew
(*)
Alice Hoffman

All This Could Be Yours
(*)
Jami Attenberg

Grand Union: Stories
(*)
Zadie Smith

The Starless Sea
(*)
Erin Morgenstern

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