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

Awards List

2023

The Apartment
(Top of the List)
Ana Menendez

I Have Some Questions for You
(*)
Rebecca Makkai

Victory City
(*)
Salman Rushdie

In Memoriam
(*)
Alice Winn

Our Best Intentions
(*)
Vibhuti Jain

What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
(*)
Claire Jimenez

Hula
(*)
Jasmin Iolani Hakes

Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style
(*)
Paul Rudnick

How to Be Remembered
(*)
Michael Thompson

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
(*)
James McBride

Shark Heart
(*)
Emily Habeck

Tom Lake
(*)
Ann Patchett

Dearborn
(*)
Ghassan Zeineddine

Happiness Falls
(*)
Angie Kim

North Woods
(*)
Daniel Mason

The Vaster Wilds
(*)
Lauren Groff

Land of Milk and Honey
(*)
C. Pam Zhang

The Leftover Woman
(*)
Jean Kwok

Absolution
(*)
Alice McDermott

The Berry Pickers
(*)
Amanda Peters

A Grandmother Begins the Story
(*)
Michelle Porter

Orbital
(*)
Samantha Harvey

2022

The Swimmers
(Top of the List)
Julie Otsuka

Yonder
(*)
Jabari Asim

The Patron Saint of Second Chances
(*)
Christine Simon

True Biz
(*)
Sara Novic

By Her Own Design
(*)
Piper Huguley

Horse
(*)
Geraldine Brooks

Big Girl
(*)
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
(*)
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Mercury Pictures Presents
(*)
Anthony Marra

The Rabbit Hutch
(*)
Tess Gunty

Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
(*)
James Hannaham

If I Survive You
(*)
Jonathan Escoffery

Demon Copperhead
(*)
Barbara Kingsolver

Lark Ascending
(*)
Silas House

Liberation Day: Stories
(*)
George Saunders

Our Missing Hearts
(*)
Celeste Ng

Signal Fires
(*)
Dani Shapiro

Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm
(*)
Laura Warrell

Someday, Maybe
(*)
Onyi Nwabineli

The Light Pirate
(*)
Lily Brooks-Dalton

2021

And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir
(Top of the List)
Margaret Kimball

The Sentence
(Top of the List)
Louise Erdrich

Girl A
(*)
Abigail Dean

That Old Country Music
(*)
Kevin Barry

Vera
(*)
Carol Edgarian

Who is Maud Dixon?
(*)
Alexandra Andrews

The Five Wounds
(*)
Kirstin Valdez Quade

The Night Always Comes
(*)
Willy Vlautin

That Summer
(*)
Jennifer Weiner

Legends of the North Cascades
(*)
Jonathan Evison

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

Radiant Fugitives
(*)
Nawaaz Ahmed

Sisters in Arms
(*)
Kaia Alderson

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

Harlem Shuffle
(*)
Colson Whitehead

Martita, I Remember You
(*)
Sandra Cisneros

Matrix
(*)
Lauren Groff

Cloud Cuckoo Land
(*)
Anthony Doerr

My Monticello: Fiction
(*)
Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky
(*)
Margaret Verble

Beasts of a Little Land
(*)
Juhea Kim

2020

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

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

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

2019

Quichotte
(Top of the List)
Salman Rushdie

Ayesha At Last
(*)
Uzma Jalaluddin

Fall Back Down When I Die
(*)
Joe Wilkins

The Far Field
(*)
Madhuri Vijay

The Border
(*)
Don Winslow

Lady Derring Takes a Lover
(*)
Julie Anne Long

Lost Children Archive
(*)
Valeria Luiselli

A People's Future of the United States
(*)
Victor Lavalle

Daisy Jones & The Six
(*)
Taylor Jenkins Reid

Feast Your Eyes
(*)
Myla Goldberg

Normal People
(*)
Sally Rooney

Exhalation: Stories
(*)
Ted Chiang

The Farm
(*)
Joanne Ramos

Red Birds
(*)
Mohammed Hanif

Red, White & Royal Blue
(*)
Casey McQuiston

Evvie Drake Starts Over
(*)
Linda Holmes

Side Chick Nation
(*)
Aya De Leon

The Chain
(*)
Adrian McKinty

Fleishman Is in Trouble
(*)
Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Growing Things and Other Stories
(*)
Paul Tremblay

Lady in the Lake
(*)
Laura Lippman

The Nickel Boys
(*)
Colson Whitehead

The Redeemed
(*)
Tim Pears

This Is How You Lose the Time War
(*)
Amal El-Mohtar; Max Gladstone

Never Have I Ever
(*)
Joshilyn Jackson

After the Flood
(*)
Kassandra Montag

Gideon the Ninth
(*)
Tamsyn Muir

Night Boat to Tangier
(*)
Kevin Barry

The Water Dancer
(*)
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Sarah Jane
(*)
James Sallis

Your House Will Pay
(*)
Steph Cha

The Deep
(*)
Rivers Solomon

Find Me
(*)
Andre Aciman

Girl, Woman, Other
(*)
Bernardine Evaristo

2018

The Mars Room
(Top of the List)
Rachel Kushner

Welcome to Lagos
(*)
Chibundu Onuzo

Eternal Life
(*)
Dara Horn

Gnomon
(*)
Nick Harkaway

Don't Skip Out on Me
(*)
Willy Vlautin

American Histories: Stories
(*)
John Edgar Wideman

Cloudbursts
(*)
Thomas McGuane

Gun Love
(*)
Jennifer Clement

Summer Hours at the Robbers Library
(*)
Sue Halpern

Lawn Boy
(*)
Jonathan Evison

The Overstory
(*)
Richard Powers

Jane Seymour, the Haunted Queen
(*)
Alison Weir

Warlight
(*)
Michael Ondaatje

The Great Believers
(*)
Rebecca Makkai

Southernmost
(*)
Silas House

There There
(*)
Tommy Orange

Confessions of the Fox
(*)
Jordy Rosenberg

Give Me Your Hand
(*)
Megan Abbott

Mr. & Mrs. American Pie
(*)
Juliet McDaniel

If You Leave Me
(*)
Crystal Hana Kim

Our House
(*)
Louise Candlish

The Reservoir Tapes
(*)
Jon McGregor

She Would Be King
(*)
Wayetu Moore

Transcription
(*)
Kate Atkinson

Washington Black
(*)
Esi Edugyan

Bellewether
(*)
Susanna Kearsley

Friday Black: Stories
(*)
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

November Road
(*)
Lou Berney

Unsheltered
(*)
Barbara Kingsolver

Killing Commendatore
(*)
Haruki Murakami

2016

Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories
(*)
Bonnie Jo Campbell

2014

All the Light We Cannot See
(*)
Anthony Doerr

2010

A Visit from the Goon Squad
(*)
Jennifer Egan

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Youth

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