Kirkus Best Books of the Year Winners Book Club Fiction

Awards List

2023

A House for Alice

A House for Alice (*)
Diana Evans

Jan-2008
/ Literary

Birnam Wood

Birnam Wood (*)
Eleanor Catton

Mar-2023
/ Psychological Suspense

Old God's Time

Old God's Time (*)
Sebastian Barry

Mar-2023
/ Thriller

Yellowface

Yellowface (*)
R.F. Kuang

May-2023
/ Women's Fiction

Your Love is Not Good

Your Love is Not Good (*)
Johanna Hedva

May-2023
/ Literary

Lucky Dogs

Lucky Dogs (*)
Helen Schulman

Jun-2023
/ Psychological Suspense

The Apartment

The Apartment (*)
Ana Menendez

Jul-2023
/ Historical

Breaking and Entering

Breaking and Entering (*)
Don Gillmor

Aug-2023
/ Literary

Liquid Snakes

Liquid Snakes (*)
Stephen Kearse

Aug-2023
/ General Fiction

Land of Milk and Honey

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

Oct-2023
/ Literary

The MANIAC

The MANIAC (*)
Benjamin Labatut

Oct-2023
/ Literary

Same Bed Different Dreams

Same Bed Different Dreams (*)
Ed Park

Nov-2023
/ Literary

2022

Devil House

Devil House (*)
John Darnielle

Jan-2022
/ Literary

The Pages

The Pages (*)
Hugo Hamilton

Feb-2022
/ Literary

Mecca

Mecca (*)
Susan Straight

Mar-2022
/ Literary

The Candy House

The Candy House (*)
Jennifer Egan

Apr-2022
/ Psychological Suspense

Sea of Tranquility

Sea of Tranquility (*)
Emily St. John Mandel

Apr-2022
/ Science Fiction

Companion Piece

Companion Piece (*)
Ali Smith

May-2022
/ Literary

We Had to Remove This Post

We Had to Remove This Post (*)
Hanna Bervoets

May-2022
/ Psychological Suspense

The Kingdom of Sand

The Kingdom of Sand (*)
Andrew Holleran

Jun-2022
/ Psychological Suspense

Fellowship Point

Fellowship Point (*)
Alice Elliott Dark

Jul-2022
/ Women's Fiction

The Last White Man

The Last White Man (*)
Mohsin Hamid

Aug-2022
/ General Fiction

Sacrificio

Sacrificio (*)
Ernesto Mestre-Reed

Sep-2022
/ Christian

Demon Copperhead

Demon Copperhead (*)
Barbara Kingsolver

Oct-2022
/ General Fiction

Our Missing Hearts

Our Missing Hearts (*)
Celeste Ng

Oct-2022
/ Literary

2021

Bina

Bina (*)
Anakana Schofield

Mar-2020
/ Women's Fiction

The Committed

The Committed (*)
Viet Thanh Nguyen

Mar-2021
/ Literary

Foregone

Foregone (*)
Russell Banks

Mar-2021
/ Psychological Suspense

Second Place

Second Place (*)
Rachel Cusk

May-2021
/ Literary

Wayward

Wayward (*)
Dana Spiotta

Jul-2021
/ Literary

Beautiful World, Where Are You

Beautiful World, Where Are You (*)
Sally Rooney

Sep-2021
/ Women's Fiction

Our Country Friends

Our Country Friends (*)
Gary Shteyngart

Nov-2021
/ Literary

The Sentence

The Sentence (*)
Louise Erdrich

Nov-2021
/ Literary

2020

Amnesty

Amnesty (*)
Aravind Adiga

Feb-2020
/ Literary

Deacon King Kong

Deacon King Kong (*)
James McBride

Mar-2020
/ General Fiction

Writers & Lovers

Writers & Lovers (*)
Lily King

Mar-2020
/ Literary

Afterlife

Afterlife (*)
Julia Alvarez

Apr-2020
/ General Fiction

Man of My Time

Man of My Time (*)
Dalia Sofer

Apr-2020
/ Literary

The Book of V.

The Book of V. (*)
Anna Solomon

May-2020
/ Historical

The Index of Self-Destructive Acts

The Index of Self-Destructive Acts (*)
Christopher R. Beha

May-2020
/ Literary

28 Summers

28 Summers (*)
Elin Hilderbrand

Jun-2020
/ Women's Fiction

The Vanishing Half

The Vanishing Half (*)
Brit Bennett

Jun-2020
/ Women's Fiction

The Lives of Edie Pritchard

The Lives of Edie Pritchard (*)
Larry Watson

Jul-2020
/ General Fiction

Want

Want (*)
Lynn Steger Strong

Jul-2020
/ Literary

Homeland Elegies

Homeland Elegies (*)
Ayad Akhtar

Sep-2020
/ General Fiction

Transcendent Kingdom

Transcendent Kingdom (*)
Yaa Gyasi

Sep-2020
/ Literary

Jack

Jack (*)
Marilynne Robinson

Oct-2020
/ Literary

Missionaries

Missionaries (*)
Phil Klay

Oct-2020
/ Literary

Award Categories

Affirming Picture Books

Beginning Readers

Book Club Fiction

Books for Beginning Readers

Empowering Picture Books

Environmental Fiction

Fiction in Translation

Fictional Families

Fictional Voices

Funniest Picture Books

Historical Fiction

Informational Picture Books

Joyous Picture Books

Middle-Grade About Speaking Up

Middle-Grade Activist

Middle-Grade Adventures

Middle-Grade Family Stories

Middle-Grade Fantasy and SF

Middle-Grade Fiction

Middle-Grade Friendship Stories

Middle-Grade Graphic Fiction

Award Years