Kirkus Best Books of the Year - Fictional Families (Awarded by Kirkus)

Awards List

2023

The Last Animal
(*)
Ramona Ausubel

The New Earth
(*)
Jess Row

The Bee Sting
(*)
Paul Murray

Tom Lake
(*)
Ann Patchett

Dayswork
(*)
Chris Bachelder

Happiness Falls
(*)
Angie Kim

The Wren, the Wren
(*)
Anne Enright

Family Meal
(*)
Bryan Washington

The Unsettled
(*)
Ayana Mathis

Day
(*)
Michael Cunningham

2022

Olga Dies Dreaming
(*)
Xochitl Gonzalez

The Family Chao
(*)
Lan Samantha Chang

The Swimmers
(*)
Julie Otsuka

This Time Tomorrow
(*)
Emma Straub

The Family Izquierdo
(*)
Ruben Degollado

The Furrows
(*)
Namwali Serpell

The Hero of This Book
(*)
Elizabeth McCracken

2021

The Removed
(*)
Brandon Hobson

The Arsonists' City
(*)
Hala Alyan

The Five Wounds
(*)
Kirstin Valdez Quade

Monkey Boy
(*)
Francisco Goldman

Secrets of Happiness
(*)
Joan Silber

Golden Girl
(*)
Elin Hilderbrand

The Netanyahus
(*)
Joshua Cohen

The War for Gloria
(*)
Atticus Lish

Crossroads
(*)
Jonathan Franzen

Fight Night
(*)
Miriam Toews

Award Categories

Affirming Picture Books

Bedtime Books

Beginning Readers

Board Books

Book Club Fiction

Books for Beginning Readers

Debut Fiction

Empowering Picture Books

Environmental Fiction

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

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019