Library Journal Best Books - World Literature (Awarded by Library Journal)

Awards List

2023

Greek Lessons
(*)
Han Kang

I Went To See My Father
(*)
Kyung-Sook Shin

Milwaukee Blues
(*)
Louis-Philippe Dalembert

The Postcard
(*)
Anne Berest

Professor Schiff's Guilt
(*)
Agur Schiff

Kairos
(*)
Jenny Erpenbeck

Beyond the Door of No Return
(*)
David Diop

The Suicide Museum
(*)
Ariel Dorfman

The Body of the Soul: Stories
(*)
Ludmila Ulitskaya

2022

The Books of Jacob
(*)
Olga Tokarczuk

Seasons of Purgatory
(*)
Shahriar Mandanipour

Scattered All Over the Earth
(*)
Yoko Tawada

Bad Girls
(*)
Camila Villada

Life Ceremony: Stories
(*)
Sayaka Murata

The Ghetto Within
(*)
Santiago Amigorena

The Dreamtime
(*)
Mstyslav Chernov

Ghost Town
(*)
Kevin Chen

Nights of Plague
(*)
Orhan Pamuk

Not Russian
(*)
Mikhail Shevelev

2021

The Death of Murat Idrissi
(*)
Tommy Wieringa

The Art of Losing
(*)
Alice Zeniter

The Twilight Zone
(*)
Nona Fernandez

Zabor, or The Psalms
(*)
Kamel Daoud

Catch the Rabbit
(*)
Lana Bastasic

Bolla
(*)
Pajtim Statovci

Brotherhood
(*)
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

After the Sun
(*)
Jonas Eika

The Book of Mother
(*)
Violaine Huisman

The Italian
(*)
Shukri Mabkhout

2020

The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree
(*)
Shokoofeh Azar

The Belle Creole
(*)
Maryse Conde

Our Riches
(*)
Kaouther Adimi

Tropic of Violence
(*)
Nathacha Appanah

Echo on the Bay
(*)
Masatsugu Ono

Tokyo Ueno Station
(*)
Yu Miri

Difficult Light
(*)
Tomas Gonzalez

At Night All Blood Is Black
(*)
David Diop

2019

Berta Isla
(*)
Javier Marias

Death Is Hard Work
(*)
Khaled Khalifa

Crossing
(*)
Pajtim Statovci

Flowers of Mold & Other Stories
(*)
Ha Seong-nan

China Dream
(*)
Ma Jian

Sleepless Night
(*)
Margriet De Moor

The Memory Police
(*)
Yoko Ogawa

When the Plums Are Ripe
(*)
Patrice Nganang

A Fist or a Heart
(*)
Kristin Eiriksdottir

Space Invaders
(*)
Nona Fernandez

2018

The Labyrinth of the Spirits
(*)
Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Trick
(*)
Domenico Starnone

The Emissary
(*)
Yoko Tawada

Moon Brow
(*)
Shahriar Mandanipour

Convenience Store Woman
(*)
Sayaka Murata

In the Distance With You
(*)
Carla Guelfenbein

Small Country
(*)
Gael Faye

The Court Dancer
(*)
Kyung-Sook Shin

Flights
(*)
Olga Tokarczuk

Killing Commendatore
(*)
Haruki Murakami

Award Categories

Crime Fiction

Graphic Novels

Horror

Literary Fiction

Pop Fiction

Romance

SF/Fantasy

Short Stories

World Literature

Award Years

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018