2023 WRC: Award Winners

There are a stunning array of awards that honor books, which means you can always find more reading suggestions. We’ve highlighted many of them here but they’re only the tip of the iceberg. And several organizations, including the various divisions of the American Librarian Association, announce their awards in January, so be on the lookout for the 2023 Newbery, Caldecott, Printz and Carnegie medal winners!

Pulitzer Prize for Literature

National Book Awards

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence

Booker Prize: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilka

PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction: The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine

PEN America Literary Awards

Women’s Prize for Fiction: The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki

Washington State Book Awards

Kirkus Prize

National Book Critics Circle

LA Times Book Prize

Young Adult: A Sitting in St. James by Rita Williams-Garcia

Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award: The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton

Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award

Arab American Book Awards

National Jewish Book Award Winners

Association of Jewish Libraries Jewish Fiction Award winner: How to Find Your Way in the Dark by Derek B. Miller

Christy Awards for Christian Fiction

Stonewall Book Awards

Lambda Literary Awards

Bancroft Prize, awarded by the trustees of Columbia University for books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas

Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction: Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne by Katherine Rundell

Locus Awards (Locus Science Fiction Foundation)

Hugo Awards (World Science Fiction Society)

Nebula Awards (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America)

Bram Stoker Awards, presented by the Horror Writers Association

Silver Spur Awards, presented by the Western Writers of America

Edgar Awards, presented by the Mystery Writers of America

Barbellion Prize for “work has best spoken of the experience of chronic illness and/or disability.”
For more information about this new award, visit https://www.thebarbellionprize.com/

Audie Awards, presented by the Audio Publishers Association

  • Autobiography / Memoir: Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Ford, narrated by Ashley C. Ford.
  • Best Female Narrator: The Parted Earth by Anjali Enjeti, narrated by Deepti Gupta
  • Best Male Narrator: Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World by Benjamin Alire Sáenz,
    narrated by Lin-Manuel Miranda
  • Español: La Casa de Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca, narrated by Gloria Muñoz, Elena González, Rebeca Hernando, Carmen Mayordomo, Marta Poveda, Sol de la Barreda, Beatriz Melgares, Cristina Arias, and Antonio Martínez Asensio
  • Fantasy: Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson, narrated by Michael Kramer and Kate Reading
  • Fiction: The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton, narrated by Janina Edwards, Bahni Turpin, James Langton, Gabra Zackman, Dennis Boutsikaris, Steve West, André De Shields, Matthew Lloyd Davies, David Sadzin, Fiona Hardingham, George Newbern, Leon Nixon, Ines del Castillo, Jackie Sanders, Leon Nixon, Pete Simonelli, Priya Ayyar, and Robin Miles
  • History / Biography: Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other by Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish, narrated by Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish
  • Humor: How Y’all Doing? by Leslie Jordan, narrated by Leslie Jordan
  • Narration by the Author: A Promised Land by Barack Obama, narrated by Barack Obama
  • Thriller / Suspense: Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica, narrated by Brittany Pressley, Jennifer Jill Araya, Gary Tiedemann, and Jesse Vilinsky

Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards (“The Eisners”)

Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature written for young adults: Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley

William C. Morris Award (debut author for teens): Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley

John Newbery Medal for most outstanding contribution to children’s literature: The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera

Randolph Caldecott Medal for most distinguished American picture book for children: Watercress written by Andrea Wang, illustrated by Jason Chin

Schneider Family Book Award for books that embody an artistic expression of the disability experience:

Coretta Scott King Awards

Pura Belpré Awards honor a Latinx writer and illustrator whose children’s books best portray, affirm and celebrate the Latino cultural experience

YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults: Ambushed!: The Assassination Plot Against President Garfield by Gail Jarrow

American Indian Youth Literature Awards, which are awarded biennially. This award identifies and honors the very best writings and illustrations for youth, by and about Native American and Indigenous peoples of North America.

Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, which promotes Asian/Pacific American culture and heritage and is awarded based on literary and artistic merit.

The Sydney Taylor Book Award is presented annually to outstanding books for children and teens that authentically portray the Jewish experience by the Association of Jewish Libraries

Stonewall Book Award – Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award given annually to English-language children’s and young adult books of exceptional merit relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience: Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff & Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

Mildred L. Batchelder Award for an outstanding children’s book originally published in a language other than English in a country other than the United States, and subsequently translated into English for publication in the United States: Temple Alley Summer is the 2022 Batchelder Award winner. Originally published in Japanese as “Kimyōji Yokochō no Natsu,” the book was written by Sachiko Kashiwaba, illustrated by Miho Satake, translated by Avery Fischer Udagawa

The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award for most distinguished informational book for children: The People’s Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice with Art written by Cynthia Levinson and illustrated by Evan Turk

Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children’s Literature, awarded by the We Need Diverse Books organization

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