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The Best Books of 2024 (So Far)
See All ListsB&N Children's & YA Book Award Winners
See AllOur 2024 overall winner is The Misfits by Lisa Yee. Our Picture Book Winner is I Lived Inside a Whale by Xin Li. Powerless by Lauren Roberts is our YA Winner. The Barnes & Noble Children’s & YA Book Awards discovers, champions, and celebrates the very best in Children’s publishing in three categories: Picture Books, Young Readers and YA.
Our 2024 overall winner is The Misfits by Lisa Yee. Our Picture Book Winner is I Lived Inside a Whale by Xin Li. Powerless by Lauren Roberts is our YA Winner. The Barnes & Noble Children’s & YA Book Awards discovers, champions, and celebrates the very best in Children’s publishing in three categories: Picture Books, Young Readers and YA.
Pulitzer Prizes
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The Pulitzer Prize presents awards in the categories of Fiction, Drama, History, Biography, Poetry, General Nonfiction, and Music. This year's Pulitzer Prize in Fiction was awarded to Jayne Anne Phillips for Night Watch, while the General Nonfiction Award went to Nathan Thrall for A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy.
The Pulitzer Prize presents awards in the categories of Fiction, Drama, History, Biography, Poetry, General Nonfiction, and Music. This year's Pulitzer Prize in Fiction was awarded to Jayne Anne Phillips for Night Watch, while the General Nonfiction Award went to Nathan Thrall for A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy.
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (2023 B&N Book of the Year)
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (2023 B&N Book of the Year)
From the author of Deacon King Kong and National Book Award winner The Good Lord Bird comes the Barnes & Noble 2023 Book of the Year, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, a stunning novel about a small town and the bonds of community that are formed between marginalized groups in order to survive.
Learn more about The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store on Poured Over: The B&N Podcast and read more about James McBride on B&N Reads.
2023 Barnes & Noble Author of the Year
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David Grann is the inaugural recipient of the Author of the Year award from Barnes & Noble in 2023, celebrating his impressive array of achievements that began in 2009 with The Lost City of Z and extended into 2023 with The Wager and the film adaptation of Killers of the Flower Moon. Grann’s writing style, mixing thriller-like stakes and riveting history, solidifies him as one of the literary world’s essential nonfiction voices.
Learn more about The Wager on Poured Over: The B&N Podcast and read more about David Grann on B&N Reads.
David Grann is the inaugural recipient of the Author of the Year award from Barnes & Noble in 2023, celebrating his impressive array of achievements that began in 2009 with The Lost City of Z and extended into 2023 with The Wager and the film adaptation of Killers of the Flower Moon. Grann’s writing style, mixing thriller-like stakes and riveting history, solidifies him as one of the literary world’s essential nonfiction voices.
Learn more about The Wager on Poured Over: The B&N Podcast and read more about David Grann on B&N Reads.
2023 B&N Discover Prize Winner
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The Berry Pickers (B&N Discover Prize Winner)
The Berry Pickers (B&N Discover Prize Winner)
The 2023 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize winner is The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters!
Here's what our booksellers are saying: "Fabulously compelling" … "Begins as a tragic mystery and blossoms into a story of resilient hope" … "This poignant debut reaches deep into your emotional core" … "A powerfully heartbreaking, yet ultimately hopeful debut."
Learn more on Poured Over: The B&N Podcast.
National Book Awards
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The National Book Awards are the nation's preeminent literary prizes, honoring outstanding Fiction, Young People's Literature, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Nonfiction. This year's fiction prize went to Justin Torres for the novel Blackouts.
The National Book Awards are the nation's preeminent literary prizes, honoring outstanding Fiction, Young People's Literature, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Nonfiction. This year's fiction prize went to Justin Torres for the novel Blackouts.
2023 Booker Prize Winner
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Prophet Song (Booker Prize Winner)
Prophet Song (Booker Prize Winner)
The prestigious Booker Prize is given for a novel written in English. The winner for 2023 is Paul Lynch's Prophet Song, a haunting and harrowingly modern tale that resonates with so much of the present sociopolitical landscape.
Nobel Prize in Literature
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 is awarded to the Norwegian author Jon Fosse, “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.”
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 is awarded to the Norwegian author Jon Fosse, “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.”
