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Finalists announced here: www.libbylife.com/2024-02-09-announcing-the-finalists-for-the-first-annual-libby-book-awards-aka-the-libbys
Winners announced here: www.libbylife.com/2024-03-07-and-the-award-goes-to-the-winners-of-the-first-libby-book-awards
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
From James McBride, author of the bestselling Oprah’s Book Club pick Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award - …
Winner for Best Adult Fiction
4 stars
On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside …
Winner for Best Adult Nonfiction
When two young rival journalists find love through a magical connection, they must face the depths of hell, in a …
Winner for Best Young Adult Fiction
I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
4 stars
The riveting new novel - “part true-crime page-turner, part campus coming-of-age” (San Francisco Chronicle) - from the author of the …
Winner for Best Audiobook
The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes
5 stars
Armed with only hazy memories, a woman who long ago witnessed her friend’s sudden, mysterious death, and has since spent …
Winner for Best Debut Author
Camp Zero by Michelle Min Sterling
3 stars
In a near-future northern settlement, the fates of a young woman, a professor, and a mysterious collective of researchers collide …
Winner for Best Diverse Author
Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn’t have a realistic water gun. She said …
Winner for Best Comic/Graphic Novel
Full of intimate stories, from chasing down secret love affairs to battling body image and struggling with familial strife, Pageboy …
Winner for Best Memoir & Autobiography
A practical, information-packed, and transformative guide to becoming a better cook and conquering the kitchen, Start Here is a must-have …
Winner for Best Cookbook
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto
A lonely shopkeeper takes it upon herself to solve a murder in the most peculiar way in this captivating mystery …
Winner for Best Mystery
Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll
Masterfully blending elements of psychological suspense and true crime, Jessica Knoll - author of the bestselling novel Luckiest Girl Alive …
Winner for Best Thriller
Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn
The acclaimed author of Love Lettering weaves a wise and witty new novel that echoes with timely questions about love, …
Winner for Best Romance
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros (The Empyrean, #1)
4 stars
Enter the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders from New York Times bestselling author Rebecca …
Winner for Best Fantasy
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros (The Empyrean, #2)
Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College - Violet included. But Threshing was …
Winner for Best Romantasy
System Collapse by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
4 stars
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.
Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back.
Following the events …
Winner for Best Science Fiction
