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Our list of The Best Books of 2023 (So Far) features superlative titles across genres that have published within the first half of 2023. This year we have outdone ourselves—51 categories, including some you would never expect, highlighting more than 130 exceptional books.
Our list of The Best Books of 2023 (So Far) features superlative titles across genres that have published within the first half of 2023. This year we have outdone ourselves—51 categories, including some you would never expect, highlighting more than 130 exceptional books.
B&N Children's & YA Book Award Winners
See AllOur 2023 overall winner is The Swifts by Beth Lincoln. Our Picture Book Winner is How to Eat a Book by Mrs. & Mr. Macleod. A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy I. Lin is our 2023 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 2023 overall winner is The Swifts by Beth Lincoln. Our Picture Book Winner is How to Eat a Book by Mrs. & Mr. Macleod. A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy I. Lin is our 2023 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.
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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 two books: Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead and Hernan Diaz's Trust.
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 two books: Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead and Hernan Diaz's Trust.
2022 Barnes & Noble Book of the Year
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Lessons in Chemistry (B&N Book of the Year)
Lessons in Chemistry (B&N Book of the Year)
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Our booksellers are most proud to make Lessons in Chemistry the 2022 Barnes & Noble Book of the Year. This blockbuster debut is not only charming, funny, and whip-smart but proves that life, like science, is unpredictable.
Listen to Bonnie Garmus discuss Lessons in Chemistry on Poured Over: The B&N Podcast.
Barnes & Noble's Best Books of 2022
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2022 B&N Discover Prize Winner
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The Rabbit Hutch (B&N Discover Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner)
The Rabbit Hutch (B&N Discover Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner)
Congratulations to the 2022 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize winner, debut author Tess Gunty!
Listen to Tess Gunty discuss The Rabbit Hutch 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 Tess Gunty for The Rabbit Hutch.
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 Tess Gunty for The Rabbit Hutch.
Booker Prize 2022 Winner
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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Booker Prize Winner)
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Booker Prize Winner)
The prestigious Booker Prize is given for a novel written in English. The winner for 2022 is Shehan Karunatilaka's The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, a searing satire set amid the mayhem of the Sri Lankan civil war. Read more in Our Blog.
Nobel Prize in Literature
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The Swedish Academy has awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature to the French author Annie Ernaux "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory."
The Swedish Academy has awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature to the French author Annie Ernaux "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory."
