Foyles Book of the Year

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The Foyles Books of the Year have been announced annually since 2017 by the British bookseller chain Foyles. From 2017 to 2023 they recognised outstanding literature in three categories: Fiction, Non-fiction, and Children's. A fiction award was conferred in 2016, before the other two categories were added. In 2024 the award changed to a combined one for all genres.[1]

When announcing the 2023 choices, Foyles said that they chose "our favourite, most interesting, most important, most year-defining titles published, recommended and sold this year".[2]

Winners (2016 – 2023)

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Fiction

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Year Author Book Ref[2][3]
2016 Paul Beatty The Sellout [4]
2017 Naomi Alderman The Power [5][6]
2018 Sayaka Murata Convenience Store Woman [7]
2019 Ocean Vuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous [8][9][10]
2020 Brandon Taylor Real Life [11]
2021 Natasha Brown Assembly [12][13]
2022 Sheena Patel I'm a Fan [14][15]
2023 R. F. Kuang Yellowface [16][17][18][19]

Non-fiction

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Year Author Book Ref[2][3]
2017 Reni Eddo-Lodge Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race [5]
2018 Akala Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire [7]
2019 Lisa Taddeo Three Women [9]
2020 Doireann Ní Ghríofa A Ghost in the Throat [20][11]
2021 Warren Ellis Nina Simone's Gum [21][22]
2022 Thomas Halliday Otherlands: A World in the Making [23][15]
2023 Cat Bohannon Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution [17][24]

Children's

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Year Author Book Ref[2][3]
2017 Elena Favilli Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls [5][6]
2018 Tomi Adeyemi Children of Blood and Bone [25][7]
2019 Katherine Rundell The Good Thieves [26][9][10]
2020 Myriam Dahman The Wolf’s Secret [27][11][28][29]
2021 Tom Gauld The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess [30][31][13][29]
2022 S. F. Said Tyger [29][15]
2023 Katherine Rundell Impossible Creatures [32][17][18][33][34]

Winners and shortlist (2024 – )

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Year Author Book Result Ref
2024 Sally Rooney Intermezzo Winner [35][36][37]
Gillian Anderson (editor) Want Shortlist [1]
Jonn Elledge A History of the World in 47 Borders
Percival Everett James
Johnny Flynn and Robert Macfarlane (co-authors), Emily Sutton (illustrator) The World to Come
Megan Hopkins Starminster
Olga Tokarczuk (author), Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator) The Empusium
Asako Yuzuki (author), Polly Barton (translator) Butter

References

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  1. ^ a b "Foyles Book of the Year Shortlist [2024]". Foyles. Retrieved 26 October 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d "Foyles Books of the Year [2023]". Foyles. Archived from the original on 12 September 2024. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  3. ^ a b c "Foyles Winners". www.brownsbfs.co.uk. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  4. ^ "Foyles picks The Sellout as book of the year". The Bookseller. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  5. ^ a b c "Foyles' Books of the Year champion women's voices". The Bookseller. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  6. ^ a b "The Power and Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls announced as Foyles Books of the Year". www.penguin.co.uk. 30 November 2017. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  7. ^ a b c "Convenience Store Woman crowned Foyles' Fiction Book of the Year". The Bookseller. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  8. ^ "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous". Foyles. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  9. ^ a b c "Foyles reveals Books of the Year 2019". The Bookseller. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  10. ^ a b "2019 Foyles Book of the Year Winners". www.fictiondb.com. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  11. ^ a b c "Real Life, A Ghost in the Throat and The Wolf's Secret named Foyles Books of the Year". The Bookseller. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  12. ^ "Brown, Ellis and Gauld named in Foyles Books of the Year". The Bookseller. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  13. ^ a b "2021 Foyles Book of the Year Winners". www.fictiondb.com. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  14. ^ "I'm a Fan". Foyles. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  15. ^ a b c "Foyles names works by Patel, Halliday and Said as Books of the Year". The Bookseller. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  16. ^ "Yellowface". Foyles. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  17. ^ a b c "Works by Kuang, Rundell and Bohannon crowned Foyles' Books of the Year". The Bookseller. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  18. ^ a b "2023 Foyles Books of the Year Winners". Locus Online. 1 December 2023. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  19. ^ "Foyles Fiction". www.brownsbfs.co.uk. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  20. ^ "A Ghost in the Throat". Foyles. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  21. ^ "Nina Simone's Gum: A Memoir of Things Lost and Found". Foyles. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  22. ^ "Brown, Ellis and Gauld named in Foyles Books of the Year". The Bookseller. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  23. ^ "Otherlands". Foyles. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  24. ^ "Foyles Non Fiction". www.brownsbfs.co.uk. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  25. ^ "Adeyemi Wins Foyles Book of the Year Award". Locus Online. 3 December 2018. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  26. ^ "The Good Thieves". Foyles. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  27. ^ "The Wolf's Secret". Foyles. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  28. ^ "Children's Book Awards 2020: Shortlists and Winners". Toppsta. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  29. ^ a b c "Children's Book Awards 2022: Shortlists and Winners". Toppsta. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  30. ^ "The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess". Foyles. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  31. ^ "Brown, Ellis and Gauld named in Foyles Books of the Year". The Bookseller. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  32. ^ "Impossible Creatures". Foyles. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  33. ^ "Foyles Childrens". www.brownsbfs.co.uk. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  34. ^ Kan, Toni (7 November 2023). "Foyles Book of the Year unveils diverse shortlist, from historical drama to poetic reverie to kid's adventure". The Lagos Review. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  35. ^ "intermezzo". Foyles. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  36. ^ "Sally Rooney's Intermezzo named Foyles Book of the Year". The Bookseller. 21 November 2024. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  37. ^ "Intermezzo wins Foyles Book of the Year 2024". Bookbrunch. 21 November 2024. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
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