2024 Publishers Weekly Best Books (Awarded by Publishers Weekly)

Awards List

Fiction

Pink Slime
(*)
Fernanda Trias

Fury
(*)
Clyo Mendoza

Praiseworthy
(*)
Alexis Wright

Your Absence is Darkness
(*)
Jon Kalman Stefansson

Great Expectations
(*)
Vinson Cunningham

Wild Houses
(*)
Colin Barrett

The Spoiled Heart
(*)
Sunjeev Sahota

This Strange Eventful History
(*)
Claire Messud

God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer
(*)
Joseph Earl Thomas

Old King
(*)
Maxim Loskutoff

The Anthropologists
(*)
Aysegul Savas

The Coin
(*)
Yasmin Zaher

Someone Like Us
(*)
Dinaw Mengestu

Intermezzo
(*)
Sally Rooney

Rejection
(*)
Tony Tulathimutte

Sister Deborah
(*)
Scholastique Mukasonga

Small Rain
(*)
Garth Greenwell

A Sunny Place for Shady People
(*)
Mariana Enriquez

Our Evenings
(*)
Alan Hollinghurst

Lazarus Man
(*)
Richard Price

Middle Grade

Impossible Creatures
(*)
Katherine Rundell

Shark Teeth
(*)
Sherri Winston

Max in the House of Spies
(*)
Adam Gidwitz

Felix Powell, Boy Dog
(*)
Erin Entrada Kelly

Carnival Chaos
(*)
Tracey Baptiste

Island of Whispers
(*)
Frances Hardinge

Quagmire Tiarello Couldn't Be Better
(*)
Mylisa Larsen

Weirdo
(*)
Tony Weaver Jr.

Beti and the Little Round House
(*)
Atinuke

Bye Forever, I Guess
(*)
Jodi Meadows

Sylvia Doe and the 100-Year Flood
(*)
Robert Beatty

Mystery/Thriller

Smoke Kings
(*)
Jahmal Mayfield

The Silver Bone
(*)
Andrey Kurkov

Ash Dark as Night
(*)
Gary Phillips

City in Ruins
(*)
Don Winslow

Lost Man's Lane
(*)
Scott Carson

Rough Trade
(*)
Katrina Carrasco

Bright Objects
(*)
Ruby Todd

May the Wolf Die
(*)
Elizabeth Heider

Once More from the Top
(*)
Emily Layden

We Solve Murders
(*)
Richard Osman

The Puzzle Box
(*)
Danielle Trussoni

The Sequel
(*)
Jean Hanff Korelitz

Picture Books

You Broke It!
(*)
Liana Finck

The Last Stand
(*)
Antwan Eady

Animal Albums from A to Z
(*)
Cece Bell

Dog vs. Strawberry
(*)
Nelly Buchet

Just Like Millie
(*)
Lauren Castillo

Being Home
(*)
Traci Sorell

Joyful Song
(*)
Leslea Newman

The Pelican Can!
(*)
Toni Yuly

The Squish
(*)
Breanna Carzoo

Emergency Quarters
(*)
Carlos Matias

Little Shrew
(*)
Akiko Miyakoshi

My Daddy Is a Cowboy
(*)
Stephanie Seales

We Are Definitely Human
(*)
X. Fang

The Table
(*)
Winsome Bingham

Mabel Wants a Friend
(*)
Ariel Bernstein

Romance

A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
(*)
Tia Williams

This Could Be Us
(*)
Kennedy Ryan

Here We Go Again
(*)
Alison Cochrun

The Prospects
(*)
K.T. Hoffman

A Novel Love Story
(*)
Ashley Poston

The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love
(*)
India Holton

SF/Fantasy/Horror

Moon Of The Turning Leaves
(*)
Waubgeshig Rice

Midnight Rooms
(*)
Donyae Coles

The Full Moon Coffee Shop
(*)
Mai Mochizuki

The Mercy of Gods
(*)
James S.A. Corey

The City in Glass
(*)
Nghi Vo

Memorials
(*)
Richard Chizmar

Metal from Heaven
(*)
August Clarke

Top 10

My Friends
(*)
Hisham Matar

The Book of Love
(*)
Kelly Link

James
(*)
Percival Everett

All Fours
(*)
Miranda July

The Heart That Fed: A Father, a Son, and the Long Shadow of War
(*)
Carl Sciacchitano

Herscht 07769
(*)
Laszlo Krasznahorkai

Young Adult

Bright Red Fruit
(*)
Safia Elhillo

Ariel Crashes a Train
(*)
Olivia A. Cole

Icarus
(*)
K. Ancrum

The Brightwood Code
(*)
Monica Hesse

Brownstone
(*)
Samuel Teer

The Deep Dark
(*)
Molly Knox Ostertag

Looking for Smoke
(*)
K.A. Cobell

Compound Fracture
(*)
Andrew Joseph White

Everything We Never Had
(*)
Randy Ribay

Libertad
(*)
Bessie Flores Zaldivar

Songlight
(*)
Moira Buffini

The Dividing Sky
(*)
Jill Tew

Twenty-Four Seconds from Now
(*)
Jason Reynolds

Award Categories

Comics

Fiction

Middle Grade

Mystery/Thriller

Picture Books

Romance

SF/Fantasy/Horror

Top 10

Young Adult

Award Years

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018