Barnes & Noble Booksellers' Favorites - Fiction (Awarded by Barnes and Noble)

Awards List

2024

Martyr!
(*)
Kaveh Akbar

Good Material
(*)
Dolly Alderton

The Women
(*)
Kristin Hannah

After Annie
(*)
Anna Quindlen

James
(*)
Percival Everett

The Night We Lost Him
(*)
Laura Dave

Wandering Stars
(*)
Tommy Orange

Clear
(*)
Carys Davies

Funny Story
(*)
Emily Henry

All Fours
(*)
Miranda July

Long Island
(*)
Colm Toibin

Real Americans
(*)
Rachel Khong

Sandwich
(*)
Catherine Newman

Swift River
(*)
Essie Chambers

The God of the Woods
(*)
Liz Moore

Long Island Compromise
(*)
Taffy Brodesser-Akner

The Most
(*)
Jessica Anthony

Blue Sisters
(*)
Coco Mellors

Colored Television
(*)
Danzy Senna

Entitlement
(*)
Rumaan Alam

Intermezzo
(*)
Sally Rooney

The Life Impossible
(*)
Matt Haig

The Mighty Red
(*)
Louise Erdrich

Before We Forget Kindness
(*)
Toshikazu Kawaguchi

The City and Its Uncertain Walls
(*)
Haruki Murakami

2023

I Have Some Questions for You
(*)
Rebecca Makkai

The God of Endings
(*)
Jacqueline Holland

Hello Beautiful
(*)
Ann Napolitano

Hang the Moon
(*)
Jeannette Walls

Chain-Gang All-Stars
(*)
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Yellowface
(*)
R.F. Kuang

The Rachel Incident
(*)
Caroline O'Donoghue

Tom Lake
(*)
Ann Patchett

Bright Young Women
(*)
Jessica Knoll

The Berry Pickers
(*)
Amanda Peters

2022

Lessons in Chemistry
(*)
Bonnie Garmus

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
(*)
Gabrielle Zevin

The Rabbit Hutch
(*)
Tess Gunty

Lessons
(*)
Ian McEwan

The Marriage Portrait
(*)
Maggie O'Farrell

People Person
(*)
Candice Carty-Williams

The Night Ship
(*)
Jess Kidd

Our Missing Hearts
(*)
Celeste Ng

Now Is Not the Time to Panic
(*)
Kevin Wilson

The Passenger
(*)
Cormac McCarthy

2021

The Lost Apothecary
(*)
Sarah Penner

The Paper Palace
(*)
Miranda Cowley Heller

Beautiful World, Where Are You
(*)
Sally Rooney

Bewilderment
(*)
Richard Powers

Fault Lines
(*)
Emily Itami

Harlem Shuffle
(*)
Colson Whitehead

Cloud Cuckoo Land
(*)
Anthony Doerr

The Lincoln Highway
(*)
Amor Towles

The Sentence
(*)
Louise Erdrich

Greek Myths
(*)
Charlotte Higgins

2020

Deacon King Kong
(*)
James McBride

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
(*)
Grady Hendrix

The Vanishing Half
(*)
Brit Bennett

Hamnet
(*)
Maggie O'Farrell

Mexican Gothic
(*)
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Evening and the Morning
(*)
Ken Follett

Leave the World Behind
(*)
Rumaan Alam

The Cold Millions
(*)
Jess Walter

Memorial
(*)
Bryan Washington

The Office of Historical Corrections
(*)
Danielle Evans

2019

Black Leopard, Red Wolf
(*)
Marlon James

The City in the Middle of the Night
(*)
Charlie Jane Anders

The Silent Patient
(*)
Alex Michaelides

Trust Exercise
(*)
Susan Choi

Disappearing Earth
(*)
Julia Phillips

Conviction
(*)
Denise Mina

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
(*)
Ocean Vuong

Fleishman Is in Trouble
(*)
Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Lady in the Lake
(*)
Laura Lippman

The Nickel Boys
(*)
Colson Whitehead

The Memory Police
(*)
Yoko Ogawa

Mythos
(*)
Stephen Fry

The Dutch House
(*)
Ann Patchett

The Testaments
(*)
Margaret Atwood

The Water Dancer
(*)
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Olive, Again
(*)
Elizabeth Strout

The Topeka School
(*)
Ben Lerner

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
(*)
Charlie Mackesy

Nothing to See Here
(*)
Kevin Wilson

Girl, Woman, Other
(*)
Bernardine Evaristo

2018

The Immortalists
(*)
Chloe Benjamin

An American Marriage
(*)
Tayari Jones

The Great Alone
(*)
Kristin Hannah

Circe
(*)
Madeline Miller

The Female Persuasion
(*)
Meg Wolitzer

The Hellfire Club
(*)
Jake Tapper

The Perfect Couple
(*)
Elin Hilderbrand

A Place for Us
(*)
Fatima Farheen Mirza

There There
(*)
Tommy Orange

Clock Dance
(*)
Anne Tyler

Where the Crawdads Sing
(*)
Delia Owens

Every Breath
(*)
Nicholas Sparks

The Next Person You Meet in Heaven
(*)
Mitch Albom

A Spark of Light
(*)
Jodi Picoult

Unsheltered
(*)
Barbara Kingsolver

2017

Lincoln in the Bardo
(*)
George Saunders

Norse Mythology
(*)
Neil Gaiman

Exit West
(*)
Mohsin Hamid

The Women in the Castle
(*)
Jessica Shattuck

Before We Were Yours
(*)
Lisa Wingate

Magpie Murders
(*)
Anthony Horowitz

The Late Show
(*)
Michael Connelly

A Column of Fire
(*)
Ken Follett

Glass Houses
(*)
Louise Penny

A Legacy of Spies
(*)
John Le Carre

Little Fires Everywhere
(*)
Celeste Ng

The Ninth Hour
(*)
Alice McDermott

Sing, Unburied, Sing
(*)
Jesmyn Ward

Sourdough
(*)
Robin Sloan

Manhattan Beach
(*)
Jennifer Egan

Origin
(*)
Dan Brown

The Rooster Bar
(*)
John Grisham

The Rules of Magic
(*)
Alice Hoffman

Sleeping Beauties
(*)
Stephen King

Strange Weather
(*)
Joe Hill

Uncommon Type: Some Stories
(*)
Tom Hanks

Artemis
(*)
Andy Weir

Future Home of the Living God
(*)
Louise Erdrich

Hiddensee
(*)
Gregory Maguire

In the Midst of Winter
(*)
Isabel Allende

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