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Awards List

2024

If Only I Had Told Her
(*)
Laura Nowlin

Reckless
(*)
Lauren Roberts

Wisteria
(*)
Adalyn Grace

Celestial Monsters
(*)
Aiden Thomas

Immortal Dark
(*)
Tigest Girma

Nothing Like the Movies
(*)
Lynn Painter

The Thirteenth Child
(*)
Erin A. Craig

Heir
(*)
Sabaa Tahir

Spectacular
(*)
Stephanie Garber

Twenty-Four Seconds from Now
(*)
Jason Reynolds

When the World Tips Over
(*)
Jandy Nelson

Don't Let the Forest In
(*)
C.G. Drews

Games Untold
(*)
Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Skyshade
(*)
Alex Aster

Where the Library Hides
(*)
Isabel Ibanez

2023

Divine Rivals
(*)
Rebecca Ross

Foxglove
(*)
Adalyn Grace

The Brothers Hawthorne
(*)
Jennifer Lynn Barnes

A Study in Drowning
(*)
Ava Reid

Beholder
(*)
Ryan La Sala

A Curse for True Love
(*)
Stephanie Garber

Check & Mate
(*)
Ali Hazelwood

Murtagh
(*)
Christopher Paolini

Betting on You
(*)
Lynn Painter

Heartstopper Volume Five
(*)
Alice Oseman

2022

Gallant
(*)
V.E. Schwab

The Honeys
(*)
Ryan La Sala

Long Live the Pumpkin Queen
(*)
Shea Ernshaw

The Ballad of Never After
(*)
Stephanie Garber

The Sunbearer Trials
(*)
Aiden Thomas

The First to Die at the End
(*)
Adam Silvera

Kingdom of the Feared
(*)
Kerri Maniscalco

A Scatter of Light
(*)
Malinda Lo

Five Survive
(*)
Holly Jackson

We Deserve Monuments
(*)
Jas Hammonds

2021

Lore
(*)
Alexandra Bracken

Firekeeper's Daughter
(*)
Angeline Boulley

The Lake
(*)
Natasha Preston

Realm Breaker
(*)
Victoria Aveyard

Ace of Spades
(*)
Faridah Abike-Iyimide

Blackout
(*)
Dhonielle Clayton

Small Favors
(*)
Erin A. Craig

Defy the Night
(*)
Brigid Kemmerer

Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World
(*)
Benjamin Alire Saenz

Once Upon a Broken Heart
(*)
Stephanie Garber

2020

Long Way Down
(*)
Jason Reynolds

One of Us Is Next
(*)
Karen M. McManus

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
(*)
Holly Jackson

The Twin
(*)
Natasha Preston

Clap When You Land
(*)
Elizabeth Acevedo

Grown
(*)
Tiffany D. Jackson

Punching the Air
(*)
Ibi Zoboi

Dear Justyce
(*)
Nic Stone

The Cousins
(*)
Karen M. McManus

2019

On the Come Up
(*)
Angie Thomas

Pumpkinheads
(*)
Rainbow Rowell; Faith Erin Hicks

Wayward Son
(*)
Rainbow Rowell

Cursed
(*)
Thomas Wheeler

Call Down the Hawk
(*)
Maggie Stiefvater

The Queen of Nothing
(*)
Holly Black

Starsight
(*)
Brandon Sanderson

Supernova
(*)
Marissa Meyer

The Toll
(*)
Neal Shusterman

Children of Virtue and Vengeance
(*)
Tomi Adeyemi

2018

The Hazel Wood
(*)
Melissa Albert

Thunderhead
(*)
Neal Shusterman

Children of Blood and Bone
(*)
Tomi Adeyemi

Leah on the Offbeat
(*)
Becky Albertalli

The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik
(*)
David Arnold

War Storm
(*)
Victoria Aveyard

The Loneliest Girl in the Universe
(*)
Lauren James

#Murdertrending
(*)
Gretchen McNeil

The Cheerleaders
(*)
Kara Thomas

Seafire
(*)
Natalie C. Parker

Bridge of Clay
(*)
Markus Zusak

Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel
(*)
Val Emmich

Dry
(*)
Neal Shusterman; Jarrod Shusterman

A Map of Days
(*)
Ransom Riggs

Sadie
(*)
Courtney Summers

What If It's Us
(*)
Becky Albertalli; Adam Silvera

Kingdom of Ash
(*)
Sarah J. Maas

Queen of Air and Darkness
(*)
Cassandra Clare

2017

Carve the Mark
(*)
Veronica Roth

The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett
(*)
Chelsea Sedoti

RoseBlood
(*)
A.G. Howard

The You I've Never Known
(*)
Ellen Hopkins

Caraval
(*)
Stephanie Garber

King's Cage
(*)
Victoria Aveyard

We Are Okay
(*)
Nina LaCour

The Bone Witch
(*)
Rin Chupeco

The End of Oz
(*)
Danielle Paige

The Hate U Give
(*)
Angie Thomas

Alex and Eliza: A Love Story
(*)
Melissa de la Cruz

Always and Forever, Lara Jean
(*)
Jenny Han

The Battlemage
(*)
Taran Matharu

A Court of Wings and Ruin
(*)
Sarah J. Maas

Crazy House
(*)
James Patterson; Gabrielle Charbonnet

Lord of Shadows
(*)
Cassandra Clare

Once and for All
(*)
Sarah Dessen

One of Us Is Lying
(*)
Karen M. McManus

Generation One
(*)
Pittacus Lore

The Twisted Ones
(*)
Scott Cawthon; Kira Breed-Wrisley

The Final Spark
(*)
Richard Paul Evans

Tower of Dawn
(*)
Sarah J. Maas

Turtles All the Way Down
(*)
John Green

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Christian Children's Books

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