Kirkus Best Books of the Year - Fictional Voices (Awarded by Kirkus)

Awards List

2024

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters
(*)
Emil Ferris

Anita de Monte Laughs Last
(*)
Xochitl Gonzalez

All Fours
(*)
Miranda July

Godwin
(*)
Joseph O'Neill

Margo's Got Money Troubles
(*)
Rufi Thorpe

State of Paradise
(*)
Laura Van Den Berg

Small Rain
(*)
Garth Greenwell

Our Evenings
(*)
Alan Hollinghurst

2023

Sterling Karat Gold
(*)
Isabel Waidner

Biography of X
(*)
Catherine Lacey

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

The Five-Star Weekend
(*)
Elin Hilderbrand

Ripe
(*)
Sarah Rose Etter

Monica
(*)
Daniel Clowes

The Vulnerables
(*)
Sigrid Nunez

2022

My Volcano
(*)
John Elizabeth Stintzi

If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
(*)
Noor Naga

Young Mungo
(*)
Douglas Stuart

2 A.M. in Little America
(*)
Ken Kalfus

Scary Monsters
(*)
Michelle de Kretser

More Than You'll Ever Know
(*)
Katie Gutierrez

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

Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
(*)
James Hannaham

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

The Passenger
(*)
Cormac McCarthy

Award Categories

Affirming Picture Books

Bedtime Books

Beginning Readers

Board Books

Book Club Fiction

Books for Beginning Readers

Debut Fiction

Empowering Picture Books

Environmental Fiction

Fiction

Fiction in Translation

Fictional Families

Fictional Voices

Funniest Picture Books

Historical Fiction

Informational Picture Books

Joyous Picture Books

Middle-Grade About Speaking Up

Middle-Grade Activist

Middle-Grade Adventures

Middle-Grade Family Stories

Middle-Grade Fantasy and SF

Middle-Grade Fiction

Middle-Grade Friendship Stories

Middle-Grade Graphic Fiction

Award Years

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019