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]

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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)

Fiction

YearAuthorBookRef [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

YearAuthorBookRef [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

YearAuthorBookRef [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 – )

YearAuthorBookResultRef
2024 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
Sally Rooney Intermezzo
Olga Tokarczuk (author), Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator) The Empusium
Asako Yuzuki (author), Polly Barton (translator) Butter

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  2. 1 2 3 4 "Foyles Books of the Year [2023]". Foyles. Archived from the original on 12 September 2024. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
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  4. ↑ "Foyles picks The Sellout as book of the year". The Bookseller. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  5. 1 2 3 "Foyles' Books of the Year champion women's voices". The Bookseller. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  6. 1 2 "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. 1 2 3 "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. 1 2 3 "Foyles reveals Books of the Year 2019". The Bookseller. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
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  13. 1 2 "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. 1 2 3 "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. 1 2 3 "Works by Kuang, Rundell and Bohannon crowned Foyles' Books of the Year". The Bookseller. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
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