Foyles Books 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. They recognise 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.

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The selectors say that they choose "our favourite, most interesting, most important, most year-defining titles published, recommended and sold this year". [1]

Previous winners

Fiction

YearAuthorBookRef [1] [2]
2016 Paul Beatty The Sellout [3]
2017 Naomi Alderman The Power [4] [5]
2018 Sayaka Murata Convenience Store Woman [6]
2019 Ocean Vuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous [7] [8] [9]
2020 Brandon Taylor Real Life [10]
2021 Natasha Brown Assembly [11] [12]
2022 Sheena Patel I'm a Fan [13] [14]
2023 R. F. Kuang Yellowface [15] [16] [17] [18]

Non-fiction

YearAuthorBookRef [1] [2]
2017 Reni Eddo-Lodge Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race [4]
2018 Akala Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire [6]
2019 Lisa Taddeo Three Women [8]
2020 Doireann Ní Ghríofa A Ghost in the Throat [19] [10]
2021 Warren Ellis Nina Simone's Gum [20] [21]
2022 Thomas Halliday Otherlands: A World in the Making [22] [14]
2023 Cat Bohannon Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution [16] [23]

Children's

YearAuthorBookRef [1] [2]
2017 Elena Favilli Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls [4] [5]
2018 Tomi Adeyemi Children of Blood and Bone [24] [6]
2019 Katherine Rundell The Good Thieves [25] [8] [9]
2020 Myriam Dahman The Wolf’s Secret [26] [10] [27] [28]
2021 Tom Gauld The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess [29] [30] [12] [28]
2022 S. F. Said Tyger [28] [14]
2023 Katherine Rundell Impossible Creatures [31] [16] [17] [32] [33]

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  2. 1 2 3 "Foyles Winners". www.brownsbfs.co.uk. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  3. ↑ "Foyles picks The Sellout as book of the year". The Bookseller. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  4. 1 2 3 "Foyles' Books of the Year champion women's voices". The Bookseller. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  5. 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.
  6. 1 2 3 "Convenience Store Woman crowned Foyles' Fiction Book of the Year". The Bookseller. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  7. ↑ "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous". Foyles. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  8. 1 2 3 "Foyles reveals Books of the Year 2019". The Bookseller. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  9. 1 2 "2019 Foyles Book of the Year Winners". www.fictiondb.com. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
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  11. ↑ "Brown, Ellis and Gauld named in Foyles Books of the Year". The Bookseller. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  12. 1 2 "2021 Foyles Book of the Year Winners". www.fictiondb.com. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  13. ↑ "I'm a Fan". Foyles. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  14. 1 2 3 "Foyles names works by Patel, Halliday and Said as Books of the Year". The Bookseller. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  15. ↑ "Yellowface". Foyles. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  16. 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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  20. ↑ "Nina Simone's Gum: A Memoir of Things Lost and Found". Foyles. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
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  22. ↑ "Otherlands". Foyles. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  23. ↑ "Foyles Non Fiction". www.brownsbfs.co.uk. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
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  25. ↑ "The Good Thieves". Foyles. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  26. ↑ "The Wolf's Secret". Foyles. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
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  28. 1 2 3 "Children's Book Awards 2022: Shortlists and Winners". Toppsta. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  29. ↑ "The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess". Foyles. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  30. ↑ "Brown, Ellis and Gauld named in Foyles Books of the Year". The Bookseller. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  31. ↑ "Impossible Creatures". Foyles. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  32. ↑ "Foyles Childrens". www.brownsbfs.co.uk. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
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