Celebrating the best in digital reading, the Libby Awards recognize outstanding ebooks and audiobooks across a variety of genres, highlighting the most compelling, thought-provoking, and widely loved titles of the year. The finalists were announced by OverDrive on February 4. Winners will be announced at the first ever live Libby Book Awards ceremony on March 3.
ATMOSPHERE: A LOVE STORY by Taylor Jenkins Reid and narrated by Julia Whelan and Kristen DiMercurio (DB 129909, BR 26357 IN PROCESS, en español DB 132477 EN PROCESO)
BUCKEYE by Patrick Ryan (DB 132250, LB 0007624)
Book of the Year – Adult Nonfiction
FLOWER TRAVELED IN MY BLOOD: THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF THE GRANDMOTHERS WHO FOUGHT TO FIND A STOLEN GENERATION OF CHILDREN by Haley Cohen Gilliland (DB 132040)
MARRIAGE AT SEA: A TRUE STORY OF LOVE, OBSESSION, AND SHIPWRECK by Sophie Elmhirst (DB 131217)
Book of the Year – YA Fiction
SISTERS IN THE WIND by Angeline Boulley (DB 132294, BR 26561 IN PROCESS)
SUNRISE ON THE REAPING by Suzanne Collins and narrated by Jefferson White (DB 127954, BR 26205)
Audiobook of the Year
KATABASIS by R. F. Kuang (DB 132323, BR 26579 IN PROCESS)
MY FRIENDS by Fredrik Backman (DB 129483, BR 26313)
Debut Author of the Year
ALCHEMISED by SenLinYu (DB 133250)
CORRESPONDENT by Virginia Evans (DB 129105, en español DB 132482EN PROCESO)
Best Book Club Book
BOG QUEEN by Anna North (DB 133593 IN PROCESS)
WRECK by Catherine Newman (DB 133592 IN PROCESS)
Best Fantasy
ALCHEMISED by SenLinYu (DB 133250)
BURY OUR BONES IN THE MIDNIGHT SOIL by V. E. Schwab (DB 130243, BR 26386 IN PROCESS, LB 0005773)
Best Historical Fiction
ANTIDOTE by Karen Russell (DB 128240, BR 26309 IN PROCESS)
ISOLA by Allegra Goodman (DB 127226, BR 26597 IN PROCESS, LB 0002549)
Best Horror
BEWITCHING by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (DB 131290, LB 0005631)
BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER by Stephen Graham Jones (DB 128581, BR 26200 IN PROCESS)
Best Memoir & Autobiography
ONE DAY EVERYONE WILL HAVE BEEN AGAINST THIS by Omar El-Akkad (DB 127850, LB 0001346)
RAISING HARE by Chloe Dalton (DB 128243)
Best Middle Grade Book
ALL THE BLUES IN THE SKY by Renée Watson (DB 129740)
Best Mystery
LIBRARIANS by Sherry Thomas (DB 132690)
MURDER TAKES A VACATION by Laura Lippman (DB 131701)
Best Personal Improvement
SHIFT: MANAGING YOUR EMOTIONS – SO THEY DON’T MANAGE YOU by Ethan Kross (DB 131630, LB 0001314)
WE CAN DO HARD THINGS: ANSWERS TO LIFE’S 20 QUESTIONS by Glennon Doyle (IN PROCESS)
Best Picture Book
DON’T TRUST FISH by Neil Sharpson (DB 130282)
Best Romance
THESE SUMMER STORMS by Sarah MacLean (DB 131056, BR 26501 IN PROCESS)
IT HAD TO BE HIM by Adib Khorram (DB 133198)
Best Romantasy
KNIGHT AND THE MOTH by Rachel Gillig (DB 130050, BR 26391 IN PROCESS)
ONYX STORM by Rebecca Yarros (DB 127035, BR 25749 IN PROCESS, en español DB 127448)
Best Science Fiction
DEATH OF THE AUTHOR by Nnedi Okorafor (DB 127592, BR 26389 IN PROCESS)
WHAT WE CAN KNOW by Ian McEwan (DB 133247 IN PROCESS, LB 0005874)
Best Thriller
JULIE CHAN IS DEAD by Liann Zhang (DB 129576, LB 0008599)
GHOSTWRITER by Julie Clark (DB 133889 IN PROCESS)
Readers’ Choice
ONYX STORM by Rebecca Yarros (DB 127035, BR 25749 IN PROCESS, en español DB 127448)
GREAT BIG BEAUTIFUL LIFE by Emily Henry (DB 129103, BR 26246, LB 0003604, en español DB 132355)
Celebrating the best in digital reading, the Libby Awards recognize outstanding e-books and audiobooks across a variety of genres, highlighting the most compelling, thought-provoking, and widely loved titles of the year. The winners were announced by OverDrive on March 5.
