Foyles Book of the Year

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66 Works 63,409 Books 2,460 Reviews ½ 3.9
Stages:
All, Winner (21), Shortlist (45)
Categories:
All, Children's (22), Fiction (23), Non-Fiction (21)
Years:
All, 2023 (18), 2022 (16), 2021 (3), 2020 (3), 2019 (20), 2018 (3), 2017 (2), 2016 (1)

Winner 21

WorkCategoryYear
Impossible Creatures by Katherine RundellChildren's2023
Yellowface by R. F. KuangFiction2023
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat BohannonNon-Fiction2023
Tyger by S. F. SaidChildren's2022
I'm a Fan by Sheena PatelFiction2022
Otherlands: A World in the Making by Thomas HallidayNon-Fiction2022
The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess by Tom GauldChildren's2021
Assembly by Natasha BrownFiction2021
Nina Simone's Gum by Warren EllisNon-Fiction2021
The Wolf’s Secret by Myriam DahmanChildren's2020
Real Life by Brandon TaylorFiction2020
A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní GhríofaNon-Fiction2020
The Good Thieves by Katherine RundellChildren's2019
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean VuongFiction2019
Three Women by Lisa TaddeoNon-Fiction2019
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi AdeyemiChildren's2018
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka MurataFiction2018
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by AkalaNon-Fiction2018
The Power by Naomi AldermanFiction2017
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-LodgeNon-Fiction2017
The Sellout by Paul BeattyFiction2016

Shortlist 45

WorkCategoryYear
How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney? by Mac BarnettChildren's2023
You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn BayronChildren's2023
The Wrath of the Woolington Wyrm by Karen FoxleeChildren's2023
Godfather Death by Sally NichollsChildren's2023
Stolen History: The Truth About the British Empire and How It Shaped Us by Sathnam SangheraChildren's2023
Penance by Eliza ClarkFiction2023
The MANIAC by Benjamín LabatutFiction2023
The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild by Mathias ÉnardFiction2023
Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah NelsonFiction2023
The Fraud by Zadie SmithFiction2023
Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany by Katja HoyerNon-Fiction2023
Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Loving and Living Alone by Amy KeyNon-Fiction2023
Of Cabbages and Kimchi: A Practical Guide to the World of Fermented Food by James ReadNon-Fiction2023
The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick RubinNon-Fiction2023
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis VaroufakisNon-Fiction2023
All That’s Left in the World by Erik J. BrownChildren's2022
The Little Match Girl Strikes Back by Emma CarrollChildren's2022
It Fell from the Sky by Terry FanChildren's2022
The Comet by Joe Todd-StantonChildren's2022
Drama and Danger by J.T. WilliamsChildren's2022
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia ArmfieldFiction2022
The Trees by Percival EverettFiction2022
Lapvona by Ottessa MoshfeghFiction2022
After Sappho by Selby Wynn SchwartzFiction2022
Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World by Ha-Joon ChangNon-Fiction2022
All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir by Seán HewittNon-Fiction2022
Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen by Rebecca May JohnsonNon-Fiction2022
The Golden Mole by Katherine RundellNon-Fiction2022
Crossfire by Malorie BlackmanChildren's2019
Rocket Says Look Up! by Nathan BryonChildren's2019
Kind: A Book about Kindness by Alison GreenChildren's2019
The Deathless Girls by Kiran Millwood HargraveChildren's2019
Don't Worry, Little Crab by Chris HaughtonChildren's2019
The Iron Man by Ted HughesChildren's2019
Queenie by Candice Carty-WilliamsFiction2019
The Binding by Bridget CollinsFiction2019
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon JamesFiction2019
Lanny by Max PorterFiction2019
The Nickel Boys by Colson WhiteheadFiction2019
Tokyo Ueno Station by Miri YūFiction2019
Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert MacfarlaneNon-Fiction2019
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado PerezNon-Fiction2019
Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela SainiNon-Fiction2019
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-WellsNon-Fiction2019
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana ZuboffNon-Fiction2019

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