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May 10, 2023

Winners Circle - Backlist Book Awards

Best Cover: Little Women - Louisa May Alcott









The All-nighter: Tied

Listen to Me - Tess Gerritsen

Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie

The Appeal - Janice Hallett


The WTF Award: The Curly Girl handbook - Michele Bender, Lorraine Massey


Best Diverse Read: Dr. Siri Paiboon series - Colin Cotterill


Most Obvious Plot Twist: The Plot - Jean Korelitz


Villainless: The Martian - Andy Weir


Villainous: Desert Queen - Janet Wallach


Poetically Lit: Citizen: An American Lyric - Claudia Rankine


Wrapped up Tight: Rizzoli & Isles series - Tess Gerritsen


Be Careful! It's Fragile: Desert Queen - Janet Wallach


How about a little Respect: Taste: My Life Through Food - Stanley Tucci


Best in Ship: Fatima Ali and Life; Savor: A Chef's Hunger for More - Fatima Ali


Best in (Friend)ship: Nehemia Ytger and Celaena Sardothien; Throne of Glass - Sarah J. Maas


Best in Romance: Dragonfly in Amber - Diana Gabaldon


Burned on my Brain: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman


Best in Sci-fi/ time travel: Blackout/All clear - Connie Willis


Most Emotional Read: What Alice Forgot - Liane Moriarty


Best in Magical Realism: Tied

Midnight Sun - Stephenie Meyer

The Golem and the Jinni - Helene Wecker


You've Got Mail: Let Me Tell You What I Mean - Joan Didion


Best in Fantasy: Tied

The Wheel of Time series - Robert Jordan

Piranesi - Susanna Clarke


Best Debut: Evvie Drake Starts Over - Linda Holmes


Best in Horror: Frankenstein - Mary Shelley


Best in Dystopia: Uglies - Scott Westerfeld


Best in Contemporary: Mad Honey - Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Finney Boylan


Best in Non-fiction: Tied

Quackery - Lydia Kang

The Happiest Man Alive - Eddie Jaku

Bibliomaniac - Robin Ince


The Book Came First: A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman


The Movie Came First: My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult


Best LGBT+ Rep: Tied

Huntress - Malinda Lo

Tales of the City - Armistead Maupin


Classically Lit: Brave New World - Aldous Huxley


Best Worldbuilding: Deja Dead - Kathy Reichs


Best in Humor: Tied

Agent to the Stars - John Scalzi

How Y'all Doin'? - Leslie Jordan


Best in Historical Fiction: Tied

The Lincoln Highway - Amor Towles

Desert Queen - Janet Wallach


Best in Satire: Skipping Christmas - John Grisham


Graphically Lit: Big Panda & Tiny Dragon - James Norbury


The Independence of You: A Camp Without Fire - Ignacio Ramirez Bautista


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