By: Vince Morales, October 25th, 2024 3:10 pm.
Barnes & Noble has announced the finalists for the 2024 Book of the Year Award. This award is not categorized by fiction, non-fiction, or genre and is instead awarded to the best book of the year as voted on by their booksellers. The finalists represent the best of 2024 from novels and children’s books to basketball and Taylor Swift. The winning book will be announced on November 15th.
The Barnes & Noble Book of the Year Award began in 2019 with “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse” by Charlie Mackesy taking home the first-ever prize. Other winners include 2023’s Book of the Year: “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store” by James McBride, 2022’s “Lessons in Chemistry” by Bonnie Garmus, “The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present” by Paul McCartney in 2021, and “World of Wonders” by Aimee Nezhukumatathil in 2020.
Here are the finalists for the 2024 Barnes & Noble Book of the Year:
Book of the Year
Congratulations go out to all of the finalists!
There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib, Taylor Swift Style: Fashion Through the Eras by Sarah Chapelle, Why I Cook by Tom Colicchio, Imminent: Inside the Pentagon’s Hunt for UFOs by Luis Elizondo, Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering by Malcolm Gladwell, and The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan are all non-fiction books.
Abdurraqib’s previous book, A Little Devil in America, was nominated for the Goodreads Awards, Best Nonfiction, in 2021 as well as the National Book Awards – Best Nonfiction in 2021.
Sally Rooney’s previous book, Beautiful World, Where Are You, won the Goodreads Award for Best Fiction, in 2021.
This year’s fiction nominations are Swift River by Essie Chambers, James by Percival Everett, The Women by Kristin Hannah, The God of the Woods by Liz Moore, and Intermezzo by Sally Rooney.
James has also been nominated for the Booker Prize, Best Fiction Book, in 2024, and the National Book Awards – Best Fiction in 2024.
The Dictionary Story by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston and Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell are children’s books.