2024 Libby Awards

1) The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

Author

McBride, James

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Best Adult Fiction Winner

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"In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and...

2) Tom Lake: a novel

Author

Patchett, Ann

Series

Reese's book club

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Best Adult Fiction Honorable Mention & Best Book Club Pick Finalist

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In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything...

3) The Wager: a tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder

Author

Grann, David

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Best Adult Nonfiction Winner

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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z, a mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's...

4) Divine rivals: a novel

Author

Ross, Rebecca

Series

Letters of enchantment

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Best Young Adult Fiction Winner

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Book - Hardback, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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"When two young rival journalists find love through a magical connection, they must face the depths of hell, in a war among gods, to seal their fate forever."-- Provided by publisher.

5) What the river knows: a novel

Author

Ibañez, Isabel (Novelist)

Series

Secrets of the Nile

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Best Young Adult Fiction Honorable Mention

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Set in 1884, nineteen-year-old Inez travels to Egypt after the sudden death of her parents to uncover the truth about their deaths, and as she attempts to unravel the mysteries her parents sought, she becomes a pawn in a larger game that threatens to kill her.

6) I have some questions for you

Author

Makkai, Rebecca

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Best Audiobook Winner

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Book - Hardback, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print - Paperback

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"In the riveting new novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Great Believers, a woman must reckon with her past when new details surface about a tragedy at her elite New England boarding school"-- Provided by publisher.

7) The house in the pines: a novel

Author

Reyes, Ana

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Best Debut Author Winner

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"A captivating psychological suspense debut about a young woman still haunted by her teenage best friend's death who learns of an eerily similar death and must find her way back to a cabin in the New England woods, armed only with hazy memories, to finally find out the truth that has eluded her. Maya was a high school senior when her best friend Aubrey mysteriously dropped dead in front of the enigmatic man, Frank, they'd been hanging around with...

8) Camp zero: a novel

Author

Sterling, Michelle Min

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Best Diverse Author Winner

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Book - Hardback, eAudiobook

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"In a near-future northern settlement, the fate of a young woman intertwines with those of a college professor and a collective of women soldiers in this mesmerizing and transportive novel in the vein of Station Eleven and The Power. In the far north of Canada, a team led by a visionary American architect is building a project called Camp Zero. With its fresh, clean air and cold climate, it's intended to be the beginning of a new community and a new...

9) The talk

Author

Bell, Darrin

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Best Comic/Graphic Novel Winner

Formats:

Book, Graphic Novel

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This graphic memoir by a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning offers a deeply personal meditation on the "the talk" parents must have with Black children about racism and the brutality that often accompanies it, a ritual attempt to keep kids safe and prepare them for a world that - to paraphrase Toni Morrison - does not love them. Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn't play with a white friend's realistic...

10) Pageboy: a memoir

Author

Page, Elliot

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Best Memoir & Autobiography Winner

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"The Oscar-nominated star who captivated the world with his performance in Juno finally shares his truth. "Can I kiss you?" It was two months before the world premiere of Juno, and Elliot Page was in his first ever queer bar. The hot summer air hung heavy around him as he looked at her. And then it happened. In front of everyone. A previously unfathomable experience. Here he was on the precipice of discovering himself as a queer person, as a trans...

11) Start here: instructions for becoming a better cook

Author

El-Waylly, Sohla

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Best Cookbook Winner

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"More than 150 recipes--and techniques--for cooking with creativity and confidence"-- Provided by publisher.

12) Let's eat: 101 recipes to fill your heart & home

Author

Pelosi, Dan

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Best Cookbook Honorable Mention

13) Vera Wong's unsolicited advice for murderers

Author

Sutanto, Jesse Q

Series

Vera Wong

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Best Mystery Winner

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"A lonely shopkeeper takes it upon herself to solve a murder in the most peculiar way in this captivating mystery by Jesse Q. Sutanto, bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties. Vera Wong is a lonely little old lady--ah, lady of a certain age--who lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle of San Francisco's Chinatown. Despite living alone, Vera is not needy, oh no. She likes nothing more than sipping on a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy...

14) Bright young women

Author

Knoll, Jessica

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Best Thriller Winner

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Don't miss this "breakneck thriller" that examines "our culture's obsession with serial killers and true crime" (Harper's Bazaar) as it follows two women on the pursuit of justice against all odds. "A fascinating look at true crime and tabloid culture that's as thoughtful as it is gripping" (People).

A New York Times Notable Book of 2023
New York Times Editors' Choice
Instant New York Times...

15) Georgie, all along

Author

Clayborn, Kate

Series

Thorndike Press Large Print softcover romance and women's fiction

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Best Romance Winner

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"With writing Jasmine Guillory has described as "emotional and real," the acclaimed author of Love Lettering and Love at First weaves stories both transporting and relatable - modern love stories that readers immediately identify with and take to heart. Wise and witty, threaded through with a complex, emotionally fulfilling romance, Kate Clayborn's unforgettable new novel echoes with timely questions about love, career, reconciling with the past,...

16) We could be so good: a novel

Author

Sebastian, Cat

Series

Midcentury NYC

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Best Romance Honorable Mention

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Book - Paperback, eBook, Kindle

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A New York Times Notable Book of 2023

A New York Times Books Review Best Romances of 2023 pick • Apple Books' Best Books of the Month • Amazon Best Books of the Month Editor's Pick, Romance • An NPR "Books We Love" • Library Journal Romance Pick of the Month • LibraryReads Hall of Fame: June 2023 • Publishers Weekly Best Romances of 2023

Casey McQuiston meets

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17) Fourth wing

Author

Yarros, Rebecca

Series

Empyrean volume 1

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Best Fantasy Winner

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A #1 New York Times bestseller

TV series in development at MGM Amazon Studios with Michael B. Jordan's Outlier Society

Amazon Best Books of the Year, #4

Apple Best Books of the Year 2023

Barnes & Noble Best Fantasy Book of 2023

NPR "Books We Love" 2023

Audible Best Books of 2023

Hudson Book of the Year

Google Play Best Books of 2023

Indigo Best Books of 2023

Waterstones Book of the Year

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18) Iron flame

Author

Yarros, Rebecca

Series

Empyrean volume 2

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Best Romantasy Winner

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Discover the instant #1 New York Times bestseller! TV series now in development at MGM Amazon Studios with Michael B. Jordan's Outlier Society.
Accolades for Fourth Wing
Amazon Best Books of the Year, #4

Apple Best Books of the Year 2023

Barnes & Noble Best Fantasy Book of 2023 (Fourth Wing and Iron Flame)

NPR "Books We Love" 2023

Audible Best Books of 2023

Hudson Book of the Year

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19) System collapse: the murderbot diaries

Author

Wells, Martha

Series

The Murderbot Diaries volume 7

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Best Science Fiction Winner

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"Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells's New York Times bestselling Murderbot Diaries series. Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there's an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza...

20) Let us descend: a novel

Author

Ward, Jesmyn

Series

Thorndike Press large print African-American

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Best Adult Fiction Finalist & Best Historical Fiction Winner

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Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader's guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long march, Annis turns inward, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother. Throughout, she opens herself to a world beyond this world, one teeming with spirits: of earth and water, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give, and those who manipulate and take....