The winners of the second annual Libby Book Awards have been announced. The award seeks to honor the best in digital reading, and span across ebooks, audiobooks, and a variety of genres.
Since Libby is a library app, accompanying this year’s winners announcement is a bevy of recommendations for how to incorporate this year’s winners with library programming.
As for the winners themselves, many of them are books that were either popular last year and/or award-winning—like Kristin Hannah’s The Women and Percival Everett’s James.
Below are this year’s winners.
Adult Fiction
The Women by Kristin Hannah
Adult Nonfiction
The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson
YA Fiction
Heir by Sabaa Tahir
Audiobook of the Year
The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson, narrated by Will Patton and Erik Larson
Debut Author of the Year
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
Best Book Club Book
Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
Best Comic/Graphic Novel
Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls
Best Fantasy
The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst
Best Historical Fiction
James by Percival Everett
For more of the winners, visit Overdrive.
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