Using Awards Lists As a RA Tool: First Annual Libby Book Awards

This is part of my ongoing series on using Awards Lists as a RA tool. Click here for all posts in the series in reverse chronological order. Click here for the first post which outlines the details how to use awards lists as a RA tool.  

Well today I have an awards list with no backlist for you because it is the first annual of its award. But, it is an award that is 100% library patron focused. It is the Libby Book Awards. And you can even register to watch the live award event on Zoom on March 12th.

Details here but I also posted the full announcement from the Libby blog below as well.

This is very exciting as Libby is 100% library user focused. See the Cookbook category, a huge library circulation winner, and all the genre categories. (The only thing I am not a fan of is "Best Diverse Book.") We don't have another award this specific to our readers. This would be a great award list to display in every format that you own the titles in as a way to highlight these sure bet options and your prepaid (not free) ebook and downloadable audio options.  

See the full announcement here and below.

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Announcing the finalists for the first annual Libby Book Awards, aka The Libbys

FEB 09, 2024

With awards season in full swing, the Oscars, Emmys and Grammys honor and celebrate the best movies, TV and music of the year. But here at Libby, we’re all about the books. So, for the first time ever, we’re excited to introduce "The Libbys: The inaugural Libby Book Awards" where we put books in the spotlight and roll out the red carpet for the best of 2023, nominated by our expert panel of librarians.

These books will then be voted on by librarians and library workers across North America and a winner will be chosen in each category. After all the votes have been tallied, the winners will be announced LIVE on March 12 at 7PM EST!

Want in on all the star-studded action? Register to watch the virtual Libby Book Awards ceremony presented by the hosts of our very own Professional Book Nerds via Zoom, or tune in on YouTubeor Facebook Live.

The envelope, please. Here are the nominees, honoring excellence in 17 categories. Click on the 🎧 for the audiobook version. 

Finalists for Best Adult Fiction

Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton 
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward 🎧
The Fraud by Zadie Smith 🎧
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride 🎧
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett 🎧

Finalists for Best Adult Nonfiction

The Best Minds by Jonathan Rosen 🎧
Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo 🎧
Monsters by Claire Dederer 🎧
The Wager by David Grann 🎧
When Crack Was King by Donovan X. Ramsey 🎧

Finalists for Best Young Adult Fiction

The Blackwoods by Brandy Colbert 🎧
The Davenports by Krystal Marquis 🎧
Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross 🎧
Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley 🎧
What the River Knows by Isabel Ibañez 🎧

Finalists for Best Audiobook

All the Sinners Bleed by S. A. Cosby
I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
King: A Life by Jonathan Eig
Poverty, By America by Matthew Desmond
The Secret Hours by Mick Herron

Finalists for Best Debut Author

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Marisa Crane
Ana Reyes
Selby Wynn Schwartz
Alice Winn

Finalists for Best Diverse Author

Camp Zero by Michelle Min Sterling 🎧
Liquid Snakes by Stephen Kearse 
Lone Women by Victor LaValle 🎧
The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz 🎧
The Thick and the Lean by Chana Porter 🎧

Finalists for Best Comic/Graphic Novel

A Guest in the House by Emily Carroll 
One Bad Day: The Riddler (Batman) by Tom King & Mitch Gerads 
Roaming by Jillian Tamaki & Mariko Tamaki 
Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed 
The Talk by Darrin Bell

Finalists for Best Memoir & Autobiography

Doppelganger by Naomi Klein 🎧
How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair 🎧
My Name is Barbra by Barbra Streisand 🎧
Pageboy by Elliot Page 🎧
You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith 🎧

Finalists for Best Cookbook

Let’s Eat by Dan Pelosi 
Portico by Leah Koenig 
Start Here by Sohla El-Waylly 
Still We Rise by Erika Council 
Tenderheart by Hetty Lui McKinnon

Finalists for Best Mystery

Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor 🎧
Happiness Falls by Angie Kim 🎧
Symphony of Secrets by Brendan Slocumb 🎧
The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman 🎧
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Suanto 🎧

Finalists for Best Thriller

All the Sinners Bleed by S. A. Cosby 🎧
Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll 🎧
Pet by Catherine Chidgey 
The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi 🎧
The Secret Hours by Mick Herron 🎧

Finalists for Best Romance

Ana María and the Fox by Liana De la Rosa 🎧
Business or Pleasure by Rachel Lynn Solomon 🎧
Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn 🎧
A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel by KJ Charles 🎧
We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian

Finalists for Best Fantasy

A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon 🎧
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros 🎧
Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo 🎧
To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose 🎧
Witch King by Martha Wells 🎧

Finalists for Best Romantasy

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett 🎧
Immortal Longings by Chloe Gong 🎧
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros 🎧
Mortal Follies by Alexis Hall 🎧
The Hurricane Wars by Thea Guanzon 🎧

Finalists for Best Science Fiction

Infinity Gate by M. R. Carey 🎧
Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh 🎧
System Collapse by Martha Wells 🎧
The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei 🎧
Translation State by Ann Leckie 🎧

Finalists for Best Historical Fiction

Beyond the Door of No Return by David Diop 
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward 🎧
Loot by Tania James 🎧
North Woods by Daniel Mason 🎧
The Great Reclamation by Rachel Heng 🎧

Finalists for Best Book Club Pick

Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano 🎧
Maame by Jessica George 🎧
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett 🎧
Wellness by Nathan Hill 🎧
Yellowface by R. F. Kuang 🎧