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British Book Awards 2018

The 2018 British Book Awards went to The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas and The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane (Children's Book of the Year), The Dry by Jane Harper (Crime & Thriller Book of the Year) and Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (Debut Book of the Year), with winners in 4 more categories. 37 books made the shortlist across 7 categories.

Winners

Children's Book of the Year

  1. The Hate U Givesource (opens in a new tab)
  2. The Lost Wordssource (opens in a new tab)

Crime & Thriller Book of the Year

  1. The Drysource (opens in a new tab)

Debut Book of the Year

  1. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Finesource (opens in a new tab)

Fiction Book of the Year

  1. Reservoir 13source (opens in a new tab)

Non-Fiction: Lifestyle Book of the Year

  1. 5 Ingredientssource (opens in a new tab)

Non-Fiction: Narrative Book of the Year

  1. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Racesource (opens in a new tab)

Overall Book of the Year

  1. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Finesource (opens in a new tab)

Shortlist

Children's Book of the Year

  1. Bad Dadsource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Good Night Stories for Rebel Girlssource (opens in a new tab)
  3. La Belle Sauvage: the Book of Dust Volume Onesource (opens in a new tab)
  4. Oi Cat!source (opens in a new tab)

Crime & Thriller Book of the Year

  1. Behind Her Eyessource (opens in a new tab)
  2. He Said/She Saidsource (opens in a new tab)
  3. Spook Streetsource (opens in a new tab)
  4. The Girl Beforesource (opens in a new tab)
  5. The Midnight Linesource (opens in a new tab)

Debut Book of the Year

  1. Conversations with Friendssource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Homegoingsource (opens in a new tab)
  3. My Absolute Darlingsource (opens in a new tab)
  4. Sirenssource (opens in a new tab)
  5. Why Mummy Drinkssource (opens in a new tab)

Fiction Book of the Year

  1. Birdcage Walksource (opens in a new tab)
  2. City of Friendssource (opens in a new tab)
  3. How to Stop Timesource (opens in a new tab)
  4. The Breaksource (opens in a new tab)
  5. Wintersource (opens in a new tab)

Non-Fiction: Lifestyle Book of the Year

  1. Cooking for Family and Friendssource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Happy: Finding Joy in Every Day and Letting Go of Perfectsource (opens in a new tab)
  3. Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictionssource (opens in a new tab)
  4. The Christmas Chronicles: Notes, Stories & 100 Essential Recipes for Midwintersource (opens in a new tab)
  5. The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to Be Calm in a Busy Worldsource (opens in a new tab)

Non-Fiction: Narrative Book of the Year

  1. Ask an Astronaut: My Guide to Life in Spacesource (opens in a new tab)
  2. I AM, I AM, I AM: Seventeen Brushes with Deathsource (opens in a new tab)
  3. The Secret Life of Cowssource (opens in a new tab)
  4. This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctorsource (opens in a new tab)
  5. What Does This Button Do?source (opens in a new tab)

About the British Book Awards

Book of the Year categories only, shortlists plus winners. Audiobook categories and awards to people (Author, Illustrator, International Author, deciBel Writer, Outstanding Achievement) are skipped. Run as the Galaxy British Book Awards (2006-2009), Galaxy National Book Awards (2010-2011), Specsavers National Book Awards (2012-2014) and, under The Bookseller, the British Book Awards or Nibbies (2017-). No awards were held in 2015 or 2016. Year is the ceremony year: spring for 2006-2009 and 2017-2025, November-December for 2010-2014. Category names follow each era's own. For 2010-2014 Book of the Year was a public vote among that year's category winners, which are recorded as its shortlist; 2008-2009 Book of the Year and 2018-2025 Overall Book of the Year record the winner only, chosen from the category winners. Sources: The Bookseller and the official awards sites (archived on web.archive.org) where available; otherwise press coverage (The Guardian, The Independent, Publishing Perspectives, BBC, the awards' PR agency Taylor Herring) and, for 2013 Popular Fiction and Crime shortlists, a crime-fiction blog. 2017-2025 shortlists were transcribed from Wikipedia and each title checked against the cited page. 2013 Biography, Children's, Food & Drink and Popular Non-Fiction record winners only; the shortlists could not be recovered.

Organization: The Bookseller. Years are award years, which can differ from publication years. Official site (opens in a new tab)

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