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British Book Awards 2023
The 2023 British Book Awards went to Tyger by S. F. Said (Children's Fiction Book of the Year), Grandad's Camper by Harry Woodgate (Children's Illustrated Book of the Year) and A Better Day: Your Positive Mental Health Handbook by Dr Alex George (Children's Non-Fiction Book of the Year), with winners in 8 more categories. 61 books made the shortlist across 11 categories.
Winners
Children's Fiction Book of the Year
Children's Illustrated Book of the Year
- Grandad's Campersource (opens in a new tab)
Children's Non-Fiction Book of the Year
- A Better Day: Your Positive Mental Health Handbooksource (opens in a new tab)
Crime & Thriller Book of the Year
- The Twyford Codesource (opens in a new tab)
Debut Book of the Year
- Trespassessource (opens in a new tab)
Discover Book of the Year
- I'm a Fansource (opens in a new tab)
Fiction Book of the Year
Non-Fiction: Lifestyle & Illustrated Book of the Year
- Menopausingsource (opens in a new tab)
Non-Fiction: Narrative Book of the Year
- Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donnesource (opens in a new tab)
Overall Book of the Year
- Menopausingsource (opens in a new tab)
Pageturner Book of the Year
Shortlist
Children's Fiction Book of the Year
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Diper Överlödesource (opens in a new tab)
- Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being Goodsource (opens in a new tab)
- Onyeka and the Academy of the Sunsource (opens in a new tab)
- Skandar and the Unicorn Thiefsource (opens in a new tab)
- The First to Die at the Endsource (opens in a new tab)
Children's Illustrated Book of the Year
- Bunny vs Monkey: Rise of the Maniacal Badgersource (opens in a new tab)
- Supertato presents Jack and the Beanstalksource (opens in a new tab)
- The Baddiessource (opens in a new tab)
- The Heartstopper Yearbooksource (opens in a new tab)
- What the Ladybird Heard at Christmassource (opens in a new tab)
Children's Non-Fiction Book of the Year
- Am I Made of Stardust?: Dr Maggie Answers the Big Questions for Young Scientistssource (opens in a new tab)
- Girlhood Unfilteredsource (opens in a new tab)
- Little People, Big Dreams: Queen Elizabethsource (opens in a new tab)
- You Can Do It: How to Find Your Voice and Make a Differencesource (opens in a new tab)
- You Don't Know What War Is: The Diary of a Young Girl From Ukrainesource (opens in a new tab)
Crime & Thriller Book of the Year
- Bamburghsource (opens in a new tab)
- Murder Before Evensongsource (opens in a new tab)
- The Bullet That Missedsource (opens in a new tab)
- The Paris Apartmentsource (opens in a new tab)
- Wrong Place, Wrong Timesource (opens in a new tab)
Debut Book of the Year
Discover Book of the Year
Fiction Book of the Year
Non-Fiction: Lifestyle & Illustrated Book of the Year
- One: Simple One-Pan Wonderssource (opens in a new tab)
- The Climate Booksource (opens in a new tab)
- The Golden Molesource (opens in a new tab)
- The Story of Art without Mensource (opens in a new tab)
- Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?source (opens in a new tab)
Non-Fiction: Narrative Book of the Year
- A Visible Mansource (opens in a new tab)
- Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thingsource (opens in a new tab)
- Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diariessource (opens in a new tab)
- Tired and Tested: The Wild Ride into Parenthoodsource (opens in a new tab)
- brother.do.you.love.mesource (opens in a new tab)
Pageturner Book of the Year
- How To Kill Your Familysource (opens in a new tab)
- Sunday's Childsource (opens in a new tab)
- The Island of Missing Treessource (opens in a new tab)
- The Keeper of Storiessource (opens in a new tab)
- The Summer That Changed Ussource (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)
Shares the most books with
- Goodreads Choice Awards 140 shared books
- Dublin Literary Award 100 shared books
- Women's Prize for Fiction 44 shared books
- Booker Prize 31 shared books
- Costa Book Awards 31 shared books