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British Book Awards 2024
The 2024 British Book Awards went to Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell (Children's Fiction Book of the Year), Bunny vs Monkey: Multiverse Mix-up by Jamie Smart (Children's Illustrated Book of the Year) and Brilliant Black British History by Atinuke (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
- Impossible Creaturessource (opens in a new tab)
Children's Illustrated Book of the Year
- Bunny vs Monkey: Multiverse Mix-upsource (opens in a new tab)
Children's Non-Fiction Book of the Year
- Brilliant Black British Historysource (opens in a new tab)
Crime & Thriller Book of the Year
Debut Book of the Year
Discover Book of the Year
- Lessons from Our Ancestorssource (opens in a new tab)
Fiction Book of the Year
Non-Fiction: Lifestyle & Illustrated Book of the Year
Non-Fiction: Narrative Book of the Year
- Politics on the Edgesource (opens in a new tab)
Overall Book of the Year
Pageturner Book of the Year
Shortlist
Children's Fiction Book of the Year
- Powerlesssource (opens in a new tab)
- Skandar and the Phantom Ridersource (opens in a new tab)
- The Boy Who Slept Through Christmassource (opens in a new tab)
- The Completely Chaotic Christmas of Lottie Brookssource (opens in a new tab)
- This Book Killssource (opens in a new tab)
Children's Illustrated Book of the Year
- Dog Man: Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Seasource (opens in a new tab)
- Heartstopper: Volume 5source (opens in a new tab)
- The King's Pantssource (opens in a new tab)
- This Is Mesource (opens in a new tab)
- We're Going on a Ghost Huntsource (opens in a new tab)
Children's Non-Fiction Book of the Year
- Black & Irish: Legends, Trailblazers & Everyday Heroessource (opens in a new tab)
- Kay's Incredible Inventionssource (opens in a new tab)
- Little People, Big Dreams: King Charlessource (opens in a new tab)
- Stolen History: The Truth About the British Empire and How It Shaped Ussource (opens in a new tab)
- The Boy Who Didn't Want to Diesource (opens in a new tab)
Crime & Thriller Book of the Year
- Damascus Stationsource (opens in a new tab)
- The Last Devil To Diesource (opens in a new tab)
- The Running Gravesource (opens in a new tab)
- The Secret Hourssource (opens in a new tab)
- The Woman Who Liedsource (opens in a new tab)
Debut Book of the Year
- Days at the Morisaki Bookshopsource (opens in a new tab)
- Godkillersource (opens in a new tab)
- Really Good, Actuallysource (opens in a new tab)
- Talking at Nightsource (opens in a new tab)
- The Listsource (opens in a new tab)
Discover Book of the Year
- A Bollywood State of Mindsource (opens in a new tab)
- April's Gardensource (opens in a new tab)
- Imad's Syrian Kitchensource (opens in a new tab)
- Pageboysource (opens in a new tab)
- Sunburnsource (opens in a new tab)
Fiction Book of the Year
- Atlas: The Story of Pa Saltsource (opens in a new tab)
- Iron Flamesource (opens in a new tab)
- So Late in the Daysource (opens in a new tab)
- Tackle!source (opens in a new tab)
- The Ghost Shipsource (opens in a new tab)
Non-Fiction: Lifestyle & Illustrated Book of the Year
- Bored of Lunch: The Healthy Air Fryer Booksource (opens in a new tab)
- GHOSTS: The Button House Archivessource (opens in a new tab)
- Let the Light Pour Insource (opens in a new tab)
- Marr's Guitarssource (opens in a new tab)
- Ultra-Processed Peoplesource (opens in a new tab)
Non-Fiction: Narrative Book of the Year
- Normal Women – 900 Years of Making Historysource (opens in a new tab)
- Sparesource (opens in a new tab)
- The Diary of a CEO: The 33 Laws of Business and Lifesource (opens in a new tab)
- The Extra Mile: My Autobiographysource (opens in a new tab)
- The Woman in Mesource (opens in a new tab)
Pageturner Book of the Year
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