Young Readers Award Winners • Living Canon

Young Readers Award-Winning Books

The Slip by Lucas Schaefer
2025 Kirkus Fiction
King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation by Scott Anderson
2025 Kirkus Nonfiction
Everybelly by Thao Lam
2025 Kirkus Young Readers
James by Percival Everett
2024 Kirkus Fiction
Gather by Kenneth M. Cadow
2024 Kirkus Young Readers
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham
2024 Kirkus Nonfiction
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
2023 Kirkus Fiction
Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on the Meanings and Myths of "Latino" by Héctor Tobar
2023 Kirkus Nonfiction
America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History by Ariel Aberg-Riger
2023 Kirkus Young Readers
Trust by Hernan Diaz
2022 Kirkus Fiction
In Sensorium by Tanaïs
2022 Kirkus Nonfiction
Himawari House by Harmony Becker
2022 Kirkus Young Readers
Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir by Brian Broome
2021 Kirkus Nonfiction
Harrow by Joy Williams
2021 Kirkus Fiction
All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team by Christina Soontornvat
2021 Kirkus Young Readers
Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream by Mychal Denzel Smith
2020 Kirkus Nonfiction
Luster by Raven Leilani
2020 Kirkus Fiction
I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick BarnesGordon C. James(ill.)
2020 Kirkus Young Readers
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
2019 Kirkus Fiction
New Kid by Jerry CraftJim Callahan(color.)
2019 Kirkus Young Readers
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones
2019 Kirkus Nonfiction
Severance by Ling Ma
2018 Kirkus Fiction
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick BarnesGordon C. James(ill.)
2018 Kirkus Young Readers
Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) by Rebecca Solnit
2018 Kirkus Nonfiction
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah
2017 Kirkus Fiction