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2023 AUDIOBOOK AWARDS & KINDLE AWARDS PARTY
We'll be live streaming at New Book Fest Chicago 9/23!
Recognizing major works plus independent presses and self-publishing in multiple categories
ATTENTION AUTHORS
The 2023
NEW BOOK AWARDS
is now accepting entries
NON FICTION
AUTHORS!
Will your title get a NEW BOOK AWARD?
ENTER SOON!
 SoundPathIn SoundPath, New York Pops violist Karen Olson reveals how to harness the energetic power of frequencies to reduce fear, guilt, shame, and anger and boost love, gratitude, serenity and joy. This sound vibration influences your physical health, your emotions, and your ability to create what you want in life. A CD that accompanies the book is also available |  Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?Overwhelmingly this year’s New Book Award Judge's Choice for Science & Technology, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? is also the unofficial winner of this year’s Most Alarming Book Title award. Author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers all those questions that we’re generally afraid to ask about death, decay, decomposition, and other depressing developments. With illustrations! |
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 The Only Plane in the SkyGarrett M. Graff, a magazine journalist and historianAn Oral History of 9/11 Scott Simon from NPR writes... “Graff has woven a powerful, graphic narrative of how September 11 played out everywhere from the International Space Station to the inside of the collapsing World Trade Center towers. . . . I repeatedly cried. I could feel my pulse elevate. I often had to put it down after a dozen pages. But I think that’s the point of the book." |  The TestamentsAuthor and activist Margaret Atwood wins a New Book Award this year for her long-anticipated sequel to the dystopian fiction classic The Handmaid’s Tale. The book picks up the story 15 years after handmaid Offred’s ambiguous fate in the theocratic nation of Gilead and continues the saga’s dark contemporary resonance. In fact, Atwood’s stated inspiration for her new novel is direct: “The world we’ve been living in.” |
 A Beautiful Day in the NeighborhoodFred Rogers is having a moment with a 2018 documentary film and a 2019 feature film starring Tom Hanks. Now comes A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, an illustrated treasury of all the classic songs from the TV show, re-imagined as poems for the shorter set. Funny, sweet, silly, and sincere, these poems and songs have an essential decency that will outlast us all. |  Battle at Bogs HollowIn this 24 page beautifully illustrated children's book, repeat New Book Awards winning author Sheri-Lynn Kenny describes "Life in Bogs Hollow" as quiet and peaceful. There are many animals that live there, including best friends Freddy, Tommy, and Phinney. One morning, there are horrible noises announcing the arrival of big yellow monsters to the Hollow. All the animals leave, except Freddy, Tommy, and Phinney. They decide to take a stand to try and save their home. |
 RecursionScreenwriter and novelist Blake Crouch gets his first New Book Award with this inventive and ambitious story on technology, time travel, and the essential nature of memory. The book’s decidedly weird science is actually grounded in recent laboratory research, which lends an eerie temporal echo to the proceedings. Also, Crouch suggests an oddly compelling explanation for that phenomenon we call déjà vu. |  Pumpkin HeadsThis year’s New Book Award for Graphic Novels & Comics goes to author Rainbow Rowell and Eisner Award–winning illustrator Faith Erin Hicks for their lovely collaboration, Pumpkin Heads. The world’s best pumpkin patch, it turns out, is located in Omaha, Nebraska. High school pals Deja and Josiah are planning their last season together. Autumn arrives! Besties unite! Adventure ensues! |
 Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-FreeAuthor Rachel Hollis wins her first New Book Award with this powerful collection of writings for women navigating the complexities of the 21st century. The book has generated its own momentum, and readers continue to praise its clear-eyed approach to improvement and empowerment. “I believe we can change the world,” Hollis says. “But first, we’ve got to stop living in fear" |  Red, White & Royal BlueAuthor Casey McQuiston puts a delightful new spin on genre conventions with her debut novel, this year’s winner in the Romance category. Alex Claremont-Diaz—First Son and unofficial White House ambassador—has a problem. That problem is Prince Henry, an uptight British royal and Alex’s counterpart from across the pond. The trouble is that Alex doesn’t like the prince. Until he does. |
 Get Listed HereEnter the NEW BOOK AWARDS before the upcoming deadline and all featured entries will have their book cover displayed for judges, reviewers, buyers, stores and industry VIP to see. |
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2022 TOP BOOK LIST
New York Times
Their TOP 10 included 3 of our choices; The Candy House, by Jennifer Egan · Checkout 19, by Claire-Louise Bennett · Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver.
Vulture
Their best books of the year included our 'Manhunt,' by Gretchen Felker-Martin; '
Easy Beauty,' by Chloé Cooper Jones,
Fiona And Jane, By Jean Chen · Pure Colour, By Sheila Heti · Glory, By Noviolet Bulawayo
Vanity Fair Magazine
“The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man” by Paul Newman (Knopf) · “The Man Who Could Move Clouds” by Ingrid Rojas
Entertainment Weekly
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin · The Candy House by Jennifer Egan · The Candy House By Jennifer... · Trust By Hernan Diaz · Book Lovers By Emily Henry
Time Magazine
Their list of 100 Notable Books of 2022 included · A Heart That Works · Afterlives · All the Lovers in the Night · All This Could Be Different · An Immense World · Ancestor Trouble and more.
We submit our picks to all these and send out our monthly media updates (your entry included) to over a thousand media outlets
HELLO NOMINEES! THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO ENTER THE 2023 NEW BOOK AWARDS
COMING SOON!
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