Foyles Book of the Year

The Foyles Books of the Year have been announced annually since 2017 by the British bookseller chain Foyles. From 2017 to 2023 they recognised outstanding literature in three categories: Fiction, Non-fiction, and Children's. A fiction award was conferred in 2016, before the other two categories were added. In 2024 the award changed to a combined one for all genres.^[1]

When announcing the 2023 choices, Foyles said that they chose "our favourite, most interesting, most important, most year-defining titles published, recommended and sold this year".^[2]

Winners (2016 – 2023)

Fiction

Year	Author	Book	Ref[2][3]
2016	Paul Beatty	The Sellout	[4]
2017	Naomi Alderman	The Power	[5][6]
2018	Sayaka Murata	Convenience Store Woman	[7]
2019	Ocean Vuong	On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous	[8][9][10]
2020	Brandon Taylor	Real Life	[11]
2021	Natasha Brown	Assembly	[12][13]
2022	Sheena Patel	I'm a Fan	[14][15]
2023	R. F. Kuang	Yellowface	[16][17][18][19]

Non-fiction

Year	Author	Book	Ref[2][3]
2017	Reni Eddo-Lodge	Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race	[5]
2018	Akala	Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire	[7]
2019	Lisa Taddeo	Three Women	[9]
2020	Doireann Ní Ghríofa	A Ghost in the Throat	[20][11]
2021	Warren Ellis	Nina Simone's Gum	[21][22]
2022	Thomas Halliday	Otherlands: A World in the Making	[23][15]
2023	Cat Bohannon	Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution	[17][24]

Children's

Year	Author	Book	Ref[2][3]
2017	Elena Favilli	Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls	[5][6]
2018	Tomi Adeyemi	Children of Blood and Bone	[25][7]
2019	Katherine Rundell	The Good Thieves	[26][9][10]
2020	Myriam Dahman	The Wolf’s Secret	[27][11][28][29]
2021	Tom Gauld	The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess	[30][31][13][29]
2022	S. F. Said	Tyger	[29][15]
2023	Katherine Rundell	Impossible Creatures	[32][17][18][33][34]

Winners and shortlist (2024 – )

Year	Author	Book	Result	Ref
2024	Sally Rooney	Intermezzo	Winner	[35][36][37]
	Gillian Anderson (editor)	Want	Shortlist	[1]
	Jonn Elledge	A History of the World in 47 Borders
	Percival Everett	James
	Johnny Flynn and Robert Macfarlane (co-authors), Emily Sutton (illustrator)	The World to Come
	Megan Hopkins	Starminster
	Olga Tokarczuk (author), Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)	The Empusium
	Asako Yuzuki (author), Polly Barton (translator)	Butter