The Waterstones Book of the Year, established in 2012, is an annual award presented to a book published in the previous 12 months. Waterstones' booksellers nominate and vote to determine the winners and finalists for the prize.
Award winners receive "full and committed backing" from Waterstones both in-person and online.
Recipients
+Waterstones Book of the Year winners and finalistsYearAuthor Title ResultRef.2012Polpo: A Venetian Cookbook (of Sorts)HHhHPatrick Leigh Fermor On the Map The Old Ways Bring Up the Bodies 2013Stoner Life After Life Levels of Life The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil Maps Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life2014Everyday SexismPersiana: Recipes from the Middle East & Beyond Once Upon an Alphabet H Is for Hawk Capital in the Twenty-First Century 2015Go Set a WatchmanMy Brilliant FriendReasons to Stay AliveSPQR: A History of Ancient Rome2016Harry Potter and the Cursed Child with Quentin Blake (illus.)Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts When Breath Becomes Air 2017La Belle Sauvage: Book of Dust Volume One and Francesca CavalloGood Night Stories for Rebel GirlsLincoln in the BardoMr. LearTalking to My Daughter About the Economy and Jackie Morris2018Normal PeopleWhy We Get the Wrong Politicians and Marina AmaralEverything I Know About LoveCirce and Frann Preston-GannonI Am the Seed that Grew the Tree2019QueenieUnderlandLannyNo One Is Too Small to Make a Difference2020HamnetDiary of a Young NaturalistEx Libris Island Dreams One, Two, Three, Four: The Beatles in Time Exciting Times Love in Colour Black and British: A Short, Essential History with Britta Teckentrup (illus.)Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright! (ed)2021 with Paul Muldoon (ed.) with Lucille Clerc (illus.)Around the World in 80 Plants with Tom de Freston (illus.)Julia and the Shark with Chris Ofili (illus.)Greek MythsKlara and the SunStorylandOpen Water and Carl AnkaYou Are a ChampionAriadneThey Both Die at the EndAmur River and Andrew Donkin with Libby VanderPloeg (illus.)British Museum: History of the World in 25 Cities2022The Marriage PortraitHeartstopper Volume 1Lessons in ChemistryThe Escape ArtistOtherlands with Talya Baldwin (illus.)In the Golden MoleCookingBabelSkandar and the Unicorn Thief2023Impossible CreaturesAbroad in JapanMurdleYellowfaceTom LakeThe Creative Act: A Way of Being The FraudUltra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn't...In MemoriamFourth Wing and Matt HuntA Whale of a Time: A Funny Poem for Every Day of the Year Emperor of Rome2024 with Polly Barton (trans.)ButterRaising Hare JamesThe Reappearance of Rachel PriceEasy WinsThe Garden Against TimeGlorious ExploitsEighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young LivesThe SiegeBlue SistersI Am Rebel with William Grill (illus.)Cloudspotting for BeginnersIntermezzo with Emily Sutton (illus.) Shakespeare’s First Folio: All the Plays – A Children’s EditionLong Island2025The Artist with Colin ButfieldOcean: Earth's last wilderness UniversalityDonut Squad: Take Over the World!Sunrise on the ReapingCraftlandThe Raven ScholarAlice with a WhyKatabasisSo Long, See You Tomorrow The Café at the Edge of the WoodsThe Let Them TheoryMother Mary Comes to Me PadellaUketsuStrange Pictures by
See also
Waterstones Children's Book Prize Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize Waterstones Children's Laureate Waterstones 11 Guardian First Book Award
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