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, however this was reverted for the 2025 award.
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".
Winners (2016 – 2023) Fiction YearAuthorBookRef2016Paul BeattyThe Sellout2017Naomi AldermanThe Power2018Sayaka MurataConvenience Store Woman2019Ocean VuongOn Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous2020Brandon TaylorReal Life2021Natasha BrownAssembly2022Sheena PatelI'm a Fan2023R. F. KuangYellowface
Non-fiction YearAuthorBookRef2017Reni Eddo-LodgeWhy I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race2018AkalaNatives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire2019Lisa TaddeoThree Women2020Doireann Ní GhríofaA Ghost in the Throat2021Warren EllisNina Simone's Gum2022Thomas HallidayOtherlands: A World in the Making2023Cat BohannonEve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Children's YearAuthorBookRef2017Elena FavilliGoodnight Stories for Rebel Girls2018Tomi AdeyemiChildren of Blood and Bone2019Katherine RundellThe Good Thieves2020Myriam DahmanThe Wolf’s Secret2021Tom GauldThe Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess2022S. F. SaidTyger2023Katherine RundellImpossible Creatures
Winners and shortlist (2024 – )
Combined YearAuthorBookResultRef2024IntermezzoWinner (editor)WantShortlistJames and Robert Macfarlane (co-authors), Emily Sutton (illustrator)Starminster (author), Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator) (author), Polly Barton (translator)Butter
Fiction
YearAuthorBookResultRef2025PerfectionFiction Book of the YearWe Do Not PartShortlistWhat We Can KnowNova Scotia HouseStrange Pictures
Non-fiction
YearAuthorBookResultRef2025Mother Mary Comes to MeBook of the YearEmpire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAIShortlistDon't Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is The Beginning & End Of Suffering (Beyond Suffering) Bread of Angels: A MemoirThe Queer Thing About Sin: Why the West Came to Hate Queer Love
Children's
YearAuthorBookResultRef2025Otherlands: A World in the MakingChildren's Book of the YearSunrise on the ReapingShortlistAlice with a WhyThe Gnome BookDetective Stanley and the Mystery at the Museum
References
External links
Award at LibraryThing