If you are looking for some inspiration on what to read next, then look no further than the
Indie Book Awards. There are four categories to choose from: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Children’s Fiction and Picture Book - so there’s something for everyone.
You can be assured that all titles come highly recommended by independent booksellers from across the country so your reading choices are curated by a vast number of knowledgeable experts.
The Indie Book Awards, chosen by independent booksellers, celebrate the best summer paperbacks, whether you are reading at home or on the beach or somewhere further afield.
Indie Book Awards Winners
Indie Book Awards 2024
Fiction: Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang
Non-Fiction: The Golden Mole and Other Vanishing Treasure by Katherine Rundell, illustrated by Talya Baldwin
Children's Fiction: Safiyyah’s War by Hiba Noor Khan
Picture Book: The Dress in the Window by Robert Tregoning, illustrated by Pippa Curnick
Indie Book Awards 2023
Fiction: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Non-Fiction: Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Children's Fiction: Skandar and the Unicorn Thief by A.F. Steadman
Picture Book: The Boy with Flowers in His Hair by Jarvis
Indie Book Awards 2022
Fiction: Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden
Non-Fiction: House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons by Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason
Children's Fiction: When I Was the Greatest by Jason Reynolds, illustrated by Akhran Girmay
Picture Book: My Beautiful Voice by Joseph Coelho & Allison Colpoys
Indie Book Awards 2021
Fiction: Love After Love by Ingrid Persaud
Non-Fiction: My Name Is Why by Lemn Sissay
Children's Fiction: Tamarind & the Star of Ishta by Jasbinder Bilan
Picture Book: The Hospital Dog by Julia Donaldson & Sara Ogilvie
Indie Book Awards 2020
Fiction: Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Non-Fiction: Mudlarking: Lost and Found on the River Thames by Lara Maiklem
Children's Fiction: The Girl Who Speaks Bear by Sophie Anderson
Picture Book: Don’t Worry, Little Crab by Chris Haughton
Indie Book Awards 2019
Fiction: The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
Children's Fiction: The Storm Keeper's Island by Catherine Doyle
Picture Book: If All the World Were ... by Joseph Coelho and illustrated by Allison Colpoys
Indie Book Awards 2018
Fiction: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Children's Fiction: Where the World Ends by Geraldine McCaughrean
Picture Book: Lots: The Diversity of Life on Earth by Nicola Davies and illustrator, Emily Sutton
Indie Book Awards 2017
Fiction: Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
Children's Fiction: A Poem for Every Night of the Year by Allie Esiri
Picture Book: Tidy by Emily Gravett
Indie Book Awards 2016
Fiction: The Green Road by Anne Enright
Children's Fiction: Pugs of the Frozen North by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre
Picture Book: Stanley the Amazing Knitting Cat by Emily MacKenzie
Indie Book Awards 2015
Fiction: The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
Children's Fiction: An Island of Our Own by Sally Nicholls
Picture Book: A Walk in Paris by Salvatore Rubbino
Indie Book Awards 2014
Fiction: Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Children's Fiction: Flora & Ulysses by Kate Di Camillo, illustrated by K.G. Campbell
Picture Book: A First Book of Nature by Nicola Davies, illustrated by Mark Hearld
Indie Book Awards 2013
Fiction: A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
Children's Fiction: Wonder by RJ Palacio
Indie Book Awards 2012
Fiction: Why Be Happy When you Could be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
Children's Fiction: One Dog and His Boy by Eva Ibbotson
Indie Book Awards 2011
Fiction: The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
Children's Fiction: Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex by Eoin Colfer
Indie Book Awards 2010
Fiction: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Children's Fiction: Running Wild by Michael Morpurgo
Indie Book Awards 2009
Fiction: The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
Children's Fiction: Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer
Indie Book Awards 2008
Fiction: Notes from an Exhibition by Patrick Gale
Children's Fiction: The Sleepwalker by Robert Muchamore
Indie Book Awards 2007
Fiction: Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
Children's Fiction: Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea by Michael Morpurgo