Horse by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)
2023 Awards
for books published in 2022
Fiction — Winner
Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett (Ballentine)
Fiction — Finalists
We all Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman (Harper)
Marigold and Rose by Louise Glück (FSG)
Metropolis by B.A. Shapiro (Algonquin)
Non-Fiction — Winner
The Pope at War by David Kertzer (Random House)
Non-Fiction — Finalists
Rebels at Sea by Eric Dolin (Liveright)
Poetry — Winner
Flutter Kick by Anna V.Q. Ross (Red Hen Press)
Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina by Dara Barrois/Dixon (Wave Books)
The Big Scream by Kirsty Call (Little Simon)
Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng (Penguin)
Winslow Homer by William Cross (FSG)
Poetry — Finalists
Unsymmetrical Body by Jennifer R. Edwards (Finishing Line Press)
Young Readers
Younger Readers —Winner
Rica Baptista by Janet Costa Bates (Candlewick)
Younger Readers — Finalists
I’ll Go and Come Back by Rajani LaRocca (Candlewick)
Older Readers — Winner
The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin by Kip Wilson (HarperCollins)
Older Readers — Finalist
The Sky We Shared by Shirley Vernick (Lee and Low)
Celebrating the 25th Annual Julia Ward Howe Awards Ceremony
September 12, 2023
