2023 Awards

for books published in 2022

Fiction — Winner

Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett (Ballentine)

Fiction — Finalists

Horse by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)

We all Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman (Harper)

Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng (Penguin)

Metropolis by B.A. Shapiro (Algonquin)

Marigold and Rose by Louise Glück (FSG)

Non-Fiction — Winner

The Pope at War by David Kertzer (Random House)

Non-Fiction — Finalists

Rebels at Sea by Eric Dolin (Liveright)

Winslow Homer by William Cross (FSG)

Poetry — Winner

Flutter Kick by Anna V.Q. Ross (Red Hen Press)

Poetry — Finalists

Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina by Dara Barrois/Dixon (Wave Books)

Unsymmetrical Body by Jennifer R. Edwards (Finishing Line Press)

Young Readers

Younger Readers —Winner

Rica Baptista by Janet Costa Bates (Candlewick)

Younger Readers — Finalists

The Big Scream by Kirsty Call (Little Simon)

I’ll Go and Come Back by Rajani LaRocca (Candlewick)

Young Readers

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

With a big thank you to Whitelam Books in Reading, MA