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
