Books Are My Bag Readers Awards 2023

By Bookshop.org UK

Books Are My Bag Readers Awards 2023

By Bookshop.org UK

The Books Are My Bag Readers Awards are one of a kind. They're the only book awards curated by bookshops and chosen by readers, like you!

The Books Are My Bag Readers Awards include six shortlists which are chosen by booksellers across the UK and Ireland, while the Readers' Choice Award – nominated and chosen entirely by readers – completes the set.

The Books Are My Bag Readers Awards launched in 2016, in partnership with and sponsored by National Book Tokens.

Yellowface

Yellowface

Rebecca F Kuang

£16.99 £16.14

Fiction shortlist

Sea of Tranquility: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller from the Author of Station Eleven

Sea of Tranquility: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller from the Author of Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel

£9.99 £9.49

Fiction shortlist

Demon Copperhead: Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction

Demon Copperhead: Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction

Barbara Kingsolver

£9.99 £9.49

Fiction shortlist

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Gabrielle Zevin

£9.99 £9.49

Fiction shortlist

Strong Female Character: Nero Book Awards Winner

Strong Female Character: Nero Book Awards Winner

Fern Brady

£16.99 £16.14

Non-Fiction shortlist

Pageboy: A Memoir

Pageboy: A Memoir

Elliot Page

£20.00 £19.00

Non-Fiction shortlist

Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival

Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival

Alice Vincent

£17.99 £17.09

Non-Fiction shortlist

Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … and Why Can’t We Stop?

Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … and Why Can’t We Stop?

Chris van Tulleken

£22.00 £20.90

Non-Fiction shortlist

The Cat Prince: & Other Poems

The Cat Prince: & Other Poems

Michael Pedersen

£12.99 £12.34

Poetry shortlist

Bad Diaspora Poems: Winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection

Bad Diaspora Poems: Winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection

MOMTAZA MEHRI

£14.99 £14.24

Poetry shortlist

More Fiya: A New Collection of Black British Poetry

More Fiya: A New Collection of Black British Poetry

£10.99 £10.44

Poetry shortlist

Divisible by Itself and One

Divisible by Itself and One

Kae Tempest

£10.99 £10.44

Poetry shortlist

Girl, Goddess, Queen: A Hades and Persephone fantasy romance from a growing TikTok superstar

Girl, Goddess, Queen: A Hades and Persephone fantasy romance from a growing TikTok superstar

Bea Fitzgerald

£14.99 £14.24

YA Fiction shortlist

The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

SONORA REYES

£8.99 £8.54

YA Fiction shortlist

Promise Boys

Promise Boys

Nick Brooks

£8.99 £8.54

YA Fiction shortlist

Gwen and Art Are Not in Love: Winner of the YA Book Prize and Books Are My Bag Readers' Award for YA

Gwen and Art Are Not in Love: Winner of the YA Book Prize and Books Are My Bag Readers' Award for YA

Lex Croucher

£8.99 £8.54

YA Fiction shortlist

Greenwild: The World Behind The Door

Greenwild: The World Behind The Door

Pari Thomson and Elisa Paganelli

£12.99

Children's Fiction shortlist

The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale

The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale

Jon Klassen

£14.99 £14.24

Children's Fiction shortlist

Impossible Creatures: INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Impossible Creatures: INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Katherine Rundell

£14.99 £14.24

Children's Fiction shortlist

Jamie: A joyful story of friendship, bravery and acceptance

Jamie: A joyful story of friendship, bravery and acceptance

L.D. Lapinski

£7.99 £7.59

Children's Fiction shortlist

Breakthrough Authors Shortlist

Rebecca F. Kuang (HarperCollins Publishers) Author of Babel and Yellowface

Bonnie Garmus (Transworld) Author of Lessons in Chemistry

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Vintage) Author of Chain-Gang All-Stars

Sheena Patel (Granta Books) Author of I'm a Fan

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