The 2026 Libby Book Award winners are here!

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

🎧 Audiobook

An epic novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits.

Runner up: Buckeye by Patrick Ryan

by Sophie Elmhirst

🎧 Audiobook

The electrifying true story of a young couple shipwrecked at sea: a mind-blowing tale of obsession, survival, and partnership stretched to its limits.

Runner up: A Flower Traveled in My Blood by Haley Cohen Gilliland

by Suzanne Collins

🎧 Audiobook

Years before Katniss Everdeen’s rise, the story begins with the reaping for the 50th Hunger Games, where a young Haymitch Abernathy is chosen to compete.

Runner up: Sisters in the Wind by Angeline Boulley

by Fredrik Backman

An unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a complete stranger’s life 25 years later.

Runner up: Katabasis by R. F. Kuang

by SenLinYu

🎧 Audiobook

In this riveting dark fantasy debut, a woman with missing memories fights to survive a war-torn world of necromancy and alchemy—and the man tasked with unearthing the deepest secrets of her past.

Runner up: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

by Catherine Newman

🎧 Audiobook

A novel full of laughter and heart that explores the hidden rules of family, the heavy weight of uncertainty, and the gnarly fact that people—no matter how much you love them—are not always exactly who you want them to be.

Runner up: Bog Queen by Anna North

by Alison Bechdel

🎧 Audiobook

A laugh-out-loud, brilliant, and passionately political work of autofiction and social commentary.

Runner up: Absolute Wonder Woman, Volume 1 by Kelly Thompson, Hayden Sherman, Mattia De Iulis & Jordie Bellaire

by B. Dylan Hollis

🎧 Audiobook

In this tour de food, B. Dylan Hollis takes you on a delicious road trip featuring everything from the coffee-crazed creations of the Pacific Northwest to the larger-than-life sheet cakes of Texas.

Runner up: Turtle Island by Sean Sherman

by V. E. Schwab

🎧 Audiobook

A genre-defying tale of three sapphic vampires set over five centuries whose lives intertwine through a dark bargain that explores hunger, love, rage, and the high cost of immortality.

Runner up: Alchemised by SenLinYu

by Allegra Goodman

🎧 Audiobook

A young woman and her lover are marooned on an island in this historical epic of love, faith, and defiance. Inspired by the real life of a 16th-century heroine, this is the timeless story of a woman fighting for survival.

Runner up: The Antidote by Karen Russell

by Stephen Graham Jones

🎧 Audiobook

A chilling historical horror novel tracing the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice.

Runner up: The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

by Omar El Akkad

🎧 Audiobook

From the award-winning novelist and journalist comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values.

Runner up: Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton

by ND Stevenson

🎧 Audiobook

From the powerhouse creator of Nimona comes a breathtaking illustrated novel, the start of a trilogy, following two orphans who leave the only home they’ve ever known to sail with an eccentric crew of pirates.

Runner up: All the Blues in the Sky by Renée Watson

by Sherry Thomas

🎧 Audiobook

Murder disrupts four quirky librarians' lives when they try to hide among books to keep their secrets.

Runner up: Murder Takes a Vacation by Laura Lippman

by Glennon Doyle

🎧 Audiobook

The award-winning authors and podcasters Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, and Amanda Doyle created this guidebook for being alive to help fellow travelers find their way through life.

Runner up: Shift by Ethan Kross

by Neil Sharpson

🎧 Audiobook

An absurdly laugh-out-loud funny picture book about the villainy of fish, illustrated by National Book Award-winning creator Dan Santat.

Runner up: Cranky, Crabby Crow (Saves the World) by Corey R. Tabor

by Sarah MacLean

🎧 Audiobook

A razor-sharp, wildly sexy novel about a wealthy New England family’s long-overdue reckoning… and the one week that threatens to tear them apart.

Runner up: It Had to Be Him by Adib Khorram

by Rebecca Yarros

🎧 Audiobook

After nearly 18 months at Basgiath War College, Violet Sorrengail knows there’s no more time for lessons. No more time for uncertainty.

Runner up: The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig

by Nnedi Okorafor

🎧 Audiobook

A disabled Nigerian American woman pens a wildly successful sci-fi novel, but as her fame rises, she loses control of the narrative—a surprisingly cutting, yet heartfelt contemporary fiction drama about art and love, identity and connection, and, ultimately, what makes us human.

Runner up: What We Can Know by Ian McEwan

by Liann Zhang

🎧 Audiobook

This razor-sharp debut thriller blends biting satire with chilling suspense, as a young woman steps into her deceased twin’s influencer life—only to discover dark secrets hidden behind her social media façade.

Runner up: The Ghostwriter by Julie Clark

by Emily Henry

🎧 Audiobook

Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve.

Runner up: Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros