2023 Diverse Book Awards Longlist
The 2023 longlist for the Diverse Book Awards has been announced. The awards were created “to highlight the best of the diverse voices published in the UK & Ireland both traditionally and self-published.” Titles and authors of genre interest include:
Best Adult
- Who’s Loving You: Love Stories by Women of Colour, Sareeta Domingo, ed. (Trapeze)
Best Young Adult
- The Haunting of Tyrese Walker, J.P. Rose (Anderson)
- If You Still Recognise Me, Cynthia So (Little Tiger)
- The Society for Soulless Girls, Laura Steven (Electric Monkey)
- Blood to Poison, Mary Watson (Bloomsbury)
Best Children’s
- The Secret of Haven Point, Lisette Auton, illustrated by Valentina Toro (Puffin)
- Future Hero: Race To Fire Mountain, Remi Blackwood (Scholastic)
- A Flash of Fireflies, Aisha Bushby (Farshore)
- Marv and The Dino Attack, Alex Falase-Koya, illustrated by Paula Bowles (Oxford University Press)
- Sadé and her Shadow Beasts, Rachel Faturoti, illustrated by Rumbidzai Savanhu (Hodder Children’s)
- The Elemental Detectives, Patrice Lawrence (Scholastic)
- Kiki Kallira Conquers A Curse, Sangu Mandanna (Hodder Children’s)
- Mia and the Lightcasters, Janelle McCurdy, illustrated by Ana Latese (Faber Children’s)
- The Twig Man, Sana Rasoul (Hashtag)
Best Picture Book
- Our Tower, Joseph Coelho, illustrated by Richard Johnson (Frances Lincoln Children’s)
- Me & My Dysphoria Monster, Laura Kate Dale, illustrated by Ang Hui Qing (Jessica Kingsley)
- I Am NOT a Prince, Rachael Davis, illustrated by Beatrix Hatcher (Orchard)
- You Need To Chill, Juno Dawson, illustrated by Laura Hughes (Farshore)
- Small’s Big Dream, Manjeet Mann, illustrated by Amanda Quartey (HarperCollins Children’s)
The shortlist will be announced in September, and winners will be announced at an awards ceremony on October 25, 2023.
For more information, including the complete longlist, see the Diverse Book Awards website.
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