Nerdy Book Award2021

Given by Nerdy Book Club

Other Names: Nerdies
142 Works 35,266 Books 1,695 Reviews 4.1
Way back on December 1, 2011, this site began with a post explaining about how we would choose the Best Books of 2011.


That was not only the beginning of this site, but also the beginning of what show more would be called the Nerdy Book Awards.

Nominations and voting takes place in December with winners announced during the last days of December. show less
Categories:
All, Early Readers and Chapter Books (133), Fiction Picture Books (215), Graphic Novels (186), Long Form Nonfiction (178), Middle Grade Fiction (250), Nonfiction Picture Books (186), Poetry and Novels in Verse (175), Young Adult Literature (222)
Years:
All, 2023 (141), 2022 (154), 2021 (142), 2020 (115), 2019 (153), 2018 (138), 2017 (151), 2016 (154), 2015 (138), 2014 (154), 2013 (35), 2012 (44), 2011 (26)
Announced:
January 3: Young Adult Literature2023 Recent
January 1: Middle Grade Fiction2023 Recent
December 2023: Long Form Nonfiction2023 Recent
December 2023: Poetry and Novels in Verse2023 Recent
December 2023: Early Readers and Chapter Books2023 Recent
December 2023: Graphic Novels2023 Recent
December 2023: Nonfiction Picture Books2023 Recent
December 2023: Fiction Picture Books2023 Recent
WorkCategoryYear
J.D. and the Great Barber Battle by J. Dillard
Early Readers and Chapter Books2021
Cupcake Fix: A Branches Book (Layla and the Bots #3) (Library Edition) (3) by Vicky Fang
Early Readers and Chapter Books2021
Yasmin the Librarian by Faruqi
Early Readers and Chapter Books2021
Billy Miller Makes a Wish by Kevin Henkes
Early Readers and Chapter Books2021
Harry Versus the First 100 Days of School by Emily Jenkins
Early Readers and Chapter Books2021
Maybe Maybe Marisol Rainey (Maybe Marisol, 1) by Erin Entrada Kelly
Early Readers and Chapter Books2021
Jo Jo Makoons : the used-to-be best friend by Dawn Quigley
Early Readers and Chapter Books2021
Charlie & Mouse Lost and Found: Book 5 by Laurel Snyder
Early Readers and Chapter Books2021
Egg Marks the Spot by Amy Timberlake
Early Readers and Chapter Books2021
I'm On It! by Andrea Tsurumi
Early Readers and Chapter Books2021
Soul Food Sunday by Winsome Bingham
Fiction Picture Books2021
My Two Border Towns by David Bowles
Fiction Picture Books2021
Yes & No by Elisha Cooper
Fiction Picture Books2021
Milo Imagines the World by Matt de la Peña
Fiction Picture Books2021
Circle Under Berry by Carter Higgins
Fiction Picture Books2021
Eyes That Kiss in the Corners by Joanna Ho
Fiction Picture Books2021
The Rock from the Sky by Jon Klassen
Fiction Picture Books2021
The Passover Guest by Susan Kusel
Fiction Picture Books2021
Where Three Oceans Meet by Rajani LaRocca
Fiction Picture Books2021
Over the Shop by JonArno Lawson
Fiction Picture Books2021
Bright Star by Yuyi Morales
Fiction Picture Books2021
Outside, Inside by LeUyen Pham
Fiction Picture Books2021
¡Vamos! Let's Cross the Bridge (World of ¡Vamos!) by Raúl the Third
Fiction Picture Books2021
Your Mama by NoNieqa Ramos
Fiction Picture Books2021
On the Trapline by David A. Robertson
Fiction Picture Books2021
Bear Is a Bear by Jonathan Stutzman
Fiction Picture Books2021
Mel Fell by Corey R. Tabor
Fiction Picture Books2021
Watercress by Andrea Wang
Fiction Picture Books2021
Inside Cat by Brendan Wenzel
Fiction Picture Books2021
Himawari House by Harmony Becker
Graphic Novels2021
Big Ideas That Changed the World 3: A Shot in the Arm! by Don Brown
Graphic Novels2021
Jukebox by Nidhi Chanani
Graphic Novels2021
Huda F Are You? by Huda Fahmy
Graphic Novels2021
A-Okay by Jarad Greene
Graphic Novels2021
Bad Sister by Charise Mericle Harper
Graphic Novels2021
The Crossroads at Midnight by Abby Howard
Graphic Novels2021
The Legend of Auntie Po by Shing Yin Khor
Graphic Novels2021
Borders by Thomas King
Graphic Novels2021
Pawcasso by Remy Lai
Graphic Novels2021
Run by John Lewis
Graphic Novels2021
Allergic by Megan Wagner Lloyd
Graphic Novels2021
Chunky by Yehudi Mercado
Graphic Novels2021
The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag
Graphic Novels2021
Garlic and the Vampire by Bree Paulsen
Graphic Novels2021
Miles Morales: Shock Waves (Original Spider-Man Graphic Novel) by Justin A. Reynolds
Graphic Novels2021
Apple of My Pie by Mika Song
Graphic Novels2021
Monster Friends by Kaeti Vandorn
Graphic Novels2021
Katie the Catsitter by Colleen A. F. Venable
Graphic Novels2021
Tidesong by Wendy Xu
Graphic Novels2021
Race to the Bottom of the Earth: Surviving Antarctica by Rebecca E. F. Barone
Long Form Nonfiction2021
Hear My Voice/Escucha mi voz: The Testimonies of Children Detained at the Southern Border of the United States (English and Spanish Edition) by Warren Binford
Long Form Nonfiction2021
While I Was Away by Waka T. Brown
Long Form Nonfiction2021
Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre by Brandy Colbert
Long Form Nonfiction2021
Rescuing Titanic: A True Story of Quiet Bravery in the North Atlantic by Flora Delargy
Long Form Nonfiction2021
RBG's Brave & Brilliant Women: 33 Jewish Women to Inspire Everyone by Nadine Epstein
Long Form Nonfiction2021
The Sea-Ringed World: Sacred Stories of the Americas by Maria Garcia Esperon
Long Form Nonfiction2021
The Woman All Spies Fear: Code Breaker Elizebeth Smith Friedman and Her Hidden Life by Amy Butler Greenfield
Long Form Nonfiction2021
Ambushed!: The Assassination Plot Against President Garfield by Gail Jarrow
Long Form Nonfiction2021
The Other Talk: Reckoning with Our White Privilege by Brendan Kiely
Long Form Nonfiction2021
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People by Kekla Magoon
Long Form Nonfiction2021
Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood by Gary Paulsen
Long Form Nonfiction2021
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning by Jason Reynolds
Long Form Nonfiction2021
Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown by Steve Sheinkin
Long Form Nonfiction2021
Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians but Were Afraid to Ask by Anton Treuer
Long Form Nonfiction2021
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong
Long Form Nonfiction2021
The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Eugene Yelchin
Long Form Nonfiction2021
From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement by Paula Yoo
Long Form Nonfiction2021
Amari and the Night Brothers by B. B. Alston
Middle Grade Fiction2021
Flight of the Puffin by Ann Braden
Middle Grade Fiction2021
The Beatryce Prophecy by Kate DiCamillo
Middle Grade Fiction2021
Out of My Heart by Sharon M. Draper
Middle Grade Fiction2021
Yusuf Azeem is Not a Hero by Saadia Faruqi
Middle Grade Fiction2021
How to Find What You're Not Looking For by Veera Hiranandani
Middle Grade Fiction2021
The Lion of Mars by Jennifer L. Holm
Middle Grade Fiction2021
Playing the Cards You're Dealt by Varian Johnson
Middle Grade Fiction2021
Linked by Gordon Korman
Middle Grade Fiction2021
Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff
Middle Grade Fiction2021
Black Boy Joy: 17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood by Kwame Mbalia
Middle Grade Fiction2021
Finding Junie Kim by Ellen Oh
Middle Grade Fiction2021
Pony by R. J. Palacio
Middle Grade Fiction2021
Pax, Journey Home by Sara Pennypacker
Middle Grade Fiction2021
Root Magic by Eden Royce
Middle Grade Fiction2021
Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Middle Grade Fiction2021
Fast Pitch by Nic Stone
Middle Grade Fiction2021
The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy by Anne Ursu
Middle Grade Fiction2021
Born Behind Bars by Padma Venkatraman
Middle Grade Fiction2021
Child of the Flower-Song People: Luz Jiménez, Daughter of the Nahua by Gloria Amescua
Nonfiction Picture Books2021
A Seat at the Table: The Nancy Pelosi Story by Elisa Boxer
Nonfiction Picture Books2021
Survivor Tree by Marcie Colleen
Nonfiction Picture Books2021
Twenty-One Steps: Guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by Jeff Gottesfeld
Nonfiction Picture Books2021
The 1619 Project: Born on the Water by Nikole Hannah-Jones
Nonfiction Picture Books2021
What's Inside A Flower?: And Other Questions About Science & Nature by Rachel Ignotofsky
Nonfiction Picture Books2021
The Wisdom of Trees: How Trees Work Together to Form a Natural Kingdom by Lita Judge
Nonfiction Picture Books2021
The Leaf Detective: How Margaret Lowman Uncovered Secrets in the Rainforest by Heather Lang
Nonfiction Picture Books2021
The People's Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice with Art by Cynthia Levinson
Nonfiction Picture Books2021
Dr. Fauci: How a Boy from Brooklyn Became America's Doctor by Kate Messner
Nonfiction Picture Books2021
What's in Your Pocket?: Collecting Nature's Treasures by Heather L. Montgomery
Nonfiction Picture Books2021
Osnat and Her Dove: The True Story of the World's First Female Rabbi by Sigal Samuel
Nonfiction Picture Books2021
We Are Still Here! Native American Truths Everyone Should Know by Traci Sorell
Nonfiction Picture Books2021
Nicky & Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued by Peter Sís
Nonfiction Picture Books2021
Summertime Sleepers: Animals That Estivate by Melissa Stewart
Nonfiction Picture Books2021
Let Liberty Rise!: How America’s Schoolchildren Helped Save the Statue of Liberty by Chana Stiefel
Nonfiction Picture Books2021
Nina: A Story of Nina Simone by Traci N. Todd
Nonfiction Picture Books2021
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford
Nonfiction Picture Books2021
Red and Green and Blue and White by Lee Wind
Nonfiction Picture Books2021
In My Mosque by M. O. Yuksel
Nonfiction Picture Books2021
The Magical Imperfect by Chris Baron
Poetry and Novels in Verse2021
Chlorine Sky by Mahogany L. Browne
Poetry and Novels in Verse2021
Rez Dogs by Joseph Bruchac
Poetry and Novels in Verse2021
Muted by Tami Charles
Poetry and Novels in Verse2021
Your Heart, My Sky: Love in a Time of Hunger by Margarita Engle
Poetry and Novels in Verse2021
Unsettled by Reem Faruqi
Poetry and Novels in Verse2021
Starfish by Lisa Fipps
Poetry and Novels in Verse2021
Alone by Megan E. Freeman
Poetry and Novels in Verse2021
Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Nikki Grimes
Poetry and Novels in Verse2021
Samira Surfs by Rukhsanna Guidroz
Poetry and Novels in Verse2021
Ben Y and the Ghost in the Machine by K. A. Holt
Poetry and Novels in Verse2021
What About Will by Ellen Hopkins
Poetry and Novels in Verse2021
Red, White, and Whole by Rajani LaRocca
Poetry and Novels in Verse2021
Me (Moth) by Amber McBride
Poetry and Novels in Verse2021
The One Thing You'd Save by Linda Sue Park
Poetry and Novels in Verse2021
Dear Treefrog by Joyce Sidman
Poetry and Novels in Verse2021
Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Young Adult Literature2021
Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
Young Adult Literature2021
Blackout by Dhonielle Clayton
Young Adult Literature2021
The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna
Young Adult Literature2021
White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson
Young Adult Literature2021
Rise to the Sun by Leah Johnson
Young Adult Literature2021
Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet by Laekan Zea Kemp
Young Adult Literature2021
Switch by A. S. King
Young Adult Literature2021
A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger
Young Adult Literature2021
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
Young Adult Literature2021
The Mirror Season by Anna-Marie McLemore
Young Adult Literature2021
All Our Hidden Gifts by Caroline O'Donoghue
Young Adult Literature2021
American Betiya by Anuradha D. Rajurkar
Young Adult Literature2021
Kaleidoscope by Brian Selznick
Young Adult Literature2021
Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Young Adult Literature2021
The Girls I've Been by Tess Sharpe
Young Adult Literature2021
Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas
Young Adult Literature2021
Love Is a Revolution by Renée Watson
Young Adult Literature2021
A Sitting in St. James by Rita Williams-Garcia
Young Adult Literature2021
In the Wild Light by Jeff Zentner
Young Adult Literature2021

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