2024 Diverse Award Winners Announced

Winners were recently celebrated at Waterstones Piccadilly at the fifth Diverse Book Awards.

Best Picture Book
To The Other Side by Erika Meza (Hodder Children's Books)

2nd place: Not Now, Noor!by Farhana Islam, illustrated by Nabila Adani (Penguin Random House Children's)

3rd place: A Hero Like Me by Angela Joy & Jen Reid, illustrated by Leire Salaberria (Frances Lincoln Children's Books)

Best Children's Book
Steady For This by Nathanael Lessore (Hot Key Books)

2nd place: Safiyyah's War by Hiba Noor Khan (Andersen Press)

3rd place: The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow, illustrated by Joe Todd-Stanton (Otter-Barry Books)

Best Young Adult Book
The First Move by Jenny Ireland (Penguin Random House Children's)

2nd place: Away With Words by Sophie Cameron (Little Tiger)

3rd place:  A Million To One by Adiba Jaigirdar (Hodder Children's Books)

Best Adult Book 
Maame by Jessica George (Hodder and Stoughton)

2nd place: Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah Nelson (Viking)

3rd place: Those People Next Door by Kia Abdullah (HarperCollins)

2024 Readers’ Choice Award Winners

Readers’ Choice Award - Best Picture Book

WINNER 

Thunderboots by Naomi Jones, illustrated by Rebecca Ashdown (Oxford University Press)

 
In second place, 
I'm Going to Be a Princess by Stephanie Taylor, illustrated by Jade Orlando (Nosy Crow)
 
In third place, 
Not Now Noor by Farhana Islam, illustrated by Nabila Adani (PRH Children's)

Readers’ Choice Award – Children’s
 
WINNER

Safiyyah’s War by Hiba Noor Khan (Andersen Press)
 
In second place 
Glitter Boy by Ian Eagleton (Scholastic)
 
In third place 
Dreamweavers: Night of the Scary Fairies by Annabelle Sami, illustrated by Forrest Burdett (Little Tiger)
 
Readers’ Choice Award – YA
 
WINNER

Boy Like Me by Simon James Green (Scholastic)
 
In second place,
All The Things They Said We Couldn’t Have: Stories of Trans Joy by T.C. Oakes-Monger (Jessica Kingsley Publishers)
 
In third place, 
You Think You Know Me by Ayaan Mohamud (Usborne)
 
Readers’ Choice Award – Adult
 
WINNER

Until Proven Innocent by Nicola Williams (Hamish Hamilton)
 
In second place,
Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth (Verve Books)
 
In third place, 
Ghost Girl, Banana by Wiz Wharton (Hodder and Stoughton)

2024 Malorie Blackman Impact Award

NIKESH SHUKLA

The Diverse Book Awards re-opens mid Jan 2025 for books published in 2024

For further information on the awards see  https://www.thediversebookawards.co.uk