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October 22, 2026By Erin Somers

Barnes & Noble Book of the Year Finalists

October 22, 2026By Erin Somers

Barnes & Noble named its finalists for Book of the Year. The winner will be voted on by B&N booksellers and named on November 12.

Strangers, by Belle Burden (Random House)
Yesteryear, by Caro Claire Burke (Knopf)
Sleeping Beauties, by David Byrne (Penguin)
This Vast Enterprise,  by Craig Fehrman (Avid Reader)
Whale Harbor, by Mary Beth Keane (Scribner)
London Falling, by Patrick Radden Keefe (Knopf)
Partita, by Barbara Kingsolver (HarperCollins)
The Book of Birds, by Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris (Norton)
Redwood, by Ben Macintyre (Crown)
This Is a Door, by Daniel Nayeri (Sourcebooks)
Land, by Maggie O’Farrell (Knopf)
Is This a Plum? A Peek-Through Picture Book, by Dan Ojari, Finn Ojari (Random House Children’s)
Ottolenghi Simple Too, by Yotam Ottolenghi (Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed)
The Calamity Club, by Kathryn Stockett (Spiegel & Grau)
The Unlikely Tale of Chase and Finnegan, by Jasmine Warga (Balzer + Bray)
Cool Machine, by Colson Whitehead (Knopf)

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