Moodie Award Winners

The best books of the year in the 3rd Annual Bookfinity Moodie Awards!

The top books that had the biggest impact on your mood in 2023.

You casted your votes and the results are in! Check out the winners of the 3rd Annual Bookfinity Moodie Awards. These are the best of the best books of the past 12 months. The books were selected based on how they made the reader feel once they read the book.

This Year’s Mood Categories:

Happy

The book that boosted your “Moodie” and brightened your spirits.

Empowered

The book that cheered on your soul.

Inspired

The book that left you more motivated than before.

Informed

The book that gifted you with more perspective.

Amused

The book you couldn't put down and that left you delightfully entertained.

Scared

The book that you couldn’t stop reading...even when your hands were shaking.

Amused

Fourth Wing

by Rebecca Yarros

Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general--also known as her tough-as-talons mother--has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders.

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Empowered

The Woman in Me

by Britney Spears

Written with remarkable candor and humor, Spears's groundbreaking book illuminates the enduring power of music and love--and the importance of a woman telling her own story, on her own terms, at last.

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Happy

Happy Place

by Emily Henry

A couple who broke up months ago pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Timesbestselling author Emily Henry.

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Informed

Killing the Witches

by Bill O'Reilly

Killing the Witches tells the dramatic history of how the Puritan tradition and the power of early American ministers shaped the origins of the United States, influencing the founding fathers, the American Revolution, and even the Constitutional Convention.

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Inspired

You Could Make This Place Beautiful

by Maggie Smith

You Could Make This Place Beautiful, like the work of Deborah Levy, Rachel Cusk, and Gina Frangello, is an unflinching look at what it means to live and write our own lives. It is a story about a mother's fierce and constant love for her children, and a woman's love and regard for herself.

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Scared

Holly

by Stephen King

Stephen King's Holly marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly's gradual transformation from a shy (but also brave and ethical) recluse in Mr. Mercedes to Bill Hodges's partner in Finders Keepers to a full-fledged, smart, and occasionally tough private detective in The Outsider. In King's new novel, Holly is on her own, and up against a pair of unimaginably depraved and brilliantly disguised adversaries.

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Looking for more Moodie Award winners and the best of the best books?

Your favorites from 2022 can be found here. Maybe you missed one of the best books of 2021. Discover our Moodie Award winners from 2021 here.

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