The Newbery Medal is the highest honor given to an American children’s novel. I’ve set myself a challenge to read them all, as well as the Newbery Honor books (yearly runners-up). The first award dates back to 1922.
Here’s a list of the winners, starting with the most recent. Links include all available Amazon versions (paperback, Kindle, audio, etc.). If I’ve reviewed the book, I’ve linked to that, too. Asterics indicate the books I’ve read for my ongoing Newbery challenge but not reviewed. How many have you read?
Here are links to the Newbery Honor books from 2011-2020, 2000-2010 and 1990-1999.
- 2014 – Flora and Ulysses, by Kate DiCamillo. Review.
- 2013 – The One and Only Ivan, by Kathrine Applegate. Review.
- 2012 – Dead End in Norvelt, by Jack Gantos. Review.
- 2011 – Moon Over Manifest, by Clare VanderPool. Review.
- 2010 – When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead. Review.
- 2009 – The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman. Review.
- 2008 – Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village, by Laura Amy Schlitz.
- 2007 – The Higher Power of Lucky, by Susan Patron.
- 2006 – Criss Cross, by Lynne Rae Perkins.
- 2005 – Kira-Kira, by Cynthia Kadohata.
- 2004 – The Tale of Despereaux, by Kate DiCamillo. Review.
- 2003 – Crispin : The Cross of Lead, by Avi. Review
- 2002 – A Single Shard, by Linda Sue Park. Review.
- 2001 – A Year Down Yonder, by Richard Peck. *
- 2000 – Bud, Not Buddy, by Christopher Paul Curtis. *
- 1999 – Holes, by Louis Sachar. Review.
- 1998 – Out Of The Dust, by Karen Hesse. Review.
- 1997 – The View from Saturday, by E.L. Konigsburg.
- 1996 – The Midwife’s Apprentice, by Karen Cushman. *
- 1995 – Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech. *
- 1994 – The Giver, by Lois Lowry. Review.
- 1993 – Missing May, by Cynthia Rylant. *
- 1992 – Shiloh, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. *
- 1991 – Maniac Magee, by Jerry Spinelli. *
- 1990 – Number the Stars, by Lois Lowry. Review.
- 1989 – Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, by Raul Fleishman.
- 1988 – Lincoln: A Photobiography, by Russell Freedman.
- 1987 – The Whipping Boy, by Sid Fleischman. *
- 1986 – Sarah, Plain and Tall, by Patricia MacLachlan. Review.
- 1985 – The Hero and the Crown, by Robin McKinley.
- 1984 – Dear Mr. Henshaw, by Beverly Cleary. Review.
- 1983 – Dicey’s Song, by Cynthia Voigt.
- 1982 – A Visit to William Blake’s Inn, by Nancy Willard
- 1981 – Jacob Have I Loved, by Katherine Patterson. *
- 1980 – A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl’s Journal, 1830-32, by Joan Blos
- 1979 – The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin. *
- 1978 – Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Patterson. Review
- 1977 – Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Hear my Cry, by Mildred Taylor. *
- 1976 – The Grey King, by Susan Cooper.
- 1975 – M.C. Higgins, the Great, the Great, by Virginia Hamilton.
- 1974 – The Slave Dancer, by Paula Fox. *
- 1973 – Julie of the Wolves, by Jean Craighead George. *
- 1972 – Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh, by Robert C. O’Brien. *
- 1971 – Summer of the Swans, by Betsy Byars. *
- 1970 – Sounder, by William H. Armstrong. Review
- 1969 – The High King, by Lloyd Alexander. Review.
- 1968 – From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, by E.L. Kronigsburg. Review.
- 1967 – Up a Road Slowly, by Irene Hunt.
- 1966 – I, Juan de Pareja, by Elizabeth Borton deTrevino.
- 1965 – Shadow of a Bull, by Maia Wojciechowska.
- 1964 – It’s Like This, Cat, by Emily Cheney Neville. Free Kindle. Review
- 1963 – A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle. *
- 1962 – The Bronze Bow, by Elizabeth George Speare. Review
- 1961 – Island of the Blue Dolphins, by Scott O’Dell. *
My favorites from earlier years:
- 1959 – The Witch of Blackbird Pond, by Elizabeth George Speare.
- 1950 – The Door in the Wall, by Marguerite deAngeli. Review
- 1949 – King of the Wind, by Marguerite Henry.
- 1944 – Johnny Tremain, by Esther Forbes.
Newbery Medal Winners and Where to Find Them