Newbery Medal: every winner 1922–2026, on audiobook
The Newbery Medal is the most prestigious award in American children's literature, awarded annually by the American Library Association since 1922 for the most distinguished contribution to children's literature. Children's and middle-grade titles are a top audiobook category, and most Newbery winners are available as full audiobook productions.
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Every Newbery Medal winner, 1922–2026
| Year | Winning novel | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | All the Blues in the Sky | Renée Watson |
| 2025 | The First State of Being | Erin Entrada Kelly |
| 2024 | The Eyes and the Impossible | Dave Eggers |
| 2023 | Freewater | Amina Luqman-Dawson |
| 2022 | The Last Cuentista | Donna Barba Higuera |
| 2021 | When You Trap a Tiger | Tae Keller |
| 2020 | New Kid | Jerry Craft |
| 2019 | Merci Suárez Changes Gears | Meg Medina |
| 2018 | Hello, Universe | Erin Entrada Kelly |
| 2017 | The Girl Who Drank the Moon | Kelly Barnhill |
| 2016 | Last Stop on Market Street | Matt de la Peña |
| 2015 | The Crossover | Kwame Alexander |
| 2014 | Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures | Kate DiCamillo |
| 2013 | The One and Only Ivan | Katherine Applegate |
| 2012 | Dead End in Norvelt | Jack Gantos |
| 2011 | Moon Over Manifest | Clare Vanderpool |
| 2010 | When You Reach Me | Rebecca Stead |
| 2009 | The Graveyard Book | Neil Gaiman |
| 2008 | Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village | Laura Amy Schlitz |
| 2007 | The Higher Power of Lucky | Susan Patron |
| 2006 | Criss Cross | Lynne Rae Perkins |
| 2005 | Kira-Kira | Cynthia Kadohata |
| 2004 | The Tale of Despereaux | Kate DiCamillo |
| 2003 | Crispin: The Cross of Lead | Avi |
| 2002 | A Single Shard | Linda Sue Park |
| 2001 | A Year Down Yonder | Richard Peck |
| 2000 | Bud, Not Buddy | Christopher Paul Curtis |
| 1999 | Holes | Louis Sachar |
| 1998 | Out of the Dust | Karen Hesse |
| 1997 | The View from Saturday | E. L. Konigsburg |
| 1996 | The Midwife's Apprentice | Karen Cushman |
| 1995 | Walk Two Moons | Sharon Creech |
| 1994 | The Giver | Lois Lowry |
| 1993 | Missing May | Cynthia Rylant |
| 1992 | Shiloh | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
| 1991 | Maniac Magee | Jerry Spinelli |
| 1990 | Number the Stars | Lois Lowry |
| 1989 | Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices | Paul Fleischman |
| 1988 | Lincoln: A Photobiography | Russell Freedman |
| 1987 | The Whipping Boy | Sid Fleischman |
| 1986 | Sarah, Plain and Tall | Patricia MacLachlan |
| 1985 | The Hero and the Crown | Robin McKinley |
| 1984 | Dear Mr. Henshaw | Beverly Cleary |
| 1983 | Dicey's Song | Cynthia Voigt |
| 1982 | A Visit to William Blake's Inn | Nancy Willard |
| 1981 | Jacob Have I Loved | Katherine Paterson |
| 1980 | A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal | Joan Blos |
| 1979 | The Westing Game | Ellen Raskin |
| 1978 | Bridge to Terabithia | Katherine Paterson |
| 1977 | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | Mildred D. Taylor |
| 1976 | The Grey King | Susan Cooper |
| 1975 | M. C. Higgins, the Great | Virginia Hamilton |
| 1974 | The Slave Dancer | Paula Fox |
| 1973 | Julie of the Wolves | Jean Craighead George |
| 1972 | Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH | Robert C. O'Brien |
| 1971 | Summer of the Swans | Betsy Byars |
| 1970 | Sounder | William H. Armstrong |
| 1969 | The High King | Lloyd Alexander |
| 1968 | From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler | E. L. Konigsburg |
| 1967 | Up a Road Slowly | Irene Hunt |
| 1966 | I, Juan de Pareja | Elizabeth Borton de Treviño |
| 1965 | Shadow of a Bull | Maia Wojciechowska |
| 1964 | It's Like This, Cat | Emily Cheney Neville |
| 1963 | A Wrinkle in Time | Madeleine L'Engle |
| 1962 | The Bronze Bow | Elizabeth George Speare |
| 1961 | Island of the Blue Dolphins | Scott O'Dell |
| 1960 | Onion John | Joseph Krumgold |
| 1959 | The Witch of Blackbird Pond | Elizabeth George Speare |
| 1958 | Rifles for Watie | Harold Keith |
| 1957 | Miracles on Maple Hill | Virginia Sorensen |
| 1956 | Carry On, Mr. Bowditch | Jean Lee Latham |
| 1955 | The Wheel on the School | Meindert De Jong |
| 1954 | ...And Now Miguel | Joseph Krumgold |
| 1953 | Secret of the Andes | Ann Nolan Clark |
| 1952 | Ginger Pye | Eleanor Estes |
| 1951 | Amos Fortune, Free Man | Elizabeth Yates |
| 1950 | The Door in the Wall | Marguerite de Angeli |
| 1949 | King of the Wind | Marguerite Henry |
| 1948 | The Twenty-One Balloons | William Pène du Bois |
| 1947 | Miss Hickory | Carolyn Sherwin Bailey |
| 1946 | Strawberry Girl | Lois Lenski |
| 1945 | Rabbit Hill | Robert Lawson |
| 1944 | Johnny Tremain | Esther Forbes |
| 1943 | Adam of the Road | Elizabeth Gray Vining |
| 1942 | The Matchlock Gun | Walter D. Edmonds |
| 1941 | Call It Courage | Armstrong Sperry |
| 1940 | Daniel Boone | James Daugherty |
| 1939 | Thimble Summer | Elizabeth Enright |
| 1938 | The White Stag | Kate Seredy |
| 1937 | Roller Skates | Ruth Sawyer |
| 1936 | Caddie Woodlawn | Carol Ryrie Brink |
| 1935 | Dobry | Monica Shannon |
| 1934 | Invincible Louisa | Cornelia Meigs |
| 1933 | Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze | Elizabeth Foreman Lewis |
| 1932 | Waterless Mountain | Laura Adams Armer |
| 1931 | The Cat Who Went to Heaven | Elizabeth Coatsworth |
| 1930 | Hitty, Her First Hundred Years | Rachel Field |
| 1929 | The Trumpeter of Krakow | Eric P. Kelly |
| 1928 | Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon | Dhan Gopal Mukerji |
| 1927 | Smoky the Cowhorse | Will James |
| 1926 | Shen of the Sea | Arthur Bowie Chrisman |
| 1925 | Tales from Silver Lands | Charles Finger |
| 1924 | The Dark Frigate | Charles Boardman Hawes |
| 1923 | The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle | Hugh Lofting |
| 1922 | The Story of Mankind | Hendrik Willem van Loon |
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