Barbra Streisand, Elliot Page and Fourth Wing Among Finalists for Inaugural Libby Book Awards — See the Full List!

Get ready book fans — there’s a new awards show in town!

Book app Libby has announced the finalists for the inaugural Libby Book Awards, also known as the Libbys, a new book award show that spotlights the best books of 2023 and chosen by an “expert panel” of librarians.

“With the rise of digital reading and lending, libraries are more important than ever and the timing to launch the Libby Book Awards couldn’t be more perfect,” says Libby’s CMO Jen Leitman in a statement to PEOPLE.

Libby provides thousands of free ebooks, audiobooks and magazines to readers selected from local libraries, per their website. The app features material on more than 100 different subjects and includes new releases and curated lists.

The Libby Awards highlights books across 17 different categories, such as Best Memoir & Autobiography, which include Barbra Streisand’s bombshell-packed book My Name is Barbra and Elliot Page’s memoir Pageboy. The Best Fantasy section sees nominees like Leigh Bardugo for Hell Bent and Rebecca Yarros for Fourth Wing. Other categories include Best Adult Fiction, Best Debut Author and Best Thriller, and were voted upon by more than 1,700 librarians worldwide.

“We chose to shine a light on librarians because more than anyone, they understand the interests of their patrons,” Leitman says. “Librarians interact with library-goers day in and day out, and whether it’s providing advice on a genre or recommending a new title based on past interests, they’re seeing firsthand how their communities are interacting and reacting to these titles. Librarians are objective and completely trustworthy.”

The winners will be announced live on March 12 at 7:00 p.m. ET. Viewers can register to watch the virtual ceremony, presented by the Professional Book Nerds podcast, via Zoom. The ceremony will also be streamed on YouTube and Facebook Live.

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“We’re thrilled to be able to provide a voice for some of the book community’s most beloved members,” Leitman says. “We hope everyone loves our first Libby Award Winners list and that it inspires them to check out a book from their local library, on Libby, of course!”

See the full list of finalists below:

Finalists for Best Adult Fiction
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
The Fraud by Zadie Smith
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

Finalists for Best Adult Nonfiction
The Best Minds by Jonathan Rosen
Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo
Monsters by Claire Dederer
The Wager by David Grann
When Crack Was King by Donovan X. Ramsey

Finalists for Best Young Adult Fiction
The Blackwoods by Brandy Colbert
The Davenports by Krystal Marquis
Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley
What the River Knows by Isabel Ibañez

Finalists for Best Audiobook
All the Sinners Bleed by S. A. Cosby
I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
King: A Life by Jonathan Eig
Poverty, By America by Matthew Desmond
The Secret Hours by Mick Herron

Finalists for Best Debut Author
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Marisa Crane
Ana Reyes
Selby Wynn Schwartz
Alice Winn

Finalists for Best Diverse Author
Camp Zero by Michelle Min Sterling
Liquid Snakes by Stephen Kearse
Lone Women by Victor LaValle
The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz
The Thick and the Lean by Chana Porter

Finalists for Best Comic/Graphic Novel
A Guest in the House by Emily Carroll
One Bad Day: The Riddler (Batman) by Tom King & Mitch Gerads
Roaming by Jillian Tamaki & Mariko Tamaki
Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed
The Talk by Darrin Bell

Finalists for Best Memoir & Autobiography
Doppelganger by Naomi Klein
How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair
My Name is Barbra by Barbra Streisand
Pageboy by Elliot Page
You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith

Finalists for Best Cookbook
Let’s Eat by Dan Pelosi
Portico by Leah Koenig
Start Here by Sohla El-Waylly
Still We Rise by Erika Council
Tenderheart by Hetty Lui McKinnon

Finalists for Best Mystery
Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor
Happiness Falls by Angie Kim
Symphony of Secrets by Brendan Slocumb
The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Suanto

Finalists for Best Thriller
All the Sinners Bleed by S. A. Cosby
Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll
Pet by Catherine Chidgey
The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
The Secret Hours by Mick Herron

Finalists for Best Romance
Ana María and the Fox by Liana De la Rosa
Business or Pleasure by Rachel Lynn Solomon
Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn
A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel by KJ Charles
We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian

Finalists for Best Fantasy
A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo
To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose
Witch King by Martha Wells

Finalists for Best Romantasy
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
Immortal Longings by Chloe Gong
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
Mortal Follies by Alexis Hall
The Hurricane Wars by Thea Guanzon

Finalists for Best Science Fiction
Infinity Gate by M. R. Carey
Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
System Collapse by Martha Wells
The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei
Translation State by Ann Leckie

Finalists for Best Historical Fiction
Beyond the Door of No Return by David Diop
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
Loot by Tania James
North Woods by Daniel Mason
The Great Reclamation by Rachel Heng

Finalists for Best Book Club Pick
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
Maame by Jessica George
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
Wellness by Nathan Hill
Yellowface by R. F. Kuang