Foyles names Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women as one of its books of the year

Famed bookseller Foyles has announced the winners of its 2019 Books of the Year across three categories: fiction, non-fiction and children’s.

Lisa Taddeo’s much talked about Three Women took out the title of Foyles’ Non-Fiction Book of the Year, while On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong won Fiction Book of the Year.

The Good Thieves by Katherine Rundell was named as Foyles’ Children’s Book of the Year for 2019.

Of the winning books Jasper Sutcliffe, Head of Buying at Foyles, said: “These are three books that demand the phrase ‘must read’—three books which deserve to be considered classics in their categories.

“From a year of stand-out publishing, these are books we know we’ll still be thinking about and talking about in years to come, still recommending to our friends and our customers. They’ve moved us, provoked us, inspired us, and changed us, and together we feel they represent not just what great literature can be but some of what it means to be human.”

To celebrate the winners, Foyles will be selling signed, limited-edition copies of the fiction and non-fiction winners and first edition copies of the Children’s winner.

Last month, Foyles revealed its shortlist for each of the categories, with the fiction category including favourites like Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams , Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James and Lanny by Max Porter .

The non-fiction shortlist included The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells and Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez.

Previous winners of Foyles’ awards include Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Renni Eddo-Lodge (non-fiction) and Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo (children’s), both nabbing the respective top spots in 2017.