What Are The Flume Book Awards?

Sponsored by the NH Library Association, the Flume Book Awards highlight the best books as selected by NH teens. Flume nominated books are intended for NH teen audiences and must be able to stand alone--typically books that aren’t part of a series that requires other books to be read first. These are some of the best of the best out there.

Nominations are typically due in December, where a panel of librarians will narrow down the field to 10. Students then read and vote on their favorites.

Flume Award
Flume 2021 Nominees
  • With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo

  • Shout (audiobook) by Laurie Halse Anderson

  • Once and Future by Amy Rose Capette & Cori McCarthy

  • House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig

  • Unpregnant by Jenni Hendricks & Fred Caplan

  • Let’s Call It a Doomsday by Katie Henry

  • Heroine by Mindi McGinnis

  • We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Meja

  • Wilder Girls by Rory Power

  • They Called Us Enemy by George Takei

Flume 2020
  • Winner: Far from the Tree by Robin Benway

  • Runner up: We Are Okay by Nina Lacour

  • The Backstagers by James Tynion; Rian Sygh (Illustrator)

  • I Have the Right To by Chessy Prout; Jenn Abelson (As told to)

  • Bang by Barry Lyga

  • I Have Lost My Way by Gayle Forman

  • Who Killed Christopher Goodman? by Allan Wolf

  • Dear Martin by Nic Stone

  • Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor

  • When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon