Lancashire Book of the Year (LBOY) is the longest running young people's regional book award in the country.
The award remains one of the few book awards in which young people themselves are solely responsible for choosing both the shortlist and the overall winning book.
The award is voted for by Year 9 students in high schools around the county. Each school is given a collection of books, submitted by publishers as being the best books they had produced for the 12-14 age group. The young people then read and shortlist the books before choosing the overall winner.
This year the longlist is made up of 68 fiction titles which you can borrow or download. You can find all the titles on our catalogue.
The year I didn't eat by Samuel Pollen (paperback)
The year I didn't eat (eBook)
As well as giving a star rating or writing a review, you can join in conversations online.
Follow @LancsLibraries on Twitter for updates from us including other favourite reads. Let others know what you have been reading and what you thought about the books by using #LBOY2021 in your tweets.
Follow @lancslibraries on Facebook for updates from us including other favourite reads. Let others know what you have been reading and what you thought about the books using #LBOY2021 in your posts.
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