The Newbery Medal is an annual award given to a single book deemed representative of excellence in children's literature for that year. Because I have written middle-grade fiction, I delved into the Newbery list a few years ago and started reading them. For an assessment of what I've learned, check out my blog post from October 2014.
Here is a full list of the Newbery winners. Note: the year is when the book won the award, not necessarily its year of publication. Links go to my personal reviews of the books - and what I learned from them as a writer. I've read books marked with an asterisk, but have not reviewed them.
- 2020: New Kid by Jerry Craft
- 2019: Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina
- 2018: Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly
- 2017: The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
- 2016: Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña
- 2015: The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
- 2014: Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo
- 2013: The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
- 2012: Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
- 2011: Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
- 2010: When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
 This was the first one I read, the one which started me on this journey.
- 2009: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, illus. by Dave McKean
- 2008: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz
- 2007: The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron
- 2006: Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
- 2005: Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
- 2004: The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
- 2003: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
- 2002: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
- 2001:A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
- 2000: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
 Possibly my favorite yet.
- 1999: Holes by Louis Sachar
- 1998: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
- 1997: The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
- 1996: The Midwife's Appprentice by Karen Cushman
- 1995: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
- 1994: The Giver by Lois Lowry
- 1993: Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
- 1992: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
- 1991: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
- 1990: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry *
 The most thought-provoking. Sort of a George Orwell '1984' for kids.
- 1989: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman
- 1988: Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman
- 1987: The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman *
- 1986: Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan *
- 1985: The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley *
- 1984: Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
- 1983: Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt *
- 1982: A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard
- 1981: Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson *
- 1980: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos
- 1979: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
- 1978: The Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
- 1977: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
- 1976: The Grey King by Susan Cooper
- 1975: M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton
- 1974: The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox
- 1973: Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
- 1972: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
- 1971: Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars
- 1970: Sounder by William H. Armstrong
- 1969: The High King by Lloyd Alexander
- 1968: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
- 1967: Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt
- 1966: I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
- 1965: Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska
- 1964: It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville
- 1963: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
- 1962: The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
- 1961: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
- 1960: Onion John by Joseph Krumgold
- 1959: The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
- 1958: Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith
- 1957: Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen
- 1956: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
- 1955: The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong
- 1954: ...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold
- 1953: Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark
- 1952: Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
- 1951: Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
- 1950: The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli
- 1949: King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry
- 1948: The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois
- 1947: Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
- 1946: Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski
- 1945: Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
- 1944: Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
- 1943: Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray
- 1942: The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds
- 1941: Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
- 1940: Daniel Boone by James Daugherty
- 1939: Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
- 1938: The White Stag by Kate Seredy
- 1937: Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer
- 1936: Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
- 1935: Dobry by Monica Shannon
- 1934: Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs
- 1933: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis
- 1932: Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer
- 1931: The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth
- 1930: Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
- 1929: The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly
- 1928: Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji
- 1927: Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James
- 1926: Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman
- 1925: Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger
- 1924: The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes
- 1923: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
- 1922: The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon
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