The book was recognized in 2018 by the American Library Association with the William C. Morris Award for best debut book book for teens, the Odyssey Award for best children's audiobook, the Coretta Scott King Award for the best novel by an African American author for children, and the Michael L. Printz Award for best novel for teens.[20] The novel also won the overall Waterstones Children's Book Prize[21] and American Bookseller's Assocation Indie Award for Best Young Adult Novel[22] and was nominated for 2018 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in the "Jugendbuch" (Youth book) section.[23] The Hate U Give was named to the National Book Awards longlist for young adult literature.[24]