Awards and Honors

Center for Fiction First Novel PrizeWinner2024

Announced December 10, 2024

God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer by Joseph Earl Thomas

Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the YearWinner2024

Announced December 9, 2024

Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World by Parmy Olson

The Morning News Tournament of BooksShort List2025

Announced December 5, 2024

Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic FictionWinner2024

Announced December 2, 2024

Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon

Wolfson History PrizeWinner2024

Announced December 2, 2024

Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century by Joya Chatterji

Irish Book AwardWinner2024

Announced November 28, 2024

William Hill Sports Book of the YearWinner2024

Announced November 21, 2024

The Racket by Conor Niland

National Book AwardWinner2024

Announced November 20, 2024

James by Percival Everett

Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling by Jason De León

Something About Living by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

Taiwan Travelogue by Shuang-zi Yang

Kareem Between by Shifa Saltagi Safadi

Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionWinner2024

Announced November 19, 2024

Question 7 by Richard Flanagan

Melbourne Prize for LiteratureWinner2024

Announced November 14, 2024

Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and NonfictionFinalist2025

Announced November 12, 2024

Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

James by Percival Everett

Cinema Love: A Novel by Jiaming Tang

A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko

Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham

Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV by Emily Nussbaum

Booker PrizeWinner2024

Announced November 12, 2024

Orbital by Samantha Harvey

Toronto Book AwardWinner2024

Announced November 11, 2024

I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together: A Memoir by Maurice Vellekoop

Ignyte AwardWinner2024

Announced November 8, 2024

No One Will Come Back for Us by Premee Mohamed

Abeni's Song by P. Djèlí Clark

The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera

I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea

The Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose Utomi

Goldsmiths PrizeWinner2024

Announced November 6, 2024

Parade: A Novel by Rachel Cusk

Warwick Prize for Women in TranslationShortlist2024

Announced November 4, 2024

Sleepless by Marie Darrieussecq

Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck

Greek Lessons by Kang Han

White Nights by Urszula Honek

Too Much of Life: The Complete Crônicas by Clarice Lispector

Royal Society Trivedi Science Book PrizeWinner2024

Announced October 24, 2024

A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? by Kelly Weinersmith

Ralph Waldo Emerson AwardWinner2024

Announced October 21, 2024

Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance by Jeremy Eichler

Phi Beta Kappa Award in ScienceWinner2024

Announced October 21, 2024

Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic by Emily Monosson

World Fantasy AwardWinner2024

Announced October 17, 2024

The Book of Witches: An Anthology by Jonathan Strahan

No One Will Come Back for Us by Premee Mohamed

The Reformatory by Tananarive Due

Silk and Cotton and Linen and Blood {short story} by Nghi Vo

South Australian Literary AwardsWinner2024

Announced October 16, 2024

Scar Town by Tristan Bancks

Permafrost by SJ Norman

Childhood: A Memoir by Shannon Burns

At the Altar of Touch by Gavin Yuan Gao

Completely Normal (and Other Lies) by Biffy James

Kirkus PrizeWinner2024

Announced October 16, 2024

James by Percival Everett

Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham

Gather by Kenneth M. Cadow

British Fantasy AwardWinner2024

Announced October 12, 2024

Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror by Jordan Peele

Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones

Jackal, Jackal: Tales of the Dark and Fantastic by Tobi Ogundiran

Writing The Future: Essays on Crafting Science Fiction by Dan Coxon

The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar by Indrapramit Das

Talonsister by Jen Williams

Umbilical (Polestars Book 2) by Teika Marija Smits

Mark Twain American Voice in Literature AwardWinner2024

Announced October 11, 2024

Absolution by Alice McDermott

Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionShortlist2024

Announced October 10, 2024

Story of a Heart: Two Families, One Heart, and the Medical Miracle that Saved a Child's Life by Rachel Clarke

Question 7 by Richard Flanagan

Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen

A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux

Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World by David Van Reybrouck

Giller PrizeShortlist2024

Announced October 9, 2024

Held by Anne Michaels

What I know about you by Éric Chacour

Curiosities: A Novel by Anne Fleming

Prairie Edge by Conor Kerr

Peacocks of Instagram: Stories by Deepa Rajagopalan

Center for Fiction First Novel PrizeShortlist2024

Announced October 8, 2024

God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer by Joseph Earl Thomas

Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel

The Fertile Earth: A Novel by Ruthvika Rao

They Dream in Gold by Mai Sennaar

Ask Me Again: A novel by Clare Sestanovich

Fire Exit: A Novel by Morgan Talty

Misinterpretation by Ledia Xhoga

Phi Beta Kappa Award in ScienceShortlist2024

Announced October 2024

Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic by Emily Monosson

Invisibility: The History and Science of How Not to Be Seen by Gregory J. Gbur

The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future by Peter Gleick

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will by Robert M. Sapolsky

From One Cell: A Journey into Life's Origins and the Future of Medicine by Ben Stanger

Ralph Waldo Emerson AwardShortlist2024

Announced October 2024

Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance by Jeremy Eichler

The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk

Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights by Dylan C. Penningroth

Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino” by Héctor Tobar

Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo

Goldsmiths PrizeShortlist2024

Announced October 2024

Parade: A Novel by Rachel Cusk

All My Precious Madness by Mark Bowles

Tell by Jonathan Buckley

Choice by Neel Mukherjee

Spent Light by Lara Pawson

National Book AwardFinalist2024

Announced October 2024

James by Percival Everett

Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling by Jason De León

Something About Living by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

Taiwan Travelogue by Shuang-zi Yang

Kareem Between by Shifa Saltagi Safadi

Ghostroots: Stories by 'Pemi Aguda

Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

All Fours by Miranda July

My Friends by Hisham Matar

Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church by Eliza Griswold

Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia by Kate Manne

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie

Whiskey Tender: A Memoir by Deborah Taffa

Wrong Norma by Anne Carson

...: Poems by Fady Joudah

mother (Penguin Poets) by m. s. RedCherries

Modern Poetry: Poems by Diane Seuss

The Book Censor's Library by Bothayna Al-Essa

Ædnan by Linnéa Axelsson

The Villain's Dance by Fiston Mwanza Mujila

Where the Wind Calls Home by Samar Yazbek

Buffalo Dreamer by Violet Duncan

The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky by Josh Galarza

The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly

The Unboxing of a Black Girl by Angela Shanté

Goldsboro Books Glass Bell AwardWinner2024

Announced October 2024

Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati

Washington State Book AwardWinner2024

Announced September 2024

Duel by Jessixa Bagley

Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City by Jane Wong

The Laughter by Sonora Jha

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan

Ploof by Ben Clanton

I Sing the Salmon Home: Poems from Washington State by Rena Priest

Painted Devils by Margaret Owen

Wolfson History PrizeShortlist2024

Announced September 2024

Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century by Joya Chatterji

Courting India: Seventeenth-Century England, Mughal India, and the Origins of Empire by Nandini Das

Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade by Nicholas Radburn

Our NHS: A History of Britain's Best Loved Institution by seatonandrew

Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage by Jonny Steinberg

Out of the darkness : The Germans : 1942-2022 by Frank Trentmann

Virginia Literary AwardsWinner2024

Announced September 2024

An American Story by Kwame Alexander

Happiness Falls by Angie Kim

The Story of Art Without Men by Katy Hessel

Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South by Elizabeth Varon

The Plinko Bounce by Martin Clark

Walk Through Fire: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Triumph by Sheila Johnson

Decade of the Brain: Poems by Janine Joseph

Mark Twain American Voice in Literature AwardFinalist2024

Announced September 2024

Absolution by Alice McDermott

This Other Eden by Paul Harding

Wednesday's Child: Stories by Yiyun Li

North Woods by Daniel Mason

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

Dayton Literary Peace PrizeRunner-Up2024

Announced September 2024

The Postcard by Anne Berest

Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution by Tania Branigan

Dayton Literary Peace PrizeWinner2024

Announced September 2024

Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street by Victor Luckerson

Bread and Roses AwardWinner2024

Announced September 2024

Divided: Racism, Medicine and Why We Need to Decolonise Healthcare by Annabel Sowemimo

Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the YearShortlist2024

Announced September 2024

The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: Why (almost) everything we are told about business is wrong by John Kay

Tribal: How the Cultural Instincts That Divide Us Can Help Bring Us Together by Michael Morris

Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World by Parmy Olson

The Longevity Imperative: How to Build a Healthier and More Productive Society to Support Our Longer Lives by Andrew J. Scott

Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War by Raj M. Shah

Growth: A History and a Reckoning by Daniel Susskind

Ignatz AwardWinner2024

Announced September 2024

Offshore Lightning by Nazuna Saito

My Body Unspooling by Leo Fox

Roaming by Jillian Tamaki

The Great Beyond by Léa Murawiec

Cosmoknights, Book Two by Hannah Templer

Booker PrizeShortlist2024

Announced September 2024

Orbital by Samantha Harvey

James by Percival Everett

Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner

Held by Anne Michaels

The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden

Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood

National Book AwardLonglistNonfiction2024

Announced September 2024

National Book AwardLonglistFiction2024

Announced September 2024

National Book AwardLonglistPoetry2024

Announced September 2024

National Book AwardLonglistTranslated Literature2024

Announced September 2024

National Book AwardLonglistYoung People's Literature2024

Announced September 2024

Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionLonglist2024

Announced September 2024

Story of a Heart: Two Families, One Heart, and the Medical Miracle that Saved a Child's Life by Rachel Clarke

Question 7 by Richard Flanagan

Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen

A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux

Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World by David Van Reybrouck

Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J. Bass

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer

Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land: A groundbreaking family history for fans of Edmund de Waal and Philippe Sands by Rachel Cockerell

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie

What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World’s Ocean by Helen Scales

The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon by Adam Shatz

Giller PrizeLonglist2024

Announced September 2024

Davitt AwardWinner2024

Announced September 2024

When One of Us Hurts by Monica Vuu

The Wolves of Greycoat Hall by Lucinda Gifford

The Half Brother by Christine Keighery

The Schoolgirl, Her Teacher and His Wife by Rebecca Hazel

The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies by Alison Goodman

Eleanor Jones is Not a Murderer by Amy Doak

Anthony AwardWinner2024

Announced September 2024

Killin' Time in San Diego: Bouchercon Anthology 2023 by Holly West

Enola Holmes and the Mark of the Mongoose by Nancy Springer

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan

Mother-Daughter Murder Night by Nina Simon

All the Sinners Bleed by S. A. Cosby

Hide by Tracy Clark

Dragon AwardWinner2024

Announced August 2024

All the Dead Shall Weep by Charlaine Harris

Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig

Of Jade and Dragons by Amber Chen

Starter Villain by John Scalzi

Dune: Part Two [2024 film] by Denis Villeneuve

Midnight at the Houdini by Delilah S. Dawson

Kirkus PrizeFinalist2024

Announced August 2024

James by Percival Everett

Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham

Gather by Kenneth M. Cadow

Say Hello to My Little Friend by Jennine Capó Crucet

Mark Twain American Voice in Literature AwardShortlist2024

Announced August 2024

Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's PrizeWinner2024

Announced August 2024

De-Integrate!: A Jewish Survival Guide for the 21st Century by Max Czollek

CBCA Book of the YearWinner2024

Announced August 2024

Gymnastica Fantastica! by Briony Stewart

Country Town by Isolde Martyn

Hope Is The Thing by Johanna Bell

Grace Notes by Karen Comer

Timeless by Kelly Canby

Scar Town by Tristan Bancks

Dayton Literary Peace PrizeFinalist2024

Announced August 2024

Royal Society Trivedi Science Book PrizeShortlist2024

Announced August 2024

A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? by Kelly Weinersmith

Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon

Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World by Tom Chivers

Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It by Kashmir Hill

The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction by Gisli Palsson

Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality by Venki Ramakrishnan

Sidewise AwardWinner2023

Announced August 2024

Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford

Ned Kelly AwardShortlist2024

Announced August 2024

Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth

Murder in the Pacific: Ifira Point by Matt Francis

The Only Suspect by Louise Candlish

Crossing the Line by Nick McKenzie

South Australian Literary AwardsShortlist2024

Announced August 2024

World Fantasy AwardNominee2024

Announced August 2024

The Book of Witches: An Anthology by Jonathan Strahan

No One Will Come Back for Us by Premee Mohamed

The Reformatory by Tananarive Due

Silk and Cotton and Linen and Blood {short story} by Nghi Vo

Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume One by Stephen Kotowych

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 by R. F. Kuang

Christmas and Other Horrors: A Winter Solstice Anthology by Garth Nix

Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror by Jordan Peele

The Essential Peter S. Beagle, Volumes 1 & 2 by Peter S. Beagle

The Fortunate Isles by Lisa L. Hannett

White Cat, Black Dog: Stories by Kelly Link

Jackal, Jackal: Tales of the Dark and Fantastic by Tobi Ogundiran

Jewel Box: Stories by E. Lily Yu

The Possibilities: A Novel by Yael Goldstein Love

Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon by Wole Talabi

Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward

Witch King by Martha Wells

The Crane Husband by Kelly Barnhill

Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher

A Season of Monstrous Conceptions by Lina Rather

Mammoths at the Gates by Nghi Vo

How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub by P. Djèlí Clark

The Sound of Children Screaming by Rachael K. Jones

A Guest in the House by Emily Carroll

Wish I Was Here by M. John Harrison

The Weird Tales Boys [Trade Paperback] by Stephen Jones

Prix Aurora AwardWinner2024

Announced August 2024

A Call To Cthulhu by Norm Konyu

The Valkyrie by Kate Heartfield

Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee

Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume One by Stephen Kotowych

Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline

Hugo AwardWinner2024

Announced August 2024

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves [2023 film] by Jonathan Goldstein

Saga, Volume Eleven by Brian K. Vaughan

Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

The Year Without Sunshine by Naomi Kritzer

Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher

A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? by Kelly Weinersmith

Better Living Through Algorithms by Naomi Kritzer

Nommo AwardWinner2024

Announced August 2024

WindMaker Volume 1 (Windmaker, 1) by Roye Okupe

Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon by Wole Talabi

Dragon AwardFinalist2024

Announced August 2024

All the Dead Shall Weep by Charlaine Harris

Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig

Of Jade and Dragons by Amber Chen

Starter Villain by John Scalzi

Dune: Part Two [2024 film] by Denis Villeneuve

Midnight at the Houdini by Delilah S. Dawson

Devil's Battle by Taylor Anderson

1638: The Sovereign States by Eric Flint

Dirty Water by Tom Kratman

Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford

The Wages of Sin by Harry Turtledove

Three Kinds of Lucky by Kim Harrison

The Water Outlaws by S. L. Huang

He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan

My Brother's Keeper by Tim Powers

House of Open Wounds by Adrian Tchaikovsky

The Hollow Dead (Gravekeeper, 4) by Darcy Coates

The Reformatory by Tananarive Due

Dead Storm Rising (The Line #2) by Shane Gries

The Dead Take the A Train by Cassandra Khaw

Double Dose (Duad) by F. Paul Wilson

Dragonesque by S. C. Butler

The Silverblood Promise by James Logan

Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson

Beyond Enemies by Marisa Wolf

The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport by Samit Basu

The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera

Theft of Fire: Orbital Space #1 by Devon Eriksen

These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs

Beyond the Ranges by John Ringo

System Collapse by Martha Wells

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes [2023 film] by Tom Blyth

Barbie [2023 film] by Greta Gerwig

Wonka [2023 film] by Paul King

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga [2024 film] by George Miller

Godzilla Minus One {2023 film} by Takashi Yamazaki

So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole

Hideki Smith, Demon Queller by A. J. Hartley

Death Lord Arcanist (Astra Academy) by Shami Stovall

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White

Mythopoeic AwardsWinner2024

Announced August 2024

Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs

The Moth Keeper by K. O'Neill

Law, Government, and Society in J. R. R. Tolkien's Works (Cormarë) by José María Miranda Boto

An Introduction to Fantasy by Matthew Sangster

Unraveller by Frances Hardinge

Miles Franklin AwardWinner2024

Announced August 2024

Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright

Center for Fiction First Novel PrizeLonglist2024

Announced August 2024

Booker PrizeLonglist2024

Announced July 2024

Ohioana Book AwardWinner2024

Announced July 2024

Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity by Laura Meckler

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

The Voice in the Hollow by Will Hillenbrand

Watership Down: The Graphic Novel by Richard Adams

Endangered Eating: America's Vanishing Foods by Sarah Lohman

I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times: Poems by Taylor Byas

Waterstones Debut Fiction PrizeWinner2024

Announced July 2024

Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon

George Washington PrizeFinalist2024

Announced July 2024

Speculation Nation: Land Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic by Michael A. Blaakman

The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk

First Family: George Washington's Heirs and the Making of America by Cassandra A. Good

The Tory's Wife: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America by Cynthia A. Kierner

The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence by David Waldstreicher

Davitt AwardShortlist2024

Announced July 2024

Goldsboro Books Glass Bell AwardShortlist2024

Announced July 2024

Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati

Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent

The Turnglass by Gareth Rubin

Lady MacBethad by Isabelle Schuler

The Square of Sevens by Laura Shepherd-Robinson

In Memoriam by Alice Winn

Arthur C. Clarke AwardWinner2024

Announced July 2024

In Ascension by Martin MacInnes

Theakstons Old Peculier PrizeWinner2024

Announced July 2024

In the Blink of an Eye by Jo Callaghan

Shirley Jackson AwardWinner2023

Announced July 2024

Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic: An Anthology of Hysteria Fiction by Jolie Toomajan

They Will Dream in the Garden by Gabriela Damián Miravete

The Reformatory by Tananarive Due

Six Versions of My Brother Found Under a Bridge [Short Story] by Eugenia Triantafyllou

To the Woman in the Pink Hat (Conversation Pieces) by LaToya Jordan

Sidewise AwardFinalist2023

Announced July 2024

Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford

Julia by Sandra Newman

The Wages of Sin by Harry Turtledove

Sunset Empire (Morris Baker, 2) by Josh Weiss

ALS Gold MedalWinner2024

Announced July 2024

Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright

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