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Book Awards
Browse through lists of book awards to find a great read.
Award-winning Books
From the Lists of Bests site: a compendium of book lists, including award-winners:
- Pulitzer Prize Winners for Fiction
- Random House Modern Library 100 Best Books of the 20th Century: Fiction
- BBC's "The Big Read" - Top 100 Books
- The Guardian's 100 Best Books of All Time
United States Awards
Colorado Book Award
http://www.coloradocenterforthebook.org/Colorado_Book_Awards.htm
Administered annually by the Colorado Center for the Book, honoring Colorado authors writing in a variety of categories.
Edgar Award
http://www.mysterywriters.org/pages/awards/
Awarded by the Mystery Writers of America to honor the best fiction and nonfiction mystery writing.
National Book Award
http://www.nationalbook.org/nba.html
Five-member panels select the highest achievement in United States writing - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People's Fiction.
National Book Critics Award
http://www.bookcritics.org/
Awards from the best books and best reviews published in English.
Quill Award
http://www.thequills.org/
Consumer-based award which celebrates the best books of the year, awarded in nineteen different categories.
Romance Writers of America RITA Award
https://www.rwanational.org
Awarded annually by a panel of members of the Romance Writers of America.
Spur Award
http://www.westernwriters.org/spur_awards.htm
Awarded annually by the Western Writers of America for distinguished writing about the American West.
International Awards
British Book Awards
http://www.britishbookawards.co.uk/
Awarded annually by members of the publishing trade in Great Britain.
Giller
http://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/home.htm
Canadian literary prize for fiction.
Governor General's Literary Awards
http://www.canadacouncil.ca/prizes/ggla/default.htm
From the Canadian Council for the Arts, awarded to Canadian literature in 14 different categories.
The Man Booker Prize
http://www.themanbookerprize.com/
Highlighting the best novel of the year, written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland.
Nobel Prize in Literature
http://nobelprize.org/
International award administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden.
Pulitzer Prize
http://www.pulitzer.org/
Awarded at Columbia University each May for achievement in Fiction, Biography, Nonfiction, History, and Poetry.
