The Bancroft Prizes are awarded annually by Columbia University in the City of New York. The winners are judged in terms of scope, significance, depth of research, and richness of interpretation that they present in the areas of American history and diplomacy.
The NAACP Image Awards is an annual awards ceremony presented by the U.S.-based National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to honor outstanding performances in film, television, theatre, music, and literature. In the Literary category, prizes are awarded to best fiction, nonfiction, debut author, biography/autobiography, instructional, poetry, children's, and teens.
The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, a nonprofit association of scholars, writers, and publishers of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in literature, film, and the other arts, has named The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez as winner of the Crawford Award.
The Alex Awards are given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18.
The Schneider Family Book Awards honor authors or illustrators for books that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.
Every year, the Michael L. Printz Award honors the best book written for teens, based on its literary merit.
Designed to commemorate the life and works of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and to honor Mrs. Coretta Scott King for her courage and determination to continue the work for peace, the Coretta Scott King Book Awards annually recognize outstanding books for young adults and children by African American authors and illustrators that reflect the African American experience.
Named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott, the Caldecott Medal is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children. In addition to the Caldecott Medal, the committee typically awards Caldecott Honors to other books worthy of attention.
The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British children’s book publisher John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. Beside the Newbery Medal, the committee usually awards Newbery Honors to other books worthy of attention.
The Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction were established in 2012 by the American Library Association to recognize the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult readers published in the U.S. the previous year.
The Association of Jewish Libraries Jewish Fiction Award has named The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land by Omer Friedlander the winner of the 2023 Jewish Fiction Award. The Award honors books grappling with Jewish themes, including Judaism, Jewish history and culture, Jewish identity, etc.
Since 2007, the Porchlight Business Book Awards have recognized the best books in the business genre every year, and all the people who help bring them to life. While books chosen by Porchlight are not always what most would consider a traditional business book, they are the books believed to be the most important for businesses to consider.
The We Need Diverse Books Walter Awards Judging Committee has selected the Winners and Honorees for the eighth annual Walter Dean Myers Awards for Outstanding Children’s Literature.
The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine has won the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki has been awarded the 2022 Woman's Prize for Fiction.
Geetanjali Shree and translator Daisy Rockwell have been awarded the Booker International Prize for the novel Tomb of Sand.
Late last year, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka was awarded the 2022 Booker Prize for Fiction.
The Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery at the Schomburg Center recently announced that Dr. Tiya Miles is the winner of its 2022 Harriet Tubman Prize for her book All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake.
Noor Naga, author of If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English has won the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize.
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller has been named the 2022 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year.
Tiya Miles has been named winner of the 2022 Cundill History Prize for All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake.
Established in 1950, the National Book Awards are American literary prizes administered by the National Book Foundation. A pantheon of writers such as William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, John Cheever, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, Norman Mailer, Saul Bellow, Toni Morrison, Flannery O’Connor, Thomas Pynchon, Alice Walker, E. Annie Proulx, Jesmyn Ward, and Ta-Nehisi Coates have all won National Book Awards.
The World Fantasy Awards winners for works published in 2021 were announced during the World Fantasy convention in New Orleans.
In recognition of the legacy of Shirley Jackson’s writing, and with permission of the author’s estate, The Shirley Jackson Awards are given annually for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic.
