A place for every prize
Literary Prizes and Book Awards
Find a winner, then get to know the book. Browse 19 prize lists by year, with summaries and historical context.
All 19 prize lists
Prize calendar →- Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
- The Booker Prize
- Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
- Caldecott Medal
- Edgar Award for Best Novel
- Hugo Award for Best Novel
- National Book Award for Fiction
- National Book Award for Non-Fiction
- Nebula Award for Best Novel
- Newbery Medal
- Nobel Prize in Literature
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
- Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
- Pulitzer Prize for History
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- Royal Society Science Book Prize
- T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry
- Women's Prize for Fiction
The Nobel Prize honours an author's body of work. Its list introduces a representative book for each author, grouped by the year they received the prize.
Beyond the prize lists
These two curated collections are reading lists, with books arranged by publication year.