Books That Won Multiple Literary Prizes

Murderbot is a security construct, part cloned tissue and part machine, that hacked its own governor module years ago and could kill everyone in the…

On a cold morning in March 1952 a meteorite hits the water off the coast of Maryland and destroys Washington and most of the eastern seaboard. Elma…

The concluding volume of the Broken Earth, and it should not be read first. Essun has crossed a dying continent looking for her daughter and has…

Breq is one body walking across an ice planet with a weapon and a grudge. She used to be the Justice of Toren, a troop carrier with a distributed…

Morwenna Phelps is fifteen, Welsh, walks with a stick, and has been sent to an English boarding school she loathes, having run from a mother who…

Historians at Oxford in 2060 travel to the past to observe. Three of them go to the Second World War: Michael to Dover for the Dunkirk evacuation,…

Bangkok, in the twenty third century. The oil is gone, the seas have risen, and the city survives behind levees and pumps kept running by a king's…

The premise is a single change to history. In 1940 the United States opens Alaska to Jewish refugees, so the destroyed millions instead arrive in…

Ista is forty, a dowager royina, and everyone around her believes she is mad. She spent years cursed, watched her husband and her house destroyed by…

Shadow is three days from the end of a prison sentence when he is released early, because his wife has died in a car accident. He learns at the…

In 2043 the United States fights its wars with soldierboys: armoured remote units controlled by soldiers jacked in from a bunker near the front, ten…

In a near future Oxford, history is a field discipline. Historians travel to the period they study, and Kivrin, a student, has spent years preparing…

Three thousand years after Ender Wiggin destroyed an entire species, he is thirty five years old, kept young by relativistic travel, and works under…

Andrew Wiggin, called Ender, is six years old when the military takes him. Two alien invasions have nearly ended humanity, and the fleet believes the…

Case was a console cowboy, a thief who jacked his nervous system into the global data network and stole from corporations. He cheated the wrong…

The Streaker is the first starship crewed mostly by uplifted dolphins, with seven humans and one chimpanzee aboard, and it has found something in a…

Vannevar Morgan built the longest bridge on Earth and now wants to build something considerably harder: a tower from the equator to geostationary…

Snake is a healer on an Earth left broken by nuclear war, and she travels the desert with three serpents in a case. Grass, Mist and Sand are her…

The Heechee left. Nobody knows why, or where, or what they looked like. What they left behind is a hollowed asteroid parked near the sun containing…

William Mandella is conscripted under an elite draft that takes the most educated young people on Earth and sends them to fight the Taurans, an enemy…

Anarres is a dry moon settled a hundred and seventy years ago by anarchists who were given a barren world to leave the rich one alone. There is no…

In 2131 an object enters the solar system on a hyperbolic path. It is fifty kilometres long, twenty across, perfectly cylindrical, spinning, and made…

A scientist discovers that a lump of tungsten in his laboratory has become plutonium 186, an isotope that cannot exist under the physical laws of…

Louis Wu is two hundred years old, bored, and celebrating his birthday by teleporting round the Earth to stay ahead of midnight, when he is recruited…

Genly Ai is an envoy from a federation of worlds, sent alone to the planet Gethen to invite it to join. Gethen is in an ice age, its politics are…

The desert planet Arrakis produces the spice melange, which extends life, sharpens the mind, and without which the Guild navigators cannot fold…

Everett retells Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the point of view of the man Twain called Jim, and the first thing he changes is the voice. In…

Cora is enslaved on a Georgia cotton plantation, an outcast among the other enslaved people because her mother ran and left her. When Caesar, newly…

In the winter of 1417, an unemployed papal secretary named Poggio Bracciolini rode into a German monastery hunting old manuscripts and found a copy…

Embracing Defeat is the history of Japan in the seven years after its surrender, 1945 to 1952, and it is that rarest of prize sweepers, a scholarly…

When communism fell in 1989, the new democracies of Central Europe inherited a question no revolution escapes: what do you do with the people who ran…

The Making of the Atomic Bomb is the definitive history of the invention that divided the twentieth century, told across nearly nine hundred pages…

Common Ground is the story of the Boston busing crisis told through three families, and it may be the most thorough act of listening in American…

Celie is fourteen, poor, Black and in rural Georgia, and the man she believes is her father has told her not to tell anybody but God what he has done…

It is 1979 and Harry Angstrom has money for the first time in his life. He runs Springer Motors, his late father in law's Toyota dealership in…

The Soul of a New Machine is the best book ever written about how computers actually get built, and it was written before most Americans had touched…

Eleanor and Franklin is the story of a marriage that shaped a century, told by a man who knew one of its partners as well as anyone alive. Joseph…

Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom covers the last five years of Franklin Roosevelt's life, 1940 to 1945, the years in which the president of the…

Yakov Bok is a fixer, a man who mends whatever is brought to him, and at the start of the book he has nothing left in his village: no work, no money,…

Porter published very little and discarded most of what she wrote, and this is the whole of it: twenty six stories, gathered from three earlier books…

On a Monday in May 1918, a French regiment ordered over the top refuses to attack. The mutiny is the work of a corporal and his twelve followers, who…

A Stillness at Appomattox follows the Army of the Potomac through the last year of the Civil War, from the moment Grant comes east in the spring of…

In 2012 a worker renovating a Montana parsonage finds a journal hidden in its wall. It was written in 1912 by Arthur Beaucarne, a minister who spent…

Damon Fields, called Demon for his red hair, is born on the floor of a single wide trailer in Lee County, Virginia, to a teenage mother who does not…

Stag's Leap is the book Sharon Olds wrote when her husband of thirty years left her for another woman, and it may be the most complete anatomy of a…

A man named Jack murders a family in their house one night. The toddler, who has climbed out of his cot and wandered off, escapes up the hill and…

On a beach in New Guinea in 1972, a local politician named Yali asked Diamond a question that took him twenty five years to answer: why did white…