Awards and Honors
Also see Zeitgeist Awards and Honors
Recently Announced
James Tait Black Memorial Prize Winner 2025
Announced Friday
Crime Writers' Association Awards Shortlist 2025
Announced Thursday
McKitterick Prize Shortlist 2025
Announced May 21
Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist 2025
Announced May 12
PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Winner 2025
Announced May 9
PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Winner 2025
Announced May 8
PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Winner 2025
Announced May 8
Aurealis Award Winner 2024
Announced May 5
Pulitzer Prize Winner 2025
Announced May 5
Edgar Award Winner 2025
Announced May 1
Oregon Book Awards Winner 2025
Announced April 28
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner 2024
Announced April 25
Thurber Prize for American Humor Winner 2025
Announced April 25
Young Lions Fiction Award Finalist 2025
Announced April 17
Crime Writers' Association Awards Longlist 2025
Announced April 16
The Criminal Mind: Gripping encounters with serial killers and true crime from Britain's leading forensic psychiatrist by Dr Duncan Harding
Four Shots in the Night: A True Story of Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland by Henry Hemming
Run by Blake Crouch
Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction Shortlist 2025
Announced April 15
PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist 2025
Announced April 10
PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Finalist 2025
Announced April 10
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winner 2025
Announced April 10
PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Finalist 2025
Announced April 10
PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Finalist 2025
Announced April 10
PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize Finalist 2025
Announced April 10
PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Finalist 2025
Announced April 10
Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism Winner 2025
Announced April 9
Women's Prize for Fiction Shortlist 2025
Announced April 2
International Dublin Literary Award Shortlist 2025
Announced March 24
Australian Book Industry Awards Shortlist 2025
Announced March 19
Juice by Tim Winton
Because I’m Not Myself, You See: A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness and Coming Back from the Brink by Ariane Beeston
Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History 2025
Announced March 17
Aspen Words Literary Prize Shortlist 2025
Announced March 12
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Finalist 2025
Announced March 10
Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Winner 2025
Announced March 4
Audie Award Winner 2025
Announced March 4
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalist 2025
Announced March 3
Bram Stoker Award Nominee 2024
Announced February 23
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist 2024
Announced February 19
The Dragon from Chicago: The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany by Pamela D. Toler
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer
Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch by Andrea Freeman
Cold War Country: How Nashville's Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism (Studies in United States Culture) by Joseph M. Thompson
Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are by Rebecca Boyle
Compton Crook Award Nominee 2025
Announced February 13
Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism Finalist 2025
Announced February 5
Agatha Award Nominee 2024
Announced February 3
Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Winner 2025
Announced January 27
Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Honor Book 2025
Announced January 27
Caldecott Medal Honor Book 2025
Announced January 27
Coretta Scott King Award Winner 2025
Announced January 27
Newbery Medal Honor Book 2025
Announced January 27
Wingate Literary Prize Shortlist 2025
Announced January 24
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 2024
Announced January 23
O by Judith Kiros
Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius by Carrie Courogen
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq by Steve Coll
Edgar Award Nominee 2025
Announced January 22
On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett by Ashley Lawson
The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective by Steven Johnson
A Devil Went Down to Georgia: Race, Power, Privilege, and the Murder of Lita McClinton by Deb Miller Landau
The Amish Wife: Unraveling the Lies, Secrets, and Conspiracy That Let a Killer Go Free by Gregg Olsen
Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery by Earl Swift
International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2025
Announced January 14
Philip K. Dick Award Nominee 2025
Announced January 10
Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Winner 2024
Announced December 2024
Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Winner 2024
Announced December 2024