Awards

The National Book Critics Circle Awards 2025

The winners of the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced on March 26th during a ceremony at the New School in New York City. You can watch the event here.

Read more »

Indies Choice Book Awards 2025

The American Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the shortlist for the Indies Choice Book Awards, the independent booksellers literary prize program that has returned after a seven-year hiatus.

Reflecting the spirit of independent bookstores and the IndieBound movement, the Indie Choice Book Awards are nominated and selected by booksellers from over 3,000 independent bookstores nationwide. They celebrate the best and brightest titles by authors and illustrators in the indie channel, showcasing the remarkable range of talent that indie booksellers champion and share with readers every day.

The winners will be voted on by indie booksellers from ABA member independent bookstores. The voting will close on March 25th, and the winners will be announced on April 8th.

Read more »

The Audie Awards 2026

The Audio Publishers Association (APA) has announced the winners of the 2026 Audie Awards®, the premier awards program in the United States recognizing distinction in audiobooks and spoken-word entertainment.

Read more »

The 2026 International Booker Prize

The longlist for the 2026 International Booker Prize has been announced, featuring stories of witchcraft, warfare, trauma, transformation and more. The list celebrates the best works of long-form fiction or collections of short stories translated into English and published in the UK and/or Ireland between May 1, 2025 and April 30, 2026.

The shortlist of six books will be announced on Tuesday, March 31st, and the winner will be named during a ceremony at London’s Tate Modern on Tuesday, May 19th.

Read more »

Los Angeles Times Book Prizes 2025

The Los Angeles Times has announced the finalists and honorees for its 46th annual Book Prizes. Amy Tan will be honored with the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement, and We Need Diverse Books will receive the Innovator’s Award. Additionally, Adam Ross will receive the Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose.

The awards recognize outstanding literary achievements in 13 categories and celebrate the highest quality of writing from authors at all stages of their careers. The winners will be announced in a ceremony on Friday, April 17th at USC’s Bovard Auditorium, a prologue to the 31st annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, taking place April 18-19.

Read more »

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026

The American Library Association (ALA) has selected A GUARDIAN AND A THIEF by Megha Majumdar as the winner of the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and THINGS IN NATURE MERELY GROW by Yiyun Li as the winner of the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.

Read more »

Edgar Allan Poe Awards 2026

The Mystery Writers of America has announced the nominees for the 2026 Edgar Awards, which honors the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television published or produced in 2025.

The winners will be announced on April 29th at the New York Marriott Marquis Times Square Hotel.

Read more »

The National Book Awards 2025

The winners of the 2025 National Book Award in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature and Young People's Literature were announced on November 19th at the 76th National Book Awards Ceremony.

Two lifetime achievement awards also were presented as part of the evening’s ceremony. Roxane Gay, whose books include the essay collection BAD FEMINIST and the memoir HUNGER, received the National Book Foundation’s Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community. And George Saunders, who won the 2017 Booker Prize for LINCOLN IN THE BARDO, was recognized with the Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

Read more »

The Booker Prize 2025

The 2025 Booker Prize has been awarded to David Szalay for his novel, FLESH. A collection of intimate moments over the course of decades, the book chronicles a man at odds with himself --- estranged from and by the circumstances and demands of a life not entirely under his control and the roles that he is asked to play. Click here to read more about David Szalay, who is the first Hungarian-British author to win the award, and FLESH, which Roddy Doyle, Chair of the judges, calls "an extraordinary, singular novel --- a dark book that is a joy to read."

Read more »

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2025

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 has been awarded to László Krasznahorkai “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.” Krasznahorkai is a great epic writer in the Central European tradition that extends through Kafka to Thomas Bernhard, and is characterized by absurdism and grotesque excess. But there are more strings to his bow, and he also looks to the East in adopting a more contemplative, finely calibrated tone.

Read more »