Awards

The 2025 International Booker Prize

The shortlist for the 2025 International Booker Prize has been announced, featuring six authors shortlisted for the first time. 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, 2024 and April 30, 2025.

The winner will be announced at a ceremony at London's Tate Modern on Tuesday, May 20th.

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The National Book Critics Circle Awards 2024

The winners of the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced on March 20th during a ceremony at the New School in New York City.

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The Audie Awards 2025

The Audio Publishers Association (APA) has announced the winners of the 2025 Audie Awards®, the premier awards program in the United States recognizing distinction in audiobooks and spoken-word entertainment.

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Los Angeles Times Book Prizes 2024

The Los Angeles Times has announced the finalists for the 45th annual Book Prizes. In addition, Pico Iyer will receive the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement; Amanda Gorman will be honored with the Innovator’s Award; and Emily Witt will be presented with the Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose. The winners will be announced in a ceremony on Friday, April 25th at USC’s Bovard Auditorium on the eve of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, which will take place the weekend of April 26-27.

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Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2025

The American Library Association (ALA) has selected JAMES by Percival Everett as the winner of the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and A WALK IN THE PARK: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko as the winner of the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.

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Edgar Allan Poe Awards 2025

Mystery Writers of America has announced the nominees for the 2025 Edgar Awards, which honors the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television published or produced in 2024. The 79th Annual Edgar® Awards will be celebrated on May 1st at the New York Marriott Marquis Times Square.

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The National Book Awards 2024

The winners of the 2024 National Book Award in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature and Young People's Literature were announced on November 20th at the 75th National Book Awards Ceremony.

Two lifetime achievement awards also were presented as part of the evening’s ceremony. W. Paul Coates, the founder of Black Classic Press and BCP Digital Printing, received the National Book Foundation’s Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community. And Barbara Kingsolver, who won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel, DEMON COPPERHEAD, was recognized with the Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

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The 2024 Booker Prize

The 2024 Booker Prize has been awarded to Samantha Harvey for her novel, ORBITAL, which takes place over a single day in the life of six astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station. Compact yet beautifully expansive, the book invites us to observe Earth’s splendor, while reflecting on the individual and collective value of every human life. Click here to read more about Samantha Harvey, the first woman to win the prize since 2019, and ORBITAL, the second-shortest book to win the prize.

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The 2024 Kirkus Prize

The winners of the 2024 Kirkus Prize in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction and Young Readers’ Literature were announced on October 16th in an in-person ceremony at the Tribeca Rooftop in New York that also was livestreamed on Kirkus's YouTube channel.

Kirkus editor-in-chief Tom Beer said, “This year’s prize-winning books --- each written with elegance and lucidity --- illuminate tragedies both personal and historical, helping us to better understand our world and the spirit of human resilience.”

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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2024 has been awarded to South Korean author Han Kang “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” She has a unique awareness of the connections between body and soul, the living and the dead, and in her poetic and experimental style has become an innovator in contemporary prose.

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