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Awards

Books for a Better Life Awards 2015

The New York City – Southern New York Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society has announced the winners of the 20th Annual Books for a Better Life Awards during a ceremony at The TimesCenter in Manhattan on April 18, 2016.

Indies Choice and E.B. White Real-Aloud Awards 2016

The American Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the winners of the 2016 Indies Choice Book Awards and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards, as voted by independent booksellers nationwide.

Los Angeles Times Book Prizes 2015

The 36th annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were awarded on Saturday, April 9, 2016, in a public ceremony at USC’s Bovard Auditorium. The best books of 2015 were recognized in 10 categories, along with the winners of the Innovator’s and Robert Kirsch awards.

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 2016

Congratulations to James Hannaham, winner of the 2016 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his novel, DELICIOUS FOODS. The 36th Annual PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Ceremony & Dinner will be held on Saturday, May 14, 2016 at 7:00pm at the Folger Shakespeare Library.

The National Book Critics Circle Awards 2015

The winners of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced on March 17, 2016 at the New School in New York.

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2016

Congratulations to Viet Thanh Nguyen and Sally Mann, the 2016 winners of the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. Viet Thanh Nguyen won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for his novel THE SYMPATHIZER, published by Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic. Sally Mann won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction for her book, HOLD STILL: A Memoir with Photographs, published by Little, Brown, and Company, an imprint of Hachette Book Group.

The National Book Awards 2015

Winners of the 2015 National Book Award in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry and Young People's Literature were announced at the 66th National Book Awards Benefit Dinner and Ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on November 18, 2015.

The 2015 Kirkus Prize

At a special ceremony in the penthouse of the Four Seasons Residences in Austin, Kirkus Reviews, the nation’s leading journal of prepublication book reviews, announced the winners of the second annual Kirkus Prize in the categories of fiction, nonfiction and young readers’ literature.

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2015

A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEVEN KILLINGS by Marlon James has been awarded the 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. The 44-year-old James, now a resident in Minneapolis, is the first Jamaican author to win the prize in its 47-year history.

Anthony Awards 2015

Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention, is pleased to announce the Anthony Award winners for 2015. The Anthony Awards are presented at each annual Bouchercon with the winners selected by attendees. The award is named for the late Anthony Boucher (William Anthony Parker White), writer and critic from the New York Times, who helped found the Mystery Writers of America.