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Award Winning Books!: General

General Winners

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction & Nonfiction

Established in 2012, The Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence recognize the best Fiction and Nonfiction books for adult readers published in the United States the previous year. Awards are announced at the the Reference and User Services Association event at The American Library Association Midwinter meeting in January.

2025 Fiction Winner

2025 Nonfiction Winner

2025 Fiction Finalist

2025 Nonfiction Finalist

2025 Fiction Finalist

2025 Nonfiction Finalist

The Booker Prize

The leading literary award in the English speaking world, which has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over 50 years. The Booker Prize is awarded annually to the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK or Ireland. Awards are announced in October.

link to flash light by susan choi in the catalog

2025 Shortlist

link to the loneliness of sonia and sunny by kiran desai in the catalog

2025 Shortlist

link to audition by katie kitamura in the catalog

2025 Shortlist

link to the rest of our lives by ben markovits in the catalog

2025 Shortlist

link to the land in winter by andrew miller in the catalog

2025 Shortlist

link to flesh by david szalay in the catalog

2025 Shortlist

link to love forms by claire adam in the catalog

2025 Longlist

link to the south by tash aw in the catalog

2025 Longlist

link to universality by natasha brown in the catalog

2025 Longlist

link to endling by maria reva in the catalog

2025 Longlist

link to one boat by Jonathan buckley in the catalog

2025 Longlist

link to misinterpretation by ledia xhoga in the catalog

2025 Longlist

The Kirkus Prize

The Kirkus Prize is one of the richest literary awards in the world, with a prize of $50,000 bestowed annually to authors of fiction, nonfiction, and young readers' literature. leading literary award in the English speaking world, which has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over 50 years.  Awards are announced in October.

 

2024 Fiction Winner

2024 Nonfiction Winner

2024 Teen Winner

National Book Awards

Established in 1950, the National Book Awards are American literary prizes administered by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization. The annual awards honor the best Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People's Literature. Awards are announced in November.

link to the true true story of raja the gullible by rabih alameddine in the catalog

2025 Fiction Finalist

link to a guardian and a thief by megha majumdar in the catalog

2025 Fiction Finalist

link to the antidote by karen russell in the catalog

2025 Fiction Finalist

link to north sun by ethan rutherford in the catalog

2025 Fiction Finalist

link to palaver by bryan washington in the catalog

2025 Fiction Finalist

link to flashlight by susan choi in the catalog

2025 Fiction Longlist

link to the wilderness by angela Flournoy in the catalog

2025 Fiction Longlist

link to the sisters by jonas hassen khemiri in the catalog

2025 Fiction Longlist

link to only son by kevin moffett in the catalog

2025 Fiction Longlist

link to the pelican child by joy williams

2025 Fiction Longlist

link to one day everyone will have always been against this by omar el akkad in the catalog

2025 Nonfiction Finalist

link to motherland by julia ioffe in the catalog

2025 Nonfiction Finalist

link to things in nature merely grow by yiyun li in the catalog

2025 Nonfiction Finalist

link to wards of the state the long shadow of the american foster care by claudia rowe in the catalog

2025 Nonfiction Finalist

link to when it all burns by jordan thomas in the catalog

2025 Nonfiction Finalist

link to black moses by caleb gayle in the catalog

2025 Nonfiction Longlist

link to for the sun after long nights by fatemeh Jamalpour and nilo tabrizy in the catalog

2025 Nonfiction Longlist

link to the autobiography of h lan thao lam in the catalog

2025 Nonfiction Longlist

link to run the song by ben ratliff in the catalog

2025 Nonfiction Longlist

link to the salt stones by helen whybrow in the catalog

2025 Nonfiction Longlist

Pulitzer Prize

Established in 1917, by Joseph Pulitzer and now administered by Columbia University, the literature categories of the Pulitzer Prize recognize distinguished books by American authors and/or dealing with American life, published during the preceding calendar year. The prizes are awarded annually in the categories of Fiction, History, Biography, Poetry and Nonfiction and are announced during the spring.

2024 Fiction Winner

2024 Nonfiction Winner

2024 Memoir Winner

2024 Biography Winner