Awards and Honors
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Recently Announced
Arthur C. Clarke AwardShortlist2024
Announced Monday
Locus AwardFinalist2024
Announced Thursday
Pulitzer PrizeWinner2024
Announced May 6
Edgar AwardWinner2024
Announced May 1
Crime Writers' Association AwardsLonglist2024
Announced April 20
Sequoyah Book AwardWinner2024
Announced March 31
Hugo AwardNominee2024
Announced March 29
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award2024
Announced March 26
Lincoln Award: Illinois Teen Readers' Choice AwardWinner2024
Announced March 22
Blue Hen Book AwardNominee2025
Announced March 15
Yoto Carnegie Medal for WritingShortlist2024
Announced March 13
PEN/Faulkner AwardFinalist2024
Announced March 5
Audie AwardWinner2024
Announced March 4
LA Times Book PrizeFinalist2023
Announced February 21
Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere by Maria Bamford
The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence by David Waldstreicher
The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos by Jaime Green
Southern Book PrizeWinner2024
Announced February 14
Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult ReadersSelection2024
Announced February 14
Audie AwardFinalist2024
Announced January 30
Dark Fall: A Military and Supernatural Warfare Thriller (The Shepherds Series, Book 3) by Brian Andrews
Please Unsubscribe, Thanks! How to Take Back Our Time, Attention, and Purpose in a World Designed to Bury Us in Bullshit by Julio Vincent Gambuto
How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes by Cody Cassidy
A Refugee's American Dream: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to the U.S. Secret Service by Leth Oun
Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature by Elizabeth Winkler
Wool by Hugh Howey
National Book Critics Circle AwardFinalist2023
Announced January 25
Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm by David Mas Masumoto
Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques by Grace Elisabeth Lavery
Notable Children's Book2024
Announced January 24
The Fire of Stars: The Life and Brilliance of the Woman Who Discovered What Stars Are Made Of by Kirsten W Larson
My Head Has a Bellyache: And More Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups (Mischievous Nonsense, 2) by Chris Harris
What's Inside a Caterpillar Cocoon?: And Other Questions About Moths & Butterflies by Rachel Ignotofsky
Houses with a Story: A Dragon’s Den, a Ghostly Mansion, a Library of Lost Books, and 30 More Amazing Places to Explore by Seiji Yoshida
Little Rosetta and the Talking Guitar: The Musical Story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Woman Who Invented Rock and Roll by Charnelle Pinkney Barlow
Rise: A Feminist Book Project for Ages 0-182024
Announced January 24
Caldecott MedalHonor Book2024
Announced January 22
Excellence in Children’s and Young Adult Science Fiction Notable Lists2024
Announced January 22
The Q by Amy Tintera
Newbery MedalHonor Book2024
Announced January 22
Odyssey AwardHonor2024
Announced January 22
RUSA CODES Reading ListWinner2024
Announced January 20
Notable Books List2024
Announced January 20
Blue Hen Book AwardWinner2024
Announced January 19
CCBC Choices2024
Announced January 18
Rock, Rosetta, Rock! Roll, Rosetta, Roll!: Presenting Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Godmother of Rock & Roll by Tonya Bolden
Make Way: The Story of Robert McCloskey, Nancy Schön, and Some Very Famous Ducklings by Angela Burke Kunkel
Tomfoolery! Randolph Caldecott and the Rambunctious Coming-of-Age of Children's Books by Michelle Markel
The Women Who Built Hollywood: 12 Trailblazers in Front of and Behind the Camera by Susan Goldman Rubin
The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption by Shannon Gibney
Rooting for Plants: The Unstoppable Charles S. Parker, Black Botanist and Collector by Janice N. Harrington
The Fire of Stars: The Life and Brilliance of the Woman Who Discovered What Stars Are Made Of by Kirsten W Larson
Virginia Wouldn't Slow Down!: The Unstoppable Dr. Apgar and Her Life-Saving Invention by Carrie A. Pearson
Can I Recycle This?: A Kid's Guide to Better Recycling and How to Reduce Single-Use Plastics by Jennie Romer
The Twenty-One: The True Story of the Youth Who Sued the U.S. Government Over Climate Change by Elizabeth Rusch
Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the Systems We Use Every Day by Dan Nott
Edgar AwardNominee2024
Announced January 16
Crooked: The Roaring '20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the Birth of the American Political Scandal by Nathan Masters
Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder (Film and Culture Series) by David Bordwell
In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child by Kim Cross
I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever by Barbara Rae-Venter
Hide by Tracy Clark
BCCB Blue Ribbon Book2023
Announced January 3
CYBILS AwardsFinalist2023
Announced January 1
The Girl Who Heard the Music: How One Pianist and 85,000 Bottles and Cans Brought New Hope to an Island by Marni Fogelson
What's Inside a Caterpillar Cocoon?: And Other Questions About Moths & Butterflies by Rachel Ignotofsky
Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream by Joshua Davis
Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration by Elizabeth Partridge
My Head Has a Bellyache: And More Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups (Mischievous Nonsense, 2) by Chris Harris
The Q by Amy Tintera
A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book2023
Announced December 2023
Globe and Mail Top 100 Book2023
Announced December 2023
Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt by Charlotte Gray
The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past (“A fascinating book that leaves you hungry for more.”―Kirkus STARRED Review) by Taras Grescoe
Kings of Their Own Ocean: A Tale of Tuna, Human Obsession, and the Future of Our Seas by Karen Pinchin
The Buddhist Chef's Homestyle Cooking: Simple, Satisfying Vegan Recipes for Sharing by Jean-Philippe Cyr
The Book of Sichuan Chili Crisp: Spicy Recipes and Stories from Fly By Jing's Kitchen [A Cookbook] by Jing Gao
Cook It Wild: Sensational Prep-Ahead Meals for Camping, Cabins, and the Great Outdoors by Chris Nuttall-Smith
Goodreads Choice AwardsWinner2023
Announced December 2023
Tayshas High School Reading List2024
Announced December 2023
Buckeye Children's & Teen Book AwardWinner2023
Announced December 2023
The New York Times Best Books of the Year2023
Announced November 2023
Royal Society Trivedi Science Book PrizeWinner2023
Announced November 2023
School Library Journal Best Book of the Year2023
Announced November 2023
Cooking with Monsters (Book One): The Beginner's Guide to Culinary Combat (Cooking With Monsters, 1) by Jordan Alsaqa
The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: A True Story of Family and Survival by Jeremy Dronfield
My Head Has a Bellyache: And More Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups (Mischievous Nonsense, 2) by Chris Harris
What's Inside a Caterpillar Cocoon?: And Other Questions About Moths & Butterflies by Rachel Ignotofsky
The Fire of Stars: The Life and Brilliance of the Woman Who Discovered What Stars Are Made Of by Kirsten W Larson
Virginia Wouldn't Slow Down!: The Unstoppable Dr. Apgar and Her Life-Saving Invention by Carrie A. Pearson
We Need to Talk About Vaginas: An IMPORTANT Book About Vulvas, Periods, Puberty, and Sex! by Dr. Allison K. Rodgers
A Long Time Coming: A Lyrical Biography of Race in America from Ona Judge to Barack Obama by Ray Anthony Shepard
What It's Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing, What Birds Are Doing and Why by David Allen Sibley
The New York Times Notable Books of the Year2023
Announced November 2023
The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality by William Egginton
Battle of Ink and Ice: A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media by Darrell Hartman
You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America by Paul Kix
Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street; One Hundred Years in the Neighborhood That Refused to Be Erased by Victor Luckerson
The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions by Jonathan Rosen
The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church by Rachel L. Swarns
The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence by David Waldstreicher
Chicago Public Library Best of the Best: Adults2023
Announced November 2023
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan
Loot by Tania James
Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people by Tracy Kidder
While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence by Meg Kissinger
Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World by Yepoka Yeebo
Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance by Azam Ahmed
The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I by Douglas Brunt
Blood Memory: The Tragic Decline and Improbable Resurrection of the American Buffalo by Dayton Duncan