2018 – 2019 Book Awards
Winning an award can boost your motivation to do more. Besides, everyone likes to be recognized. So, we compiled a list of book awards that are interesting and can add to your credibility as an author. These are mostly in the US. However, there are thousands of book awards to choose from.
If you know of a book award that is not listed below, please let us know and we will add it to the list.
Book Awards
- Aga Khan Prize for Fiction
- Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry
- Agatha Award
- Ambassador Book Award
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medals in Belles Lettres, Criticism and Essays
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Drama
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction, Novels, Short Stories
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry
- American Book Awards
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
- Anthony Award
- Arab American Book Award
- Arthur Rense Prize
- Asian American Literary Awards
- Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature
- Audie Award
- Autumn House Press Poetry Prize for a full-length book manuscript
- Autumn House Press Fiction Prize for a full-length book manuscript
- Bancroft Prize
- Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation
- The Best American Poetry series
- Best Translated Book Award
- Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
- Bollingen Prize
- Bram Stoker Award
- Caldecott Medal
- California Book Award
- Carnegie Medal
- Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
- Christopher Hewitt Award
- Colorado Book Award
- The Dana Award
- Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
- Donna J. Stone National Literary Awards
- Dos Passos Prize
- Edgar Allan Poe Award
- Edward Lewis Wallant Award
- Fabri Literary Prize
- Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction
- Frost Medal
- Golden Kite Award
- Goldsmith Book Prize
- Goodreads Choice Awards
- Gregory Kolovakos Award
- Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
- Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize
- Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
- Hispanic Heritage Award for Literature
- Hopwood Award
- Hugo Award
- Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY)
- James Duval Phelan Award
- James Jones First Novel Award
- James Laughlin Award
- Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize
- The John Esten Cooke Fiction Award
- Joseph Henry Jackson Award
- Kate Tufts Discovery Award
- Kindle Book Award
- Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
- Lambda Literary Award
- Lannan Literary Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize
- Locus Award
- Man Booker Prize
- Mary Tanenbaum Award for Nonfiction
- Michael Braude Award for Light Verse
- Minnesota Book Award
- Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards
- National Book Award
- National Book Critics Circle Award
- National Hispanic Cultural Center Literary Award
- National Jewish Book Award, Jewish Book Council
- National Outdoor Book Award
- National Poetry Series
- National Translation Award
- Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas
- Nautilus Book Awards
- Nebula Award for Science Fiction
- Newbery Medal
- New York Best Sellers Award
- Next Generation Indie Book Awards
- Nobel Prize in Literature
- The New Criterion Poetry Prize
- O. Henry Awards (for short stories)
- Outstanding Latino/a Cultural Award in Literary Arts or Publications
- Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award
- PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
- PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
- PEN/Malamud Award (for short stories)
- PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award (for diversity and multi-cultural work)
- PEN/Open Book Award (formerly PEN/Beyond Margins, for writers of color)
- PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation
- PEN Translation Fund Grants
- Poets’ Prize
- Premio Aztlán Literary Prize – emerging Chicana/o writers
- Publishing Innovation Award – ebooks and related technology
- Pulitzer Prize for
- Pushcart Prize
- Quill Awards
- Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Awards
- Readers’ Favorite Book Award
- RITA Award
- Robert Olen Butler Prize
- Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award (RT Award)
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
- Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Award
- Scott Moncrieff Prize
- Sherwood Anderson Foundation Award
- Short Story Award
- Spur Award
- St. Francis College Literary Prize
- St. Louis Literary Award
- Stone Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement
- Stonewall Book Award
- The Story Prize
- Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Award
- Wallace Stevens Award
- Walt Whitman Award
- William Faulkner – William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition
- Whiting Awards
- Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards
- Willis Barnstone Translation Prize
- World Fantasy Award