Aspen Words Literary Prize
The Aspen Words Literary Prize is an annual award for an influential work of fiction that illuminates a vital contemporary issue and demonstrates the transformative power of literature on thought and culture.
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What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
A Puerto Rican family in Staten Island who discovers their long‑missing sister is potentially alive and cast on a reality TV show, and they set out to bring her home.
The Booker Prizes
The Booker Prize recognizes the best sustained work of fiction written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.
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My Name is Lucy Barton
A simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter, despite their complicated past.
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Treacle Walker
A fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity time, vivid storytelling that illuminates an introspective young mind trying to make sense of everything around him.
Edgar Allan Poe Awards (Edgars)
Presented by Mystery Writers of America, the Edgars honor the best in mystery fiction and true crime published or produced in the previous year.
First Novel Prize
Presented by the Center for Fiction, the First Novel Prize recognizes the best debut novel of the year published in the U.S.
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Our Best Intentions
A suspenseful drama about an immigrant family caught in a criminal investigation.
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Night Wherever We Go
A debut novel about a group of enslaved women staging a covert rebellion against their owners.
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Portrait of a Thief
Five Chinese American college students try to steal priceless works of art from major museums in order to return them to the homeland from which they were pillaged.
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The Sign for Home
When Arlo Dilly, a sheltered young DeafBlind man, decides to take a writing course at the local community college, he hires a new tactile ASL interpreter who exposes him to much more than English.
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Hugo Awards
Presented by the World Science Fiction Society, the Hugo Awards honor the best science fiction or fantasy works of the previous year.
Lambda Literary Awards
The Lambda Literary Awards (fondly known as the Lammys) were created in 1989 to garner national visibility for LGBTQ+ books.
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Here We Go Again
Two childhood friends turned enemies are forced together to drive their former teacher cross country.
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Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion
For fans of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, an unforgettable story about female friendship and queer love in a Muslim-American community.
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Pet
In a near-future society that claims to have gotten ride of all monstrous people, a creature emerges from a painting seventeen-year old Jam’s mother created, a hunter from another world seeking a real-life monster.
National Book Award
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Nobody Gets Out Alive: Stories
A debut story collection about women navigating the wilds of male-dominated Alaskan society.
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Nobody Gets Out Alive
A debut story collection about women navigating the wilds of male-dominated Alaskan society.
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Pet
In a near-future society that claims to have gotten ride of all monstrous people, a creature emerges from a painting seventeen-year old Jam’s mother created, a hunter from another world seeking a real-life monster.
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Rebecca
“Last Night I Dreamt I went to Manderley Again…” With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely…
National Book Critics Circle Awards
Presented by the National Book Critics Circle, these awards recognize “the finest books and reviews published in English” in six categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, memoir/autobiography, biography, and criticism.
Pulitzer Prize
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The Night Watchman
Based upon Erdrich’s grandfather’s life as a night watchman and a tribal chairman of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa in North Dakota as he fights the Native American dispossession in the 1950s.
Women’s Prize for Fiction
The Women’s Prize for Fiction is annually awarded to the best full-length novel of the year that is written in English, by a woman, and published in the U.K.
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The Ministry of Time
A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the nature of power and the potential for love to change it all.
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River East, River West
Set against the backdrop of developing modern China, this literary debut is part coming-of-age tale, part family and social drama, as it follows 2 generations searching for belonging and opportunity.
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Wandering Souls
A haunting, gut-wrenching debut novel that paints a tender portrait of three Vietnamese child-refugees and their journey of hope, grief, and survival.
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My Name is Lucy Barton
A simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter, despite their complicated past.
