Literary Prizes and Book Awards
Twenty two prizes in the order the year announces them, from the T.S. Eliot Prize in January to the Booker in November. Every list runs from the prize's first year to its newest winner.
All 22 prize lists
January
- Caldecott Medal Since 1938 United States Fireworks by Cátia Chien, 2026
- Newbery Medal Since 1922 United States All the Blues in the Sky by Renée Watson, 2026
- T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry Since 1993 United Kingdom and Ireland Wellwater by Karen Solie, 2025
March
- National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction Since 1975 United States We Do Not Part by Han Kang, 2025
April
- Edgar Award for Best Novel Since 1954 United States The Big Empty by Robert Crais, 2026
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Since 1981 United States Small Scale Sinners by Mahreen Sohail, 2026
May
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography Since 1917 United States Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution by Amanda Vaill, 2026
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Since 1918 United States Angel Down by Daniel Kraus, 2026
- Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction Since 1962 United States There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone, 2026
- Pulitzer Prize for History Since 1917 United States We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution by Jill Lepore, 2026
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Since 1918 United States Ars Poeticas by Juliana Spahr, 2026
June
- Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel Since 1987 United States The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones, 2025
- Nebula Award for Best Novel Since 1965 United States The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones, 2025
- Women's Prize for Fiction Since 1996 United Kingdom The Correspondent by Virginia Evans, 2026
August
- Hugo Award for Best Novel Since 1953 International The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow, 2026
October
- Nobel Prize in Literature Since 1901 Sweden László Krasznahorkai, 2025
- Royal Society Science Book Prize Since 1988 United Kingdom Our Brains, Our Selves: What a Neurologist's Patients Taught Him About the Brain by Masud Husain, 2025
- World Fantasy Award for Best Novel Since 1975 International The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett, 2025
November
- Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Since 1999 United Kingdom How to End a Story by Helen Garner, 2025
- The Booker Prize Since 1969 United Kingdom and Ireland Flesh by David Szalay, 2025
- National Book Award for Fiction Since 1950 United States The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine, 2025
- National Book Award for Non-Fiction Since 1950 United States One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad, 2025
The Nobel Prize honors an author's body of work. Its list introduces a representative book for each author, grouped by the year they received the prize.
Reading lists, not prizes
Two collections of our own, with books arranged by publication year: Classic Books and Never Won a Pulitzer or Booker.
More ways in
Every winner by year, 14 subjects, books that won more than one prize, and when each prize is announced.