Award winning books 2024

I try to read some of the prize winning books each year. Here is this year’s list of winners. If it is in bold, I have read it.

2024 Winners

  • Amazon Book Editors Book of the Year
  • American Library Association book list of the year
  • Andre Simon Food and Drink Book Awards –
  • Andrew Carneigie Medal for Excellence
  • Aspen Words Literary Prize
  • Audie Awards
  • Arthur C Clarke Award
  • The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
  • The Best First Novel Award from The Author’s Club
  • Betty Trask Award
  • The Booker Prize for Fiction
  • The British Book Awards
  • Caffe NeroThe Bee Sting by Paul Murray, Close to Home by Michael Magee, Strong Female Character by Fern Brady
  • The Carol Shields Prize
  • Crime Fiction Lover Award – December
  • Crime Writers Association Daggers Award
  • The Cundhill History Prize
  • The Desmond Elliot Prize
  • The Dublin Literary Awards
  • Edgar Award
  • Fortnum and Mason Food and Drink Book Awards
  • Foyles Book of the Year
  • Garden Media Guild Awards
  • Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award
  • The Gordon Burn Prize (Biennial) 2024
  • The International Dylan Thomas Prize (DTP) –
  • James Tait Black Prize ,
  • Jhalak Prize
  • Joyce Carol Oates Prize
  • The Kirkus Prize
  • Independent Book Awards (IBA) –
  • The International Booker Prize
  • The International Thriller Writers’ Best First Novel Award
  • Lambda Literary Awards (Lammy Awards)
  • The Los Angeles Times Book Awards
  • The Lucy Cavendish College Fiction Prize
  • The McIlvanney Prize
  • National Book Awards
  • The National Book Critics Circle
  • The Nebula Award
  • Neustadt International Prize for Literature – (biennial)
  • The Nobel Prize for Literature
  • The Orwell Book Prize for Political Fiction
  • The Parliamentary Book Awards – The Winding Stair by Jesse Norman, Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad by Daniel Finkelstein, Planes, Trains and Toilet Doors by Matt Chorley
  • Pen America literary Awards
  • Pen/Faulkner Awards
  • Pulitzer Prize
  • The Portico Prize – Biennial – Not 2023
  • Rathbone Folio Prize
  • The Royal Society of Literature Awards
  • Royal Society Science Book Prize
  • The Scotiabank Giller Prize (SGP)-
  • Stanford Dolman Travel Award 
  • The Story Prize (TSP) –
  • The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
  • Waterstones Book of the Year
  • Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize
  • The Wainwright Prize
  • The Women’s Prize for Fiction

2023 Winners

  • Amazon Book Editors Book of the Year – December
  • American Library Association book list of the year
  • Andre Simon Food and Drink Book Awards – Imperial Wine by Jennnifer Regan,
  • Andrew Carneigie Medal for Excellence (AC)- The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka
  • Aspen Words Literary Prize (AWP)- 19th April – The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and other stories by Jamil Jan Kichal
  • Audie Awards (AA) – 28th March – Finding Me by Viola Davis, Unprotected by Billy Porter, Eye of the World by Robert Jordan, Fairy Tale by Stephen King, Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan, Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris, The Heron by Don Winslow, The Ransomware Hunting Team by Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden, Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner
  • Arthur C Clarke Award – August – Venemous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman
  • The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (BGP)- 8th Oct, 16th Nov
  • The Baillie Gifford Winner of Winners Prize (BGWoW) – 27th April – 1599 A Year in the Life of Shakespeare
  • The Best First Novel Award from The Author’s Club – 20th April, 24th May – When We Were Birds by Ayanna lloyd Banwo
  • Betty Trask Award (BTA) – Mercia’s Take by Daniel Wiles
  • The Booker Prize for Fiction – July, September 21st and October 26th Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
  • The British Book Awards (BBA) 15th May – Menopausing by Davina McCall and Dr Naomi Potter, Super Infinite by Katherine Rundell, Trespasses by Louise Kennedy, The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett, Babel by R F Kuang, I’m a Fan by Sheena Patel, A Pocketful of Happiness by Richard E Grant, Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart
  • Caffe Nero (CN)
  • The Carol Shields Prize (CSP) – When we Were Sisters by Fatimah Asghar
  • Crime Fiction Lover Award – December
  • Crime Writers Association Daggers Award – Agent Seventeen by John Brownlow, Dirt Town by Amy Scrivenor, The Darkest Sin by DV Bishop, Unlawful Killings by Wendy Joseph, Even the Darkest Night by Javier Cercas, Walter Mosley
  • The Cundhill History Prize – Sept 27th
  • The Desmond Elliot Prize – November
  • The Dublin Literary Awards (DLA) – 25th May – Marzahn, Mon Amour by Katja Oskamp and translator Jo Heinrich
  • Edgar Award (EA)27th April – Or Else by Joe Hart, Buried in a Good Book by Tamara Berry, Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka
  • Fortnum and Mason Food and Drink Book Awards (F&M) – 11th April, 11th May – Food for Life by Tim Specter
  • Foyles Book of the YearYellowface by Rebecca Kuang, Eve by Cat Bohannon
  • Garden Media Guild Awards – November
  • Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award (GBGBA) – September – When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
  • The Gordon Burn Prize (Biennial) 2024
  • The International Dylan Thomas Prize (DTP) – 11th May – God’s Children are Little Broken Things by Arinze Ifeakandu
  • James Tait Black Prize (JTBP) – July – Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver, Come Back in September by Darryl Pinkney,
  • Jhalak Prize – (JP) 18th April, 25th May – None of the Above by Travis Alabanza
  • Joyce Carol Oates Prize (JCO)- Dec 22, March and April – Manuel Muñoz
  • The Kirkus Prize (KP)- August, Oct 11th – The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride, Our Migrant Souls by Hector Tobar
  • Independent Book Awards (IBA) – May 13th, – Runt by Craig Silvey
  • The International Booker Prize (IBP) – 12th April, May – Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov and Angela Rodel 
  • The International Thriller Writers’ Best First Novel Award (ITW)- Feb and June The Resemblance by Lauren Nossett
  • Lambda Literary Awards (Lammy Awards)
  • The Los Angeles Times Book Awards (LAT)- 23rd April, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage, Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu, Wash Day Diaries by Rowser and Smith, By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners by Margaret A Burnham, Secret Identity by AlexSegura, How Far the Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler, Spear by Nicola Griffith
  • The Lucy Cavendish College Fiction Prize – All the other Mothers Hate Me by Sarah Harman
  • The McIlvanney Prize – 17th September – Squeaky Clean by Callum McSorley
  • National Book Awards – Blackouts by Justin Torres, The Rediscovery of America by Ned Blackhawk, amot, The Words that Remain by Stenio Gardel
  • The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) -23rd March Bliss Montage by Ling Ma, The Method: How the 20th Century learned to Act by Isaac Butler, G-Man by Beverly Gage, Stay True by Hua Hsu, Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty
  • The Nebula Award (NA) – 14th May – Babel by R F Kuang
  • Neustadt International Prize for Literature – (biennial) Not 2023
  • The Nobel Prize for Literature – 10th December
  • The Orwell Book Prize for Political Fiction – 22nd June – Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen by Peter Apps, New Life by Tom Crewe
  • Pen/Faulkner Awards – 4th April – The Book of Goose by Yiyun Lee
  • Pulitzer Prize – 8th May – Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver, Trust by Hernan Diaz
  • The Portico Prize – Biennial – Not 2023
  • Rathbone Folio Prize (RFP)- 27th March Constructing a Nervous System by Margo Jefferson
  • The Royal Society of Literature Awards – June Heritage Aesthetics by Anthony Anaxagorou
  • Royal Society Science Book PrizeAn Immense World by Ed Yong
  • The Scotiabank Giller Prize – Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein
  • Stanford Dolman Travel Award  -(ESTW) – 16th March In the Shadow of the Mountain
  • The Story Prize (TSP) – Bliss Montage by Ling Ma
  • The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction These Days by Lucy Caldwell
  • Waterstones Book of the Year – Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
  • Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize – August – In Memoriam by Alice Winn
  • The Wainwright Prize – 23rd June, 28th July and 7th September – The Lost Rainforests of Britain by Guy Shrubsole, The Flow by Amy-Jane Beer
  • The Women’s Prize for Fiction (WPFF)- 7th March, 26th April, 14th June Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

2022 Winners

2021 Winners

  • Amazon Book Editors Book of the YearThe Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
  • Andrew Carneigie Medal for Excellence Deacon King Kong by James McBride and Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca Giggs
  • Andre Simon Awards (Food and Drink) – Red Sands by Caroline Eden
  • Arthur C Clarke Award – The Animals in that Country by Laura Jean McKay
  • The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction – Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
  • The Best First Novel Award – Love after Love by Ingrid Persaud
  • The Booker Prize for Fiction – The Promise by Damon Galgut
  • The British Book Awards – Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
  • Costa Book Prizes – The Kids by Hannah Lowe (Poetry)
  • Crime Writers Association Daggers Award – We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker, Midnight at Malabar House by Vaseem Khan, When She Was Good by Michael Robotham
  • Edgar Award – Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
  • Garden Media Guild Book Awards – Cut and Dry by Carolyn Dunster, The Wardian Case by Luke Keogh,
  • Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2021 –
  • The International Dylan Thomas Prize – Luster by Raven Leilani
  • Jhalak Prize – The First Woman by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi and Eight Pieces of Silva by Patrice Lawrence
  • Kirkus Prize – Harrow by Joy Williams and Punch me up to the Gods by Brian Broome
  • Fortnum and Mason Food and Drink Book Awards – English Pastoral by James Rebanks, Hungry by Grace Dent, Falastin by Sami Tamimi, Tara Wigley, Wine Girl by Victoria James,
  • The Man Booker International Prize – At Night all Blood is Black by David Diop
  • The McIlvanney Prize – Hyde by Craig Russell, Edge of the Grave by Robbie Morrison
  • The National Book Critics Circle – The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe, Clairvoyant of the Small by Susan Bernofsky, Natasha Soudek, et al, A Little Devil in America: Notes In Praise Of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib,
  • The Orwell Book Prize for Political Fiction – Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition and Compromise in Putin’s Russia by Joshua Yaffa
  • The Portico Prize – Toto Among the Murderers by Sally J Morgan
  • Rathbone Folio Prize – In the Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado
  • The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction – The Mirror and The Light by Hilary Mantel
  • Waterstones Book of the Year – The Lyrics 1956 – presented by Paul McCartney and Paul Muldoon
  • The Wainwright Prize – English Pastoral by James Rebank and Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
  • The Women’s Prize for Fiction – Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell