The 2022 Newbery Medal, Caldecott Medal, and Coretta Scott King Award Winners
The prestigious Newbery, Caldecott, and Coretta Scott King Book Awards have long served as a guide to those seeking some…
Awards
The 2021 Hugo Awards
From fantastical thrillers to alternate realities, sentient murder bots to lesbian necromancers, this collection of enchanting adventures is nothing short…
National Book Award Finalists 2021
They’re here! They’re here! Drumroll please: The 2021 National Book Awards Finalists have just been announced — the finalists are…
The 2021 Newbery Medal, Caldecott Medal, and Coretta Scott King Award Winners
The prestigious Newbery, Caldecott, and Coretta Scott King Book Awards have long served as a guide to those seeking some…
The 2020 National Book Award Finalists
The literary award season continues to dazzle us—most recently with the announcement of the 2020 National Book Award Finalists! We…
The 2020 Booker Prize Shortlist
The literary awards season is upon us! It’s like the Oscars—but better—because it’s all about books! And we’re getting into…
The 2020 Pulitzer Prize Winners
There are literary awards, and then there’s the Pulitzer Prize. Those winners are the books that open your eyes and…
The 2020 Newbery Medal, Caldecott Medal, and Coretta Scott King Award Winners
The prestigious Newbery, Caldecott, and Coretta Scott King Book Awards have long served as a guide to those seeking some…
Announcing the Winners of the 2019 National Book Awards
When the journalist and writer Sarah M. Broom decided to tell the story of her family—of the home her then-19-year-old…
Breaking the Frame: Sarah Broom Unearths Her Family’s Story in Her National Book Award-Winning Memoir The Yellow House
Last night, journalist and author Sarah M. Broom took home the 2019 National Book Award for Nonfiction for her memoir…
Booker Award Shocker: Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo Share the U.K.’s Top Fiction Award
Like the National Book Award, the U.K.’s Man Booker Prize is one of the world’s leading literary honors. Since 1969,…
Notable Works from Peter Handke and Olga Tokarczuk, Newly Named Winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Last year, the literary world lamented when the Swedish Academy announced that it would not award the 2018 Nobel Prize…
Announcing the Longlist for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction
Throughout this week, the longlists for the 2019 National Book Awards are being announced, with the selection of finalists in each…
Announcing the Longlist for the 2019 National Book Award for Nonfiction
Throughout this week, the longlists for the 2019 National Book Awards are being announced, with the selection of finalists in each…
Announcing the Longlist for the 2019 National Book Award for Poetry
Throughout this week, the longlists for the 2019 National Book Awards are being announced, with the selection of finalists in each…
Announcing the Longlist for the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature
Throughout this week, the longlists for the 2019 National Book Awards are being announced, with the selection of finalists in each…
Announcing the Longlist for the 2019 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature
Throughout this week, the longlists for the 2019 National Book Awards are being announced, with the selection of finalists in each…
Announcing the 2018 National Book Award Finalists!
This morning the National Book Foundation has announced the finalists for the 2018 National Book Awards in the categories of Fiction,…
Kazuo Ishiguro Wins The 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature
The announcement that Kazuo Ishiguro has been awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature is the sort of news that…