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| B.C. Book Awards | Canadian Book Awards |
| American Book Awards | British Book Awards |
| Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Book Awards | Mystery Book Awards |
B.C. Book Awards
(complete listing of winners and finalists [3])
- Ethel Wilson Fiction Awards
- 2024 - A Season in Chezgh’un [4] by Darrel J. McLeod
- 2023 - A Minor Chorus [5] by Billy-Ray Belcourt
- 2022 - The Book of Form and Emptiness [6] by Ruth Ozeki
- 2021 - Petra [7] by Shaena Lambert
- 2020 - Lampedusa [8] by Stephen Price
- 2019 - Trickster Drift [9] by Eden Robinson
- 2018 - Brother [10] by David Chariandy
- 2017 - The Heaviness of Things that Float [11] by Jennifer Manuel
- 2016 - All True Not a Lie in It [12] by Alex Hawley
- 2015 - The World Before Us [13] by Aislinn Hunter
- 2014 - Anatomy of a Girl Gang [14] by Ashley Little
Canadian Book Awards
- Governor-General's Literary Awards - Fiction (complete listing of winners and finalists [15])
- 2023 - Chrysalis [16] by Anuja Varghese
- 2022 - Pure Colour [17] by Sheila Heti
- 2021 - Tainna: The Unseen Ones [18] by Norma Dunning
- 2020 - Five Little Indians [19] by Michelle Good
- 2019 - Five Wives [20] by Joan Thomas
- 2018 - The Red Word by Sarah Henstra
- 2017 - We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night by Joel Thomas Hynes
- 2016 - Do Not Say We Have Nothing [21] by Madeleine Thien
- 2015 - Daddy Lenin and Other Stories [22] by Guy Vanderhaeghe
- 2014 - The Back of the Turtle by Thomas King
- Scotiabank Giller Prize (complete list of winners and finalists [23])
- 2023 - Study for Obedience [24] by Sarah Bernstein
- 2022 - The Sleeping Car Porter [25] by Suzette Mayr
- 2021 - What Strange Paradise [26] by Omar El Akkad
- 2020 - How to Pronounce Knife [27] by Souvankham Thammavongsa
- 2019 - Reproduction [28] by Ian Williams
- 2018 - Washington Black [29] by Esi Edugyan
- 2017 - Bellevue Square [30] by Michael Redhill
- 2016 - Do Not Say We Have Nothing [21] by Madeleine Thien
- 2015 - Fifteen Dogs [31] by Andre Alexis
- 2014 - US Conductors [32] by Sean Michaels
- Writer's Trust of Canada - Matt Cohen Award (complete list of winners [33])
- 2023 - Helen Humphreys [34]
- 2022 - Candace Savage [35]
- 2021 - Frances Itani [36]
- 2020 - Dennis Lee [37]
- 2019 - Olive Senior
- 2018 - David Bergen [38]
- 2017 - Diane Schoemperlen [39]
- 2016 - Brian Brett [40]
- 2015 - Richard Wagamese [41]
- 2014 - Susan Musgrave [42]
- Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize (Formerly known as the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize) (complete list of winners and finalists [43])
- 2023 - In the Upper Country [44] by Kai Thomas
- 2022 - Some Hellish [45] by Nicholas Herring
- 2021 - The Strangers [46] by Katherena Vermette
- 2020 - Ridgerunner [47] by Gil Adamson
- 2019 - Days by Moonlight [48] by André Alexis
- 2018 - Dear Evelyn [49] by Kathy Page
- 2017 - Brother [10] by David Chariandy
- 2016 - Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains [50] by Yasuko Thanh
- 2015 - Fifteen Dogs [31] by Andre Alexis
- 2014 - All My Puny Sorrows [51] by Miriam Toews
- Trillium Book Award (Ontario) (complete list of winners [52])
- 2024 - The Clarion [53] by Nina Dunic
- 2023 - The Book of Grief and Hamburgers by Stuart Ross
- 2022 - The Last Exiles [54] by Ann Shin
- 2021 - How to Pronounce Knife [27] by Souvankham Thammavongsa
- 2020 - Shut Up You're Pretty [55] by Téa Mutonji
- 2019 - The Blue Clerk by Dionne Brand
- 2018 - Birds Art Life [56] by Kyo Maclear
- 2017 - The Sweetest One by Melanie Mah
- 2016 - Debris by Kevin Hardcastle
- 2015 - How You Were Born by Kate Cayley
- 2014 - This is War by Hannah Moscovitch
American Book Awards
- Pulitzer Prize - Fiction (complete List of Winners for Fiction [57])
- 2024 - Night Watch [58] by Jayne Anne Phillips
- 2023 - Demon Copperhead [59] by Barbara Kingsolver
- 2022 - The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family [60] by Joshua Cohen
- 2021 - The Night Watchman [61] by Louise Erdrich
- 2020 - The Nickel Boys [62] by Colson Whitehead
- 2019 - The Overstory [63] by Richard Powers
- 2018 - Less [64] by Andrew Sean Greer
- 2017 - The Underground Railroad [65] by Colson Whitehead
- 2016 - The Sympathizer [66] by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- 2015 - All the Light We Cannot See [67] by Anthony Doerr
- 2014 - The Goldfinch [68] by Donna Tartt
- National Book Awards - Fiction (List of winners of the National Book Award [69])
- 2023 - Blackouts [70] by Justin Torres
- 2022 - The Rabbit Hutch [71] by Tess Gunty
- 2021 - Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
- 2020 - Interior Chinatown [72] by Charles Yu
- 2019 - Trust Exercise [73] by Susan Choi
- 2018 - The Friend by Sigrid Nunez [74]
- 2017 - Sing, Unburied, Sing [75] by Jesmyn Ward
- 2016 - The Underground Railroad [65] by Colson Whitehead
- 2015 - Fortune Smiles [76] by Adam Johnson
- 2014 - Redeployment by Phil Klay
- National Book Awards - Non-Fiction
- 2023 - The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of US History [77] by Ned Blackhawk
- 2022 - South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon To Understand the Soul of a Nation [78] by Imani Perry
- 2021 - All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake [79] by Tiya Miles
- 2020 - The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara Payne
- 2019 - The Yellow House [80] by Sarah M. Broom
- 2018 - The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart
- 2017 - The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia [81] by Masha Gessen
- 2016 - Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America [82] by Ibram X. Kendi
- 2015 - Between the World and Me [83] by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- 2014 - Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos
- National Book Critic's Circle - Fiction (past winners of National Book Critic's Circle [84])
- 2023 - I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home [85] by Lorrie Moore
- 2022 - Bliss Montage: Stories by Ling Ma
- 2021 - The Love Songs of W.E.B DuBois [86] by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
- 2020 - Hamnet & Judith [87] by Maggie O'Farrell
- 2019 - Everything Inside [88] by Edwidge Danticat
- 2018 - Milkman [89] by Anna Burns
- 2017 - Improvement by Joan Silber
- 2016 - LaRose [90] by Louise Erdrich
- 2015 - The Sellout [91] by Paul Beatty
- 2014 - Lila by Marilynne Robinson
- PEN/Faulkner Prize - Fiction (complete list of winners and finalists [92])
- 2024 - What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jiménez
- 2023 - The Book of Goose [93] by Yiyun Li
- 2022 - The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine
- 2021 - The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
- 2020 - Sea Monsters by Chloe Aridjis
- 2019 - Call Me Zebra [94] by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
- 2018 - Improvement by Joan Silber
- 2017 - Behold the Dreamers [95] by Imbolo Mbue
- 2016 - Delicious Foods by James Hannaham
- 2015 - Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish
- 2014 - We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves [96] by Karen Jay Fowler
- Spur Award (complete list of winners [97])
- 2024 - Death in the Tallgrass: A Young Man's Journey Through the Western Frontier by Donald Willerton
- 2023 - Beasts of the Earth by James Wade
- 2022 - Dark Sky [98] by C.J. Box
- 2021 - Winter Counts by David Heska; Wanbli Weiden
- 2020 - On Swift Horses by Shannon Pufahl
- 2019 - The Flicker of Old Dreams by Susan Henderson
- 2018 - Double Wide by Leo W. Banks
- 2017 - Off the Grid: A Joe Pickett Novel [99] by C.J. Box
- 2016 - Crazy Mountain Kiss: A Sean Stranahan Mystery by Keith McCafferty
- 2015 - Bad Country by CB McKenzie
- 2014 - Light of the World: A Dave Robicheaux Novel [100] by James Lee Burke
British Book Awards
- Costa Book Awards (list of past winners [101])
- 2021 - Unsettled Ground [102] by Claire Fuller
- 2020 - The Mermaid of Black Conch: A Love Story by Monique Roffey
- 2019 - Middle England by Jonathan Coe
- 2018 - Normal People [103] by Sally Rooney
- 2017 - Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor
- 2016 - Days Without End [104] by Sebastian Barry
- 2015 - The Lie Tree [105] by Frances Hardinge
- 2014 - H is for Hawk [106] by Helen Macdonald
- Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (complete list of past winners [107])
- 2024 - Brotherless Night [108] by V. V. Ganeshananthan
- 2023 - Demon Copperhead [59] by Barbara Kingsolver
- 2022 - The Book of Form and Emptiness [6] by Ruth Ozeki
- 2021 - Piranesi [109] by Susanna Clarke
- 2020 - Hamnet & Judith [87] by Maggie O'Farrell
- 2019 - An American Marriage [110] by Tayari Jones
- 2018 - Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
- 2017 - The Power by Naomi Alderman
- 2016 - The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney
- 2015 - How to Be Both [111] by Ali Smith
- 2014 - A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride
Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Book Awards
- Arthur C. Clarke Award (complete list of winners [112])
- 2024 - In Ascension by Martin MacInnes
- 2023 - Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman
- 2022 - Deep Wheel Orcadia by Harry Josephine Giles
- 2021 - The Animals in that Country by Laura Jean McKay
- 2020 - The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
- 2019 - Rosewater by Tade Thompson
- 2018 - Dreams Before the Start of Time by Anne Charnock
- 2017 - The Underground Railroad [65] by Colson Whitehead
- 2016 - Children of Time [113] by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- 2015 - Station Eleven [114] by Emily St. John Mandel
- 2014 - Ancillary Justice [115] by Ann Leckie
- Hugo Award (complete list of all winners and finalists in all categories [116])
- 2024 - Some Desperate Glory [117] by Emily Tesh
- 2023 - Nettle & Bone [118] by T. Kingfisher
- 2022 - A Desolation Called Peace [119] by Arkady Martine
- 2021 - Network Effect [120] by Martha Wells
- 2020 - A Memory Called Empire [121] by Arkady Martine
- 2019 - The Calculating Stars [122] by Mary Robinette Kowal
- 2018 - The Stone Sky [123] by N.K. Jemisin
- 2017 - The Obelisk Gate [124] by N.K. Jemisin
- 2016 - The Fifth Season [125] by N.K. Jemisin
- 2015 - The Three Body Problem [126] by Cixin Liu; translated by Ken Liu
- 2014 - Ancillary Justice [115] by Ann Leckie
- Nebula Award (complete list of all winners and finalists in all categories [127])
- 2023 - The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
- 2022 - Babel by R. F. Kuang
- 2021 - A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark
- 2020 - Network Effect by Martha Wells
- 2019 - A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker
- 2018 - The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
- 2017 - The Stone Sky [123] by N.K. Jemsin
- 2016 - All the Birds in the Sky [128] by Charlie Jane Anders
- 2015 - Uprooted by Naomi Novik
- 2014 - Annihilation [129] by Jeff VanderMeer
- Bram Stoker Award (complete list of winners and finalists in all categories [130])
- 2023 - Out There Screaming [131] by Jordan Peele
- 2022 - The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias
- 2021 - My Heart is a Chainsaw [132] by Stephen Graham Jones
- 2020 - The Only Good Indians [133] by Stephen Graham Jones
- 2019 - Coyote Rage by Owl Goingback
- 2018 - The Cabin at the End of the World [134] by Paul Tremblay
- 2017 - Ararat by Christopher Golden
- 2016 - The Fisherman by John Langan
- 2015 - A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
- 2014 - Blood Kin by Steve Rasnic Tem
- World Fantasy Award - Novel (complete list of winners and finalists in all categories [135])
- 2024 - The Reformatory [136] by Tananarive Due
- 2023 - Saint Death's Daughter by C. S. E. Cooney
- 2022 - The Jasmine Throne [137] by Tasha Suri
- 2021 - Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson
- 2020 - Queen of the Conquered by Kacen Callender
- 2019 - Witchmark [138] by C. L. Polk
- 2018 - The Changeling by Victor LaValle & Jade City [139] by Fonda Lee
- 2017 - The Sudden Appearance of Hope by Claire North
- 2016 - The Chimes by Anna Smaill
- 2015 - The Bone Clocks [140] by David Mitchell
- 2014 - A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar
Mystery Book Awards
- Edgar Allan Poe Award - Best Novel (complete list of winners from all categories [141])
- 2024 - Flags on the Bayou [142] by James Lee Burke
- 2023 - Notes on an Execution [143] by Danya Kukafka
- 2022 - Five Decembers [144] by James Kestrel
- 2021 - Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
- 2020 - The Stranger Diaries [145] by Elly Griffiths
- 2019 - Down the River Unto the Sea [146] by Walter Mosley
- 2018 - Bluebird, Bluebird [147] by Attica Locke
- 2017 - Before the Fall [148] by Noah Hawley
- 2016 - The Sympathizer [66] by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- 2015 - Mr. Mercedes [149] by Stephen King
- 2014 - Ordinary Grace [150] by William Kent Krueger
- Agatha Award - Best Novel (complete list of winners and finalists in all categories [151])
- 2023 - The Weekend Retreat by Tara Laskowski
- 2022 - World of Curiosities [152] by Louise Penny
- 2021 - Cajun Kiss of Death by Ellen Byron
- 2020 - All the Devils Are Here [153] by Louise Penny
- 2019 - Long Call [154] by Ann Cleeves
- 2018 - Mardi Gras Murder by Ellen Byron
- 2017 - Glass Houses [155] by Louise Penny
- 2016 - A Great Reckoning [156] by Louise Penny
- 2015 - Long Upon the Land [157] by Margaret Maron
- 2014 - Truth Be Told [158] by Hank Phillippi Ryan
Children's Book Awards
- Blue Spruce Award (Ontario) (list of winners [159])
- 2024 - Benny the Bananasaurus Rex by Sarabeth Holden
- 2023 - Are You A Cheeseburger? by Monica Arnaldo
- 2022 - Harley the Hero by Peggy Collins
- 2021 - Bad Dog by Mike Boldt
- 2020 - That's Not Hockey by Andrée Poulin
- 2019 - Barnaby Never Forgets by Pierre Collet-Derby
- 2018 - Lady [160] by Jess Keating
- 2017 - The Night Gardener [161] by Terry & Eric Fan
- 2016 - If Kids Ruled the World [162] by Linda Bailey, illustrated by David Huyck
- 2015 - The Day My Mom Came to Kindergarten [163] by Maureen Fergus
- 2014 - Oddrey by Dave Whamond
- Caldecott Medal (USA) (list of winners and finalists [164])
- 2024 - Big [165] by Vashti Harrison
- 2023 - Hot Dog by Doug Salati
- 2022 - Watercress [166] by Andrea Wang
- 2021 - We Are Water Protectors [167] by Carole Lindstrom
- 2020 - Undefeated [168] by Kwame Alexander
- 2019 - Hello Lighthouse [169] by Sophie Blackall
- 2018 - Wolf in the Snow [170] by Matthew Cordell
- 2017 - Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat by Javaka Steptoe
- 2016 - Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear [171] by Lindsay Mattick
- 2015 - The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend by Dan Santat
- 2014 - Locomotive [172] by Brian Floca
- Newbery Medal (USA) (list of winners and finalists [173])
- 2024 - The Eyes and the Impossible [174] by Dave Eggers
- 2023 - Freewater [175] by Amina Luqman-Dawson
- 2022 - The Last Cuentista [176] by Donna Barba Higuera
- 2021 - When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
- 2020 - New Kid [177] by Jerry Craft
- 2019 - Merci Suárez Changes Gears [178] by Meg Medina
- 2018 - Hello, Universe [179] by Erin Entrada Kelly
- 2017 - The Girl Who Drank the Moon [180] by Kelly Barnhill
- 2016 - Last Stop on Market Street [181] by Matt de la Peña, illustrated by Christian Robinson
- 2015 - The Crossover [182] by Kwame Alexander
- 2014 - Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures [182] by Kate DiCamillo