I have included the most
prestigious & major book awards here. This includes Nobel Prize for
Literature, Pulitzer Prize Award, Booker Prize Award, Women’s Prize for Fiction
Award, JCB Prize for Literature Award, British Book Awards, Walter Scott Prize,
Goodreads Choice Award. Now, all of these have categories & if I follow that,
it will be a big list so I am going to mention the award-winning books in the categories of Fiction,
Poetry, Non-Fiction, Autobiography. For others, there
is a plain longlist, shortlist & the winner. For these I will only skip the
longlist. There are about 20+ 2020 Book Award winners in this post & also few
more books that made it to the Shortlist! I hope you find this post to be useful
in finding your next book to read!
~~THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE~~
The Award that needs no
introduction is of course the Nobel Prize for Literature! This year Louise Glück won The
Nobel Prize in Literature for the year 2020 "for her
unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence
universal." She is an American poet and essayist. After this news came up,
I naturally did some research for her top poetry books. These include-
The Wild Iris
Averno
Faithful and Virtuous Night
Meadowlands
The First Four Books of Poems
Ararat
~~THE PULITZER PRIZE~~
I have always trusted books
that are Pulitzer Prize winners. They almost never disappoint & are always gripping
& leave you fascinated! Check out the 2020 Pulitzer Prize winners!
Fiction:
The Nickel Boys by ColsonWhitehead
Biography:
Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser
Poetry:
The Tradition by Jericho
Brown
Non-Fiction:
The End of the Myth: From
the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin
The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time,
Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care by Anne Boyer, The Road by Cormac
McCarthy, Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides & Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler.
The
Pulitzer Prize winners that I have loved so far are The Goldfinch by Donna
Tartt, All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, Interpreter of Maladies by
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Color Purple by Alice Walker. I also have a few Pulitzer
Prize winning books on my TBR like Less by Andrew Sean Greer, Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout.
~~THE BOOKER PRIZE~~
Similar to The Pulitzer
Prize, I have also always trusted The Booker Prize winners. In this, there aren’t
genres, because mainly there are fiction novels. They share a Longlist of books
followed by a Shortlist & then finally the winner! To have more
recommendations for you, I have also added the books on the shortlist for The
Booker Prize for 2020!
Winner:
Shuggie Bain by Stuart
Douglas
Shortlist:
The New Wilderness by Diane Cook
This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi
The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
Though I haven’t actually
read any of the Booker Prize winners, I have a lot of them on my TBR. Lincoln
in the Bardo by George Saunders, The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton, Girl, Woman,
Other by Bernardine Evaristo, Milkman by Anna Burns are few books that I plan
to read very soon.
~~WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION~~
Of course I am going to
mention the most amazing literary award that is Women’s Prize for Fiction! This
Award dates back to 1996, which I think is simply fabulous. It has a pattern
similar to The Booker Prize, so check out the winner & the shortlist below!
Winner: Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
Shortlist:
Dominicana by Angie Cruz
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
Weather by Jenny Offill
Again, the books on my TBR
which are Women’s Prize for Fiction winner are The Song of Achilles by Madeline
Miller, Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. I definitely need to
add more to this list!
~~JCB PRIZE FOR LITERATURE AWARD~~
The JCB Prize for Literature
is a much more recent Award than the other on the list. It’s mainly an India-based
Award which started their journey since 2018. Check out the 2020 JCB Prize
Winner followed by the shortlist!
Winner: Moustache, S Hareesh, translated from the Malayalam
by Jayasree Kalathil
Shortlist:
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
Chosen Spirits by Samit Basu
These, Our Bodies, Possessed by Light by Dharini Bhaskar
Prelude to a Riot by Annie Zaidi
I read the 2019 JCB Prize
winner which was Madhuri Vijay’s The Far Field, which I did not like. But, here’s
to reading brilliant Indian literature!
~~BRITISH BOOK AWARDS~~
I did a bit of research
before writing this, so that I will have a compilation of all the best Book
Awards in one place. I stumbled across this gem during this research. Given
that I love British literature, I am going to make it a point to always check
for the British Book Award winners! Check out the winners below across different
categories.
Author
of the Year: Bernardine
Evaristo
Book
of the Year: Queenie
by Candice Carty-Williams
Fiction
Book of the Year: Girl,
Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Crime
& Thriller Book of the Year: My
Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Non-Fiction: Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
~~THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE~~
While doing my research on
prize winning books, I also stumbled on The Walter Scott Prize. And, the best
part is this Prize is entirely dedicated to Historical Fiction! Also, a lot of
the book are based in wartime. It’s what I have been looking for & I am
always going to read The Walter Scott Prize winner every year. This
mind-blowing British Literary Award was founded in 2010, giving me 10 amazing
historical fiction book recommendations! They also have a winner & a
shortlist which you can check out below.
Winner: The Narrow Land Christine Dwyer Hickey
Shortlist:
Isabella Hammad, The Parisian
James Meek, To Calais, In Ordinary Time
Joseph O'Connor, Shadowplay
Tim Pears, The Redeemed
Marguerite Poland, A Sin Of Omission
~~GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD~~
Last but never the least
one is our collective favourite – Goodreads Choice Awards! Let’s be honest. We
are all obsessed with Goodreads, so naturally we are all also obsessed with Goodreads
Choice Awards. I am sure you have already seen the winners in this category,
which is why I have included only my favourite genres. You can check out the remaining
genre winners here!
Fiction:
The Midnight Library by MattHaig
Mystery
& Thriller: The
Guest List by Lucy Foley
Historical
Fiction: The
Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Autobiography: A Promised Land by Barack Obama
Non-Fiction: Stamped: Racism,
Antiracism, and You by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds
Poetry: Dearly: Poems by Margaret
Atwood
To be honest, I am super
proud of myself to compile this list, because it is definitely going to make
things easier for me & I hope for you too. If you love this post, I will
make this an annual feature or also compile 2019 & 2018 Award winners! Let
me know if you want me to add any more awards to this list. Always happy to
expand my wisdom when it comes to books!
Until next time,
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