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General Lists:

  1. 20 MOST read stories in The New Yorker 2018
  2. BEST BOOKS  2020  lists

 

 

Literature

  1. Nobel Prize
  2. Pulitzer Prize:   fiction
  3. Pulitzer Prize:   history
  4. Pulitzer Prize: biography
  5. Pulitzer Prize: commentary
  6. Pulitzer Prize:  general non-fiction
  7. Pulitzer Prize:  drama
  8. Pulitzer Prize: international reporting
  9. Pulitzer Prize:  poetry
  10. National Book Awards
  11. National Book Awards for Nonfiction
  12. National Book Awards – long and short list 2018
  13. Shirley Jackson Awards
  14. National Book Critics Circle Award
  15. Modern Library’s Top 100 Novels
  16. 10 Inspiring Female Writers You Need To Read
  17. #20Books Of Summer 2017 
  18. #20BooksOfSummer 2018
  19. Book Series in Order
  20. The Daggers (Crime Fiction Awards)
  21. Drue Heinz Literature Prize (short stories)   website list of winners
  22. Windham Campbell Prizes ( Yale University)
  23. Whiting Award ( emerging young writers)
  24. PEN/Robert Bingham Prize (very talented fiction writers a first novel or collection of short stories)
  25. Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize (fiction by American woman)
  26. T.S. Eliot Prize (poetry)
  27. The Bollingen Prize (poetry)
  28. Los Angles Review of Books
  29. Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award (emerging women writers singled out for excellence)
  30. Karla J. Strand List October 2018
  31. Ruth Lilly Prize Poetry ( awarded by Poetry Foundaton)
  32. Publisher W.W. Norton list of books
  33. Neustadt Prize (the American Nobel)
  34. Tony Awards Database (theater)
  35. Ainsfield-Wolf Awards (understanding of racism and human diversity)
  36. The Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Award (most prestigious…prize $100.000!)
  37. Rea Award for Short Story

 

United Kingdom (Wales/Scotland) – Ireland

  1. The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature
  2. 100 Best Novels Written in English (The Guardian)
  3. 100 Best Novels Written in English: Reader’s Alternative List (The Guardian)
  4. Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award
  5. The Wainwright Prize
  6. Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
  7. Wellcome Book Prize
  8. The Big Read poll of UK’s ‘best-loved novel’   200 books
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  10. Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
  11. Ballie Gifford Prize (best non-fiction)
  12. Dylan Thomas Prize
  13. Wodehouse Prize (literary prize for comic fiction)  2018…no winner
  14. Rooney Prize for Irish Literature
  15. List of leading Irish Authors (protest Ian Buruma’s forced resignation from NYRB)
  16. Patrick Kavanaugh Award Irish Poetry (poetry)
  17. Frank O’ Connor Award (Ireland) – International Short Story Award
  18. James Tait Black Prize (biography, fiction, drama) University of Edinburgh
  19. MOTH Poetry Prize – Ireland (10.000 euro poetry )
  20. Michael Murphy Memorial Award (poetry) winner National Poetry Day in 2019, October 3

 

France:

  1. Prix Valery-Labaud
  2. Prix Goncourt
  3. Prix Renaudot
  4. Prix Goncourt des Lycéens
  5. Best books Meilleurs livres de l’année du magazine LIRE

 

Australia

  1. National Biography Award
  2. Western Australia Literary Awards
  3. Queensland Literary Awards
  4. Queensland Premier’s Award for Drama
  5. Queensland Literary Award shortlist 2018
  6. Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards
  7. Prime Minister’s Literary Awards
  8. Australian Book Industry Awards
  9. National Biography Awards Australia
  10. Christina Stead Awards
  11. Stella Prize
  12. ALS Gold Medal
  13. ARA Historical Novel Prize
  14. Kibble and Dobbie Awards
  15. Miles Franklin Literary Award
  16. New Zealand Book Awards
  17. Aurealis Awards (speculative fiction)
  18. Steele Rudd Awards
  19. Indie Book Awards
  20. Patrick White Award
  21. The Walkley Awards
  22. Pascall Prize
  23. Calibre Essay Prize
  24. Viva La Novella Prize
  25. Kathleen Mitchell Prize (bi-annual for young authors)
  26. #ABIA2018 Longlist
  27. #ABIA2017 Longlist  ( great books!)
  28. Waverly Library Awards
  29. Anne Elder Award (poetry)
  30. Barbara Jefferis Award:
  31. NSW Premier’s Literary Award
  32. NSW Premier’s Literary Award shortlist 2019
  33. Western Australian Premier’s Book Award:
  34. Books and Publishing Awards page
  35. Sarah Broom Poetry Prize (NZ)
  36. Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing

 

The Netherlands:

  1. Ida Gerhardt Poetry Prize
  2. P.C. Hooft Award (lifetime literary achievement) 2018 Nachoem Wijnberg
  3. Prijs der Nederlande Literatuur (oeuvreprijs)
  4. F. Bordewijk-Prijs
  5. Constantijn Huygens-Prijs
  6. Libris Literatuur Prijs (fictie)
  7. BookSpot Literatuurprijs ( fictie/non-fictie)
  8. VSB Poetry Prijs (shortlist 2018)
  9. Gouden Griffel (jeugdliteratuur en illustrators) (winners 2018)

 

Germany:

  1. Hans Fallada Prize – young German author awarded once every two years

 

Canada:

  1. Prix Ringuet
  2. The Giller Prize
  3. Cundill History Prize McGill University
  4. The Griffin Poetry Prize (poetry)
  5. The Governor General’s Award
  6. Rogers Writers Trust Prize (novel, short stoires)
  7. Thomas Head Raddall Award
  8. First Novel Award Books in Canada
  9. Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award
  10. Atlantic Booksellers Choice Award

 

Theater/TV:

  1. Pulitzer Prize:  drama
  2. The Mimi Award for Playwrights
  3. 10 Greek Plays essential for any education
  4. Olivier Awards
  5. Tony Awards 
  6. Queensland Premier’s Award for Drama
  7. 50 Best Plays of the Past 100 Years
  8. HBO Golden Globe Nominated TV Series 2018
  9. The 50 Best TV Shows…EVER!

 

 
 TBR:
  1. Said Sayrafiezadeh
  2. Rion Amilcar Scott
  3. Mia Alvar
  4. Sharon Olds (poet)
  5. Joe Henry (poet/songwriter)
  6. Amy Bonnaffons (short stories)
  7. Science Books to read 2017
  8. Literary Theory and Criticism Books