Award Winners

• Academic Association Awards
• Bancroft Prize
• Cookbook Awards
• International Awards and Prizes
• Library Awards
• Lincoln Prize
• Media Awards
• National Book Award
• National Book Critics Circle Award
• National Jewish Book Award
• Nobel Prize
• Other Awards and Honors
  • 800-CEO-READS Business Book Award
  • American Book Award
  • Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
  • Arab American Book Award
  • Banff Mountain Festival Book Award
  • Barnes and Noble Discover Prize
  • Edward Lewis Wallant Award
  • George Washington Book Prize
  • Harvey Award
  • Hurston/Wright Legacy Award
  • Lambda Literary Award
  • Mark Lynton History Prize
  • National Humanities Medal
  • National Outdoor Book Award
  • New York Times Notable Selection
  • Robert F. Kennedy Book Award
  • Sierra Club Ansel Adams Award
  • Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award
  • The Story Prize
  • Whiting Writers' Award
• PEN Prizes
• Poetry Awards
• Professional Association Awards
• Pulitzer Prize
• State and Regional Awards
• Translation Awards

Other Awards and Honors

1. David Foster Wallace

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2. Annette Gordon-Reed

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3. A. Van Jordan

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4. Michael Dahlie

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5. Julie Sheehan

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6. Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History

   Florence Williams

   An engaging narrative about an incredible, life-giving organ and its imperiled modern fate.More

7. Major Jackson

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8. Elizabeth Spires

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9. David Levering Lewis

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10. Li-Young Lee

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11. Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane

    Andrew Graham-Dixon

    “This book resees its subject with rare clarity and power as a painter for the 21st century.”—Hilary Spurling, New York Times Book ReviewMore

12. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

    David Quammen

    A Booklist Top 10 Science Book of 2012, a 2012 New York Times Book Review Notable Book, and a Daily Beast "Top 11 Book of 2012"
    
    A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases.More

13. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

    Stephen Greenblatt

    Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction 
    Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-FictionMore

14. The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning

    Maggie Nelson

    “A vibrant and engaged work from a writer and thinker who is worthy of our attention.”—Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles TimesMore

15. The Death of Vishnu: A Novel

    Manil Suri

    “Enchanting. . . . Suri’s novel achieves an eerie and memorable transcendence.”—TimeMore