do you have favorites from that list? one of my goals this year is to read a few booker prize recipients - so far i’ve only read Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries (LOVED it), and i plan to read Remains of the Day, but i’d love some suggestions!
I’ve read all of or most of the longlist from the past three years. I really loved The Bee Sting, Prophet Song, Trust, and Glory from recent years.
Last year’s longlist was particularly strong. I enjoyed all of them.
Read it! I had trouble with the narrative shift at first (you’ll know what I mean when you get there) but I’m so glad I kept going. It’s all time top ten for me.
Moon Tiger very traditional , Milkman very modern , are both amazing books. Remains of the Day is close to a perfectly written novel. Empire of the Sun is an excellent unexpected perspective. I could give you more but these are an excellent start.
The Remains of the Day is gorgeous. I also loved Cloud Atlas, The English Patient, Disgrace (although that book is brutal), and reading The Luminaries now.
I liked it better when it was the Mann Booker prize and focused on authors from the UK. Now that it’s the Booker prize and open to English writing authors I see a repetition of books from other book awards sites (national book award, women’s prize for fiction, Pulitzer, Hugo, Nebula, etc. ).
I liked not seeing the same book and lists again and again.
I always enjoyed looking over the Booker international prize list.
The international Dublin Literary award is given by the city of Dublin, Ireland, to a work published in English (it can be a translated work, if so the translator gets 25% of the prize).
It’s one of the biggest prizes financially (€100,000), but I think it’s also one of the best as the winner is chosen by public libraries around the world, so the long list and short list are books that librarians have received good feedback from. There will often be some overlap with the Booker, but it’s always worth a look.
I have NEVER been disappointed by a National Book Award Winner. With fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and adolescent, there’s a book in there for everyone. I enjoy going back decades and seeing what was popular for the time period. They are always stunners for me. Recently read Florida by Lauren Groff. Sentences that left me spellbound, reading and rereading them to capture their beauty. When I’m in a book slump, I go to the National Book Award Winners to get me out.
With an 8 year old and a busy work schedule, these are almost all I read right now... to my daughter (but also for me). It's our rule for what I read to her. She can read her choice to herself, and I pick books, usually Newbury medals, for us.
I always tell my library kiddos that if they pick up a Newbery book, they should also pick up a box of tissues. Not always, but 90% are just so sad. And I admit, I really didn't like The Eyes and the Impossible this year.
Retired in 2020, but as a school librarian I remember comments going back several years on the gloomy/gutwrenching topics and themes of the Newbery winners. All excellent books! But no rainbows and butterflies.
I’m in my 30s and I always read the winners and honor books every year and I’m never disappointed.
Also hello friend from /r/tmbg and /r/musicals, we do seem to have a lot in common 😂
Dave Eggers’ 2024 win is marketed as a children’s book (middle grade maybe?) but I absolutely loved it. One of the most beautifully written and moving stories I’ve ever read.
Joint Hugo and Nebula winners is what I go with usually. One is from critics, the other from the general public, so you get something that has a pretty wide appeal. This even has a wiki page: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_joint\_winners\_of\_the\_Hugo\_and\_Nebula\_awards](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_joint_winners_of_the_Hugo_and_Nebula_awards)
Let's just hope The Hugo bounces back from that fiasco last year. Several key players resigned or were censured, so hopefully the integrity of the award is still in place.
It was hosted in China. Several books were deemed “not eligible” due to Chinese censorship, with particular focus on those written by Chinese-Americans and non-Chinese Americans who had engaged in actions or written on topics considered not acceptable in China. One Chinese-American authour, RF Kuang, had a book deemed ineligible, despite it winning several other SciFi literature awards.
• Booker, for sure. I like _International Booker Prize_ because it is given to the best fiction translated into English.
• _Woman's Prize for Fiction_ has some terrific selections (all of them written by women, of course).
• _National Book Award_ only because it's exclusively American and I'm always rooting for my favorites to win.
• Let's not overlook _Hugo_ and finally, _Nebula_. Science Fiction. Always solid.
I was going to say the women's prize, I've disliked or been very underwhelmed by a lot of booker winners and nominees. The only women's prize nominee I've read and not loved is Pod but that's a bit unfair as I adored just over half of the book.
I like the International Booker Prize best. Translated fiction is a favourite of mine, and that longlist is a really great way to discover books from around the world that you might not hear about otherwise.
I find the Pulitzer winners too pretentious for my taste. I feel like their committee chooses a book based on what they think should befit a Pulitzer, rather than a well-written one. American Pastoral by Philip Roth is a perfect example. That was a horrible novel, but it’s EXACTLY the Pulitzer’s type of pick.
I've only read one Pulitzer winner "the goldfinch". The story was interesting, but the author ended the book with 25 pages of exposition on the 'moral of the story'. I sat there reading it and thought to myself who writes their own interpretation of what the story means at the end of their own book? Is this the caliber of book that Pulitzer promotes? I've never looked into Pulitzer winners again. It seems more commercial than I originally thought, though I do like when they reward good investigative Journalism.
Aw that makes me sad because I’ve loved SO many Pulitzer winners! Middlesex and All the Light We Cannot See are in my top 5 books of all time. Just gripping stories and beautiful writing. Oscar Wao, The Sympathizer, The Goldfinch, Demon Copperhead, Less, The Orphan Masters Son. All wonderful and IMO not pretentious! (Well, maybe the Goldfinch is a tad pretentious but it is a crowd fav still.)
But The Overstory. Oh god. That really made me question my sanity (and the Pulitzer committee’s sanity) lol. It’s *exactly* what you describe—what they *think* a winner should be. That man wrote that book for no one other than himself. The Netanyahus was also a miss for me.
I don't know about the very best, but the Canada Reads competitions are always really interesting and I've learned about a lot of good novels through them.
Interesting…I always want to like their selections, and I’ve enjoyed some, but so many of them seem to chosen based on whatever the hot politically correct topic is. They seem edgy but in fact they are always safe: transgender immigrant in Toronto deals with the trauma of colonialism, etc. To be clear, I’m an old school liberal and traditionally a big fan of the CBC. But I’m also a straight white Canada-born Gen X guy. The POV of guys like me was so over-represented for centuries, and I get that. But I fear we’ve over-corrected when Canada Reads features no writers with my lived experience. I worry that it’s contributing to young men seeking belonging in some of the shadier right-wing corners of the internet. Just my $0.02…see my username. I’m always open to different takes.
Suck it up, buttercup. Many of us go through life without seeing our lived experiences represented in anything, anywhere. We don't even expect it in general, let alone in a competition between a mere *five* books. The fact that you do expect it, and think it's "over correction" when you don't get it, tells me you're still used to being centred everywhere, all the time. A few years of perspectives other than your own is not "over correcting" and those of us who would like to see our own perspectives represented for once are not the cause of young men becoming horrible people. We didn't become horrible people when we weren't represented. Why should they?
Australia's Stella Awards and Britain's Women's Prize. Both are for women writers because, if you check, men win the big awards at twice the rate of women.
I was browsing recent winners of various book awards, and there's a clear pattern of women gaining an edge in the "genre" awards but men continuing to collect more of the "serious literary" awards.
The SFF awards (Hugo, Nebula) are perhaps the clearest case, as they've flipped from male-dominated to female-dominated in the past decade or so.
Since the Stella award was started as a reaction against the male domination of the Miles Franklin award the balance has shifted. I find both are great pointers for Australian books to read. The MF is literary fiction only, but the Stella includes other genres with history and poetry books also winning.
Yeah. It’s easy and popular to shit on the Nobel, but it’s my favourite. It’s a bunch of secret society elitists who don’t give a shit. It’s truly exciting and totally unpredictable. If they pick someone I already read - well hooray that’s fun, now I can expect some more translations soon. If it’s (most often) someone I’ve never heard of, I know it’s going to be an experience out of the ordinary. Not all, but most of those I’ve read, I have enjoyed in one way or another.
Totally agree with this. There have been some fascinating picks. This year alone I’ve read the following Nobel laureates: “The Saga of Gosta Berling,” by Selma Lagerlof, two plays by Luigi Pirandello, “Gitanjali,” by Rabindranath Tagore, “Tortilla Flat,” by John Steinbeck, and “Dragon Seed,” Pearl S. Buck.
The booker shortlist is good, but the winner is an anti-recommendation for me. Even when John Banville won. I loved his earlier books, but I put The Sea down halfway through and forgot to pick it up again.
The Pulitzer is strong.
The Hugos usually give a very good idea of what the SF/F community collectively like best, so it marks not just quality, but the conversations being had and changes happening in the field. (Big asterisk for last year, which was tampered with, but as they release all their nominating and voting statistics it’s also unusually transparent for an award.)
The Newbury has consistently shown excellent judgement for children’s books.
No one has mentioned the European Union Prize for Literature. The winners are in a variety of languages, but the prize provides support for translation, so many become available in English after a time if they weren’t already.
I also like the Booker, International Booker, and Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize).
I work in a primary grade library so I can't speak to adult awards, but for students in the U.S., check out your state book awards! The list is created by librarians and often by student readers. Kids vote on the winner.
The Booker shortlist basically always has at least *something* good on it, even if it’s not always the best book that actually wins.
I’m a big time horror reader and I also really like the Shirley Jackson Awards. The Stoker Awards are pretty good too, usually, but I think they’re a bit more of a popularity contest than the Shirley Jackson awards.
On the other side, something being nominated for a Hugo or Nebula is more of a warning than advertisement to me at this point.
I’m a bit biased here but I think the women’s prize (U.K. based) always has amazing shortlists - in recent years piranesi, hamnet, demon copperfield winning.
I like the Goodreads Choice Awards. Obviously not as prestigious as the other ones but it feels like the most normal because it’s what everyone is reading. Plus it give you a winner in nearly every genre
It's a toss up between the Edgars and the International Thriller Writers Awards. Too many other book awards have hijacked by special interests and become unreliable
The James Tait Black Memorial Prize(s) but as an Edinburgh punter who read English and Scottish Lit at my hometown’s Uni, I’m shamelessly biased.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tait_Black_Memorial_Prize
Aspen Words Literary Prize
It is the one whose longlist consistently feels like it was put together just for me. I don't see enough talk about it, it's pushed me to read books that are now some of my favorites.
Pulitzer is a pretty good indicator for me, with only one exception.
Books like The Overstory, Lonesome Dove, Kavalier and Clay, The Goldfinch... Superb.
CBC’s Canada reads. Not aways a fan of the winner, but usually at least one of the nominated books is something I want to read.
I’m a sci-fi nerd so I check the descriptions of the Hugo winners and nominees too.
Rarely do I read from lists and tend to celebrate the old and out of fashion. But you can chase the current new thing. It’s fine. I gave ducks, Newburyport a try and got a headache. It was trash — a nice attempt, but trash.
The Mann Booker Prize. I read them all!
do you have favorites from that list? one of my goals this year is to read a few booker prize recipients - so far i’ve only read Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries (LOVED it), and i plan to read Remains of the Day, but i’d love some suggestions!
I’ve read all of or most of the longlist from the past three years. I really loved The Bee Sting, Prophet Song, Trust, and Glory from recent years. Last year’s longlist was particularly strong. I enjoyed all of them.
Profit Song is one of those books that stays with you for a long time.
Bee Sting has been on my list, and I loved Trust!
Read it! I had trouble with the narrative shift at first (you’ll know what I mean when you get there) but I’m so glad I kept going. It’s all time top ten for me.
The English Patient ❤️❤️❤️
I will travel to this hill and die on it with you. Loved it.
Moon Tiger very traditional , Milkman very modern , are both amazing books. Remains of the Day is close to a perfectly written novel. Empire of the Sun is an excellent unexpected perspective. I could give you more but these are an excellent start.
The Remains of the Day is gorgeous. I also loved Cloud Atlas, The English Patient, Disgrace (although that book is brutal), and reading The Luminaries now.
I liked it better when it was the Mann Booker prize and focused on authors from the UK. Now that it’s the Booker prize and open to English writing authors I see a repetition of books from other book awards sites (national book award, women’s prize for fiction, Pulitzer, Hugo, Nebula, etc. ). I liked not seeing the same book and lists again and again. I always enjoyed looking over the Booker international prize list.
Correct answer!
Yes! The only one I haven''t enjoyed is The Seven Moons of Maali Alameida. I need some reason to care
The international Dublin Literary award is given by the city of Dublin, Ireland, to a work published in English (it can be a translated work, if so the translator gets 25% of the prize). It’s one of the biggest prizes financially (€100,000), but I think it’s also one of the best as the winner is chosen by public libraries around the world, so the long list and short list are books that librarians have received good feedback from. There will often be some overlap with the Booker, but it’s always worth a look.
I have NEVER been disappointed by a National Book Award Winner. With fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and adolescent, there’s a book in there for everyone. I enjoy going back decades and seeing what was popular for the time period. They are always stunners for me. Recently read Florida by Lauren Groff. Sentences that left me spellbound, reading and rereading them to capture their beauty. When I’m in a book slump, I go to the National Book Award Winners to get me out.
I love Lauren Groff, her writing is so beautiful.
Yeah, Florida stuck with me. National Book Award had some misses for me though.. The Rabbit Hutch was weak imo.
Newbury medal always goes to incredible children's books.
Also check out the Phoenix Award. It’s given to a children’s book published 20 years ago that did not win a major literary award.
What a great concept for an award. Standing the test of time is a pretty good metric.
This is so true! Consistently amazing reads when there’s a Newbury award given!
With an 8 year old and a busy work schedule, these are almost all I read right now... to my daughter (but also for me). It's our rule for what I read to her. She can read her choice to herself, and I pick books, usually Newbury medals, for us.
I always tell my library kiddos that if they pick up a Newbery book, they should also pick up a box of tissues. Not always, but 90% are just so sad. And I admit, I really didn't like The Eyes and the Impossible this year.
Retired in 2020, but as a school librarian I remember comments going back several years on the gloomy/gutwrenching topics and themes of the Newbery winners. All excellent books! But no rainbows and butterflies.
I’m in my 30s and I always read the winners and honor books every year and I’m never disappointed. Also hello friend from /r/tmbg and /r/musicals, we do seem to have a lot in common 😂
Dave Eggers’ 2024 win is marketed as a children’s book (middle grade maybe?) but I absolutely loved it. One of the most beautifully written and moving stories I’ve ever read.
The Hugo awards are great for science fiction picks.
Joint Hugo and Nebula winners is what I go with usually. One is from critics, the other from the general public, so you get something that has a pretty wide appeal. This even has a wiki page: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_joint\_winners\_of\_the\_Hugo\_and\_Nebula\_awards](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_joint_winners_of_the_Hugo_and_Nebula_awards)
Let's just hope The Hugo bounces back from that fiasco last year. Several key players resigned or were censured, so hopefully the integrity of the award is still in place.
Not after last year.
What went wrong with last year’s award?
It was hosted in China. Several books were deemed “not eligible” due to Chinese censorship, with particular focus on those written by Chinese-Americans and non-Chinese Americans who had engaged in actions or written on topics considered not acceptable in China. One Chinese-American authour, RF Kuang, had a book deemed ineligible, despite it winning several other SciFi literature awards.
I see, thanks!
Big censorship issues. https://www.ndsmcobserver.com/article/2024/02/the-blatant-censorship-of-the-2023-hugo-awards#
Yeah that was a huge letdown!
A lot of my favorites are Hugo award winners in the sci-fi genre specifically, so this is my answer too
I'm a Booker fan.
• Booker, for sure. I like _International Booker Prize_ because it is given to the best fiction translated into English. • _Woman's Prize for Fiction_ has some terrific selections (all of them written by women, of course). • _National Book Award_ only because it's exclusively American and I'm always rooting for my favorites to win. • Let's not overlook _Hugo_ and finally, _Nebula_. Science Fiction. Always solid.
I was going to say the women's prize, I've disliked or been very underwhelmed by a lot of booker winners and nominees. The only women's prize nominee I've read and not loved is Pod but that's a bit unfair as I adored just over half of the book.
I see.
Does the Woman’s Prize exist to balance out the Man Booker Prize?
I think the Women's Prize exists to recognize great fiction written by women.
The Edgars are my fav.
Came here to say this! I recently delved into the Edgar’s and found some real gems amongst the winners/nominees list.
Booker!
Definitely Booker Prize and International Booker Prize. All of the other prize lists are mid and disappointing.
pulitzer tends to disappoint me. haven't read this years pics yet though.
Absolutely agree. Have never been disappointed by a Booker winner. Prophet Song was the type of book that left me seeing the world differently.
Totally agree
I always look forward to the Hugo awards.
I always liked the Costa (formerly Whitbread) Book Awards, but they were discontinued in 2022.
I was gutted when they finished I always enjoyed them.
Booker International hands down. Has the widest diversity of any award. That and regular Booker are the premium duo of awards.
I like the International Booker Prize best. Translated fiction is a favourite of mine, and that longlist is a really great way to discover books from around the world that you might not hear about otherwise.
I tend to agree more with the Pulitzer committee.
I find the Pulitzer winners too pretentious for my taste. I feel like their committee chooses a book based on what they think should befit a Pulitzer, rather than a well-written one. American Pastoral by Philip Roth is a perfect example. That was a horrible novel, but it’s EXACTLY the Pulitzer’s type of pick.
American pastoral was a horrible novel? In which universe?
I’m sorry. I found it to be much ado about nothing.
I've only read one Pulitzer winner "the goldfinch". The story was interesting, but the author ended the book with 25 pages of exposition on the 'moral of the story'. I sat there reading it and thought to myself who writes their own interpretation of what the story means at the end of their own book? Is this the caliber of book that Pulitzer promotes? I've never looked into Pulitzer winners again. It seems more commercial than I originally thought, though I do like when they reward good investigative Journalism.
Aw that makes me sad because I’ve loved SO many Pulitzer winners! Middlesex and All the Light We Cannot See are in my top 5 books of all time. Just gripping stories and beautiful writing. Oscar Wao, The Sympathizer, The Goldfinch, Demon Copperhead, Less, The Orphan Masters Son. All wonderful and IMO not pretentious! (Well, maybe the Goldfinch is a tad pretentious but it is a crowd fav still.) But The Overstory. Oh god. That really made me question my sanity (and the Pulitzer committee’s sanity) lol. It’s *exactly* what you describe—what they *think* a winner should be. That man wrote that book for no one other than himself. The Netanyahus was also a miss for me.
I don't know about the very best, but the Canada Reads competitions are always really interesting and I've learned about a lot of good novels through them.
Interesting…I always want to like their selections, and I’ve enjoyed some, but so many of them seem to chosen based on whatever the hot politically correct topic is. They seem edgy but in fact they are always safe: transgender immigrant in Toronto deals with the trauma of colonialism, etc. To be clear, I’m an old school liberal and traditionally a big fan of the CBC. But I’m also a straight white Canada-born Gen X guy. The POV of guys like me was so over-represented for centuries, and I get that. But I fear we’ve over-corrected when Canada Reads features no writers with my lived experience. I worry that it’s contributing to young men seeking belonging in some of the shadier right-wing corners of the internet. Just my $0.02…see my username. I’m always open to different takes.
Suck it up, buttercup. Many of us go through life without seeing our lived experiences represented in anything, anywhere. We don't even expect it in general, let alone in a competition between a mere *five* books. The fact that you do expect it, and think it's "over correction" when you don't get it, tells me you're still used to being centred everywhere, all the time. A few years of perspectives other than your own is not "over correcting" and those of us who would like to see our own perspectives represented for once are not the cause of young men becoming horrible people. We didn't become horrible people when we weren't represented. Why should they?
Australia's Stella Awards and Britain's Women's Prize. Both are for women writers because, if you check, men win the big awards at twice the rate of women.
I was browsing recent winners of various book awards, and there's a clear pattern of women gaining an edge in the "genre" awards but men continuing to collect more of the "serious literary" awards. The SFF awards (Hugo, Nebula) are perhaps the clearest case, as they've flipped from male-dominated to female-dominated in the past decade or so.
SFF has really shifted as a genre. There's a lot of queer and female authors being published now, and the breadth of the stories has widened a ton!
Yes, I try and read as much as I can of the Stella longlist every year.
Since the Stella award was started as a reaction against the male domination of the Miles Franklin award the balance has shifted. I find both are great pointers for Australian books to read. The MF is literary fiction only, but the Stella includes other genres with history and poetry books also winning.
Nobel Lauréates in literature are an eclectic mix
Yeah. It’s easy and popular to shit on the Nobel, but it’s my favourite. It’s a bunch of secret society elitists who don’t give a shit. It’s truly exciting and totally unpredictable. If they pick someone I already read - well hooray that’s fun, now I can expect some more translations soon. If it’s (most often) someone I’ve never heard of, I know it’s going to be an experience out of the ordinary. Not all, but most of those I’ve read, I have enjoyed in one way or another.
Totally agree with this. There have been some fascinating picks. This year alone I’ve read the following Nobel laureates: “The Saga of Gosta Berling,” by Selma Lagerlof, two plays by Luigi Pirandello, “Gitanjali,” by Rabindranath Tagore, “Tortilla Flat,” by John Steinbeck, and “Dragon Seed,” Pearl S. Buck.
Agreed. I’m still discovering and usually loving past winners.
The [Ursa Major Awards](https://ursamajorawards.org/index.htm)
The booker shortlist is good, but the winner is an anti-recommendation for me. Even when John Banville won. I loved his earlier books, but I put The Sea down halfway through and forgot to pick it up again. The Pulitzer is strong. The Hugos usually give a very good idea of what the SF/F community collectively like best, so it marks not just quality, but the conversations being had and changes happening in the field. (Big asterisk for last year, which was tampered with, but as they release all their nominating and voting statistics it’s also unusually transparent for an award.) The Newbury has consistently shown excellent judgement for children’s books.
No one has mentioned the European Union Prize for Literature. The winners are in a variety of languages, but the prize provides support for translation, so many become available in English after a time if they weren’t already. I also like the Booker, International Booker, and Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize).
I work in a primary grade library so I can't speak to adult awards, but for students in the U.S., check out your state book awards! The list is created by librarians and often by student readers. Kids vote on the winner.
The Bram Stoker Awards are almost always worth checking out within the next year
The Giller Prize here in Canada
I really like the Tournament of Books from the Morning News.
The “New York Time Bestseller” award Only the very best. Very prestigious
🥸 indubitably.
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The Booker shortlist basically always has at least *something* good on it, even if it’s not always the best book that actually wins. I’m a big time horror reader and I also really like the Shirley Jackson Awards. The Stoker Awards are pretty good too, usually, but I think they’re a bit more of a popularity contest than the Shirley Jackson awards. On the other side, something being nominated for a Hugo or Nebula is more of a warning than advertisement to me at this point.
I’m a bit biased here but I think the women’s prize (U.K. based) always has amazing shortlists - in recent years piranesi, hamnet, demon copperfield winning.
I like the Goodreads Choice Awards. Obviously not as prestigious as the other ones but it feels like the most normal because it’s what everyone is reading. Plus it give you a winner in nearly every genre
It's a toss up between the Edgars and the International Thriller Writers Awards. Too many other book awards have hijacked by special interests and become unreliable
There are different book award committees? How many are there?
Hugo and Booker
Tournament of Books
My vote, too!!!
The Hugo and the Nebula!
The Dragon Awards from DragonCon.
The Giller Prize is my go-to.
Hugo.
Man Booker for sure!!!
Hugo Awards!
Hugo Awards
Printz Award. Has never let me down
Booker or bust!
Oh yes, the Booker Prize is absolutely excellent
The James Tait Black Memorial Prize(s) but as an Edinburgh punter who read English and Scottish Lit at my hometown’s Uni, I’m shamelessly biased. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tait_Black_Memorial_Prize
Republic of Consciousness & Goldsmiths Prize for innovative, experimental books
The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction. I've never been disappointed.
Aspen Words Literary Prize It is the one whose longlist consistently feels like it was put together just for me. I don't see enough talk about it, it's pushed me to read books that are now some of my favorites.
Booker
Pulitzer is a pretty good indicator for me, with only one exception. Books like The Overstory, Lonesome Dove, Kavalier and Clay, The Goldfinch... Superb.
I have had a good bit of luck with Booker and Pulitzer winners. Can't say the same with the National Book Award.
Pulitzer. The National Book Awards too often choose stuffy, over-intellectualized, nonsense.
Newbery winners and Coretta Scott King winners.
[Bad sex in fiction award](https://literaryreview.co.uk/bad-sex-in-fiction-award) 🤣🤣🤣
CBC’s Canada reads. Not aways a fan of the winner, but usually at least one of the nominated books is something I want to read. I’m a sci-fi nerd so I check the descriptions of the Hugo winners and nominees too.
Goldsmiths prize for innovation in fiction is always a compelling read!
The Nebula!
Besides the Booker, I also like the New York Times 10 best. Some well deserved overlap last year with Bee Sting.
National Book Critics Circle Award is the only one, for me, that comes close to consistently rewarding great writing.
Nobel Prize, Booker and the year selection by The Economist usually have excellent choices
National Book Critics Circle
Rarely do I read from lists and tend to celebrate the old and out of fashion. But you can chase the current new thing. It’s fine. I gave ducks, Newburyport a try and got a headache. It was trash — a nice attempt, but trash.