Check out this post for some background on this research, and why I put it together.

Here’s a breakdown of the book awards and prizes I surveyed, with pie charts! There are so many ways to look at these.

By format: what were the most popular nonfiction titles? Graphic Novels? True Crime books?

By country: Exactly how many book awards does Canada have?

Alas, there is not enough time or space to report on it all. I hope what I’ve reported is interesting and helpful – and made you curious about the kinds of awards that are out there.

Awards by Main Category:

Age Group  

Adult

• Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction
• Booker Prizes
• International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
• National Book Critics Circle Awards

Children/Young Adult

• Every Child a Reader Children’s and Teen Choice Book Awards
• Maine Student Book Award

Chosen by Bookseller Association or Professional Group

• B&N Book of the Year
• Kirkus Prize
• Waterstones Book of the Year

Chosen by General Readers 

• Books Are My Bag Readers Award
• W H Smith Book of the Year

 Design/Production 

• Alice Award
• Selfies Book Awards

Format 

Audiobook

• Earphones

Comics and Graphic Novels

• Eisner Awards
• Harvey Awards
• Ignatz Awards

Genre 

Biography and/or Memoir

• James Tait Black Prizes
• PEN Ackerley Prize

Christian Fiction

• Christy Awards

Comedy

• Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize
• Comedy Women in Print Prize

Crime, Mystery, Thriller and/or Suspense

• Agatha Awards
• Anthony Awards
• Barry Awards
• CWA (Crime Writers’ Association) Dagger Awards
• Edgar Awards
• Harrogate Theakston Crime Award
• Staunch Book Prize

Fantasy, Sci Fi, Horror and/or Speculative

• Bram Stoker Awards
• British Fantasy Awards
• Gollancz and Rivers of London BAME SFF Award
• Hugo Awards
• Ignyte Awards
• Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards
• Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book
• Mythopoeic Awards
• Nebula Awards
• Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards for Speculative Fiction
• Shirley Jackson Awards
• This is Horror Awards
• World Fantasy Awards

Romance

• RITA Awards

Geographic Representation (Nationality/Citizenship of Author and/or Subject of Work) 

America (U.S.)

• American Book Award
• Bard Fiction Prize
• National Book Awards
• Pulitzer Prizes
• Young Lions Fiction Award

American Regions in the U.S.

South

• Crook’s Corner Book Prize
• Southern Book Prize

American West

• Spur Awards

Pacific Northwest

• PNBA Book Awards

American Cities and States in the U.S.

Chicago

• Chirby Awards

Indiana

• Indiana Authors Awards

Australia

• ARA Historical Novel Prize (also includes New Zealand)
• Davitt Awards
• Ledger Awards
• Miles Franklin Literary Awards
• Ned Kelly Awards
• Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction
• Richell Prize for Emerging Writers

British Isles

Ireland

• An Post Irish Book Awards

Scotland

• McIlvanney Prize

UK & Ireland

• Costa Book Awards
• Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing

Canada

• CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) Poetry Prize
• Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers
• Forest of Reading Awards
• Governor General’s Literary Awards
• Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction
• Rocky Mountain Book Award
• Scotiabank Giller Prize
• Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic
• Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize

Canadian Cities

• Toronto Book Award

New Zealand

• Ngaio Marsh Awards
• NZ (New Zealand) Book Awards
• NZ (New Zealand) Book Awards for Children & Young Adults

Russia

• Read Russia Prize

South Africa

• S. A. (South African) Literary Awards

Identity 

African-American

• Coretta Scott King Award
• Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence

Black

• Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards

Diverse, generally

• Diverse Book Awards

Immigrant

• • • New American Voices Award

LGBTQIA+

• • • Lambda Literary Awards
    • Polari Prize

Mid-career Writer

• • • Joyce Carol Oates Prize

Women

• • • Reading Women Award
    • Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Awards
    • Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
    • Women’s Prize for Fiction

Language  

French

• • • Albertine Prize

German

• • • Deutscher Buchpreis (the German Book Prize)

Spanish

• • • Ambroggio Prize

Literary Inventiveness 

• • • Goldsmiths Prize
    • Gordon Burn Prize

New Talent 

• • • 5 Under 35
    • Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

Social Impact of Work 

• • • Aspen Words Literary Prize
    • Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize
    • Christopher Awards
    • Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding

Subject 

The Arctic or Antarctic

• • • William Mills Prize for Non-Fiction

Business

• • • Financial Times/McKinsey & Company Business Book of the Year
    • Porchlight Business Book Awards

History

• • • Cundill History Prize
    • George Washington Prize

Horse Racing

• • • Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award

Literary Criticism

• • • Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism

Science and Nature Writing

• • • National Outdoor Book Awards
    • Royal Society Science Book Prize

Slave Trade, Slavery, and Anti-Slavery

• • • Harriet Tubman Prize

Social Justice

• • • Dayton Literary Peace Prize
    • Goddard Riverside / CBC (Children’s Book Council) Youth Book Prize for Social Justice
    • Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice

Sports

• • • William Hill Sports Book of the Year

 

Type of Writing 

Poetry

• • • Academy of American Poets First Book Award
    • Elgin Awards
    • Forward Prizes for Poetry
    • Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
    • James Laughlin Award
    • Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
    • Max Ritvo Poetry Prize
    • T.S. Eliot Prize

Short Story Collection

• • Edge Hill Short Story Prize

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