Awards
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Awards are given to individuals and their works across formats. This page provides links to some of the better-known awards.
American Library Association Awards
Each year, the American Library Association recognizes distinguished work through book, print, and media awards.
- ABC-CLIO Online History Award - honors online history
- ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Award for Best Book in Library Literature (Book, Print & Media Awards)
- Alex Awards - honor a book written for adults with appeal to ages 12-18.
- American Indian Youth Literature Award - honors a children's boo kconnected with American Indians.
- American Library Association Youth Media Awards
- Andrew Carnegie Medal - honors excellence in children's video
- W.Y. Boyd Literary Award for Military Fiction - honors fiction set in a period when the US was at war
- Sophie Brody Award - honors a work in Jewish literature
- Coretta Scott King Book Awards - honors outstanding African American authors and works for youth
- Dartmouth Medal - honors the creation of reference work
- Margaret A. Edwards Award - honors and author's body of work in young adult literature
- Eliza Atkin Gleason Book Award - honors a work related to the history of libraries, librarianship, and book culture
- John Newbery Medal - honors the author of the most distinguished children's book published in US.
- William C. Morris Award - honors a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens and celebrating impressive new voices in young adult literature.
- Michael L. Printz Award - honors best book for teens
- Mildred L. Batchelder Award - honors outstanding children's book originally written in a non-English language and translated for the US audience.
- Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award - honors a work in the area of intellectual freedom
- Odyssey Award - honors best audiobook for children or young adults.
- Pura Belpre Awards - honors Latino cultural experiences in literature for children and youth.
- Randolph Caldecott Medal - honors the artist/illustrator of the most distinguished children's book published in US.
- Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal - honors the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational book published in the US.
- Schneider Family Book Award - honors an author or illustrator that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for children and adolescent audiences.
- Stonewall Book Award - honors books for exceptional merit related to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender experience.
- Thedore Seuss Geisel Award - honors an author or illustrator of the most distinguished American book for beginning readers.
- E.B. White Read Aloud Awards - honors books that reflect universal read aloud standards.
- Laura Ingalls Wilder Award - honors an author or illustrator published in US
- YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults
National and International Awards
- American Book Awards - honors works of American Literature
- Booker Prize - honors works of fiction
- Costa Book Awards - UK
- Governor General's Literacy Awards - Canada
- Indies Choice Book Awards from American Booksellers Association
- Middle East Book Awards
- National Book Awards - honors American works.
- National Book Critics Circle - honors outstanding writing
- Nobel Prize in Literature
- PEN/Faulkner Awards
- Pulitzer Prize - honors works in many categories
By Format
- General
- BAFTA Awards (British awards in film, television, games, heritage)
- Audiobooks
- Games
- Music
- Television, Movies and Videos
- Web and App Content
By Genre
- Cultural Awards
- Arab American Book Award - honors a work by and about Arab Americans.
- Asian Pacific American Award - honors a book by and about Asian Pacific Americans
- Mexican American Children's Book Award - honors works depictingthe Mexican American experience.
- South Asia Book Award - honors a book about South Asians for children or young adults.
- Children's Books
- Jane Addams Children's Book Award - honors children's books that promote peace, social justice, world community and equality.
- Americas Book Award - honors a work for children or young adults connecting to Latin American culture.
- Sid Fleischman Award - honors humor in children's literature
- Boston Globe- Horn Book Awards - honors work in the field of children's and young adult literature.
- Golden Kite Awards - honors children's books in nonfiction, fiction, picture book text, and picture book illustration
- Kate Greenaway - honors an outstanding books for children and young people.
- Carter G. Woodson Book Awards - honors the most distinguished social studies books for young readers that depict ethnicity in the United States.
- Charlotte Zolotow Award - honors best picture book text published in the US.
- Hans Christian Andersen Award - honors lifetime achievement for work with children's books.
- Orbis Pictus Award - honors outstanding nonfiction for children
- Cookbooks
- James Beard Awards - honors books, new media, and many other categories.
- English
- CCCC Outstanding Book Award - honors a work in the field of composition and rhetoric
- Fantasy
- Mythopoeic Awards - honors myth fantasy, and scholarly study of these areas.
- World Fantasy Award - honors works of fantasy
- Graphic Literature
- Will Eisner Awards - honors comics, collections, and graphic novels and nonfiction
- Ignatz Award - honors comics, collections, and graphic novels and nonfiction
- History
- Beveridge Award - honors a work on American history.
- Organization of American Historians - honors works related to history
- Society for Military History - honors military history
- Western Heritage Awards - honors in print and media on Western heritage
- Western History Association Awards - honors books on western History
- Historical Fiction
- Horror Fiction
- Bram Stoker Awards - honors works of horror
- Humor
- Thurber Prize for American Humor - honors works of humor writing
- Law
- Silver Gavel - awards for law communications
- Literacy Criticism
- Truman Capote Award - honors works of literary criticism
- Literary Scholarship
- Christian Gauss Award - honors outstanding scholarly books
- Mystery Fiction
- Agatha Award - honors mystery and crime writers
- Edgar Award - honors works of mystery fiction, nonfiction, television, film, and theatre
- Macavity Awards - honors mysteries in different categories
- Nonfiction
- Bancroft Prize - honors books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas
- Outdoors
- National Outdoor Book Awards - honors books focusing on the outdoors.
- Regional Focus
- PNBA Book Awards - honors books reflecting the Pacific Northwest
- SIBA Book Award - honors books reflecting the American South
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Romance
- RITA Award - honors works of romance fiction.
- Science
- John Burroughs Medal - honors a book in the field of natural history
- Rachel Carson Prize - honors a book in the field of science and technology
- Ludwik Fleck Prize - honors a book in the field of science and technology
- Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science - honors outstanding contributions to the literature of science
- Science Fiction
- Hugo Award - honors the best science fiction or fantasy works
- Nebula Award - honors the best science fiction or fantasy works
- LOTUS Index to Science Fiction Awards
- Social Studies
- NCTE George Orwell Award - honors writers for contributions to the critical analysis of public discourse
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Award - honors scholarly studeis in history, philosophy and religion.
- RFK Book Award - hoors books that reflect concerns for the poor and social justice
- Western
- Spur Award - honors western novel, historical novel, juvenile and short story plus audiobook, music, movies, and songs
- WILLA Literacy Award - honors women's stories set in the West
State Children's Book Awards
Many states have their own book awards particularly book awards for children. You'll find a sampling below:
- Alabama - Camellia Award
- Alaska
- Arizona
- California
- John and Patricia Beatty Award (California focus)
- California Young Reader Medal Program
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
Go to Wikipedia's Literary Awards page for a master list.
Go to Wikipedia's American Literacy Awards page.
Portions of this page were adapted from Collection Development & Management by Irwin and Albee (2012).