Award Winning Books

2024 Book Award Program Winners and Finalists

Have you wondered which books recently won awards? Here is a list of active award programs for books and recent winners and finalists.

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National Book Foundation:

  • James by Percival Everett (A pulitzer Prize finalist as well)
  • Soldiers and Kings by Jason De Leon
  • Something About Living by Lena Khalaf Tuffaja
  • Taiwan Travelouge by Yang Shuang-Zi
  • Kareen Between by Shifa Shaltagi Safadi

Pulitzer Prize 2024 Winners

  • Night Watch by Jayne Abbe Phillips
  • No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era by Jacqueline Jones
  • Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo
  • Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera Garza

Pulitzer Prize Finalists

  • Same bed Different Dreams by Ed Park
  • Tripas: Poems by Brandon Som

International Book Awards 2024

  • Category: Best Cover Design (Fiction)
    • Deena Undone by Debra K. Every
    • Finalist: Hoodwinked in Hotlanta by Elizabeth R. Jensen
  • Category: Best Interior Design
    • Start. Scale. Exit. Repeat. by Colin C. Campbell
  • Category: Best New Fiction
    • No More Empty Spaces by D. J. Green
  • Category: Fiction
    • Leaning on Air by Cheryl Grey Bostrom
    • Finalists:
      • A Boy’s Guide to Outer Space by Peter Selgin
      • Daughter of A Promise by Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg
      • No More Empty Spaces by D. J. Green
  • Category: Horror
    • Caretaker (The Goodpasture Chronicles) by R.J. Halbert
    • Finalists:
      • Deena Undone by Debra K. Every
      • Evergreen Dread by Victor Marrow
      • Fraidy Hole by Staci Andrea
      • Ghost of the Gray by J. Jones
      • The Lodge by Jeremy Eads
  • Category: Inspirational Fiction
    • The Statue’s Secret: The Answers We Seek Can Often Be Found In The Most Unlikely Places by Skip Johnson
    • Finalists:
      • Emma’s Hero by Carrie Walker
      • Of the Noble and Great Ones by H.D. Logic
  • Category: LGBTQ
    • Off the Menu by Alaina Erdell
    • Finalists:
      • Foreign To Me: Journey of a Dark Shaman Trilogy, Book 1 by Dale Allen-Rowse
      • Hawthorne Manor by Bryan T. Clark
      • Stuck In Her Head by Kylie Wang & Liana Tang
      • Swing Bridge: Stories by Bronwyn Hughes
      • The Strange Story of Stanley Suspect by JC Compton
  • Category: Literary Fiction
    • Five Days in Bogota by Linda Moore
  • Category: Multicultural
    • Everything Here Belongs to You by Saborna Roychowdhury
  • Category: Fiction, Mystery
    • Necessary Deeds by Mark Wish
  • Category: Fiction Romance
    • Leaning on Air by Cheryl Grey Bostrom
  • Category: Fiction Science Fiction
    • After the Eagle has Fallen by W. Michael Gear
  • Category: Thriller and Adventure
    • After the Eagle has Fallen by W. Michael Gear

See full list here!

National Book Critics Circle

  • Fiction:
    • Finalists:
      • Marie-Helene Bertino, Beautyland (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
      • Joseph O’Neill, Godwin (Pantheon)
      • Percival Everett, James (Doubleday)
    • Winner:
      • Hisham Matar, My Friends (Random House)
  • Nonfiction:
    • Winner:
      • Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (Avid Reader)

See all winners here

IBPA Book Awards 2024 Winners

Indie Ink Awards 2023

Nebula Awards