Check out our new display featuring some of the newest literary and historical award winning books.
We order award winning books annually that have been chosen for the top literary and historical award prizes. The links below are for books awarded throughout the years. You can check our catalog to check if it is available in the library.
LITERARY PRIZES
ALA (American Library Association)
- Black Caucus of the ALA (BCALA Literary Award)
- Caldecott Medal (Best children’s picture books)
- Coretta Scott King Book Awards (Given to African American authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults that demonstrate an appreciation of African American culture and universal human values)
- (Margaret L.) Batchelder Award (The most outstanding children’s book originally published in another language and translated into English)
- Michael L. Printz Award Excellence in Young Adult Literature (honors the best book written for teens, based entirely on its literary merit)
- Newbery Medal (Best American literature for children)
- Stonewall Book Awards (The first and most enduring award for GLBT books)
International
- Alfred B. Nobel Prize in Literature
- Dylan Thomas Prize for Young Writers
- Hans Christian Andersen Award (This is the highest international recognition given to a living author and illustrator whose complete works have made a lasting contribution to children’s literature)
- Man Booker Prize and Man Booker International Prize (The best novel in the opinion of the judges)
Minnesota
- Minnesota Book Award Winners (Categories include: Children’s Literature, General nonfiction, memoirs, poetry, Young people’s literature and reader’s choice awarded to Minnesota Authors)
Mystery
- Edgar Award (Presented by Mystery Writers of America)
National
- Ambassador Book Award (Recognizes important literary works that contribute to the understanding and interpretation of American life and culture)
- French-American Foundation Translation Prize
- Hurston/ Wright Legacy Awards (presented to writers of African descent by the national community of Black writers. Categories include of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry)
- National Book Awards
- National Book Critics Circle Awards
- New York Public Library Helen B. Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism
- PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction
- Premio Aztlán Literay Prize (for emerging Chicana/o authors)
- Pulitzer Prizes– Fiction, History, Biography, Poetry, General Nonfiction
- Thurber Prize for American Humor
- Willa Literary Award (Presented by Women Writing the West)
- William Dean Howells Medal (Awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters – given once every five years in recognition of the most distinguished American novel published during that period)
Poetry
- Frost Medal (Awarded by The Poetry Society of America)
- Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction (UK)
- Hugo Awards (Science Fiction’s most prestigious award)
- John W. Campbell Memorial Award (Best Science-fiction novel)
- Nebula Awards
Short Stories
United Kingdom:
Historical Awards:
Awards for Distinguished historical work given by the American Historical Association :
- Albert J. Beveridge Award (History of the United States, Latin America, or Canada since 1492)
- Clarence H. Haring Prize (Latin American history by a Latin American)
- George Louis Beer Prize (Outstanding historical writing on any phase of European international history since 1895)
- Herbert Baxter Adams Prize (European history from the ancient period through 1815)
- J. Russell Major Prize (History of France)
- James A. Rawley Prize (History of the Atlantic worlds before the 20th century)
- James Henry Breasted Prize (History prior to 1000 CE)
- Joan Kelly Memorial Prize (Women’s History)
- John H. Dunning Prize (U.S. history)
- John E. Fagg Prize (History of Spain and Latin America)
- John K. Fairbank Prize (East Asian history since 1800)
- Leo Gershoy Award (17th- and 18th-century West European history)
- Morris D. Forkosch Prize (British, British imperial, or British Commonwealth history)
- Premio del Rey (Early Spanish history (500-1516 CE.)
- Wesley-Logan Prize (African Diaspora History)