Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

There are the big ones like National Book Award, Manbooker, Newberry, pulitzer. What are some other book awards we can be looking at?

International members - what can you recommend?

Listopia link: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

Booker Award: Fiction written in English and published in the UK
Despite a rule change, this year was a tie.

Girl, Woman, Other
The Testaments

Booker International Prize: Translated into English

Celestial Bodies


I've been wanting to read Girl, Woman, Other! I thought it would be my vlog rec though... we'll see where it ends up for me

Hugo Awards - science fiction and fantasy

Best Novel: The Calculating Stars
Best Novella: Artificial Condition
Best Novelette: If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again
Best Series: Wayfarers, by Becky Chambers
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
A Closed and Common Orbit
Record of a Spaceborn Few
Best Graphic Story: Monstress, Vol. 3: Haven
Best Art Book: The Books of Earthsea


The Calculating Stars is one of my favorite books of the past year! I loved it so much, after listening I ran out and had my local store order a hard copy for me too. I also enjoyed the first Becky Chambers book.

Newberry - Children's literature
Caldecott - Picture book art

Newberry Medal: Merci Suárez Changes Gears
Newberry Honor: The Night Diary
Newberry Honor: The Book of Boy

Caldecott Medal: Hello Lighthouse
Caldecott Honor: Alma and How She Got Her Name
Caldecott Honor: A Big Mooncake for Little Star
Caldecott Honor: The Rough Patch
Caldecott Honor: Thank You, Omu!

Honor books also get a medal for their covers, so I guess they count.

I can recommend The Night Diary and Thank You Omu!. I was thisclose to buying The Book of Boy yesterday! Merci Suárez has been on my TBR for a while.

Can we include the Goodreads awards?

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones won the Women’s Prize for fiction this year.

Underland by Robert McFarlane won the Wainwright nature prize this year.

The Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction will be announced tomorrow.

Olga tokarczuk won the Nobel Prize for fiction, so you may be able to use either of her books for this. Flights or Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead.

They Will Drown in Their Mothers' Tears got Tähtivaeltaja Award (awarded by Helsinki Science Fiction Society) here in Finland this year.

The Fire Starters won European Union Prize for Literature in Ireland and All Among The Barley same prize but in UK.

Nancy wrote: "Can we include the Goodreads awards?"

Yep, any award counts!

Stoker Award The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay is what I’m reading!!!

Nebula Awards:
From active members of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America

Best Novel: The Calculating Stars
Best Novella: The Tea Master and the Detective
Best Novelette: The Only Harmless Great Thing
Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy: Children of Blood and Bone

Edgar Awards
From the Mystery Writers of America

Best Novel: Down the River Unto the Sea
Best First Novel by an American Author: Bearskin
Best Paperback Original: If I Die Tonight
Best Fact Crime: Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation
Best Critical/Biographical: Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s
Best Juvenile: Otherwood
Best Young Adult: Sadie


Dagger Awards
From The Crime Writers’ Association for crime and thrillers

Gold Dagger: The Puppet Show
New Blood Dagger: Scrublands
Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction: The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Ian Fleming Steel Dagger: To The Lions
International Dagger: A Long Night in Paris
Historical Dagger: Destroying Angel

Stonewall Award
From the American Library Association's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table

Literature: The Great Believers
Nonfiction: Go the Way Your Blood Beats: On Truth, Bisexuality and Desire
Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award:
Julián Is a Mermaid
Hurricane Child

Honor Books in Literature
Forward
Luisa: Now and Then
Speak No Evil
White Houses

Honor Books in Non-Fiction
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History
Raising Rosie: Our Story of Parenting an Intersex Child
Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation
The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America

Honor Books in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World
Picture Us in the Light

Honor books get a medal for their covers

Lamda Literary Awards
LGBTQ books

Lesbian Fiction
The Tiger Flu

Gay Fiction
Jonny Appleseed

Bisexual Fiction
Disoriental

Bisexual Nonfiction
Out of Step: A Memoir

Transgender Fiction
Little Fish

LGBTQ Nonfiction
Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry

Transgender Nonfiction
Histories of the Transgender Child

Lesbian Poetry
Each Tree Could Hold a Noose or a House

Gay Poetry
Indecency

Bisexual Poetry
We Play a Game

Transgender Poetry
Lo Terciario / The Tertiary

Lesbian Mystery
A Study in Honor

Gay Mystery
Late Fees

Lesbian Memoir/Biography
Chronology

Gay Memoir/Biography
No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America

Lesbian Romance
Beowulf for Cretins: A Love Story

Gay Romance
Crashing Upwards

LGBTQ Erotica
Miles and Honesty in SCFSX!

LGBTQ Anthology
As you like it: The Gerald Kraak Anthology African Perspectives on Gender, Social Justice and Sexuality Vol. II

LGBTQ Children’s/Young Adult
Hurricane Child

LGBTQ Graphic Novels
The Lie And How We Told It

LGBTQ SF/F/Horror
The Breath of the Sun

LGBTQ Studies
Toxic Silence: Race, Black Gender Identity, and Addressing the Violence against Black Transgender Women in Houston

World Fantasy Awards

Best Novel: Witchmark by C.L. Polk
Best Novella: The Privilege of the Happy Ending by Kij Johnson
Best Short Fiction: “Ten Deals with the Indigo Snake” by Mel Kassel and “Like a River Loves the Sky” by Emma Törzs
Anthology: Worlds Seen in Passing: Ten Years of Tor.com Short Fiction, edited by Irene Gallo
Collection:: The Tangled Lands, by Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S. Buckell
Special Award-Professional: Huw Lewis-Jones for The Writer’s Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands

By Chance Alone by Max Eisen won Canada Reads this year!

Winner of the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour (correct as this is a Canadian award) for 2019 is
Boy Wonders: A Memoir

but it is rather Canadian (as in it is highly unlikely Americans will know about the sitcom that ran for 19 long seasons and was shown in many countries called The Beachcombers but it the memoir might be up someone's alley.

The Overstory by Richard Powers - Pulitzer Prize for Fiction(2019)

Milkman - National Book Critics Circle Award (2019)

I created this last list at the end of the day yesterday and Sara has t had a chance to add it to the opener post:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

I see a lot of good ideas here that need to be added to our list! If you like adding titles to lists...

Wellcome Book Prize: Murmur
Clarke Award: Rosewater
Wainwright Prize: Underland
Jhalak Prize: In Our Mad and Furious City
BSFA Best Novel: Embers of War

Nadine wrote: "I created this last list at the end of the day yesterday and Sara has t had a chance to add it to the opener post:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1......"

Added! Thanks for the nudge ;) I thought I'd gotten them all! :)

Giller prize for Canadian fiction was awarded this week.
Debut novel Reproduction

And Canada Reads from CBC a couple of months ago.
Winner was By Chance Alone: A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz

I think I'm going to wait for the results of the Goodreads Choice Awards and then read one of the winners for this prompt.

I've read most of the award winners I'm interested in.

I found this list though that has a bunch of SFF and Horror award winners announced this year: http://www.sfadb.com

A couple I haven't already seen mentioned:

poshpenny wrote: "Stonewall Award
From the American Library Association's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table

Literature: The Great Believers
Nonfiction: [book:Go the Way Your Blood..."

The Great Believers was one of my favorite reads this year! Highly recommend!

Here is a lengthy list of award winners.

Booker Prize
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

Carnegie Medal
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
In West Mills by De'Shawn Charles Winslow

Costa Book Award
Normal People by Sally Rooney

Desmond Eliott Prize
Golden Child by Claire Adam

Dylan Thomas Prize
In Our Mad and Furious City by Guy Gunaratne

Folio Prize
The Perseverance by Raymond AntrobusLucy Ellmann

Goldsmiths
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann

National Book Award
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi

Pulitzer Prize
The Overstory by Richard Powers

Stella Prize
The Erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie

Scotiabank Giller Prize
Reproduction by Ian Williams

Women’s Prize for Fiction
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

Walter Scott Prize
The Long Take by Robin Robertson

Hugo Award
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal

Nebula Award
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal

British Science Fiction Award
Embers of War by Gareth L. Powell

Mythopoeic Award
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

Locus Science Fiction Award
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal

August Derleth Award
Little Eve by Catriona Ward

Campbell Memorial Award
Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller

World Fantasy Award
Witchmark by C.L. Polk

Locus Fantasy Award
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

Prometheus Award
Causes of Separation by Travis J.I. Corcoran

Locus First Novel Prize
Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse

Aurora Award
Armed In Her Fashion by Kate Heartfield

Phillip K. Dick Award
Theory of Bastards by Audrey Schulman

Arthur C. Clarke Award
Rosewater by Tade Thompson

Bram Stoker Award
The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay

Aurealis Science Fiction Award
LIFEL1K3 by Jay Kristoff

Aurealis Fantasy Award
City of Lies by Sam Hawke

Aurealis Horror Award
Tide of Stone by Kaaron Warren

Shirley Jackson Award
Little Eve by Catriona Ward

David Gemmell Legend Award
Assassin's Fate by Robin Hobb

David Gemmell Morningstar Award
Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames

Kitchies: Red Tentacle
Circe by Madeline Miller

Kitchies: Golden Tentacle
Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi

Robert Holdstock Award
The Bitter Twins by Jen Williams

Sunburst Award
Plum Rains by Andromeda Romano-Lax

(Disclaimer: I don't guarantee that the book won a prize in 2019. It might be the "2019 Winner" but given in 2018, depending on the prize award date. You might want to double check before using a book for this prompt.)

There's also the Young Readers Choice Awards done in the Pacific Northwest if you're interested in maybe a bit of a younger book, perhaps easier to get through.

Dog Man - Won in the Junior Category (Grades 4-6)

The Hidden Oracle - Won in the Intermediate Category (Grades 7-9)

Three Dark Crowns - Won in the Senior Category (Grades 10-12)

poshpenny wrote: "Hugo Awards - science fiction and fantasy

Best Novel: The Calculating Stars
Best Novella: Artificial Condition
Best Novelette: [book:If at First You Don't Succeed, ..."

Dang, do I go with "Calculating Stars" or "Long Way to a Small Angry Planet" now...

National Book Awards USA

Fiction: Trust Exercise
Nonfiction: The Yellow House
Poetry: Sight Lines
Translated Literature: Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming - from the Hungarian
Young People's Literature: 1919 The Year That Changed America

@dalex

Thanks for sharing this great list.

Waterstones Children's Book Prize
Older Fiction: Children of Blood and Bone
Younger Fiction: The Boy At the Back of the Class
Illustrated Book: The Girls

British Book Awards (Nibbies)
Book of the Year: Normal People
Nonfiction/Narrative + Audiobook of the Year: Becoming
Debut Fiction: Lullaby
Children’s Fiction: The Ice Monster
Crime and Thriller: Our House

Glass Bell Award: Vox

Books Are My Bag Readers Awards
Fiction: Circe
Non-Fiction: Becoming
Poetry: The Flame
Breakthrough Author: No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
Readers' Choice: Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Children's Fiction: No Ballet Shoes in Syria
Young Adult: Toffee
Beautiful Book: The Binding

Thank you everyone for all of the lists! The 2 books I am most interested in, which haven't received as much publicity as some of the others I'm considering (e.g. The Overstory, The Great Believers, and Trail of Lightning) are:

Plum Rains- Sunburst Award for Adult (2019) (Canadian award) This one can also be used for the AI prompt.
Disoriental - Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction (2019)

2019 FAPA President’s Books Awards Gold Medal, and 2019 Reader’s Favorite Gold Medal for Southern Fiction

I'm going to go with The Overstory.

As an audiobook lover, I'll add audiobooks that won the 2019 Audie Awards to the list. Some of these are awards for narration, so it's up to you if that fits the prompt or not.

Children of Blood and Bone
Educated
Dreamland Burning
The Secret of Nightingale Wood
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Bleak House
The Punishment She Deserves
Crimson Lake
Spinning Silver
His Viking Bride
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink
How to Be Heard: Secrets for Powerful Speaking and Listening
The Man on the Mountaintop
The Greatest Love Story Ever Told
Heads of the Colored People
Before She Was Harriet
Sunny
Sadie

I'm really excited because this is the perfect place for me to slot Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson. Speak is one of my absolute favorites, so I've been eager to read more about Anderson's own experiences (even though I know it's going to be very rough).

Here are the awards it's won (I'm confused by all the children's ones, considering it's about her experience with sexual assault...):
PW's Most Anticipated Children's Books of Spring 2019
Amazon’s Best Children’s Books of the Year So Far 2019
Amazon’s Best Young Adult Book of 2019
Parents.com Best Books for Teens of 2019

I'm going with The Great Believers for this one.

Agatha Awards
The Agatha Awards honor the Traditional Mystery, books typified by the works of Agatha Christie and others. For our purposes, the genre is loosely defined as mysteries that contain no explicit sex, excessive gore or gratuitous violence, and are not classified as "hard-boiled."

Best Contemporary Novel: Mardi Gras Murder
Best Historical Novel: The Widows of Malabar Hill
Best First Novel: A Lady's Guide to Etiquette and Murder
TIE: Curses, Boiled Again!
Best Children's/YA Mystery: Potion Problems
Best Nonfiction: Mastering Plot Twists: How to Use Suspense, Targeted Storytelling Strategies, and Structure to Captivat E Your Readers


Macavity Awards
From the members of Mystery Readers International

Best Novel: November Road
Best First Novel: Dodging and Burning
Best Historical Novel: The Widows of Malabar Hill
Best Nonfiction: The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World



Shamus Award
Given by the Private Eye Writers of America

BEST PI HARDCOVER: What You Want To See
BEST FIRST PI NOVEL: The Best Bad Things
BEST PI PAPERBACK ORIGINAL: The Questionable Behavior of Dahlia Moss

PEN America
PEN America stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression in the United States and worldwide.


PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: Call Me Zebra
fiction published by an American citizen

PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel: There There

PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD: Friday Black

PEN/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZE FOR DEBUT SHORT STORY COLLECTION: Bring Out the Dog: Stories

PEN OPEN BOOK AWARD: Heads of the Colored People

PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE: Love

PEN AWARD FOR POETRY IN TRANSLATION: A Certain Plume

PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY: Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms

PEN/BOGRAD WELD PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY: Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry

PEN/JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION: In a Day's Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers

PEN/E.O. WILSON PRIZE FOR LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING: Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter

PEN/ESPN AWARD FOR LITERARY SPORTS WRITING: The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey

Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Awarded April 12, 2019

Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction: Heads of the Colored People
Biography: Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose: Heavy: An American Memoir
Current Interest: The Line Becomes A River: Dispatches from the Border
Fiction: The Great Believers
Graphic Novel/Comics: On a Sunbeam
History: Travelers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism: 1919–1945
Mystery/Thriller: My Sister, the Serial Killer
Poetry: Wild Is the Wind: Poems
Science & Technology: Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
Young Adult Literature: The Poet X

Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
(and it's also a play by an author of color so I'm using it for another challenge)

Since this list is pictorial with awards on the actual winners, here is a link to the Christy Awards. I'm not big on Christian fiction since a lot of it is romance and the winner of the thriller is oddly not well written this year (I gave up after a chapter), here it is. https://christyawards.com/finalists-w...

James Beard Foundation Book Awards
Cookbooks and food

American: Between Harlem and Heaven: Afro-Asian-American Cooking for Big Nights, Weeknights, and Every Day

Baking and Desserts: SUQAR: Desserts & Sweets from the Modern Middle East

Beverage: Wine Folly: Magnum Edition: The Master Guide

General: Milk Street: Tuesday Nights: More than 200 Simple Weeknight Suppers that Deliver Bold Flavor, Fast

Health and Special Diets: Eat a Little Better: Great Flavor, Good Health, Better World: A Cookbook

International: Feast: Food of the Islamic World

Photography: Tokyo New Wave: 31 Chefs Defining Japan's Next Generation, with Recipes a Cookbook

Reference, History, and Scholarship: Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry

Restaurant and Professional: Chicken and Charcoal: Yakitori, Yardbird, Hong Kong

Single Subject: Goat: A manifesto for cooking and eating

Vegetable-Focused Cooking: Saladish: A New Way to Eat Your Vegetables

Writing: Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting-Pot Cuisine

Book of the Year: Cocktail Codex: Fundamentals, Formulas, Evolutions

Hammett Prize
North American Branch of the International Association of Crime Writers
November Road


Mythopoeic Awards
Mythopoeic Society

Adult Literature: Spinning Silver
Children's Literature: Bob

RITA Award
Romance Writers of America

Best First Book: Lady in Waiting
Contemporary Romance: Long: Long Shot
Contemporary Romance: Mid-Length: Advanced Physical Chemistry
Contemporary Romance: Short: The Bachelor's Baby Surprise
Erotic Romance: Three-Way Split
Historical Romance: Long: A Wicked Kind of Husband
Historical Romance: Short: A Duke in the Night
Mainstream Fiction with a Central Romance: How to Keep a Secret
Paranormal Romance: Dearest Ivie
Romance Novella: Bad Blood
Romance with Religious or Spiritual Elements: The Saturday Night Supper Club
Romantic Suspense: Fearless
Young Adult Romance: My So-Called Bollywood Life

Spur Awards
Western Writers of America

Best Western Historical Novel: River of Porcupines
Best Western Contemporary Novel: The Flicker of Old Dreams
Best Western Mass Market Paperback Novel: Hawke's War
Best Western Romance Novel: The Woman Who Built a Bridge
Best Western Traditional Novel: The Return of Kid Cooper
Best Western Biography: White Hat: The Military Career of Captain William Philo Clark
Best Western Contemporary Nonfiction: The Line Becomes A River: Dispatches from the Border
Best Western Historical Nonfiction: Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands
Best Western Juvenile Fiction: Taos Lightning
Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction: Buffalo Heartbeats Across the Plains: The Last Great Hunts and Saving the Buffalo
Best Western Storyteller: Montana for Kids: The Story of Our State
Best First Novel: The River by Starlight
Best First Nonfiction Book: The Line Becomes A River: Dispatches from the Border

2019 Ned Kelly Awards for Australian Crime Fiction and True Crime

Best Fiction: The Lost Man
Best First Fiction: The Ruin
Best True Crime: Eggshell Skull: A Memoir About Standing Up, Speaking Out and Fighting Back

Locus Awards
Locus Science Fiction Foundation

Science Fiction Novel: The Calculating Stars
Fantasty Novel: Spinning Silver
Horror Novel: The Cabin at the End of the World
Young Adult Novel: Dread Nation
First Novel: Trail of Lightning
Novella: Artificial Condition
Novelette: The Only Harmless Great Thing
Anthology: The Book of Magic
Collection: How Long 'til Black Future Month?
Non-fiction: Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing
Art Book: The Books of Earthsea

Oh hey, the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards are in.

Ninth House, The Wicked King, and Recursion are all on my TBR. Possibly also Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death (because that's an amazing title).

I have decided I'm going to read Pumpkinheads as it's already on my physical TBR.