2025 & 2026 Reading Challenge discussion

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AWARDS ACROSS TIME
Duration: January 1 - March 31, 2026

We will start the year by exploring a variety of book awards that have been given from the 1901 Nobel up to the present. Book awards recognize different types of writing, genres and audiences, and help people discover amazing books! From fantasy to mysteries, nonfiction to westerns, science fiction to young adult, focus on whichever awards you wish!

To join, post a message telling the challenge leader how many books you plan to read. If you are new to our group and/or our group challenges, take a moment to check out the Yearly, Quarterly, Monthly Challenges - Start Here thread for more information on how our challenges are run.

Below are forty awards, arranged in order of the years they were established, but there are many, many more that you may choose. Over time, some awards were renamed, paused for the war years, or discontinued altogether. Regardless, any books that were recognized as winners -- or in the case of the Nobel prize, the award winning author's works -- will qualify for this challenge. Nominees, shortlisted titles, honorable mentions, etc. are disallowed.

For each time period you may read one or more books which won:
⏳ - An award established during that timeframe, but received any year
⏳ - An award received during that timeframe, but established any year

The Goodreads Book Award page is searchable by award names.

Established 1900 to 1949
Nobel Prize in Literature, 1901
Pulitzer Prize, 1917
Newbery Medal, 1922
The Caldecott Medal, 1938
Stephen Leacock Medal, 1947

Established 1950 to 1959
National Book Award, 1950
Spur Awards, 1953
Hugo Award, 1953
Edgar Award, 1954
The Crime Writers' Association Dagger Awards, 1955

Established 1960 to 1969
The Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, 1963
The Nebula Awards, 1965
Horn Book Award, 1967
Man Booker Prize, 1969
Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1969

Established 1970 to 1979
Neustadt International Prize for Literature, 1970
Costa Book Awards, 1971
Mythopoeic Awards, 1971
National Book Critics Circle Award, 1974
World Fantasy Award, 1975

Established 1980 to 1989
Los Angeles Times Book Prize, 1980
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, 1981
Bram Stoker Award, 1987
Agatha Award, 1988
Lambda Literary Awards, 1989

Established 1990 to 1999
British Book Awards, 1990
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 1996
Women's Prize for Fiction, 1996
Ned Kelly Awards, 1996
The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, 1999

Established 2000 to 2009
PEN/Bellweather Prize, 2000
Michael L. Printz Award, 2000
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, 2000
Hurston-Wright Legacy Award, 2002
International Booker Prize, 2005

Established 2010 to 2025
The Walter Scott Prize, 2010
Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, 2012
The Writer's Prize, 2014
The Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, 2017
Nero Book Awards, 2023

Many thanks to GailW for offering to lead this challenge!

Welcome to our Q1 Challenge – Awards Across Time!

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RC-Q1 - AWARDS ACROSS TIME
Duration: January 1 - March 31, 2026

For each time period you may read one or more books which won:
⏳ - An award established during that timeframe, but received any year
⏳ - An award received during that timeframe, but established any year
* Completed 0 / 12

1. Established 1900 to 1949
⏳ -Award established during timeframe, received any year: 
....... Pulitzer Prize, 1917
(2025): The Underground Railroad

2. Established 1950 to 1959
⏳ -Award established during timeframe, received any year: 
........ National Book Award, 1950
(2025): One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

3. Established 1960 to 1969
a. ⏳ -Award established during timeframe, received any year: 
............ The Nebula Awards, 1965
(2021): Ring Shout

b. ⏳ -Award established during timeframe, received any year: 
............ Booker Prize, 1969
(2016): The Sellout

4. Established 1970 to 1979
⏳ -Award established during timeframe, received any year: 
........ SCBWI Golden Kite Award for Fiction, 1973
(The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Golden Kite Awards were established in 1973, making them one of the oldest and most respected peer-judged literary awards in children's literature)
(2008): Home of the Brave

5. Established 1980 to 1989
a. ⏳ -Award established during timeframe, received any year: 
........... Lambda Literary Awards, 1989
(2018): Jonny Appleseed

b. ⏳ -Award established during timeframe, received any year: 
............ Anthony Awards, 1986
(2024:) Mother-Daughter Murder Night

6. Established 1990 to 1999
⏳ -Award established during timeframe, received any year: 
........ Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Older Children, 1993
(established by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) and the Jane Addams Peace Association)
(2001): Esperanza Rising

7. Established 2000 to 2009
a. ⏳ -Award established during timeframe, received any year: 
........... Cabell First Novelist Award, 2001
(established by Virginia Commonwealth University, honoring outstanding debut novels)
(2002): A Replacement Life

b. ⏳ -Award established during timeframe, received any year: 
............ Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature, 2001
(2020): They Called Us Enemy

8. Established 2010 to 2025
a. ⏳ -Award established during timeframe, received any year: 
............ Kirkus Prize for Fiction, 2014
(2017): What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky

a. ⏳ -Award established during timeframe, received any year: 
............ Clara Johnson Award, 2018
(established by Jane’s Stories Press Foundation, an international non-profit organization that nurtures emerging and established women writers.)
(2020): The Ungrateful Refugee