Award-winning books of major literary awards, with links to more complete information at BookBrowse.

Since 2000, BookBrowse has asked its members and subscribers to select the best books published each year. Through a rigorous voting process, this shortlist is then honed down to the find the BookBrowse Awards Winners.

• Best Book:
  Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
  
  
• Best Debut:
  The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
  
  
• Best Children's Book:
  Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick
  
  
• Runner Up:
  The Greater Journey by David McCullough
  
  

Joseph Pulitzer, a renowned journalist, established this award in 1917. Since 1984 Pulitzer winners have received their prizes from the president of Columbia University at a luncheon in May in the rotunda of the Low Library in the presence of family members, professional associates, board members, and the faculty of the School of Journalism.

• Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
  The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt
  
  
• Pulitzer Prize for History:
  Malcolm X by Manning Marable
  
  
• Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
  George F. Kennan by John Lewis Gaddis
  
  
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:
  Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith
  
  

Awarded in October each year, the Man Booker Prize is the UK's top literary prize and the most watched single-book award in the English-speaking world.

• Man-Booker Prize:
  The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
  
  

The Newbery Medal is awarded in January each year by the American Library Association for the most distinguished American children's book published the previous year.

• Newbery Medal:
  Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
  
  

Each March, the NBCC present awards for the finest books and reviews published in English (in the USA) the previous year in six categories: Fiction, nonfiction, autobiography, biography, criticism and poetry.

• NBCC Award for Fiction:
  Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman
  
  
• NBCC Award for Nonfiction:
  Liberty's Exiles by Maya Jasanoff
  
  
• NBCC Award for Biography:
  George F. Kennan by John Lewis Gaddis
  
  
• NBCC Award for Autobiography:
  The Memory Palace by Mira Bartok
  
  

First awarded in 1950, the National Book Awards recognize the best of American literature. The Awards are announced in November.

• National Book Award for Fiction:
  Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
  
  
• National Book Award for Nonfiction:
  The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt
  
  
• National Book Award for Poetry:
  Head Off & Split by Nikky Finney
  
  
• National Book Award for Young People's Literature:
  Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai
  
  

The Costas are the UK's most prestigious book awards. Established by Whitbread Plc in 1971 and known as the Whitbread Awards, they were rebranded the Costa Awards in 2006. Costa is a UK based coffee shop chain owned by Whitbread Plc. The five category winners (First Novel, Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children's Book) are announced in early January, honoring books published the previous year. The Costa Book of the Year Award is announced in late January.

• Costa First Novel Award (formerly Whitbread):
  Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away by Christie Watson
  
  

First awarded in 2011: “The award grew out of my distaste for most literary prizes,” explained Melville House’s Dennis Johnson. “The point is usually to laud some individual or book that doesn’t really need the stroking. We wanted to come up with something that would better support the ecosystem we live in. The IBCA is good for the author, good for the bookseller, and good for the publisher, and so it’s good for art and industry.”

• Indies Choice Adult Fiction:
  The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
  
  
• Indies Choice Adult Nonfiction:
  Blood, Bones & Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton
  
  
• Indies Choice Adult Debut Book:
  The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht
  
  
• Indies Choice Young Adult Book:
  Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys