American Book Awards

National Book Award

Nobel Prize for Literature

Man Booker Prize

The Pulitzer Prize

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

The Coretta Scott King Award (African-American Literature for Children and Young Adults)

Pura Belpre Award (Children’s Book with Latino cultural themes)

The Hugo Award (Science Fiction and Fantasy)

The Nebula Award (Science Fiction and Fantasy)

The Bram Stoker Awards (Horror)

The Edgar Awards (Mysteries)

The Alex Awards (Adult Books with special appeal to Young Adults)

The Michael L. Printz Award (Young Adult Literature)

The John Newbery Medal (Children’s Literature)

The Randolph Caldecott Medal (Children’s Picture Book)

(Theodor Seuss) Geisel Award (Children’s Book Author & Illustrator)

National Book Critics Circle

National Outdoor Book Awards

Thurber Prize (Humor)

The Giller Prize (Canadian Literature)

Costa Awards (formerly the Whitbread Award, British literature)

Connecticut Book Awards

Connecticut’s Nutmeg Book Awards

Links to other American Library Association Children’s Book Prizes & Lists