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General fiction for adult readers is a National Book Award category that has been continuous since 1950, with multiple awards for a few years beginning 1980. From 1935 to 1941, there were six annual awards for novels or general fiction and the "Bookseller Discovery", the "Most Original Book"; both awards were sometimes given to a novel.
Shehan Karunatilaka, winner of the 2022 Booker Prize. The Booker Prize is a literary award given for the best English novel of the year. The 2022 award was announced on 17 October 2022, during a ceremony hosted by Sophie Duker at the Roundhouse in London.
The National Book Foundation awards winners in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature and young people’s literature. This year, publishers submitted a total of 1,917 books.
The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books, in the combined print and e-books category. For the third year, the most frequent weekly best seller of the year was Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens with 12 weeks at the top of the list, followed closely by It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover with 11 weeks at the top of the list.
The award is named in honor of the founder of the Dedalus Foundation, American abstract expressionist painter Robert Motherwell, and comes with a $10,000 cash prize. [1] Nominations are forwarded to the foundation by book publishers, and the winner is chosen by a panel of distinguished scholars and writers. [1]
Douglas Stuart, winner of the 2020 Booker Prize. The 2020 Booker Prize for Fiction was announced on 19 November 2020. [1] The Booker longlist of 13 books was announced on 27 July, [2] and was narrowed down to a shortlist of six on 15 September. [3] The Prize was awarded to Douglas Stuart for his debut novel, Shuggie Bain, receiving £50,000. [4]
The Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History, prior to 2016 known as The New-York Historical Society American History Book Prize or, simply, the American History Book Prize, is an American literary award given annually by the New-York Historical Society for an adult non-fiction book on American history or biography, copyrighted in the year of the award, "that is distinguished ...