There are a lot of ways to sort and select books when you’re lining up your next reading project. You can go with a favorite author or a trusted microgenre, a personal recommendation or a book club selection, or even surpassingly cool cover art illustrations.

But for real quality control, you want to stick with the winners. That’s the idea behind this collection, in which we’ve selected recent winners from across a variety of major book awards.

A few quick notes: For this particular collection, we’re concentrating on novels rather than nonfiction or short story collections. And we’ve included general literary awards—the Booker Prize, the Pulitzer—along with several genre-specific prizes such as the Hugo (science fiction), the Edgar (mysteries), and the Bram Stoker Award (horror).
 
Click around below and you’ll note that several recent books have collected multiple awards, including Percival Everett’s James, Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments, Hernan Diaz’s Trust, and Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys. You’ll also find several authors whose books have broken out into the worldwide cultural conversation: Kazuo Ishiguro, Olga Tokarczuk, R.F. Kuang, and Richard Powers. Plus the occasional soap opera–loving cyborg.
 
Click on the award name headline for more information about each category prize, and on the cover art images for more details about each specific book. You can also use the Want to Read button to add any interesting leads to your digital bookshelf.