Awards


All the Light We Cannot See
The Underground Railroad
The Giver (Giver, #1)
Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
Trust
The Goldfinch
Milkman
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
The Shipping News
Yol
Gilead (Gilead, #1)
Middlesex
The Remains of the Day
The Book Thief
Girl, Woman, Other
The Color Purple by Alice WalkerInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonSophie's Choice by William StyronThe Shipping News by Annie ProulxThe Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
National Book Award Winners
241 books — 205 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Road by Cormac McCarthyAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Pulitzer Prize Winners-Fiction
100 books — 273 voters
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady MartineGideon the Ninth by Tamsyn MuirThe Raven Tower by Ann LeckieThis Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-MohtarThe Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
Hugo 2020 Eligible Novels
136 books — 358 voters

As You Are by Sarah M. EdenFor Elise by Sarah M. EdenHope Springs by Sarah M. EdenSpirit of the Knight by Debbie  PetersonBecoming Lady Lockwood by Jennifer  Moore
2014 Swoony Awards
233 books — 1,264 voters
The Goldfinch by Donna TarttAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Invention of Wings by Sue Monk KiddThe Circle by Dave EggersThe Bone Clocks by David  Mitchell
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2014
167 books — 699 voters

Jarod Kintz
Idea: A shelf shirt. It’s an actual shirt you’d wear, but it has 3D shelves built in with mini trophies on the shelves. Why just say you’re The World’s Best Dad when you can show off your awards and prove it?
Jarod Kintz, Whenever you're here, I'm there for you

Archie Henderson
Archie Henderson has won no awards, written no books and never played any representative sport. He was an under-11 tournament-winning tennis player as a boy, but left the game when he discovered rugby where he was one of the worst flyhalves he can remember. This did not prevent him from having opinions on most things in sport. His moment of glory came in 1970 when he predicted—correctly as it turned out—that Griquas would beat the Blue Bulls (then still the meekly named Noord-Transvaal) in the ...more
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