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Featured Book Lists and Awards

Looking for a book that’s captured the world’s attention? Explore our curated lists featuring top picks from renowned book clubs, including Reese’s Book Club, Oprah’s Book Club, and Read with Jenna. Dive into award-winning literature, from Pulitzer Prize winners to National Book Award honorees, and discover stories that inspire, challenge, and captivate. Whether you're searching for your next must-read or a title to share with your own book club, let these celebrated books guide your literary journey.

Reese's Book Club

Reese Witherspoon's Selection of stories that center around female protagonists.

Hugo Award

Science fiction’s most prestigious award voted on by members of the World Science Fiction Convention

Southern Book Review Prize

Southern US independent booksellers select their favorite books that are either about the South or by a Southern author.

Goodreads Choice Annual Awards

Winners are determined by users voting on books that Goodreads has nominated or books of their choosing, released in the given year.

National Book Award Winner

National Book Awards are American literary prizes administered by the National Book Foundation. Although other categories have been recognized in the past, the Awards currently honor the best Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature, published each year.

Read with Jenna

Jenna Bush Hager on the Today Show selects books of different genres that she loves and that she thinks will delight, entertain, and challenge members of the book club.

NYT Bestsellers

Sales data from thousands of bookstores and online retailers across the US

Banned Books ALA

Books that are challenged or banned based on objections to their content.

Edgar Awards

The Edgar Awards are judged by volunteer committees of professional writers, who dedicate hours to the process. These peer awards are given by Mystery Writers of America.

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Nebula Awards

The Nebula Awards annually recognize the best works of science fiction or fantasy published in the United States. The awards are organized and awarded by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA), a nonprofit association of professional science fiction and fantasy writers.

Oprah's Book Club

Started in 1996, Operah selects books that encourage avid readers to discover new authors and read books that ignite conversation.

Pulitzer Prize

For distinguished fiction published during the year by an American author, preferably dealing with American life

Stonewall Book Award

A set of three literary awards that annually recognize exceptional merit relating to LGBTQ+ books published in the U.S

Booker Prizes

Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of our judges, the best sustained work of fiction written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.

Newbery Medal

The John Newbery Medal is an annual award given to the author of the most distinguished American children's book. The ALA Association for Library Service to Children presents the award.

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