Nobel Prize Winner - Toni Morrison
Man Booker Prize Winner - Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Pulitzer Prize Winner -
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson
National Book Award Winner - The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
American Library Association Awards - A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 by Claire Hartfield
Harvey Award Winner - Hey Kiddo by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Ignatz Award Winner - This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki
Agatha Award Winner - The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
Bram Stoker Awards - Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates
Edgar Allan Poe Award Winner - Down the River Unto the Sea by Walter Mosley
American Indian Youth Literature Awards - Américas Award - Arab American Book Award
Asian/Pacific/American Award for Literature - Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Awards
Hispanic Heritage Awards: Literature - Mildred L. Batchelder Award
Pura Belpré Award - Schneider Family Book Award - Stonewall Book Awards
American Indian Youth Literature Award Winner - If I Ever Get Out of Here by Eric Gansworth
Américas Award Winner - The Only Road by Alexandra Diaz
Arab American Book Award Winner - Sand Opera by Philip Metres
Asian/Pacific/American Award Winner - They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, and Steven Scott
Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award Winner - An American Marriage: A Novel by Tayari Jones
Hispanic Heritage Award Winner - Julia Alvarez
Mildred L. Batchelder Award - The Murderer’s Ape by Jakob Wegelius
Pura Belpré Award Winner - Lucky Broken Girl by Ruth Behar
Schneider Family Book Award - When We Collided by Emery Lord
Stonewall Book Award Winner - The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Rita Award Winner - Enclave by Ann Aguirre
Romance Novelist Association Award Winner - Coming Home by Rosamunde Pilcher
Hugo Award Winner - The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Nebula Award Winner - Abandon in Place by Jerry Oltion