The Lists
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National Book Award - Fiction
National Book Foundation, 75 Books
The National Book Awards are among the most eminent literary prizes in the United States. Started in 1950, the awards are presented annually to American authors for literature published in the prior year, as well as lifetime achievement awards including the "Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters" and the "Literarian Award". The purpose of the awards is "to celebrate the best of American literature, to expand its audience, and to enhance the cultural value of good writing in America.
Weight: 12%, Added over 10 years ago. -
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
PEN/Faulkner, 40 Books
The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is awarded annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation to the author of the best American work of fiction that year. The winner receives US $15,000 and each of four runners-up receives US $5000. The foundation brings the winner and runners-up to Washington, D.C. to read from their works at the Great Hall of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
The PEN/Faulkner Foundation is an outgrowth of William Faulkner's generosity in donating his 1949 Nobel Prize winnings, "to establish a fund to support and encourage new fiction writers." Mary Lee Settle was also one of the founders after controversy at the 1979 National Book Award.[1] It is affiliated with the writers' organization International PEN.
Weight: 12%, Added over 10 years ago.
The award was first given in 1980. -
National Book Critics Circle Award - Nonfiction
National Book Critics Circle, 45 Books
The National Book Critics Circle Award is an annual award given by the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) to promote the finest books and reviews published in English.
Weight: 29%, Added over 10 years ago. -
National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction
National Book Critics Circle, 48 Books
The National Book Critics Circle Award is an annual award given by the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) to promote the finest books and reviews published in English.
Weight: 29%, Added over 10 years ago. -
TIME Magazine All Time 100 Novels
TIME Magazine, 100 Books
Time critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo pick the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present.
Weight: 52%, Added over 10 years ago.
These are all the lists used to generate the book rankings. There are currently 305 lists. Each list has a weight associated with it, that is calculated based on a variety of criteria. The higher the weight the more important the list is.
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These are special lists that group together multiple countries, genders, or are interesting in a variety of ways.
These are the newest 10 lists added.
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