ReadingRate follows 17 literary prizes and lists every winner, with how hard each book is to read and how long it takes.
Nobel Prize in Literature — established 1901 · Sweden · 123 winners since 1901 · latest: Anne Carson
Booker Prize — established 1969 · UK · 60 winners since 1969 · latest: Flesh by David Szalay · 2026 winner named on 9 November 2026
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction — established 1918 · USA · 100 winners since 1918 · latest: Angel Down by Daniel Kraus
International Booker Prize — established 2005 · UK · 17 winners since 2005 · latest: Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shuang-zi
National Book Award for Fiction — established 1950 · USA · 83 winners since 1950 · latest: The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine
Women's Prize for Fiction — established 1996 · UK · 31 winners since 1996 · latest: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction — established 1981 · USA · 46 winners since 1981 · latest: Small Scale Sinners by Mahreen Sohail
Prix Goncourt — established 1903 · France · 123 winners since 1903 · latest: La Maison vide by Laurent Mauvignier
Costa Book Awards — established 1971 · UK · 51 winners, 1971–2021 · last: Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller
Hugo Award — established 1953 · International · 75 winners since 1953 · latest: The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow
Nebula Award — established 1965 · US · 62 winners since 1966 · latest: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
National Book Award for Nonfiction — established 1950 · USA · 64 winners since 1950 · latest: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
Albert J. Beveridge Award — established 1939 · USA · 88 winners since 1939 · latest: The Home Front by Lauren Duval