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Browse the major literary prizes

ReadingRate lists every winner of the major literary prizes — the Nobel in Literature, the Booker and International Booker, the Pulitzer for Fiction, the National Book Award for Fiction and for Nonfiction, the Women's Prize, the Hugo and the Nebula for best novel, the Prix Goncourt, the Dublin Literary Award, the PEN/Faulkner, the Costa Novel Award, the Beveridge Award and the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction — with shortlists and finalists where they are held. Beside them is a hub of 59 lists of record, including the Modern Library 100, Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century, TIME's All-TIME 100 Novels and the Open Syllabus top 500. Every book carries its difficulty score, and if you're signed in the ones you've read are ticked. The pages are public and need no account.

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Most prize archives are a list of press releases by year. Here each entry is a book with data attached, which is what lets you look down a decade of Booker shortlists for the one you could start tonight. Each prize page opens by naming its latest winner, its most readable, its hardest and its quickest.

Shortlists and finalists are included where they are held, not just the winner — the Booker page alone carries 60 winners and 494 shortlisted books from 1969 onward. The runners-up are frequently the more interesting half of a prize year.

There is a page for every prize year from 1901, and the lists of record are gathered in five groups: rankings, publishers' series, year's-best lists, book clubs and school set-text lists.

What it can't do

  • The Nobel, the Prix Goncourt and the Beveridge Award are listed as winners only, with no shortlists.
  • The Nobel is awarded to a writer rather than a book, so it is listed as laureates by year, each leading to the writer's page.
  • A prize page changes after the winner has been checked, not at the moment of the announcement, so it can go on showing a shortlist for some days after the winner is named.
  • Some lists of record are partial. The BBC Big Read holds 84 of its hundred, the Open Syllabus list 257 of 500 and 1001 Books 96 of its 1,001, and many of the school set-text lists hold only a handful of their books.
  • The Costa Novel Award ended in 2021, and Goodreads Choice is held for 2023 to 2025 only.
  • Difficulty scores appear only where the book has been scored. An obscure shortlisted title may have none.

Questions people ask

Where can I see every Booker Prize winner?
ReadingRate lists every Booker winner from 1969 to 2025, with the shortlists for 57 of those years, each book with a difficulty score. The page is public and needs no account.
Which literary awards does ReadingRate track?
The Nobel in Literature, the Booker and International Booker, the Pulitzer for Fiction, the National Book Award for Fiction and for Nonfiction, the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best novel, the Prix Goncourt, the International Dublin Literary Award, the PEN/Faulkner, the Costa Novel Award, the Albert J. Beveridge Award and the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction, plus 59 lists of record such as the Modern Library 100 and Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century.

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