Each year literary foundations, trusts, and other famous organizations award prizes and awards for the best recent books...

• National Book Critics Circle (US): www.bookcritics.org
• Pulitzer Prizes: www.pulitzer.org/awards
• The Man Booker Prize: www.themanbookerprize.com
• CBC Literary Awards: www.radio-canada.ca/prixlitteraires/english/index.shtml
• Donner Prize: www.donnerbookprize.com/mdgassociates/en/index.htm
• Canadian Authors Assoc. Literary Awards: www.canauthors.org/awards/awards.html
• Governor General's Awards: www.canadacouncil.ca/prizes/ggla/
• The Giller Prize: www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/home.htm
• More Canadian Book Awards: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_literature#Awards



• John Newbery Medal: www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/new...
• More Children's Book Awards: www.ucalgary.ca/~dKbrown/awards.html