Personalized Selection Services
The StoryGraph helps readers track their reading, choose their next book based on their mood and favorite topics and themes. It can suggest books to readers based on past reads and ratings! It is free to register and set up an account. (Readers can also import previously established book lists from GoodReads.)
Bookclubs.com tries to inspire meaningful connections through reading and discussion. They believe in the power of book clubs to enhance the reading experience, support lifelong learning, and build community. Their vision for Bookclubs is grounded in a deep appreciation for the positive transformation that takes place in book clubs. We help book clubs get organized, so they stay together.
Account registration is free and readers can search through their directory based on theme, keyword, or location (including online-only) for book clubs to join. They can also peruse a shortlist of recommended reading that changes monthly.
Bestseller and Recommended Reading Resources
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Gulf Coast Reads Selection(s)
Gulf Coast Reads: On the Same Page is an annual regional reading initiative focused on promoting the simultaneous reading or listening to a selected title by those living along the upper Texas Gulf Coast. -
Houston Chronicle's Books | PreviewCheck out bestsellers, featured book titles, and local author book news from the Houston Chronicle.
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The New York Times Best Sellers
Authoritatively ranked lists of books sold in the United States, sorted by format and genre. -
NPR's Best Books/Books We Love
This annual list from NPR lists dozens of highly recommended book titles in 33 different categories. -
The Spirit of Texas (SPOT) Reading List
The Spirit of Texas (SPOT) is a recommended reading list developed by public and school librarians in the Young Adult Round Table (YART) for TX middle- and high-schoolers. -
TAYSHAS Reading List
The goal of the TAYSHAS reading list is to motivate high schoolers and young adults to become lifelong readers and to participate in the community of readers in Texas. -
The Texas Maverick Graphic Novels Reading List (TMGNRL)
The Texas Maverick Graphic Novels Reading List (TMGNRL) is a recommended reading list developed by public and school librarians in the Young Adult Round Table (YART) for middle- and high schoolers. -
Texas Topaz Reading List
The purpose of the Texas Topaz Reading List is to provide children, teens, and adults with recommended NON-fiction titles that stimulate reading for pleasure and personal learning.
International Award-Winner Resources
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The Barnes & Noble Book of the Year
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The Barnes & Noble Discover Prize
It celebrates new writers and their debut novels.
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The Black Orchid Novella Award
The Black Orchid Novella Award is a blind, annual contest. The winner will be announced at The Wolfe Pack’s Annual Black Orchid Banquet in New York City on the first Saturday of December. -
Bram Stoker Awards from the Horror Writers Association
Each year, the Horror Writers Association presents the Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement, named in honor of Bram Stoker, author of the seminal horror work, Dracula. The Bram Stoker Awards were instituted immediately after the organization’s incorporation in 1987. -
The HFC Book Awards
A Book of the Year Contest from The Historical Fiction Company. -
International Booker Prize
The International Booker Prize is awarded annually for the finest single work of fiction from around the world which has been translated into English and published in the UK and Ireland. -
Nobel Laureates in Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature (Swedish: Nobelpriset i litteratur) is awarded annually by the Swedish Academy to authors for outstanding contributions in the field of literature.
U.S. Award-Winner Resources
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ALA Book, Print & Media Awards
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Astounding Award for Best New Writer
The Astounding Award for Best New Writer (formerly the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer) is given annually to the best new writer whose first professional work of science fiction or fantasy was published within the two previous calendar years.[1] It is named after Astounding Science Fiction (now Analog Science Fiction and Fact), a foundational science fiction magazine. -
Bath Flash Fiction and Novella-in-Flash Awards
Our goal is promote flash fiction for both writers and readers and to bring the genre to a wider audience. Running a three-times-a-year rolling flash fiction award with substantial prizes and chance of publication gives writers a big incentive to create great flash. And our novella-in-flash award provides the opportunity to have a longer work released in a quality publication. -
Best Indie Book Award
The annual Best Indie Book Award® (or BIBA®) is an international literary awards contest recognizing self-published and independently published authors from all over the world. Entries are limited to independently (indie) published books, including those from small presses, e-book publishers, and self-published authors across multiple categories. -
The Booker Prize
The Booker Prize is the world’s leading literary award for a single work of fiction. -
The Clay Reynolds Novella Prize from Texas Review Press
Established in 2001, The Clay Reynolds Novella Prize highlights one book a year that excels in the novella format. -
Gotham Book Prize from Literary Hub
Gotham Book Prize is an annual award that began during the first year of the pandemic to honor and support the best writing (fiction or nonfiction) about New York City. -
Inside Literary Prize
In December 2023, Freedom Reads, the National Book Foundation, and the Center for Justice Innovation, with support from Lori Feathers, launched the Inside Literary Prize, which seeks to honor the insights incarcerated readers add to cultural conversations. -
Locus Awards
The Locus Science Fiction Foundation honors the year's best science fiction, speculative fiction, horror, and more in many categories, including novels, novellas, short stories, and anthologies. -
National Book AwardsEstablished in 1950, the National Book Awards are American literary prizes administered by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization. They offer category prizes in Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People's Literature.
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Nebula Awards
Since 1965, the Nebula Awards® have been given each year to outstanding novel, novella, novelette, and short stories eligible for that year’s award. The Damon Knight Grand Master, SFWA’s award for lifetime achievement in writing science fiction and/or fantasy, is an honor presented annually to no more than one living writer. -
The Pulitzer Prizes
The Pulitzer Prizes and Fellowships, established in Columbia University by the will of the first Joseph Pulitzer, are awarded by the University on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board. The Board meets twice annually. There are 23 categories across journalism, books, drama and music. The Prizes are announced during the spring. -
Southern Book Prize from SIBA
Books are selected by the Southern Independent Book Sellers Alliance. A book must be set in the South, or the author must be Southern, or both, and it must have been published in the previous calendar year. Books must also be in print and generally available to the industry at standard wholesale terms. -
Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction is an annual $25,000 cash prize given to a writer for a single work of imaginative fiction -
Writers’ League of Texas Book Awards
The Writers’ League of Texas Book Awards were established in 1991 (known first as the Violet Crown Awards before being renamed in 2008) to recognize the year’s best among those stories and to celebrate the exceptional writers behind them.