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Book awards and prizes

Browse the winners and shortlisted titles for each award below.

CILIP Carnegie Medal

Outstanding new English language book for children or young adults.

CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal

Distinguished illustration in a book for children.

Information Book Award

Best information book.

Blue Peter Book Awards

Best Story and the Best Book with Facts.

Bookbug Picture Book Prize

Scottish picture books.

Booker Prize

The leading literary award in the UK.

Books Are My Bag Readers Awards

The only book awards curated by bookshops and chosen by readers.

Booktrust Storytime Book Prize

Books for sharing with young children.

Branford Boase Award

The most promising book for seven year-olds and upwards by a first time novelist.

British Book Awards

Awards for Adult Fiction, Children's Fiction Book of the Year and Children's Non-fiction & Illustrated Book of the Year.

CLiPPA Poetry Award

Outstanding poetry for children.

Costa Book Awards

One of the UK's most prestigious and popular book prizes and celebrates the most enjoyable books of the year by writers resident in the UK and Ireland.

Excelsior Award

Graphic novels and manga.

FCBG Children's Book Award

Split into four categories: Books for Younger Children, Books for Younger Readers, Books for Confident Readers and Books for Older Readers.

HA Young Quills

HA annual awards for best historical fiction for young people.

Jhalak Prize

First awarded in March 2017, the Jhalak Prize and its new sister award Jhalak Children’s & YA Prize founded in 2020, seek to celebrate books by British/British resident BAME writers.

Klaus Flugge Prize

Debut picture books.

Lollies

The Laugh Out Loud Book Awards.

Oscar's Book Prize

Oscar’s Book Prize is an annual prize for the best under-fives book of the year, awarded to authors and illustrators.

Royal Society Young People's Book Prize

Science books for under 14's.

Sainsbury's Children's Book Awards

The best children's books for families to share together.

Scottish Teenage Book Prize

Best Scottish teen fiction.

Teach Primary Book Awards

Celebrating the amazing world of children's writing.

The Arthur C. Clarke Award

The annual Arthur C. Clarke Award is given for the best science fiction novel first published in the United Kingdom during the previous year.

The Bailie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction

Rewarding excellence in non-fiction writing.

The CWA Daggers

The world-famous Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Daggers are the oldest awards in the genre, and have been synonymous with quality crime writing for over half a century.