Literary Awards

American Book Awards
Bookseller / Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year
Bram Stoker Award (the Horror Writer's Association Award for Superior Achievement)
Edgar Awards (Edgar Allan Poe Award)
Hammett Prize (International Association of Crime Writers award for literary excellence in the field of crime-writing)
Hugo Awards (the Science Fiction Achievement Award, also known as the Hugo Award, is given annually by the World Science Fiction Society)
James Beard Foundation Awards (the "Oscars of the food world")
Man Booker Prize (the Man Booker Prize for Fiction promotes the finest in fiction by rewarding the best book of the year. It was first awarded in 1969)
Man Booker International Prize (the Man Booker International Prize, awarded every two years, recognizes one writer for their achievement in fiction. This prize was first awarded in 2005)
National Book Awards
National Book Critics Circle Awards
Nebula Awards (the Nebula Awards are administered, voted, and presented by the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA) to acknowledge excellence in science fiction writing)
Nobel Prize in Literature
PEN / Faulkner Award
PEN / O'Henry Prize Stories (prize for short fiction)
Pulitzer Prize
RITA Awards (Romance Writers of America)
Spur Awards (given annually for distinguished writing about the American West)
Whiting Writer's Award (awarded annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays