Multi-Award Books

These 124 books have been recognized by 3 or more major literary prizes, making them among the most acclaimed works in contemporary literature.

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James

Percival EverettAndrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

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The Underground Railroad

Colson WhiteheadArthur C. Clarke Award

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The Tainted Cup

Robert Jackson BennettArthur C. Clarke Award

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Piranesi

Susanna ClarkeMythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature

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Exit West

Mohsin HamidInternational Dublin Literary Award

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Matrix

Lauren GroffAndrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

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Network Effect

Martha WellsArthur C. Clarke Award

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Mexican Gothic

Silvia Moreno-GarciaBritish Fantasy Award for Best Novel

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Lost Children Archive

Valeria LuiselliInternational Dublin Literary Award

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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

International Dublin Literary Award

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The Nickel Boys

Colson WhiteheadInternational Dublin Literary Award

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Washington Black

Esi EdugyanInternational Dublin Literary Award

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Sing, Unburied, Sing

Jesmyn WardAndrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

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A Little Life

Hanya YanagiharaInternational Dublin Literary Award

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Uprooted

Naomi NovikHugo Award (Best Novel)

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A Sorceress Comes to Call

T. KingfisherBritish Fantasy Award for Best Novel

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My Friends

Hisham MatarRSL Ondaatje Prize

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All the Sinners Bleed

S. A. CosbyAnthony Award for Best Novel

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The New Life

Tom CreweBetty Trask Award

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The Trees

Percival EverettInternational Dublin Literary Award

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Small Things Like These

Claire KeeganBooker Prize

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A Desolation Called Peace

Arkady MartineHugo Award (Best Novel)

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Shuggie Bain

Douglas StuartLambda Literary Award for Fiction

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The Testaments

Margaret AtwoodDragon Award for Best Science Fiction Novel

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Milkman

Anna BurnsInternational Dublin Literary Award

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The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between

Hisham MatarJames Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography

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The Great Believers

Rebecca MakkaiAndrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

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The Poet X

Elizabeth AcevedoCarnegie Medal for Writing

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The Calculating Stars

Mary Robinette KowalHugo Award (Best Novel)

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Sing, Unburied, Sing

Jesmyn WardAnisfield-Wolf Book Award – Fiction

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Do Not Say We Have Nothing

Madeleine ThienBooker Prize

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Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieInternational Dublin Literary Award

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Ancillary Justice

Ann LeckieArthur C. Clarke Award

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Among Others

Jo WaltonHugo Award (Best Novel)

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The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Michael ChabonHugo Award (Best Novel)

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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot DíazHurston/Wright Legacy Award (Fiction)

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The Known World

Edward P. JonesInternational Dublin Literary Award

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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Susanna ClarkeHugo Award (Best Novel)

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American Gods

Neil GaimanHugo Award (Best Novel)

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The Hours

Michael CunninghamPEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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The God of the Woods

Liz MooreAnthony Award for Best Novel

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Annie Bot

Sierra GreerArthur C. Clarke Award

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Clear

Carys DaviesBetty Trask Award

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Prophet Song

Paul LynchInternational Dublin Literary Award

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Somewhere Beyond the Sea

TJ KluneLocus Award for Best Fantasy Novel

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System Collapse

Martha WellsArthur C. Clarke Award

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The Gallopers

Jon RansomBetty Trask Award

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The Reformatory

Tananarive DueBram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel

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Big

Vashti HarrisonCaldecott Medal

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Let Us Descend

Jesmyn WardAndrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

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If I Survive You

Jonathan EscofferyInternational Dublin Literary Award

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The Sleeping Car Porter

Suzette MayrInternational Dublin Literary Award

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Praiseworthy

Alexis WrightInternational Dublin Literary Award

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Blackouts

Justin TorresLambda Literary Award for Fiction

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Hungry Ghosts

Kevin Jared HoseinWalter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction

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The Bee Sting

Paul MurrayWomen's Prize for Fiction

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His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice

Robert SamuelsPulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography

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Demon Copperhead

Barbara KingsolverPulitzer Prize for Fiction

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Razorblade Tears

S. A. CosbyAnthony Award for Best Novel

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Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

Maddie MortimerBetty Trask Award

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The Death of Vivek Oji

Akwaeke EmeziInternational Dublin Literary Award

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Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence

R. F. KuangGoodreads Choice Awards for Fantasy

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Harlem Shuffle

Colson WhiteheadNAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction

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The Manningtree Witches

A. K. BlakemoreBetty Trask Award

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No One Is Talking About This

Patricia LockwoodBooker Prize

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Bluebird, Bluebird

Attica LockeGold Dagger Award

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The Vanishing Half

Brit BennettNAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction

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The Changeling

Victor LaValleShirley Jackson Award for Novel

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Gideon the Ninth

Tamsyn MuirDragon Award for Best Science Fiction Novel

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The Ten Thousand Doors of January

Dragon Award for Best Science Fiction Novel

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An American Marriage

Tayari JonesInternational Dublin Literary Award

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There There

Tommy OrangeInternational Dublin Literary Award

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A Memory Called Empire

Arkady MartineHugo Award (Best Novel)

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Hamnet

Maggie O'FarrellNational Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction)

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History of Wolves

Emily FridlundInternational Dublin Literary Award

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Lincoln in the Bardo

George SaundersInternational Dublin Literary Award

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The Other Americans

Laila LalamiEdgar Award (Best Novel)

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The Long Take

Robin RobertsonJames Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction

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Spinning Silver

Naomi NovikLocus Award for Best Fantasy Novel

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Circe

Madeline MillerMythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature

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The Overstory

Richard PowersPEN/Jean Stein Book Award

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The Stone Sky

N. K. JemisinHugo Award (Best Novel)

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Her Body and Other Parties

Carmen Maria MachadoLambda Literary Award for Fiction

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Olio

Tyehimba JessPEN/Jean Stein Book Award

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Elmet

Fiona MozleyPolari Prize

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March Book Three

Coretta Scott King Book Awards

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Golden Hill

Francis SpuffordDesmond Elliott Prize

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The Sympathizer

Viet Thanh NguyenInternational Dublin Literary Award

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All the Birds in the Sky

Charlie Jane AndersHugo Award (Best Novel)

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The Underground Railroad

Colson WhiteheadHurston/Wright Legacy Award (Fiction)

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Another Brooklyn

Jacqueline WoodsonHurston/Wright Legacy Award (Fiction)

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Imagine Me Gone

Adam HaslettPulitzer Prize for Fiction

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The Sellout

Paul BeattyBooker Prize

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Harvest

Jim CraceInternational Dublin Literary Award

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H Is for Hawk

Helen MacdonaldKirkus Prize for Nonfiction

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The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Neil GaimanLocus Award for Best Fantasy Novel

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Half-Blood Blues

Esi EdugyanHurston/Wright Legacy Award (Fiction)

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A Visit from the Goon Squad

Jennifer EganInternational Dublin Literary Award

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The City & the City

China MiévilleArthur C. Clarke Award

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The Graveyard Book

Neil GaimanCarnegie Medal for Writing

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Netherland

International Dublin Literary Award

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Wolf Hall

Hilary MantelWalter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction

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Half of a Yellow Sun

Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieAnisfield-Wolf Book Award – Fiction

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Anansi Boys

Neil GaimanBritish Fantasy Award for Best Novel

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The Master

Colm TóibínInternational Dublin Literary Award

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The March

E. L. DoctorowPEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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Paladin of Souls

Lois McMaster BujoldHugo Award (Best Novel)

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A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide

Samantha PowerAnisfield-Wolf Book Award – Nonfiction

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Bel Canto

Ann PatchettPEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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White Teeth

Zadie SmithBetty Trask Award

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Waiting

Ha JinPEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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Women in Their Beds

Gina BerriaultPEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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Independence Day

Richard FordPEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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The Stone Diaries

Carol ShieldsPulitzer Prize for Fiction

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Bootlegger's Daughter

Margaret MaronAnthony Award for Best Novel

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Doomsday Book

Connie WillisHugo Award (Best Novel)

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Billy Bathgate

E. L. DoctorowPEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Richard RhodesPulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction

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Speaker for the Dead

Orson Scott CardHugo Award (Best Novel)

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Neuromancer

William GibsonHugo Award (Best Novel)

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Startide Rising

David BrinHugo Award (Best Novel)

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Rabbit is Rich

John UpdikeNational Book Award for Fiction

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Samuel Johnson

W. Jackson BateNational Book Award for Nonfiction

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Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

John AshberyNational Book Award for Poetry