Literary awards and every winner
ReadingRate follows 17 literary prizes and lists every winner, with how hard each book is to read and how long it takes.
The Booker Prize 2026 is decided on Monday 9 November 2026
6 books on the shortlist. The most approachable is The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout; the hardest, The End of Everything by M. John Harrison.
Every Booker winner
The winners of 2026
10 prizes have named a 2026 winner; still to come: the Booker, the National Book Award and the National Book Award (Nonfiction).
- Nobel Prize in Literature: Anne Carson — difficulty 66/100
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Angel Down by Daniel Kraus — difficulty 41/100, about 5.7 hours
- International Booker Prize: Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shuang-zi — difficulty 59/100, about 6.5 hours
- Women's Prize for Fiction: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans — difficulty 43/100, about 5.2 hours
- Hugo Award for Best Novel: The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow — difficulty 49/100, about 6.4 hours
- Nebula Award for Best Novel: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones — difficulty 62/100, about 12 hours
- Prix Goncourt: L'Inconnue du quai de Javel by Philippe Jaenada
- Dublin Literary Award: Gliff by Ali Smith — difficulty 54/100, about 3.7 hours
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: Small Scale Sinners by Mahreen Sohail — difficulty 44/100, about 4.8 hours
- Albert J. Beveridge Award: The Home Front by Lauren Duval
All the winners of 2026
Every prize
- Nobel Prize in Literature — 123 winners since 1901 · latest: Anne Carson (2026) · start with Rudyard Kipling, the most approachable; the hardest is Elfriede Jelinek
- Booker Prize — 60 winners since 1969 · latest: Flesh by David Szalay (2025) · 2026 winner named on Monday 9 November 2026 · start with Flesh by David Szalay, the most approachable; the hardest is The Sellout by Paul Beatty
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction — 100 winners since 1918 · latest: Angel Down by Daniel Kraus (2026) · start with The Town by Conrad Richter, the most approachable; the hardest is The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
- International Booker Prize — 17 winners since 2005 · latest: Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shuang-zi (2026) · start with Chinua Achebe, the most approachable; the hardest is László Krasznahorkai
- National Book Award for Fiction — 83 winners since 1950 · latest: The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine (2025) · start with The World According to Garp by John Irving, the most approachable; the hardest is Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
- Women's Prize for Fiction — 31 winners since 1996 · latest: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans (2026) · start with An American Marriage by Tayari Jones, the most approachable; the hardest is How to Be Both by Ali Smith
- Hugo Award for Best Novel — 75 winners since 1953 · latest: The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow (2026) · start with The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal, the most approachable; the hardest is The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
- Nebula Award for Best Novel — 62 winners since 1966 · latest: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones (2026) · start with The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal, the most approachable; the hardest is The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe
- Prix Goncourt — 124 winners since 1903 · latest: L'Inconnue du quai de Javel by Philippe Jaenada (2026) · start with The Rock of Tanios by Amin Maalouf, the most approachable; the hardest is Texaco by Patrick Chamoiseau
- Dublin Literary Award — 31 winners since 1996 · latest: Gliff by Ali Smith (2026) · start with Family Life by Akhil Sharma, the most approachable; the hardest is Solar Bones by Mike McCormack
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction — 46 winners since 1981 · latest: Small Scale Sinners by Mahreen Sohail (2026) · start with Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue, the most approachable; the hardest is Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman
- National Book Award for Nonfiction — 64 winners since 1950 · latest: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad (2025) · start with The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen, the most approachable; the hardest is China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston
- Costa Novel Award — 51 winners, 1971–2021 · last: Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller (2021) · start with Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín, the most approachable; the hardest is The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
- Albert J. Beveridge Award — 88 winners since 1939 · latest: The Home Front by Lauren Duval (2026)
- Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction — 3 winners since 2023 · latest: My Friends by Fredrik Backman (2025). Every year: 2025, 2024, 2023
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