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General fiction for adult readers is a National Book Award category that has been continuous since 1950, with multiple awards for a few years beginning 1980. From 1935 to 1941, there were six annual awards for novels or general fiction and the "Bookseller Discovery", the "Most Original Book"; both awards were sometimes given to a novel.
In 1993, the "Booker of Bookers" prize was awarded to Salman Rushdie for Midnight's Children (the 1981 winner) as the best novel to win the award in its first 25 years. Midnight's Children also won a public vote in 2008, on the prize's fortieth anniversary, for " The Best of the Booker ".
The rhyme is first recorded in part in John Florio's, A Worlde of Wordes, or Most Copious, and exact Dictionarie in Italian and English, published in 1598, which defines "Abomba" as "a man's home or resting place: home againe, home againe." The 1611 edition is even clearer, referring to "the place where children playing hide themselves ...
The National Book Foundation awards winners in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature and young people’s literature. This year, publishers submitted a total of 1,917 books.
The National Book Critics Circle Awards Biography longlist is now available. On Dec. 17, the organization shared their first-ever longlist for the genre. From Dec. 16 to Dec. 19, the organization ...
The annual event recognizes great books in 10 categories. The Friends of the St. Paul Public Library has unveiled the finalists for the 2025 Minnesota Book Awards.
Sydney Taylor Book Award for Jewish children's and teen literature – since 1968 Coretta Scott King Award for African-American Literature (USA) – since 1970 Tir na n-Og Awards (Wales, UK) – since 1976
Host LeVar Burton and special guest Oprah Winfrey gave barn-burning speeches about the freedom to read, while a group of writers took the stage to call for a ceasefire in Gaza.