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In a connection to the year 2023, with W being the 23rd letter of the alphabet, this week, you are deep diving into the world of literary prizes and finding a book that has been nominated (or won) an award starting with a W. The good news is that there are prizes for every genre and literary style possible, so you're sure to find something you'll enjoy!

Some Possible Prizes:
Women’s Prize for Fiction, Wolfson History Prize, Wainwright Prize, Walter Scott Prize, Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children's Literature, Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, Waterstones Book of the Year, Windham–Campbell Literature Prizes, William C. Morris Award, Wales Book of the Year, World Fantasy Award, William Hill Sports Book of the Year, Western Australian Premier’s Australia-Asia Literary Award, Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Winterset Award, Wright Awards, Will Eisner Comics Industry Awards, White Pine Award, Wellcome Book Prize, Whitfield Prize, Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize, Woutertje Pieterse Prijs, Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa, Writers Trust of Canada Awards.

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How are you choosing which award to read from? What book are you using?

I absolutely love the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Some of my favorite books were nominees for the award. I have three books slotted for this prompt (and oodles more to choose from!).

The Dutch House by Ann Patchett (2020 longlist)
White Teeth by Zadie Smith (2000 shortlist)
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes (2020 shortlist)

Here’s a google doc of all the Women’s Prize nominees and winners. It might be easier to view in this format than a randomly arranged listopia. (Possibly more accurate also.)

I'm definitely going with the Women's Prize as well, dalex! I had every intention on reading this year's longlist, then... life happened lol. So I'm hoping to get to a few next year! (I did read the 2022 winner because it was also a Tournament of Books participant... it was weird, but I liked it.)

I think I’ll try the Wainwright prize, which is for nature writing, but I like the Women’s Prize too. I have Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds and The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides on my radar so far. I also like the Warwick Prize for women in translation, and maybe Walter Scott.

It always amazes me how many awards are out there that I've never heard of! The Wainwright seems very promising for me since I love outdoors and nature writing.

I’ll probably go with the World Fantasy Award but I did find one book on the Wales list that looks very interesting.

These lists are from goodreads - They are NOT based on user tags or listopias. This information is no longer on many of the book pages due to the new formatting.

카지노싸이트 AWARDS PAGE
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AWARDS LISTS:

Women's Prize for Fiction - Previously known as the Orange Prize
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Wolfson History Prize
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World Fantasy Award
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Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards
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Whitney Award
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Washington State Book Award
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Willa Literary Award (westerns involving women)
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Whitbread Award
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Walter Scott
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Wishing Shelf
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William C Morris YA debut
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Warwick prize for women in translation
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Warwick Prize for writing
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dalex wrote: "Here’s a google doc of all the Women’s Prize nominees and winners. It might be easier to view in this format than a randomly arranged listopia. (Possibly more accurate also.)

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Thanks for posting this. Can you remind me how to save this as a Word doc?

I'm going to do something from the Writers Trust of Canada, which actually oversees a series of awards. (So, it's awards within an award,) Some awards are for specific books, but some awards are to a writer - which means that I could pick any one of book their books.

I'm another who will definitely be going with the Women's Prize for this one. I try to read the shortlist every year so this prompt will help me along nicely with that. I didn't like the past 2 winners (I even had to DNF the Ozeki) so hoping for something better next year...!

This is an embarrassment of riches. This is why I voted for the second chance prompt. I think this will be my first target prompt - my goal will be to read six books that fit this prompt. (Overlaps are allowed). 🎯six pack.

Women's Prize - my favorite. I loved all the recent winners, and most of the shortlisted books. I plan to read✔️ Home Fire, the "winner of winners"✔️ Half of a Yellow Sun, as well as new books.
Walter Scott Prize -✔️ The Garden of Evening Mists- winner , Still Life, ✔️Afterlives nominee, but won Nobel prize
Whitbread - Small Island winner
Washington State Book awards for Fiction - The Cold Millions, Deep River: A Novel
World Fantasy - I might try a short story collection or anthology (to try a new author). If I hate it, I haven't wasted much time. I'm interested in ✔️Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea, Boy's Life, or a book by someone on my authors list.
Wellcome - ✔️ All My Puny Sorrows, Freshwater, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes (for the Genetics Rejected prompt)
Whitbread - Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Writer's Trust -✔️ Fight Night
Warwick Women in Translation - In Memory of Memory, ✔️Abigail
Warwick prize for writing - Lila
Wainwright - Underland: A Deep Time Journey

Willa Award - Westerns written by/for women. I might pick one of these for the Western prompt.

If you want an award added to a book page for this prompt, you can request here:
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NancyJ wrote: "This information is no longer on many of the book pages due to the new formatting...."

The awards are still there *if* they have been added, but they do not happen by magic. Apart from 카지노싸이트 Choice, librarians need to manually add awards to books. I tested this out last time someone said it has vanished and I could add an award and it showed up fine.

Anyway they seem to have reverted the new style pages today, so when they return they could have anything on them 😱

I'm gonna read something from the Wainwright or Wellcome prizes, I have a bunch of shortlisted books I never get round to. I hope Wellcome returns next year, I've missed seeing their lists.

NancyJ, thank you for posting that list. I was going to copy it over, but then I realized I would have had to re-link everything and I ran out of energy lol. Also highly recommend Home Fire; it was one of my favorites last year.

Undecided, Jade City (World Fantasy Award) has been on my list for a while. Or maybe one of the Women's Fiction?

I have The Last House on Needless Street n my TBR and that won the World Fantasy Award so that's currently penciled in.

NancyJ wrote: "Thanks for posting this. Can you remind me how to save this as a Word doc?"

Click on "File" then "Download" then select "Microsoft Word (.docx)"

Excited about this one! Recently I've been using the Women's Prize shortlist/longlist to add to my TBR, because I read a fair number of the 2021 longlist and quite enjoyed it! But because I'm perennially a year behind in my TBR, I haven't actually gotten to any of those tempting books from the 2022 longlist. BUT, I also really enjoyed the Warwick Prize prompt and I've been really enjoying the translated fiction I've been reading lately, so I might end up going in that direction instead.

From what I read this past year, I would recommend Detransition, Baby and Small Pleasures from the Women's Prize.
From the Warwick Prize, I have to recommend Katalin Street by Magda Szabó. This is such a strange and beautiful and haunting book and it doesn't seem like many people I encounter have heard of it. I also was a big fan of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead.

I think the biggest problem with this prompt is all the options. I live in Washington and wasn't aware that we hand a state award. A brief peak at the finalist I see that What Comes After and One Two Three are listed.
I know The Women’s Prize for Fiction list includes Transcendent Kingdom and Exciting Times so at this point will be a matter of narrowing it down to one book.

I'm just going down the list of books I am considering and looking at the book page to see what awards are there. I figured it would be something with the World Fantasy Award, and I do have a good few of those. But I was trying to fit The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender in and kept filling the other prompts it fit with other books, and it was nominated for the William C. Morris YA Debut Award. I like the idea of using an award I am not familiar with, so that will probably be my pick.

Long story short: Check the 카지노싸이트 page of your TBR books for W awards; you might find a few.

dalex wrote: "Here’s a google doc of all the Women’s Prize nominees and winners. It might be easier to view in this format than a randomly arranged listopia. (Possibly more accurate also.)

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What a fantastic resource, thank you for sharing! There are so many great options here, I likely won't look any further.

Amy (Other Amy) wrote: "I'm just going down the list of books I am considering and looking at the book page to see what awards are there. I figured it would be something with the World Fantasy Award, and I do have a good ..."

I really enjoyed Ava Lavender! I'm glad you found a spot for it.

I will almost likely read something from Walter Scott. Still Life and The Magician are two that I own.

Emily wrote: "I really enjoyed Ava Lavender! I'm glad you found a spot for it."

That's excellent. I've heard only great things about it, so I'm really looking forward to it.

This is the year for me to read The Stormlight Archive series so I'm going with Rhythm of War from the Whitney Awards.

It's an "oldie" but I am going with The Hundred Secret Senses from the Women's Prize list because I already own it and I am determined to make mincemeat of my huge TBR mountain next year lol

I have several that I want to read that fit this one, so it's going to be a matter of what my other challenges look like that week.

My list ...
Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett
The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett

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I'm working on another TBR cleansing challenge, which is going to limit my choices a bit tighter, which is GOOD.


I'm going to read
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro

I'll probably go with the World Fantasy award - from the list I've looked at I would highly recommend The City & the City. Very tempted to re-read it, but may go for Educated or Sing, Unburied, Sing as they're both on my TBR.

Emily wrote: "Amy (Other Amy) wrote: "I'm just going down the list of books I am considering and looking at the book page to see what awards are there. I figured it would be something with the World Fantasy Awar..."

I have Ava Lavendar on my tbr too, because of the cover. It’s good to hear a recommendation.

I love planning for this challenge, but couldn't face looking through pages of awards, so I just used the listopia to find something on my priority TBR that I hadn't fitted anywhere else, and that's The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow, which was a World Fantasy Award nominee. It's not the most satisfying way to choose a book, but I got the result I wanted so I'm happy with that.

I have so many choices. Here are a few:

Warwick Translation
Go, Went, Gone - Jenny Erpenback

Women's Prize or nominee
Great Circle - Maggie Shipstead
Hamnet - Maggie O’Farrell
Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
The Island of Missing Trees - Elif Shafak
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev - Dawnie Walton

Walter Scott
Mrs England - Stacey Halls
The Dictionary of Lost Words - Pip Williams
Mrs. Engels - Gavin McCrea
Edit: I read Still Life by Sarah Winman

I recommend these Women's Prize winners or nominees:
An American Marriage, My Sister, the Serial Killer, Lost Children Archive, The Sentence, The Vanishing Half, Girl, Woman, Other and Home Fire.

Walter Scott Prize for HIstorical Fiction
An Officer and a Spy
Days Without End
The Garden of Evening Mists
Fortune

Women's Prize
The Sentence
The Island of Missing Trees
Build Your House Around My Body

Fight Night by Miriam Toews for the Writers Trust of Canada Award

The Warwick Prize longlist for 2022 was announced yesterday, I am eyeing up the book about slime!

This seems like a great opportunity to tackle some great books and find new faves!

Women's Prize for Fiction:
The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
The Power by Naomi Alderman
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

White Pine:
Crown of Feathers by Nicki Pau Preto
Sadie by Courtney Summers

World Fantasy Award:
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty

Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards:
Saga, Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan

Washington State Book Award:
Winterhouse by Ben Guterson

Given the embarrassment of riches available for this prompt, I think I should limit my choices to award WINNERS. Though I might have a hard time letting go of all the great nominees that I already put in my “w awards” folder. Maybe I’ll read a winner for this prompt, and use many of the other books for other prompts.

Oh my, I interpreted the challenge as a selection beginning with W that won an award and was totally pumped about reading White Noise😆😆😆 I am sure that it will serve to fulfill another prompt.

Thank you for the list of W awards and fantastic suggestions!

For this prompt, I read Assembly by Natasha Brown, a finalist for the 2022 Women's Prize for Fiction x Good Housekeeping Futures award.

The author wrote her brief but highly thought-provoking and experimentally written debut novel about a Black British woman while on sabbatical leave from her job in finance. The book was nominated for other non-W awards and covers several bombshell topics like racism, identity and the meaning of personal legacy. I'd highly recommend it.

For this prompt, I read:
A Country Road, A Tree by Jo Baker - 3* - My Review

Nominated for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction

Walter Award winners and nominees:

I read Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca Giggs, which won the Western Australian Premier's Book Award (Best Emerging Writer) in 2020.

Although it's only January, I'm sure this will be one of the best books of the year for me. Poetic, informative (some amazing facts and statistics), but also disturbing and shaming as to our effect on the environment. I would thoroughly recommend.

I went down the ATY listopia and chose a book that I wanted to read. The Last House on Needless Street was on there. It was nominated for the World Fantasy Award.

It was a really good book. I'd recommend it.

I read The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman for this prompt. It was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for best novel in 2014.

I read Memphis from the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize Shortlist 2022. Very enjoyable!

I’m reading Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, which won the 1967 WH Smith Literary Award.

I read Memphis. Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize for Shortlist 2022.

I read Misery by Stephen King which was a nominee for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1988. This was a quicker read than I was anticipating and I enjoyed finally getting to it.

I'll be reading White Teeth by Zadie Smith

Warwick Prize for Writing Winners: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler was my choice. I had bought the book January 5th for another group but hadn’t gotten to it yet. Perfect timing.