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- Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
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- Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature
- Booker Prize
- Booker Prize International
- Books Are My Bag Readers Award Readers Choice
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- Bookshop Indie Champion Award
- Bram Stoker Award, Novel
- Branford Boase Award
- British Academy Book Prize
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British Book Awards
- Debut - British Book Awards
- Fiction - British Book Awards
- Crime - British Book Awards
- Children's - British Book Awards
- Children's Illustrated & Non Fiction - British Book Awards
- Chidren's Illustrated Book of the Year - British Book Awards
- Lifestyle Non-Fiction - British Book Awards
- Narrative Non-Fiction - British Book Awards
- Pageturner of the Year - British Book Awards
- Discover Book of the Year - British Book Awards
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- Royal Society Science Book Prize
- Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize for a First Collection
- Shirley Jackson Award
- Hatchards Best First Biography Prize Shortlist
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- Somerset Maugham Award
- South Bank Sky Arts Award Literature Prize
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- Wainwright Prize
- Wales Book of the Year
- Walter Scott Prize
- Waterstones Book of the Year
- Waterstones Children's Book Prize
- Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize
- Waverton Good Read Award
- Wellcome Book Prize
- Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize
- Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize
- Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa
- Wolfson History Prize
- Women's Prize for Fiction
- World Fantasy Award Novel
- Writers' Prize
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Lists
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UK Lists
- Mega Lists
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Lists of 100(ish) Books
- Amazon UK 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime
- BBC lists
- Blackwell's Five Foot Bookshelf
- Eurovision Book Contest
- Guardian Lists
- Independent Lists
- Marie Claire magazine Best Books to Read Before You Die
- Nation's Favourite Second Novel
- Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939
- Penguin 100 Must-Read Classic Books
- Telegraph Lists
- TES Teachers' Top 100 Books
- Sunday Times 100 21st-Century Novels to Love
- The Top 100 Sunday Times Bestsellers
- UKTV Drama 20 Classic Books You Must Read Before You Die
- Waterstones Books of the Century
- Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction #ThisBook
- Vote 100 - The Pool & Hay Festival 100 Books by Women since 1918
- Elena Ferrante’s Top 40 Books by Female Authors
- Booktrust 100 Best Children's Books
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- National Geographic Extreme Classics
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Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life by Michael Nott Shortlist These Heavy Black Bones by Rebecca Achieng Ajulu-Bushell Cloistered: My Years As a Nun by Catherine Coldstream Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton Looked After: A Childhood in Care by Ashley John-Baptiste The Red Emperor: Xi Jingpin and His New China by Michael Sheridan |
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Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival by Daniel Finkelstein Shortlist Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World by Leah Broad Messalina: The Life and Times of Rome’s Most Scandalous Empress by Honor Cargill-Martin Go the Way Your Blood Beats by Emmett de Monterey A Pebble in the Throat: Growing Up Between Two Continents by Aasmah Mir |
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Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne by Katherine Rundell The Go-Between: A Portrait of Growing Up Between Different Worlds by Osman Yousefzada Shortlist Confessions of a Highland Art Dealer: A Journey in Art, a Glen and Changing Times by Tony Davidson Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven’s Gate, and the Price of a Vision by Charles Elton Original Sins: A Memoir by Matt Rowland Hill The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome by Harry Sidebottom |
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2021Winner
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi Shortlist Windswept: Walking in the Footsteps of Remarkable Women by Annabel Abbs Will She Do? Act One of a Life on Stage by Eileen Atkins Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life by Alex Christofi John Craxton: A Life of Gifts by Ian Collins |
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2020Winner
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark Shortlist House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family by Hadley Freeman Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture by Sudhir Hazareesingh The See-Through House: My Father in Full Colour by Shelley Klein The Berlin Shadow: Living with the Ghosts of the Kindertransport by Jonathan Lichtenstein |
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2019Winner
The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin by Jonathan Phillips Shortlist Nicholas Hilliard by Elizabeth Goldring Self-Portrait by Celia Paul Mother Ship by Francesca Segal My Name Is Why by Lemn Sissay The Photographer at Sixteen by George Szirtes |
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2018Winner
The Cut Out Girl by Bart van Es Shortlist Making Oscar Wilde by Michele Mendelssohn A Spy Named Orphan by Roland Philipps In Search of Mary Shelley by Fiona Sampson Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover |
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2017Winner
The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography by Edmund Gordon Shortlist David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet by Thomas Dilworth This Is Going To Hurt: Secret Diaries Of A Junior Doctor by Adam Kay Young & Damned & Fair: The Life & Tragedy of Catherine Howard by Gareth Russell The Uncommon Reader: A Life of Edward Garnett by Helen Smith Kenneth Clark: Life, Art and Civilisation by James Stourton |
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2016Winner
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between by Hisham Matar Shortlist Party Animals: My Family & Other Communists by David Aaronovitch The Blue Touch Paper by David Hare A House Full of Daughters by Juliet Nicolson East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity by Philippe Sands |
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2015Winner
Not My Father's Son by Alan Cumming Shortlist Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary by Anita Anand The Fortunes of Francis Barber by Michael Bundock Lady Constance Lytton: Aristocrat, Suffragette, Martyr by Lyndsey Jenkins Bloomsbury’s Outsider: A Life of David Garnett by Sarah Knights |
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