Every year the judges of the Man Booker Prize have a difficult task of looking for a unique writer with a distinct voice and original imagination that will take readers on a memorable journey. This award was known as the Booker Prize since it's inaugural in 1969 before it changed sponsors in 2002.

If you haven´t spent much time following literary book awards they are an excellent source for interesting reading lists. Here is a listing of books beginning in 1969 to present from the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Follow along in order or

Using the bestsellers lists from Publishers Weekly and USA Today (1993 - 2003) the authors read all the books we were buying and devised an opinion on what type of readers buy what books. They looked at four categories: hardcover fiction, hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is definitely in the top ten on the importance list. I've pronounced it Pew-lit-sir for years but it's actually pronounced "PULL-it-sir." Unfortunately, the majority of the public never hears about the best fiction

Bird lives in Austin, Texas with her husband and eighteen-year-old son who is about to enter graduate school. Her latest release How Perfect is That will be released this summer. I hope you enjoy reading about this witty and entertaining author.

The Orange Prize for Fiction is awarded to a woman author who produces the best full-length novel in English published for the first time in the UK. Here is a reading list based on previous winners.

The Orange Prize for Fiction is for a woman author who produces the best full-length novel in English published for the first time in the UK. It is also judged exclusively by women.

The Scotiabank Giller Prize is one of the richest literary awards for Canadians. The fiction prize winner receives a monetary prize of $40,000. When compared to many popular American/European awards this is

This 5 1/4" tall action figure is made of hard vinyl and comes with a mini Jane Austen´s Pride and Prejudice novel, a writing desk and a removable quill pen. Archie McPhee is a retail store in Seattle, Washington that offers a wide

This is the fourth novella of C. S. Lewis´s Narnia collection. It was first published in 1951. In the fifteen short chapters we are introduced to a new era of Narnia as well as a new character and future King.