Explore award-winning literature through analysis, trends, and stories about the books and authors that have shaped contemporary writing.
A great first sentence has to grab you before you've agreed to anything. Here are the ten openings in the Literary Laureates records that seize a reader fastest—ranked on pure first-contact pull, from a Pulitzer-winning confession to a Booker novel that opens with a gun.
Read moreTwelve prize-winning novels you can finish in a sitting or two—Booker, Pulitzer, International Booker, Women's Prize and National Book Award winners that prove literary heft has nothing to do with length.
Read moreCompare ten Pulitzer Prize fiction winners by accessibility, mood and reading experience, and choose the right award-winning novel for your next read.
Read moreSome books are so good that different judging panels, in different years, reach the same verdict. Here are the novels in the Literary Laureates records that won two—or in one case three—of the world's major literary prizes.
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