Book Awards and Honored Creative Works

Book Awards and Honored Creative Works

Award Annals is where creative works judged the best of their kind are documented and ranked. This site ranks over 9,000 creative works that have received some of over 160 book awards, film awards, and music awards. Best of all, the wiki format will allow you to add your favorite literary prize to the site and ensure it is well-documented.

This site began in 2004 as a cross-reference of books that had been nominated for science fiction literary prizes. Once the mechanism was in place, honors in other genres were added. When over 5,000 books had been ranked, film and music honors were added and the wiki enabled. Though these other creative works are important, Award Annals is still mainly about literary prizes simply because so many books are printed and judged by so many organizations. The current list of awards is more than enough to keep one administrator busy.

Here is how an Honor Roll is made: whenever a book, film, or album is nominated for an honor, the event is recorded in the annals simply by creating two types of wiki page: one contains a description of the book, and the other documents the award event by specifying a shortlist and a winner. When the event is saved, the nominated works are given a score for receiving the honor. A book that has garnered several literary honors will have a higher score, and appears nearer the top of our honor rolls. The top ten books on any literary honor roll have been judged by several different groups as an exceptional work of literature.