Nobel Prize in Literature
- Kazuo Ishiguro (Nobel Laureate)
Pulitzer Prize - Fiction
- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (Winner)
- Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett (Finalist)
- The Sport of Kings by C.E. Morgan (Finalist)
Pulitzer Prize - General Non-Fiction
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond (Winner)
- In a Different Key: The Story of Autism by John Donvan and Caren Zucker (Finalist)
- The Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery by Micki McElya (Finalist)
Pulitzer Prize - History
- Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson (Winner)
- Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It by Larrie D. Ferreiro (Finalist)
- New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America by Wendy Warren (Finalist)
Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography
- The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar (Winner)
- In the Darkroom by Susan Faludi (Finalist)
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi (Finalist)
National Book Award - Fiction
- Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward (Winner)
- Dark at the Crossing by Elliot Ackerman (Finalist)
- Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado (Finalist)
- The Leavers by Lisa Ko (Finalist)
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (Finalist)
National Book Award - Non-Fiction
- The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen (Winner)
- Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean (Finalist)
- The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America by Frances FitzGerald (Finalist)
- Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann (Finalist)
- Never Caught: The Washington's Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar (Finalist)
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
- Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue (Winner)
- After Disasters by Viet Dinh (Finalist)
- LaRose by Louise Erdrich (Finalist)
- What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell (Finalist)
- Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist by Sunil Yapa (Finalist)
Man Booker Prize
- Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (Winner)
- 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster (Finalist)
- Autumn by Ali Smith (Finalist)
- Elmet by Fiona Mozley (Finalist)
- Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (Finalist)
- History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund (Finalist)
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction
- The Power by Naomi Alderman (Winner)
- The Dark Circle by Linda Grant (Finalist)
- Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien (Finalist)
- First Love by Gwendoline Riley (Finalist)
- The Sport of Kings by C.E. Morgan (Finalist)
- Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo (Finalist)
Kirkus Prize - Fiction
- What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah (Winner)
- Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (Finalist)
- Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado (Finalist)
- The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott (Finalist)
- Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward (Finalist)
- White Tears by Hari Kunzru (Finalist)
Kirkus Prize - Non-Fiction
- The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea by Jack E. Davis (Winner)
- The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African-American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. Twitty (Finalist)
- Henry David Thoreau: A Life by Laura Dassow Walls (Finalist)
- Priestdaddy: A Memoir by Patricia Lockwood (Finalist)
- The Seeds of Life: From Aristotle to Da Vinci, From Sharks' Teeth to Frogs' Pants, the Long and Strange Quest to Discover Where Babies Come From by Edward Dolnick (Finalist)
- Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions by Valeria Luiselli (Finalist)
Audies - Audiobook of the Year
- Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda (Winner)
Edgar Awards - Best Novel
- Before the Fall by Noah Hawley (Winner)
- The Ex by Alafair Burke (Finalist)
- Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye (Finalist)
- What Remains of Me by Alison Gaylin (Finalist)
- Where It Hurts by Reed Farrel Coleman (Finalist)
Edgar Awards - Best First Novel
- Under the Harrow by Flynn Berry (Winner)
IACP Cookbook Awards - Cookbook of the Year
- Victuals: An Appalachian Journey, with Recipes by Ronni Lundy (Winner)
2018 Reading Across Rhode Island
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas