Literary awards and honors: December 12, 2024

As we approach the end of the year, many — but not all — of these awards and honors will be best-of-the-year lists ...

• TIME magazine chose its 100 must-read books of 2024.

• Book reviewer Maureen Corrigan shared her favorite books of the year on air (NPR).

• Poet and evolutionary biologist Brandon Kilbourne has received the 2025 Cave Canem Prize, which comes with $10,000 and a publishing deal for his upcoming work, Natural History (Literary Hub). 

• And Joseph Earl Thomas has won the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize for God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer (Literary Hub).