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Best Book Awards 2024: A Complete List of Book Awards for Authors and Publishers

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Our expanded 2024 list of 30 of the world’s best book awards includes the most prestigious honors for writers of mysteries, thrillers, romance novels, legal thrillers, science fiction, young adult, children’s books, general literature and other genres. We maintain this list for authors and publishers because book awards are an essential tool for building an audience. In a survey of 613 authors, publishers and publicists […]

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The Lost Bird, a Highly Recommended Heist Thriller by J.K. Kelly

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The Bottom Line: One of the most memorable heist thrillers of the past decade.  Among an ocean of lookalike crime novels, The Lost Bird delivers a stunning new take on the heist thriller that is not to be missed. The Lost Bird has it all: a priceless artifact, a gullible accomplice and an unlikely hero.  At an air museum in Palm Springs, a group of tourists board a quick

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All Hope of Becoming Human, The Year’s Best Sci-Fi Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Winner, Sci-Fi Thriller, The BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Highly recommended. All Hope of Becoming Human opens in rural Georgia as police officers are called to investigate a store robbery. Across the globe, the world is being ravaged by devastating earthquakes, viruses, riots and crime. But there in Georgia, a terrifying and grotesque creature awaits the officers at a nearby farmhouse. And what investigators find later

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The Advent House, an Unforgettable Political Thriller by Tim Jorgenson

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The Bottom Line: This political thriller set in post-revolutionary Cuba features an unforgettable hero’s journey that is both emotionally resonant and highly suspenseful.   The Advent House opens as hospital volunteer Gabriella Suarez Paloma is assigned to assist a dying woman during her final days. The patient, a woman named Adriana, is considered both a person of interest and a “consort of an enemy of the state.”

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Gothic Revival, the Year’s Best Horror Novel

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The Bottom Line: Winner, Best Horror Noveo, The BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Highly recommended. Gothic Revival opens as Eric Asher, celebrity novelist and oscar-nominated screenwriter, sends an out-of-the-blue invitation to a group of old grad school friends. In the letter, which acknowledges that he’s become a recluse, he offers to fly them to San Francisco, then whisk them away by private plane to a remote lake villa for

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Early Grave, the Year’s Best Legal Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Winner, Best Legal Thriller, The BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Highly recommended. The final book in Paul Levine’s Jake Lassiter series finds the defense attorney engaging in a battle that is decidedly personal. Long before Jake’s law career, he was a linebacker for the Miami Dolphins, where he was part of “the perfect season” – an undefeated record punctuated by a Super Bowl win. But with

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The Salty Iguana, a Highly Recommended Political Thriller by Bill King

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The Bottom Line: A shockingly plausible political thriller that transcends the usual worst-case-scenario about American border security. Bill King has successfully captured the spirit of Yellowstone and transported it to South Texas. Highly recommended. As The Salty Iguana opens, four men swearing allegiance to the Revolutionary Republic of Yucatec del Norte sneak onto a historic South Texas ranch. Their goal is to kidnap the ranch’s 60-year-old owner, Santiago Stephenson. Unbeknownst to

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The One, a Can’t Miss Sci-Fi Thriller by Edward Miller and J.B. Manas

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The Bottom Line: Miller and Manas will make believers out of sci-fi fans in this can’t-miss thriller. As The One opens, Pastor Luke Remington is on a flight returning from a tour of duty in Afghanistan as a Navy chaplain. On his journey home to see his wife and daughter, he’s recognized by a wounded soldier whose life he saved in an act of immense bravery. But

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The Great Gimmelmans, an Exhilarating Crime Thriller by Lee Matthew Goldberg

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The Bottom Line: Think the Corleones are the ultimate crime family? Meet the Gimmelmans, whose exhilarating crime spree fuels this rip-roaring romp through the late 1980s.  Set in the late 80s, The Great Gimmelmans is narrated by Aaron Nicholas Gimmelman, whose parents lose everything in the 1987 Black Monday stock market crash. After the repossession of their cars, valuables and home, they’re left with an RV dubbed The Gimmelmans’

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Judge Not, a Must-Read Crime Thriller by Nikki Stern

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The Bottom Line: The hunters become the prey in this must-read for fans of serial killer fiction. The fourth entry in Nikki Stern’s Sam Tate Mystery Series picks up as Pat McCready, a young detective working under Sam, spots potential similarities in the murder of two law enforcement officers in separate states. Sam advises Pat to focus on cases within their jurisdiction when he’s on

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