Poet Laureate (2006) – Donald Hall

Nobel Prize for Literature (2006) - Orhan Pamuk  

Pulitzer Prize (2006)
1. Fiction - March by Geraldine Brooks    
2. Nonfiction - Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins  
3. Poetry - Late Wife by Claudia Emerson       

National Book Award (2005)
1. Fiction - Europe Central by William T. Vollmann       
2. Nonfiction - The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion       
3. Poetry - Migration: New and Selected Poems by W.S. Merwin

National Book Circle Critics Award (2005)
1. Fiction - The March by E.L. Doctorow       
2. Nonfiction - Voices from Chernoybl by Svetlana Alexievich    
3. Poetry - Refusing Heaven by Jack Gilbert
 
Orange Prize for Fiction (2006) - On Beauty by Zadie Smith

Man Booker Prize (2006) - The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

Whitbread Book of the Year (2005) - Matisse the Master by Hilary Spurling

PEN/Faulkner Award (2005) - War Trash by Ha Jin