List of awards and nominations received by Stephen King
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Stephen King is an American author of contemporary horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, crime fiction, and fantasy. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, many of which have been adapted into feature films, miniseries, television shows, and comic books. King has published 61 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman, and five non-fiction books. He has written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been compiled in book collections.
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King has received multiple awards and nominations for his work, including multiple Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, and British Fantasy Society Awards, as well as the National Medal of Arts, Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and the O. Henry Award. He has also received awards for his contribution to literature for his entire oeuvre, such as the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement (2004), the Canadian Booksellers Association Lifetime Achievement Award (2007), and the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America (2007).
Awards and nominations
Career and lifetime achievement awards
| Year | Award | Category | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Balrog Award | Professional Achievement | Nominated | [1] |
| 1981 | University of Maine | Alumni Career Award | Won | [2] |
| 1981 | World Fantasy Award | Convention Award | Won | [1] |
| 1981 | Balrog Award | Professional Achievement | Nominated | [1] |
| 1981 | British Fantasy Award | Special Award | Won | [1] |
| 1982 | Balrog Award | Professional Achievement | Nominated | [1] |
| 1986 | Spokane Public Library | Golden Pen Award | Won | [2] |
| 1992 | World Horror Convention | Grand Master Award | Won | [1] |
| 1994 | Fangoria | Fangoria Hall of Fame | Inducted | [citation needed] |
| 2002 | Bram Stoker Award | Lifetime Achievement Award | Won | [1] |
| 2003 | International Horror Guild Award | Living Legend Award | Won | [3] |
| 2003 | National Book Foundation | Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters | Won | [4] |
| 2004 | World Fantasy Award | Life Achievement | Won | [1] |
| 2007 | Canadian Booksellers Association | Lifetime Achievement Award | Won | [5] |
| 2007 | Edgar Award | Grand Master Award | Won | [6] |
| 2010 | Los Angeles Public Library | Literary Award | Won | [7] |
| 2011 | Fall for the Book Festival | Mason Award | Won | [8] |
| 2014 | National Endowment of the Arts | National Medal of Arts | Awarded | [9] |
| 2020 | Audie Award | Lifetime Achievement | Won | [10] |
Works
| Award | Year | Category | Recipient(s) | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Library Association | 1978 | Best Books for Young Adults | 'Salem's Lot | Won | [11] |
| Night Shift | Nominated | [12] | |||
| 1979 | The Long Walk | Won | [citation needed] | ||
| 1981 | Firestarter | Won | [11] | ||
| 2000 | The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon | Nominated | [13] | ||
| 100 Best Books for Teens - 1966–2000 | The Long Walk | Selected | [14] | ||
| 2009 | Alex Award | Just After Sunset | Won | [15] | |
| 2010 | Under the Dome | Nominated | [16] | ||
| 2014 | Joyland | Nominated | [17] | ||
| Anthony Award | 2014 | Best Paperback Original | Joyland | Nominated | [18] |
| Audie Award | 1997 | Best Unabridged Fiction Audiobook | The Green Mile (narrated by Frank Muller) | Won | [19] |
| 1999 | Best Audiobook Package Design | Bag of Bones | Nominated | [20] | |
| 2001 | Best Unabridged Non-Fiction Audiobook | On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft | Nominated | [21] | |
| 2002 | Best Unabridged Fiction Audiobook | The Talisman (co-written with Peter Straub; narrated by Frank Muller) | Won | [22] | |
| 2006 | Best Solo Narration — Male | The Shining (narrated by Campbell Scott) | Nominated | [23] | |
| 2009 | Best Fiction Audiobook | Duma Key (narrated by John Slattery) | Won | [24] | |
| 2010 | Best Short Stories / Collection Audiobook | Just After Sunset (narrated by Stephen King, Jill Eikenberry, Holter Graham, George Guidall, Ron McLarty, Denis O'Hare, Ben Shenkman, Mare Winningham) | Nominated | [25] | |
| 2014 | Best Fiction Audiobook | Doctor Sleep (narrated by Will Patton) | Won | [26] | |
| Best Solo Narration — Male | Nominated | ||||
| 2015 | Best Fiction Audiobook | Mr. Mercedes (narrated by Will Patton) | Nominated | [27] | |
| Best Solo Narration — Male | Nominated | ||||
| 2016 | Best Male Narrator | Finders Keepers (narrated by Will Patton) | Nominated | [28] | |
| Best Original Work | Drunken Fireworks (narrated by Tim Sample) | Nominated | |||
| 2017 | Best Fiction Audiobook | End of Watch (narrated by Will Patton) | Nominated | [29] | |
| Best Male Narrator | Nominated | ||||
| 2019 | Best Thriller / Suspense Audiobook | The Outsider (narrated by Will Patton) | Nominated | [30] | |
| Best Male Narrator | Pet Sematary (narrated by Michael C. Hall) | Nominated | |||
| 2020 | Best Thriller / Suspense Audiobook | The Institute (narrated by Santino Fontana) | Won | [31] | |
| 2021 | Best Thriller / Suspense Audiobook | If It Bleeds (narrated by Will Patton, Danny Burstein, and Steven Weber) | Nominated | [32] | |
| 2022 | Mystery | Later | Won | ||
| BBC | 2003 | The Big Read | The Stand | 53rd | [33] |
| It | 144th | ||||
| The Green Mile | 146th | ||||
| Balrog Award | 1979 | Best Collection / Anthology | Night Shift | Nominated | [1] |
| Best Novel | The Stand | Nominated | |||
| 1980 | The Dead Zone | Nominated | |||
| The Stand | Nominated | ||||
| Best Collection / Anthology | Night Shift | Won | |||
| 1981 | Best Novel | Firestarter | Nominated | ||
| 1982 | Best Novel | Cujo | Nominated | ||
| 1983 | Best Artist | Stephen King | Nominated | ||
| Black Quill Award | 2007 | Best Dark Scribble | "The Gingerbread Girl" | Nominated | [34] |
| 2008 | Best Dark Genre Novel | Duma Key | Won | [35] | |
| Best Dark Genre Book Trailer | Duma Key (produced by Scribner) | Nominated | [36] | ||
| 2010 | Dark Genre Novel of the Year | Under the Dome | Nominated | [37] | |
| Best Dark Genre Book Trailer | Under the Dome (produced by Scribner) | Nominated | |||
| Bram Stoker Award | 1987 | Best Novel | Misery | Won | [1] |
| 1988 | Best Novelette | "The Night Flier" | Nominated | ||
| 1990 | Best Fiction Collection | Four Past Midnight | Won | ||
| Best Novelette | "The Langoliers" | Nominated | |||
| 1991 | Best Novel | Needful Things | Nominated | ||
| The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands | Nominated | ||||
| 1993 | Best Fiction Collection | Nightmares & Dreamscapes | Nominated | ||
| 1994 | Best Novel | Insomnia | Nominated | ||
| 1995 | Best Novelette | "Lunch at the Gotham Cafe" | Won | ||
| 1996 | Best Novel | The Green Mile | Won | ||
| 1997 | Best Long Fiction | "Everything's Eventual" | Nominated | ||
| 1998 | Best Novel | Bag of Bones | Won | ||
| Best Short Fiction | "Autopsy Room Four" | Nominated | |||
| 1999 | Best Novel | "Low Men in Yellow Coats" | Nominated | ||
| Best Fiction Collection | Hearts in Atlantis | Nominated | |||
| 2000 | Best Long Fiction | "Riding the Bullet" | Nominated | ||
| Best Non-Fiction | On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft | Won | |||
| 2001 | Best Novel | Black House (co-written with Peter Straub) | Nominated | ||
| 2002 | Best Novel | From a Buick 8 | Nominated | ||
| Best Fiction Collection | Everything's Eventual | Nominated | |||
| 2003 | Best Novel | The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla | Nominated | ||
| Best Short Fiction | "Harvey's Dream" | Nominated | |||
| 2004 | Best Novel | The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower | Nominated | ||
| Best Long Fiction | "Lisey and the Mad Man" | Nominated | |||
| 2005 | "The Things They Left Behind" | Nominated | |||
| 2006 | Best Novel | Lisey's Story | Won | ||
| 2009 | Duma Key | Won | |||
| Best Fiction Collection | Just After Sunset | Won | |||
| 2011 | Full Dark, No Stars | Won | |||
| 2012 | Best Short Fiction | "Herman Wouk is Still Alive" | Won | ||
| 2014 | Best Novel | Doctor Sleep | Won | ||
| 2018 | Best Novel | Sleeping Beauties (co-written with Owen King) | Nominated | ||
| British Fantasy Award | 1981 | Novel (August Derleth Award) | Firestarter | Nominated | [1] |
| Best Short Fiction | "Crouch End" | Nominated | |||
| 1982 | Novel (August Derleth Award) | Cujo | Won | ||
| Best Short Fiction | "The Monkey" | Nominated | |||
| 1983 | "Apt Pupil" | Nominated | |||
| "The Breathing Method" | Won | ||||
| 1987 | Novel (August Derleth Award) | It | Won | ||
| 1991 | Best Collection | Four Past Midnight | Nominated | ||
| 1999 | Novel (August Derleth Award) | Bag of Bones | Won | ||
| 2000 | Best Collection | Hearts in Atlantis | Nominated | ||
| 2003 | Everything's Eventual | Nominated | |||
| 2005 | Novel (August Derleth Award) | The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower | Won | ||
| 2009 | Best Collection | Just After Sunset | Nominated | ||
| Best Short Fiction | "N." | Nominated | |||
| 2010 | Novel (August Derleth Award) | Under the Dome | Nominated | ||
| 2011 | Best Collection | Full Dark, No Stars | Won | ||
| Best Novella | "1922" | Nominated | |||
| 2012 | British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel (August Derleth Award) | 11/22/63 | Nominated | ||
| 2020 | The Institute | Nominated | |||
| Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award | 1989 | Best Novel | The Eyes of the Dragon | Won | [38] |
| 1991 | Best Collection | Pet Sematary | Won | ||
| 1994 | Best Novel | It | Nominated | ||
| 2001 | Best Novel | The Green Mile | Nominated | ||
| 2011 | Best Novella | Under the Dome | Nominated | ||
| Deutscher Phantastik Preis | 2000 | Best International Novel | Hearts in Atlantis | Won | [1] |
| 2001 | The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon | Nominated | |||
| 2002 | Dreamcatcher | Nominated | |||
| 2003 | Best International Novel | Black House (co-written with Peter Straub) | Won | ||
| International Author of the Year | Stephen King | Nominated | |||
| 2004 | Stephen King | Won | |||
| Best International Novel | The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla | Nominated | |||
| 2005 | The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower | Won | |||
| 2007 | Lisey's Story | Nominated | |||
| 2014 | Doctor Sleep | Nominated | |||
| Dragon Award | 2018 | Best Horror Novel | Sleeping Beauties | Won | |
| Edgar Award | 2014 | Best Paperback Original | Joyland | Nominated | [39] |
| 2015 | Best Novel | Mr. Mercedes | Won | [40] | |
| 2016 | Best Short Story | "Obits" | Won | [41] | |
| 2017 | "The Music Room" | Nominated | [42] | ||
| Eisner Award | 2011 | Best New Series | American Vampire (with creators Scott Snyder and Rafael Albuquerque) | Won | [43] |
| Entertainment Weekly | 2008 | 100 Best Reads from 1983 to 2008 | On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft | 21st | [44] |
| Fantafestival | 1992 | Best Screenplay | Sleepwalkers | Won | [45] |
| Fantasporto | 1988 | Grande Prémio Fantasporto | Maximum Overdrive | Nominated | [citation needed] |
| Gandalf Award | 1978 | Book-Length Fantasy | The Shining | Nominated | [46] |
| 1979 | The Stand | Nominated | |||
| Golden Raspberry Award | 1986 | Worst Director | Maximum Overdrive (directed by Stephen King) | Nominated | [47] |
| Goodreads Choice Awards | 2009 | Mystery and Thriller | Under the Dome | Nominated | [48] |
| 2011 | Science Fiction | 11/22/63 | Won | [49] | |
| 2012 | Fantasy | The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole | Won | [50] | |
| 2013 | Horror | Doctor Sleep | Won | [51] | |
| 2013 | Mystery and Thriller | Joyland | Nominated | [52] | |
| 2014 | Mystery and Thriller | Mr. Mercedes | Won | [53] | |
| 2015 | Mystery and Thriller | Finders Keepers | Nominated | [54] | |
| 2016 | Mystery and Thriller | End of Watch | Won | [55] | |
| 2017 | Horror | Sleeping Beauties (co-written with Owen King) | Won | [56] | |
| 2018 | Mystery and Thriller | The Outsider | Won | [57] | |
| 2018 | Horror | Elevation | Won | [58] | |
| 2018 | Horror | Flight or Fright (as editor & contributor with Bev Vincent) | Nominated | [59] | |
| 2019 | Horror | The Institute | Won | [60] | |
| 2020 | Horror | If It Bleeds | Nominated | [61] | |
| 2021 | Mystery & Thriller | Billy Summers | Nominated | [62] | |
| 2021 | Horror | Later | Nominated | [63] | |
| 2022 | Horror | Gwendy's Final Task (co-written with Richard Chizmar) | Nominated | [64] | |
| 2022 | Fantasy | Fairy Tale | Nominated | [65] | |
| 2023 | Horror | Holly | Won | [66] | |
| 2024 | Horror | You Like It Darker | Won | [67] | |
| Hugo Award | 1977 | Best Dramatic Presentation | Carrie (directed by Brian De Palma; screenplay by Lawrence D. Cohen) | Nominated | [68] |
| 1982 | Best Non-Fiction Book | Danse Macabre | Won | [69] | |
| 2016 | Best Novelette | "Obits" | Nominated | [70] | |
| International Association of Crime Writers | 2014 | Hammett Prize | Mr. Mercedes | Won | [71] |
| International Horror Guild Award | 1999 | Best Television Program | Storm of the Century | Won | [72] |
| 2000 | Best Long Story | "Riding the Bullet" | Nominated | ||
| Best Nonfiction | On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft | Won | |||
| 2001 | Best Novel | Black House (co-written with Peter Straub) | Nominated | ||
| 2002 | Best Novel | From a Buick 8 | Nominated | ||
| Best Collection | Everything's Eventual | Nominated | |||
| Best Television Program | Rose Red (directed by Craig R. Baxley) | Nominated | |||
| 2003 | Best Novel | The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla | Nominated | ||
| 2004 | Best Television Program | Kingdom Hospital | Nominated | ||
| 2006 | Best Novel | Lisey's Story | Nominated | ||
| International Thriller Writers Award | 2012 | Best Hardcover Novel | 11/22/63 | Won | [73] |
| 2014 | Doctor Sleep | Nominated | |||
| Italia Award | 1999 | Best International Novel | The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass | Nominated | [1] |
| Japan Booksellers' Award | 2014 | Best Translated Novel | 11/22/63 (translated by Rō Shiraishi) | Nominated | [74] |
| Locus Award | 1978 | Best Fantasy Novel | The Shining | Nominated | [1] |
| 1979 | Best Novel | The Stand | Nominated | ||
| 1979 | Best Collection | Night Shift | Nominated | ||
| 1979 | Best Novelette | The Gunslinger | Nominated | ||
| 1980 | Best Fantasy Novel | The Dead Zone | Nominated | ||
| 1980 | Best Short Story | The Crate | Nominated | ||
| 1981 | Best Science Fiction Novel | Firestarter | Nominated | ||
| 1981 | Best Fantasy Novel | The Mist | Nominated | ||
| 1981 | Best Novelette | The Way Station | Nominated | ||
| 1982 | Best Fantasy Novel | Cujo | Nominated | ||
| 1982 | Best Non-Fiction Book | Danse Macabre | Won | ||
| 1983 | Best Collection | Different Seasons | Nominated | ||
| 1983 | Best Novella | The Breathing Method | Nominated | ||
| 1983 | Best Novelette | The Raft | Nominated | ||
| 1983 | Best Short Story | It Grows on You | Nominated | ||
| 1984 | Best Fantasy Novel | Christine | Nominated | ||
| 1984 | Best Fantasy Novel | Pet Sematary | Nominated | ||
| 1985 | Best Fantasy Novel | The Talisman (co-written with Peter Straub) | Nominated | ||
| 1985 | Best Novella | The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet | Nominated | ||
| 1986 | Best Collection | Skeleton Crew | Won | ||
| 1987 | Best Fantasy Novel | It | Nominated | ||
| 1988 | Best Fantasy Novel | The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three | Nominated | ||
| 1988 | Best Science Fiction Novel | The Tommyknockers | Nominated | ||
| 1990 | Best Horror Novel | The Dark Half | Nominated | ||
| 1991 | Best Collection | Four Past Midnight | Nominated | ||
| 1991 | Best Horror Novel | The Stand | Nominated | ||
| 1992 | Best Horror Novel | Needful Things | Nominated | ||
| 1992 | Best Horror Novel | The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands | Nominated | ||
| 1993 | Best Horror Novel | Dolores Claiborne | Nominated | ||
| 1994 | Best Collection | Nightmares & Dreamscapes | Nominated | ||
| 1994 | Best Novella | The Ten O'Clock People | Nominated | ||
| 1995 | Horror Novel | Insomnia (novel) | Nominated | ||
| 1996 | Horror Novel | Rose Madder | Nominated | ||
| 1996 | Best Novelette | Lunch at the Gotham Café | Nominated | ||
| 1997 | Best Horror Novel | Desperation | Won | ||
| 1997 | Best Horror Novel | The Green Mile | Nominated | ||
| 1998 | Best Fantasy Novel | The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass | Nominated | ||
| 1998 | Best Art Book | The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass (illustrated by Dave McKean) | Nominated | ||
| 1998 | Best Novella | Everything's Eventual | Nominated | ||
| 1999 | Best Horror Novel | Bag of Bones | Won | ||
| 2000 | Best Collection | Hearts in Atlantis | Nominated | ||
| 2001 | Best Non-Fiction | On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft | Won | ||
| 2002 | Best Fantasy Novel | Black House (co-written with Peter Straub) | Nominated | ||
| 2003 | Best Collection | Everything's Eventual | Nominated | ||
| 2004 | Best Fantasy Novel | The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla | Nominated | ||
| 2005 | Best Fantasy Novel | The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah | Nominated | ||
| 2007 | Best Fantasy Novel | Lisey's Story | Nominated | ||
| 2008 | Best Short Story | Graduation Afternoon | Nominated | ||
| 2010 | Best Nonfiction/Art Book | The Dark Tower: The Little Sisters of Eluria (adapted by Robin Furth; script by Peter David; illustrated by Richard Isanove, Luke Ross, and Michael Whelan) | Nominated | ||
| 2010 | Best Science Fiction Novel | Under the Dome | Nominated | ||
| 2012 | Best Science Fiction Novel | 11/22/63 | Nominated | ||
| 2012 | Best Novelette | The Little Green God of Agony | Nominated | ||
| 2014 | Best Fantasy Novel | Doctor Sleep | Nominated | ||
| 2014 | Best Fantasy Novel | Joyland | Nominated | ||
| 2015 | Best Fantasy Novel | Revival | Nominated | ||
| 2019 | Best Horror Novel | The Outsider | Nominated | ||
| 2020 | Best Horror Novel | The Institute | Nominated | ||
| 2021 | Best Collection | If It Bleeds | Nominated | ||
| 2022 | Best Horror Novel | Later | Nominated | ||
| 2022 | Best Horror Novel | Billy Summers | Nominated | ||
| 2023 | Best Horror Novel | Gwendy's Final Task (with Richard Chizmar) | Nominated | ||
| 2025 | Best Collection | You Like It Darker | Nominated | ||
| Los Angeles Times Book Prize | 2011 | Mystery / Thriller | 11/22/63 | Won | [75] |
| Modern Library 100 Best Novels | 1998 | Reader's List | The Stand | 29th | [citation needed] |
| It | 84th | ||||
| Mystery Writers of Japan | 2012 | Tozai Mystery Best 100 | Misery | 61st | [76] |
| National Magazine Award | 2004 | Fiction | "Rest Stop" | Won | [77] |
| 2007 | "Willa" | Nominated | [78] | ||
| 2013 | "Batman and Robin Have an Altercation" | Won | [79] | ||
| Nebula Award | 1980 | Best Novelette | "The Way Station" | Nominated | [1] |
| New York Public Library | 1982 | Books for the Teen Age | Firestarter | Won | [2] |
| 1995 | Books of the Century | Carrie | Selected | [80] | |
| New York Times Book Review | 2011 | 10 Best Books of 2011 | 11/22/63 | Selected | [81] |
| O. Henry Award | 1996 | Best American Short Story | "The Man in the Black Suit" | Won | [82] |
| Online Film & Television Association | 1997 | Best Writing of a Motion Picture or Miniseries | The Shining | Won | [83] |
| Primetime Emmy Award | 1994 | Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series | The Stand | Nominated | [84] |
| 1997 | The Shining | Nominated | [85] | ||
| Prix Ozone Award | 1997 | Best Foreign Novel - Horror | Desperation | Won | [1] |
| Quill Award | 2005 | Sports | Faithful (co-written with Stewart O'Nan) | Won | [86] |
| Science Fiction / Fantasy / Horror | The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower | Nominated | [1] | ||
| 2006 | Cell | Nominated | |||
| Shirley Jackson Award | 2008 | Best Novella | "N." | Nominated | [1] |
| Best Collection | Just After Sunset | Nominated | |||
| 2009 | Best Novelette | "Morality" | Won | ||
| 2015 | Single-Author Collection | The Bazaar of Bad Dreams | Won | ||
| Takarajimasha | 1991 | Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! | Misery | 4th | [87] |
| 1993 | It | 4th | [88] | ||
| 1998 | The Green Mile | 3rd | [89] | ||
| 2002 | The Stand | 8th | [90] | ||
| 2014 | 11/22/63 | 1st | [91] | ||
| 2017 | Mr. Mercedes | 3rd | [92] | ||
| US Magazine | 1982 | Best Fiction Writer of the Year | Stephen King | Won | [2] |
| University of Southern California | 1991 | USC Scripter Award | Misery (shared with screenwriter William Goldman) | Nominated | [93] |
| 1994 | The Shawshank Redemption (shared with screenwriter Frank Darabont) | Won | |||
| 1999 | The Green Mile (shared with screenwriter Frank Darabont) | Nominated | |||
| World Fantasy Award | 1976 | Best Novel | 'Salem's Lot | Nominated | [1] |
| 1979 | The Stand | Nominated | |||
| Best Collection | Night Shift | Nominated | |||
| 1981 | Best Novel | "The Mist" | Nominated | ||
| 1982 | Best Short Story | "Do the Dead Sing?" | Won | ||
| 1983 | Best Collection | Different Seasons | Nominated | ||
| Best Novella | "The Breathing Method" | Nominated | |||
| 1984 | Best Novel | Pet Sematary | Nominated | ||
| 1985 | Best Novel | The Talisman (co-written with Peter Straub) | Nominated | ||
| Best Novella | "The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet" | Nominated | |||
| 1986 | Best Collection | Skeleton Crew | Nominated | ||
| 1987 | Best Novel | It | Nominated | ||
| Best Short Story | "The End of the Whole Mess" | Nominated | |||
| 1988 | Best Novel | Misery | Nominated | ||
| 1995 | Best Short Story | "The Man in the Black Suit" | Won | ||
| 2000 | Best Collection | Hearts in Atlantis | Nominated | ||
| 2007 | Best Novel | Lisey's Story | Nominated | ||
| 2012 | 11/22/63 | Nominated |