The National Literary Award is the highest honor we offer for both fiction and non-fiction books. This is our award for the best of the best in American Literature. We offer two categories – one for fiction and one for non-fiction. Our winners in this category offer a rare quality in books published today, both mainstream and independent, that is not seen books today. It’s this rare quality that make them great literature and worthy of being recognized as the best in American Literature. This award is given out to books in this category published within the last three years of the award year.