Chanticleer Book Reviews

It is our great pleasure to celebrate these 5 Grand Prize Winners that have made the I&I Hall of Fame! Whatever you need, these How-To Guides and Manuals have the answers!

We are delighted to spotlight these amazing business and finance book reviews for the Harvey Chute Spotlight! Join the CIBAs today!

The Harvey Chute Hall of Fame is here to celebrate five years of excellence in Grand Prize Winners! Look no further to turn your financial life around!

The Mind & Spirit Awards remind us to take a moment to breathe. We are delighted to share these great reads, and invite you to enter your own future winner!

These are the best of the best in the Mind & Spirit Awards! Whether you're looking for the best way to connect with your creative self, or connect with other people, we have a book for you!

The Series Book Awards Long List is hot off the presses! Join us in welcoming these authors to the 2026 CIBAs and wish them luck as we move onto the Short List!

Has your YA book come of age? We're delighted to celebrate these excellent Young Adult books as we look toward the 2026 Dante Rossetti submission deadline!

We're here to celebrate 5 years of excellence with the Grand Prize Winners of the Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction! Fill out your TBR today!

The first installment of the Collections & Anthologies Long List is here! Congratulations to these authors for making the first cut! We're glad to have you here!

The 2026 Gertrude Warner Spotlight is here! Join us in celebrating some of the most timeless classics that stay with readers the rest of their lives.

The Gertrude Warner 2026 Hall of Fame is here! Check out these amazing Grand Prize Winners, including the newest member who will be promoted for years to come!

The SEA Short Story Awards Long List for Novellas, Short Stories, and Essays are here! We are proud to have such a quality start for this rebranded division!

We're here to celebrate quality Children's Literature with the Little Peeps Awards! Do you have a kid's book that has what it takes? Enter today!

The Little Peeps Awards Hall of Fame showcases the best of the best of children's literature for the young readers in your life!

The M&M Awards for your Cozy and Not-so-Cozy Mysteries are here to cause a little mayhem with this impressive Long List of authors!

The world is at stake for the Global Thrillers Long List! Congratulations to all who made the list, and good luck as we move onto the next rounds of judging!

The first of the 2026 Clue Long List authors for Thriller and Suspense are here! Congratulations to all and good luck as we move onto the Short List!

The Shelley Awards Short List is here! Congratulations to these Paranormal authors who made it here, and good luck on the semi-finals!

The 2026 Ozma Book Awards Short List is here! Congratulations to all who made it through, and good luck as the fantasy fiction competition heats up!

Tension is needed in every story. Using these tension escalation tools, authors can hook readers and eager to turn the next page.

Chanticleer honors the amazing life and generous spirit of Dolly Parton, bestselling author and dedicated literacy advocate.

Join us in celebrating the best one of the CIBA divisions closest to our hearts: The Military and Front Line Awards for Service to Others!

The Spotlight for the 2026 Military & Front Line Awards for Service to Others is here! Join us in celebrating these wonderful books that recognize the hard work we put into community!

The 2026 Nellie Bly Spotlight is here celebrating some of the best longform journalism that's come through Chanticleer! It is our honor and delight to promote these works!

The Hearten Awards deadline is coming up next month! Check out these great books we've reviewed recently, and find your the inspiration to start your own uplifting story!

The 2026 Journey Book Awards for Overcoming Adversity are accepting submissions! Join us in celebrating these recent stories we've reviewed, and see if your book has what it takes to be a winner!

The Chaucer Awards and other Historical Fiction are open until the end of August! No one's story deserves to be forgotten!

We're here with the Shelley Awards Long List for Paranormal Fiction! Well done to these authors for making the first cut, and good luck as the competition heats up!

And we're off! The first of the 2026 Ozma Awards lists for Fantasy Fiction is here! Good luck, and welcome to the Long List!

The first list of the 2026 Chanticleer Int'l Book Awards is here with the Cygnus Awards for Science Fiction! Good luck, and welcome to the Long List!

Congratulations to this year's Grand Prize Winner Jolie Tunnell! We are honored to induct her into the M&M Hall of Fame!

Getting ready to cozy up with a good book? We have just the mysteries! Plus, if you have your own case to solve, the M&M Awards are still open, but not for much longer!

Celebrating the last 5 years of excellence with these Clue Hall of Fame Winners for Thriller and Suspense! Will your book be next?

The 2026 Clue Awards Spotlight is here! Enjoy some of our latest thriller reviews, and take a chance at recognition for your own suspense novel by entering the Clue Awards today!

The Global Thriller Hall of Fame is here! We are honored to celebrate the last 5 years of excellence. Will your high stakes story of suspense be next?

The spotlight on the Global Thriller Awards is here! The clock is counting down for your own work to be considered in the division for High Stakes Suspense! Don't miss out!

Are you in a Collection or Anthology? Join the Hall of Fame for the newest of the CIBA divisions and get the recognition you deserve!

Celebrating 5 years of SEA Shorts Winners! This Award has since been split between here and the Collection & Anthology Awards to better honor both the longer collections and the shorter samples of excellent prose.

The SEA Shorts Awards are coming up again! Check out some of the brilliant Short Story Collections we've reviewed for your next bite-sized snack of a read!

The Series Hall of Fame is here! We are honored to be promoting five years of excellent writing through the Chanticleer Int'l Book Awards!

Books? No way you can have just one! Check out this spotlight on great book series for the upcoming CIBAs!

Ten Days remain to enter your book into the Cygnus, Ozma, and Shelley Awards! If you have a great work of speculative fiction, we want to celebrate it!

The Shelley Awards 2026 First Place Winners & Hall of Fame The 2025 Chanticleer International Book Awards have wrapped up, and we are thrilled to celebrate the outstanding paranormal fiction authors who rose to the top this year. From past-life thrillers to supernatural mysteries, the Shelley Awards once again proved that the veil between worlds [...]

It is our delight to spotlight the Shelley Book Awards for Paranormal Fiction! We are delighted to feature some of the most supernatural reading we've enjoyed over the last year.

We are delighted to celebrate these recent reviews of fantasy fiction that we've loved! The Ozma Awards close at the end of June!

The Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC26) and CIBA awards brought together writers from around the world, strengthening our community!

Congratulations to the 2025 I&I Winners for How-To and Self-Help. We feel set to face the year after your books!

Winner lists are rolling out daily! We're spacing announcements to maximize engagement and give each division its moment in the spotlight.

We are pleased to present the Fiction Finalists of the 2025 Chanticleer Int'l Book Awards! Thank you to all authors who entered the CIBAs, and good luck on April 18th when the Winners are announced!

The first ever finalists for the 2025 Collection & Anthology Awards are here! Congratulations to these authors and thank you for sharing your wonderful work with us!

The 2025 Journey Finalists are HERE! Thank you to these authors for sharing their incredible non-fiction stories of overcoming adversity with us. Every year these are the hardest reads, and they sit with us for years to come.