Chanticleer Book Reviews

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.

The 2025 Hearten Awards Finalists are here! Thank you to all these authors for sharing your powerful stories of uplifting and inspiring non-fiction!

Congratulations to the 2025 Humor and Satire Finalists! We laughed, we cried, and maybe we did a secret third thing, but we'll never tell.

The 2025 Journey Semi-Finalists are here! These non-fiction stories overcoming adversity bring us to tears every year. Congratulations to all who made this tier!

The Finalists for the Military & Front Line Awards are here! Thank you to all the authors who submitted and their Service to Others!

This spiritual journey is almost as a close as we announce the 2025 Mind and Spirit Book Awards Finalists for Enlightenment and Well-Being in Non-Fiction.

Strengthen your enterprise with the Harvey Chute Short List! Congratulations to all who made the list, and good luck as we move onto the next rounds of judging!

Here are the 2025 Finalists for the Nellie Bly CIBAs for Longform Journalism! Good luck to all at CAC26 where the Winners will be announced!

The Finalists for the CCDAs in Non-Fiction are already here! Next up in this cover design division is straight to the Winners list! Good luck!

The CCDA Finalists for Fiction Cover Design are here! Thank you to these authors for sharing their beautiful books with us!

The Short List for our New Award Division is here! The Collection & Anthology Awards are here! Congratulations to all of the authors who made the list!

Ready to learn something new? Start with these I&I Finalist titles presenting the latest in Instruction and Insight for Non-Fiction.

The 2025 Semi-Finalists for the SEA Shorts Awards are here! We are so happy to celebrate this brief, but spectacular work!

The 2025 Gertrude Warner Short List for Middle Grade Fiction has arrived! Good luck to these authors as we move onto the semi-finalists!

The Chatelaine Finalists are here! Thank you to all these authors of Romance Books for sharing such wonderful work with us!

The Semi-Finalists for the Fiction CCDAs are here! Did your cover make the cut? Who will win in one of the newest CIBA Divisions?

The Dante Rossetti Short List for Young Adult Fiction is here! Congratulations to all authors who made it, and good luck on the next round of judging!

The Short List for the 2025 Humor & Satire Awards are here! Congratulations to all authors who made it here, and good luck as we move on to the Finalist list!

Love is in the air as we dive into the Chatelaine Short List for 2025! Congratulations to these authors of romance and women's fiction, and good luck as the competition heats up!

The M&M Awards for your Cozy and Not-so-Cozy Mysteries are here to cause a little mayhem with these impressive Semi-Finalist Authors!

Celebrate the 7th Day of Christmas with Chanticleer's 7 Non-Fiction Divisions! From overcoming adversity to business insights, truth matters now more than ever!