Asian Books Blog runs its own literary award: The Asian Books Blog Book of the Lunar Year. The winner, for the Year of the Ram / Goat, now drawing to a close, will be announced on February 7, Chinese New Year’s Eve for the upcoming Year of the Monkey.

Books are eligible if they are both reasonably new, and if they featured in Asian Books Blog during the given lunar year – this because news of new books sometimes takes a while to trickle through to Asia. Anthologies are eligible. Reissues are not eligible. Books by regular contributors to Asian Books Blog are not eligible.