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Literary Titan Gold Book Award: Fiction
The Literary Titan Book Award honors books that exhibit exceptional storytelling and creativity. This award celebrates novelists who craft compelling narratives, create memorable characters, and weave stories that captivate readers. The recipients are writers who excel in their ability to blend imagination with literary skill, creating worlds that enchant and narratives that linger long after the final page is turned.
Award Recipients
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Literary Titan Silver Book Award
Celebrating the brilliance of outstanding authors who have captivated us with their skillful prose, engaging narratives, and compelling real and imagined characters. We recognize books that stand out for their innovative storytelling and insightful exploration of truth and fiction. Join us in honoring the dedication and skill of these remarkable authors as we celebrate the diverse and rich worlds they’ve brought to life, whether through the realm of imagination or the lens of reality.
Award Recipients
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When Anna Came Home
When Anna Came Home dives straight into the shadows of power, wealth, and betrayal with a gripping opening, and refuses to let up. The story follows Anna Cahill, a young woman who, expecting to surprise her family with good news, walks into a nightmare—her entire family gunned down, and her world flipped inside out. What follows is a fast-paced unraveling of secrets, lies, and a tangled web of criminal conspiracy that stretches from family dinner tables to international arms deals. It’s part domestic thriller, part espionage drama, and entirely absorbing.
The writing was clean and fast-moving, but also rich with emotional detail. Condon doesn’t waste time. From the first page, she plants you right in the action. The opening chapter feels like a scene from a slick thriller, with men in black, secret cash exchanges, and ominous hangars. But then, we’re immediately pulled into Anna’s raw, personal hell. The hotel suite scene where she gives her statement is haunting, and her breakdown after realizing her family is gone hit me hard. It was real and messy and completely believable.
But what really got me was the subtle emotional manipulation going on in her family before everything fell apart. Chapter 3 paints a picture of Anna’s picture-perfect life with all the cracks starting to show. Her mother, Meredith, is this elegant, controlling force, and the scene where she comments on Anna’s weight while smiling lovingly was so sharp and real it made me wince. The way Oliver, Anna’s brother, confesses the truth about their parents’ criminal activity over Chinese takeout was the perfect mix of “I love you” and “you’re my only way out.” It’s all so layered—family, guilt, loyalty. Even when Anna’s getting her makeup done there’s this undercurrent of dread that never quite lets up. I kept waiting for someone to pull the rug out from under her again.
This book had me flipping pages late into the night. There’s action, emotional weight, and a steady drip of reveals that kept me guessing. If you’re into shows like Scandal or books by Lisa Jewell, you’ll probably eat this up. That said, there are definitely some heavy themes—abuse, manipulation, corruption—so it’s not exactly light reading. But it is worth it.
I’d recommend When Anna Came Home to fans of twisty thrillers and emotionally complex stories. It’s for readers who like their heroines smart, their villains slippery, and their plots loaded with secrets just waiting to explode. Shannon Condon doesn’t pull punches, and I was all in from page one.
Pages: 200 | ASIN : B0DVLW8VHG
Reciprocity
D.C. Gilbert’s Reciprocity is a high-octane thriller packed with action, intrigue, and morally complex characters. The story follows a cast of ex-military operatives, crime bosses, and corrupt officials, navigating a dangerous world of underground fights, organized crime, and government conspiracies. At its core, the book explores themes of justice, revenge, and redemption, as characters with violent pasts seek their own form of moral balance in a world that rarely plays fair.
The writing is gritty and immersive, pulling me straight into a sweaty, blood-soaked underground fight in the Philippines. Taylor, a haunted ex-soldier drowning in alcohol and self-destruction, makes for a compelling protagonist. His fight scenes are brutal and visceral, making me wince and cheer in equal measure. The novel doesn’t just deliver on action; it builds a shadowy, morally ambiguous world where every victory comes with a cost. There’s a raw energy in Gilbert’s prose that reminds me of classic action thrillers—lean, sharp, and relentless.
While I appreciate rich world-building, there were moments when I wanted the plot to move faster. And while the dialogue generally felt authentic, some conversations leaned a bit into exposition. Still, the authenticity in military and combat sequences, combined with the sheer adrenaline of the story, more than made up for this.
If you love action-packed thrillers with hardened warriors, ruthless villains, and a deep dive into the seedy underworld of crime and corruption, Reciprocity is for you. Fans of Lee Child, Vince Flynn, or Mark Greaney will find plenty to enjoy here. It’s rough, intense, and occasionally brutal, but it delivers a gripping ride that doesn’t let up.
If you’re looking for a book that keeps you on edge with a mix of action, espionage, and personal demons, Reciprocity is worth your time.
Pages: 322 | ASIN : B0DZK6GKH1
Literary Titan Gold Book Award: Fiction
The Literary Titan Book Award honors books that exhibit exceptional storytelling and creativity. This award celebrates novelists who craft compelling narratives, create memorable characters, and weave stories that captivate readers. The recipients are writers who excel in their ability to blend imagination with literary skill, creating worlds that enchant and narratives that linger long after the final page is turned.
Award Recipients
Beyond this World there is a world I want by Steven Physioc
Visit the Literary Titan Book Awards page to see award information.
Literary Titan Silver Book Award
Celebrating the brilliance of outstanding authors who have captivated us with their skillful prose, engaging narratives, and compelling real and imagined characters. We recognize books that stand out for their innovative storytelling and insightful exploration of truth and fiction. Join us in honoring the dedication and skill of these remarkable authors as we celebrate the diverse and rich worlds they’ve brought to life, whether through the realm of imagination or the lens of reality.
Award Recipients
Three Encounters of the Romantic Kind by TG Gore
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An Opening Death
The Tangled Mane follows an undercover investigator at an elite country club who is caught up in a case of theft that takes a dark turn when a wealthy bride-to-be is found dead in her bathtub. What was your inspiration for the mystery that must be unraveled?
The inspiration was thinking of an opening death which is visually startling but at the same time ambiguous – it’s not immediately clear whether it was an accident, suicide or murder.
Was there anything from your own life that you put into the characters in your novel?
I’m obsessed with my dog, Otto. He’s always with me and so I gave Cally that same opportunity to have a dog whom she adores and who adores her back.
What was the hardest part about writing a mystery story, where you constantly have to give just enough to keep the mystery alive until the big reveal?
It’s obvious who commits the murder in my novel so I wanted to show enough of the murderer’s backstory for the reader to understand why. I also held back a huge secret until the very end which I hope comes as a real surprise to the reader. It’s hard to judge things after a while so I’m always glad when readers say they didn’t see it coming.
When will book two be available? Can you give us an idea of where that book will take readers?
The second book is out this April and sees Cally going undercover in a girls’ convent school run by nuns where a charred body has been discovered, along with some drugs, down a recently revealed oubliette. Cally investigates whether the two incidents are related and if they have any link to the suicide of a pupil in the 1990s.
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When a social media star’s childhood crimes catch up with him, he retaliates by exacting revenge on those he holds responsible, leaving undercover PI, Cally Simmonds, in a race to discover his real identity.
At the same time as finding the killer, Cally must continue planning her upcoming wedding to keep both her fiancé and mum happy.
Set in The Welland Valley, The Tangled Mane is full of mystery and suspense with a final, emotional twist of fate which will leave the reader reeling.
The Tangled Mane is the first in the series of The Welland Valley Murders
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