All 1986 Book Awards

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British Fantasy Awards – August Derleth Award – Horror Novel

The Ceremonies

T. E. D. Klein

British SF Association – Novel

Helliconia Winter

Brian W. Aldiss

Costa Book Award – Novel

An Artist of the Floating World

Kazuo Ishiguro

Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama

Doc

Sharon Pollock

Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction

The Progress of Love

Alice Munro

Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction

Northrop Frye on Shakespeare

Northrop Frye

Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry

The Collected Poems of Al Purdy

Al Purdy

Hugo Awards – Novel

Ender’s Game

Orson Scott Card

James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography

Helen Waddell: A Biography

Felicitas Corrigan

James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

Persephone

Jenny Joseph

John W. Campbell – Novel

The Postman

David Brin

Locus – Fantasy Novel

Trumps of Doom

Roger Zelazny

Locus – SF Novel

The Postman

David Brin

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography

Alexander Pope: A Life

Maynard Mack

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest

Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White

Joseph Lelyveld

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction

The Handmaid’s Tale: A Novel

Margaret Atwood

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History

The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within

Geoffrey Hosking

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry

Collected Poems, 1948-1984

Derek Walcott

National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography

The Life of Langston Hughes, Vol. I: 1902-1941

Arnold Rampersad

National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism

Less Than One: Selected Essays

Joseph Brodsky

National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction

Kate Vaiden

Reynolds Price

National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction

Arctic Dreams

Barry Lopez

National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry

Wild Gratitude

Edward Hirsch

Nebula – Novel

Ender’s Game

Orson Scott Card

Philip K. Dick – Novel

Dinner at Deviant’s Palace

Tim Powers

Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography

Louise Bogan: A Portrait

Elizabeth Frank

Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

Lonesome Dove

Larry McMurtry

Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families

J. Anthony Lukas

Pulitzer Prize – History

…The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age

Walter A. McDougall

Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

The Flying Change

Henry S. Taylor

World Fantasy Awards – Novel

Song of Kali

Dan Simmons

Anthony – First Novel

When the Bough Breaks / Shrunken Heads

Jonathan Kellerman

Anthony – Novel

B Is for Burglar

Sue Grafton

Anthony – Paperback Original

Say No to Murder

Nancy Pickard

Anthony – Short Stories/Collection

Lucky Penny

Linda Barnes

Beehive – Fiction

Me and the Weirdos

Jane Sutton

Beehive – Informational

Great Painters

Piero Ventura

Bluebonnet – Children’s

The Dollhouse Murders

Betty Ren Wright

Boston Globe – Fiction & Poetry

In Summer Light

Zibby Oneal

Boston Globe – Nonfiction

Auks, Rocks, and the Odd Dinosaur: Inside Stories from the Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History

Peggy Thomson

Boston Globe – Picture Book

The Paper Crane

Molly Bang

Caldecott – Picture Book

The Polar Express

Chris Van Allsburg

Carnegie Medal – Children’s

Granny Was a Buffer Girl

Berlie Doherty

Colorado Blue Spruce – Young Adult

Bridge to Terabithia

Katherine Paterson

Coretta Scott King – Author

The People Could Fly

Virginia Hamilton

Coretta Scott King – Illustrator

The Patchwork Quilt

Jerry Pinkney

Costa – Book of the Year

An Artist of the Floating World

Kazuo Ishiguro

Costa – Children’s

The Coal House

Andrew Taylor

Costa – First Novel

Continent

Jim Crace

Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel

When the Bough Breaks / Shrunken Heads

Jonathan Kellerman

Edgar Allan Poe – Juvenile

The Sandman’s Eyes

Patricia Windsor

Edgar Allan Poe – Novel

The Suspect

Laurali R. Wright and L.R. Wright

Edgar Allan Poe – Paperback Original

Pigs Get Fat

Warren Murphy

Greenaway Medal – Illustrator

Snow White in New York

Fiona French

Hemingway – PEN

Lady’s Time

Alan V. Hewat

L.A. Times – Fiction

The Handmaid’s Tale

Margaret Atwood

Newbery Medal – Children’s

Sarah, Plain and Tall

Patricia MacLachlan

PEN/Faulkner – Fiction

Old Forest and Other Stories

Peter Taylor

Scott O Dell – Historical Fiction

Sarah, Plain and Tall

Patricia MacLachlan

Shamus – First P.I. Novel

Jersey Tomatoes

J.W. Rider

Shamus – P.I. Novel

Staked Goat

Jeremiah Healy