All 1987 Book Awards

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Arthur C. Clarke – Novel

The Handmaid’s Tale

Margaret Atwood

British Fantasy Awards – August Derleth Award – Horror Novel

It

Stephen King

British SF Association – Novel

The Ragged Astronauts

Bob Shaw

Costa Book Award – Novel

The Child in Time

Ian McEwan

Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama

Prague

John Krizanc

Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction

A Dream Like Mine

M.T. Kelly

Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction

The Russian Album

Michael Ignatieff

Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry

Afterworlds

Gwendolyn MacEwen

Governor General’s Literary Award – Translation (French to English)

Enchantment and Sorrow: The Autobiography of Gabrielle Roy

Patricia Claxton

Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books

Rainy Day Magic

Marie-Louise Gay

Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Text

Galahad Schwartz and the Cockroach Army

Morgan Nyberg

Hugo Awards – Novel

Speaker for the Dead

Orson Scott Card

James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography

Victor Gollancz: A Biography

Ruth Dudley Edwards

James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

The Golden Bird

George MacKay Brown

John W. Campbell – Novel

A Door Into Ocean

Joan Slonczewski

Locus – Fantasy Novel

Soldier of the Mist

Gene Wolfe

Locus – SF Novel

Speaker for the Dead

Orson Scott Card

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography

Hemingway

Kenneth S. Lynn

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest

The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design

Richard Dawkins

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction

Fools Crow

James Welch

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry

Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems

William Meredith

National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography

Chaucer: His Life, His Work, His World

Donald Howard

National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism

Dance Writings

Edwin Denby

National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction

The Counterlife

Philip Roth

National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Richard Rhode

National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry

Flesh and Blood

C.K. Williams

Nebula – Novel

Speaker for the Dead

Orson Scott Card

Philip K. Dick – Novel

Homunculus

James P. Blaylock

Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography

Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

David J. Garrow

Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

A Summons to Memphis

Peter Taylor

Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land

David K. Shipler

Pulitzer Prize – History

Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution

Bernard Bailyn

Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Thomas and Beulah

Rita Dove

Theodore Sturgeon Memorial – Novel

Surviving

Judith Moffett

World Fantasy Awards – Novel

Perfume

Patrick Süskind

Anthony – First Novel

Too Late to Die

Bill Crider

Anthony – Novel

C Is for Corpse

Sue Grafton

Anthony – Paperback Original

The Junkyard Dog

Robert Campbell

Beehive – Fiction

Skinnybones

Barbara Park

Bluebonnet – Children’s

The Hot and Cold Summer

Johanna Hurwitz

Boston Globe – Fiction & Poetry

Rabble Starkey

Lois Lowry

Boston Globe – Nonfiction

The Pilgrims of Plimoth

Marcia Sewall

Boston Globe – Picture Book

Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters

John Steptoe

Buckeye – Grades 3-5

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Alvin Schwartz

Buckeye – Grades 6-8

Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub

Jamie Gilson

Buckeye – Grades K-2

In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories

Alvin Schwartz

Caldecott – Picture Book

Hey, Al

Arthur Yorinks

Carnegie Medal – Children’s

The Ghost Drum

Susan Price

Colorado Blue Spruce – Young Adult

The Third Eye

Lois Duncan

Coretta Scott King – Author

Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World

Mildred Pitts Walter

Coretta Scott King – Illustrator

Half a Moon and One Whole Star

Jerry Pinkney

Costa – Book of the Year

Under the Eye of the Clock

Christopher Nolan

Costa – Children’s

A Little Lower than the Angels

Geraldine McCaughrean

Costa – First Novel

The Other Garden

Francis Wyndham

Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel

No One Rides for Free

Larry Beinhart

Edgar Allan Poe – Juvenile

The Other Side of Dark

Joan Lowery Nixon

Edgar Allan Poe – Novel

A Dark-Adapted Eye

Barbara Vine

Edgar Allan Poe – Paperback Original

The Junkyard Dog

Robert Campbell

Greenaway Medal – Illustrator

Crafty Chameleon

Adrienne Kennaway

Hemingway – PEN

Tongues of Flame

Mary Ward Brown

L.A. Times – Fiction

Fools Crow

James Welch

Macavity – First Mystery

A Case of Loyalties

Marilyn Wallace

Macavity – Mystery Novel

A Taste for Death

P.D. James

Macavity – Nonfiction

1001 Midnights

Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini

Newbery Medal – Children’s

The Whipping Boy

Sid Fleischman

PEN/Faulkner – Fiction

Soldiers in Hiding

Richard Wiley

Scott O Dell – Historical Fiction

Streams to the River, River to the Sea

Scott O’Dell

Shamus – First P.I. Novel

Death on the Rocks

Michael Allegretto

Shamus – P.I. Novel

A Tax in Blood

Benjamin M. Schutz