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Arthur C. Clarke – Novel

The Sea and Summer
George Turner
Bram Stoker – Novel

Misery
Stephen King
British Fantasy Awards – August Derleth Award – Horror Novel

The Hungry Moon
Ramsey Campbell
British SF Association – Novel

Gráinne
Keith Roberts
Costa Book Award – Novel

The Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie
Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama

Nothing Sacred
George F. Walker
Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction

Nights Below Station Street
David Adams Richards
Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction

In the Sleep Room
Anne Collins
Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry

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

Second Chance
Philip Stratford
Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books

Amos’s Sweater
Kim LaFave
Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Text

The Third Magic
Welwyn Wilton Katz
Hugo Awards – Novel

The Uplift War
David Brin
James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography

Young Ludwig: Wittgenstein’s Life, 1889-1921
Brian McGuinness
James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

A Season in the West
Piers Paul Read
John W. Campbell – Novel

Lincoln’s Dreams
Connie Willis
Locus – Fantasy Novel

Seventh Son
Orson Scott Card
Locus – SF Novel

The Uplift War
David Brin
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography

Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom
Brenda Maddox
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest

Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country
William Greider
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction

Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History

Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
Eric Foner
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry

New and Collected Poems
Richard Wilbur
National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography

Oscar Wilde
Richard Ellmann
National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism

Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author
Clifford Geertz
National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction

The Middleman and Other Stories
Bharati Mukherjee
National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63
Taylor Branch
National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry

The One Day
Donald Hall
Nebula – Novel

The Falling Woman
Pat Murphy
Philip K. Dick – Novel

Strange Toys
Patricia Geary
Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography

Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe
David Herbert Donald
Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

Beloved
Toni Morrison
Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhode
Pulitzer Prize – History

The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876
Robert V. Bruce
Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems
William Meredith
Theodore Sturgeon Memorial – Novel

Rachel in Love
Pat Murphy
World Fantasy Awards – Novel

Replay
Ken Grimwood
Agatha – First Novel

A Great Deliverance
Elizabeth George
Agatha – Novel

Something Wicked
Carolyn Hart and Carolyn G. Hart
Anthony – First Novel

Caught Dead in Philadelphia
Gillian Roberts
Anthony – Novel

Skinwalkers
Tony Hillerman
Anthony – Paperback Original

The Monkey’s Raincoat
Robert Crais
Beehive – Fiction

Wait Till Helen Comes: a Ghost Story
Mary Downing Hahn
Beehive – Informational

How Much Is A Million?
David Schwartz; illustrated by Steven Kellogg
Bluebonnet – Children’s

Christina’s Ghost
Betty Ren Wright
Boston Globe – Fiction & Poetry

The Friendship
Mildred D. Taylor
Boston Globe – Nonfiction

Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave
Virginia Hamilton
Boston Globe – Picture Book

The Boy of the Three-Year Nap
Dianne Snyder
Bram Stoker – Fiction Collection

The Essential Ellison
Harlan Ellison
Bram Stoker – First Novel

The Manse
Lisa Cantrell
Bram Stoker – Nonfiction

Mary Shelley
Muriel Spark
Caldecott – Picture Book

Owl Moon
Jane Yolen
Carnegie Medal – Children’s

A Pack of Lies
Geraldine McCaughrean
Colorado Blue Spruce – Young Adult

The Other Side of Dark
Joan Lowery Nixon
Coretta Scott King – Author

The Friendship
Mildred D. Taylor
Coretta Scott King – Illustrator

Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale
John Steptoe
Costa – Book of the Year

The Comforts of Madness
Paul Sayer
Costa – Children’s

Awaiting Developments
Judy Allen
Costa – First Novel

The Comforts of Madness
Paul Sayer
Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel

Death Among Strangers
Deidre S. Laiken
Edgar Allan Poe – Juvenile

Lucy Forever and Miss Rosetree, Shrinks
Susan Shreve
Edgar Allan Poe – Novel

Old Bones
Aaron Elkins
Edgar Allan Poe – Paperback Original

Bimbos of the Death Sun
Sharyn McCrumb
Great Stone Face – Grades 4-6

Where the Red Fern Grows
Wilson Rawls
Greenaway Medal – Illustrator

Can’t You Sleep Little Bear?
Barbara Firth
Hemingway – PEN

Imagining Argentina
Lawrence Thornton
L.A. Times – Fiction

Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Marquez
Macavity – First Mystery

The Monkey’s Raincoat
Robert Crais
Macavity – Mystery Novel

Marriage Is Murder
Nancy Pickard
Macavity – Nonfiction

Son of Gun in Cheek
Bill Pronzini
Newbery Medal – Children’s

Lincoln: A Photobiography
Russell Freedman
PEN/Faulkner – Fiction

World’s End
T.C. Boyle and T. Coraghessan Boyle
Scott O Dell – Historical Fiction

Charley Skedaddle
Patricia Beatty
Shamus – First P.I. Novel

Fear of the Dark
Gar Anthony Haywood
Shamus – P.I. Novel
