All 1988 Book Awards

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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

Kiss

John Lutz