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Arthur C. Clarke – Novel

Vurt
Jeff Noon
Bram Stoker – Novel

The Throat
Peter Straub
British Fantasy Awards – August Derleth Award – Horror Novel

The Long Lost
Ramsey Campbell
British SF Association – Novel

Aztec Century
Christopher Evans
Costa Book Award – Novel

Felicia’s Journey
William Trevor
Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama

The Ends of the Earth
Morris Panych
Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction

A Discovery of Strangers
Rudy Wiebe
Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction

Rogue Primate: An Exploration of Human Domestication
John A. Livingston
Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry

Cantos from a Small Room
Robert Hilles
Governor General’s Literary Award – Translation (French to English)

The Lyric Generation: The Life and Times of the Baby Boomers
Donald Winkler
Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books

Josepha: A Prairie Boy’s Story
Murray Kimber
Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Text

Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me
Julie Johnston
Hugo Awards – Novel

Green Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson
James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography

Under My Skin: Volume 1 of My Autobiography, to 1949
Doris May Lessing
James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

The Folding Star
Alan Hollinghurst
John W. Campbell – Novel

no award
Locus – Fantasy Novel

The Innkeeper’s Song
Peter S. Beagle
Locus – SF Novel

Green Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography

Shot in the Heart
Mikal Gilmore
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest

Diplomacy
Henry A. Kissinger
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction

Remembering Babylon
David Malouf
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction

The Year of the Frog: A Novel
Martin M. Simecka, Peter Petro
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History

Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
George Chauncey
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry

The Angel of History
Carolyn Forché
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology

The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
Jonathan Weiner
National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography

Shot in the Heart
Mikal Gilmore
National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism

The Culture of Bruising
Gerald Early
National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction

The Stone Diaries
Carol Shields
National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction

The Rape of Europa
Lynn Nicholas
National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry

Rider
Mark Rudman
Nebula – Novel

Red Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson
Philip K. Dick – Novel

Elvissey
Jack Womack
Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography

W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919
David Levering Lewis
Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Shipping News
E. Annie Proulx
Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
David Remnick
Pulitzer Prize – History

No award given
Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems
Yusef Komunyakaa
Theodore Sturgeon Memorial – Novel

Fox Magic
Kij Johnson
World Fantasy Awards – Novel

Glimpses
Lewis Shiner
AAFCAYAL – Children/Young Adult

The Mermaid’s Twin Sister
Lynn Joseph
Agatha – First Novel

Do Unto Others
Jeff Abbott
Agatha – Nonfiction

By a Woman’s Hand
Jean Swanson & Dean James
Agatha – Novel

She Walks These Hills
Sharyn McCrumb
Anthony – First Novel

Track of the Cat
Nevada Barr
Anthony – Novel

Wolf in the Shadows
Marcia Muller
Beehive – Fiction

Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher (Magic Shop Books, book 2)
Bruce Coville, illustrated by Gary A. Lippincott
Beehive – Informational

Steven Biesty’s Incredible Cross Sections
Richard Platt; illustrated by Stephen Platt
Black Caucus – Fiction

Lesson Before Dying
Ernest J. Gaines
Black Caucus – First Novel

Losing Absalom
Alexs D. Pate
Black-Eyed – Grades 4-6

Fourth Grade Rats
Jerry Spinelli
Black-Eyed – Grades 6-9

The Giver
Lois Lowry
Black-Eyed – Picture Book

Go Away, Big Green Monster!
Ed Emberley
Bluebonnet – Children’s

Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Boston Globe – Fiction & Poetry

Scooter
Vera B. Williams
Boston Globe – Nonfiction

Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery
Russell Freedman
Boston Globe – Picture Book

Grandfather’s Journey
Allen Say
Bram Stoker – Fiction Collection

Alone with the Horrors
Ramsey Campbell
Bram Stoker – First Novel

The Thread That Binds the Bones
Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Bram Stoker – Nonfiction

Once Around the Bloch: An Unauthorized Autobiography
Robert Bloch
Caldecott – Picture Book

Grandfather’s Journey
Allen Say
Carnegie Medal – Children’s

Whispers in the Graveyard
Theresa Breslin
Colorado Blue Spruce – Young Adult

It
Stephen King
Coretta Scott King – Author

Toning the Sweep
Angela Johnson
Coretta Scott King – Illustrator

Soul Looks Back in Wonder
Tom Feelings
Costa – Book of the Year

Felicia’s Journey
William Trevor
Costa – Children’s

Gold Dust
Geraldine McCaughrean
Costa – First Novel

The Longest Memory
Fred D’Aguiar
Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel

A Grave Talent
Laurie R. King
Edgar Allan Poe – Juvenile

The Twin in the Tavern
Barbara Brooks Wallace
Edgar Allan Poe – Novel

The Sculptress
Minette Walters
Edgar Allan Poe – Paperback Original

Dead Folks’ Blues
Steven Womack
Grand Canyon – Intermediate

Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Grand Canyon – Picture Book

The Three Little Javelinas
Susan Lowell
Great Stone Face – Grades 4-6

Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher
Bruce Coville
Greenaway Medal – Illustrator

Way Home
Gregory Rogers
Hemingway – PEN

The Magic of Blood
Dagoberto Gilb
L.A. Times – Fiction

Remembering Babylon
David Malouf
L.A. Times – First Fiction

The Year of the Frog
Martin M. Šimecka
Macavity – First Mystery

Death Comes As Epiphany
Sharan Newman
Macavity – Mystery Novel

The Sculptress
Minette Walters
Macavity – Nonfiction

The Fine Art of Murder edited
Ed Gorman
Newbery Medal – Children’s

The Giver
Lois Lowry
PEN/Faulkner – Fiction

Operation Shylock: a Confession
Philip Roth
Scott O Dell – Historical Fiction

Bull Run
Paul Fleischman
Shamus – First P.I. Novel

A Drink Before the War
Dennis Lehane
Shamus – P.I. Novel
