All 1995 Book Awards

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Arthur C. Clarke – Novel

Fools

Pat Cadigan

Bram Stoker – Novel

Dead in the Water

Nancy Holder

British Fantasy Awards – August Derleth Award – Horror Novel

Only Forward

Michael Marshall Smith

British SF Association – Novel

Feersum Endjinn

Iain M. Banks

Costa Book Award – Novel

The Moor’s Last Sigh

Salman Rushdie

Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama

Three in the Back, Two in the Head

Jason Sherman

Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction

The Roaring Girl

Greg Hollingshead

Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction

Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen

Rosemary Sullivan

Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry

Voice

Anne Szumigalski

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

Why Must a Black Writer Write About Sex?

David Homel

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

The Last Quest of Gilgamesh

Ludmila Zeman

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

The Maestro

Tim Wynne-Jones

Hugo Awards – Novel

Mirror Dance

Lois McMaster Bujold

James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography

Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth

Gitta Sereny

James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

The Prestige: A Novel

Christopher Priest

John W. Campbell – Novel

Permutation City

Greg Egan

Locus – Fantasy Novel

Brittle Innings

Michael Bishop

Locus – SF Novel

Mirror Dance

Lois McMaster Bujold

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography

Under My Skin: Volume 1 of My Autobiography, to 1949

Doris May Lessing

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest

Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black

Gregory Howard Williams

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction

The Blue Afternoon

William Boyd

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction

American Studies

Mark Merlis

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History

Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America

Jackson Lears

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry

The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation

Robert Pinsky

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology

Naturalist

Edward O. Wilson

National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography

Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson

Robert Polito

National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism

The Forbidden Bestsellers of Pre-Revolution France

Robert Darnton

National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction

Mrs. Ted Bliss

Stanley Elkin

National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction

A Civil Action

Jonathan Harr

National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry

Time & Money

William Matthews

Nebula – Novel

Moving Mars

Greg Bear

Philip K. Dick – Novel

Mysterium

Robert Charles Wilson

Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography

Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life

Joan D. Hedrick

Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Stone Diaries

Carol Shields

Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time

Jonathan Weiner

Pulitzer Prize – History

No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt

Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

The Simple Truth

Philip Levine

Theodore Sturgeon Memorial – Novel

Forgiveness Day

Ursula K. Le Guin

World Fantasy Awards – Novel

Towing Jehovah

James Morrow

AAFCAYAL – Children/Young Adult

Tonight, by Sea

Frances Temple

Agatha – First Novel

The Body in the Transept

Jeanne M. Dams

Agatha – Nonfiction

Mystery Readers Walking Guide­Chicago

Alzina Stone Dale

Agatha – Novel

If I’d Killed Him When I Met Him…

Sharyn McCrumb

Anthony – First Novel

The Alienist

Caleb Carr

Anthony – Novel

She Walks These Hills

Sharyn McCrumb

Anthony – Short Stories/Collection

The Mysterious West

Tony Hillerman

Beehive – Fiction

Ghosts of Mercy Manor

Betty Ren Wright

Beehive – Informational

Sadako

Eleanor Coerr; illustrated by Ed Young

Black Caucus – Fiction

Rocking the Babies

Linda Raymond

Black Caucus – First Novel

Serpent’s Gift

Helen Elaine Lee

Black-Eyed – Grades 4-6

Ghosts Don’t Get Goosebumps

Elvira Woodruff

Black-Eyed – Grades 6-9

Night Terrors

Jim Murphy

Black-Eyed – Picture Book

Harvey Potter’s Balloon Farm

Jerdine Nolen

Bluebonnet – Children’s

The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales

Jon Scieszka

Boston Globe – Fiction & Poetry

Some of the Kinder Planets

Tim Wynne-Jones

Boston Globe – Nonfiction

Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution

Natalie S. Bober

Boston Globe – Picture Book

John Henry

Julius Lester

Bram Stoker – Fiction Collection

The Early Fears

Robert Bloch

Bram Stoker – First Novel

Grave Markings

Michael A. Arnzen

Buckeye – Grades 3-5

Shiloh

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Buckeye – Grades 6-8

Say Cheese and Die

R. L. Stine

Buckeye – Grades K-2

Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, The

Jon Scieszka

Caldecott – Picture Book

Smoky Night

Eve Bunting

Carnegie Medal – Children’s

Northern Lights

Philip Pullman

Colorado Blue Spruce – Young Adult

The Client

John Grisham

Coretta Scott King – Author

Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters

Patricia C. and Fredrick L. McKissack

Coretta Scott King – Illustrator

The Creation

James Ransome

Costa – Book of the Year

Behind the Scenes at the Museum

Kate Atkinson

Costa – Children’s

The Wreck of the Zanzibar

Michael Morpurgo

Costa – First Novel

Behind the Scenes at the Museum

Kate Atkinson

Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel

The Caveman’s Valentine

George Dawes Green

Edgar Allan Poe – Juvenile

How I Visited Yellowstone Park With the Terrible Rupes

Willo Davis Roberts

Edgar Allan Poe – Novel

The Red Scream

Mary Willis Walker

Edgar Allan Poe – Paperback Original

Final Appeal

Lisa Scottoline

Grand Canyon – Intermediate

Totally Disgusting!

Bill Wallace

Grand Canyon – Picture Book

The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig

Eugene Trivizas

Great Stone Face – Grades 4-6

Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus

Barbara Park

Greenaway Medal – Illustrator

The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey

P. J. Lynch

Hemingway – PEN

Grass Dancer

Susan Power

L.A. Times – Fiction

The Blue Afternoon

William Boyd

L.A. Times – First Fiction

American Studies

Mark Merlis

Macavity – First Mystery

Do Unto Others

Jeff Abbott

Macavity – Mystery Novel

She Walks These Hills

Sharyn McCrumb

Macavity – Nonfiction

By a Woman’s Hand

Dean James & Jean Swanson

Newbery Medal – Children’s

Walk Two Moons

Sharon Creech

PEN/Faulkner – Fiction

Snow Falling on Cedars

David Guterson

Scott O Dell – Historical Fiction

The Blood Red Sun

Graham Salisbury

Shamus – First P.I. Novel

The Innocents

Richard Barre

Shamus – P.I. Novel

K Is for Killer

Sue Grafton