All 1997 Book Awards

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Arthur C. Clarke – Novel

The Calcutta Chromosome

Amitav Ghosh

Bram Stoker – Novel

The Green Mile

Stephen King

British Fantasy Awards – August Derleth Award – Horror Novel

The Tooth Fairy

Graham Joyce

British SF Association – Novel

Excession

Iain M. Banks

Costa Book Award – Novel

Quarantine

Jim Crace

Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama

fareWel

Ian Ross

Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction

The Underpainter

Jane Urquhart

Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction

Drumblair – Memories of a Jamaican Childhood

Rachel Manley

Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry

Land to Light On

Dionne Brand

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

The Euguelion

Howard Scott

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

The Party

Barbara Reid

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

Awake and Dreaming

Kit Pearson

Hugo Awards – Novel

Blue Mars

Kim Stanley Robinson

International Dublin Literary Award – Novel

A Heart So White

Javier Marías

James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography

W.B. Yeats: A Life: Volume 1. The Apprentice Mage, 1865-1914

R.F. Foster

James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

Ingenious Pain: A Novel

Andrew Miller

John W. Campbell – Novel

Fairyland

Paul J. McAuley

Locus – Fantasy Novel

A Game of Thrones

George R. R. Martin

Locus – SF Novel

Blue Mars

Kim Stanley Robinson

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography

Whittaker Chambers: A Biography

Sam Tanenhaus

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

Anne Fadiman

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction

In the Rogue Blood

James Carlos Blake

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction

Don’t Erase Me: Stories

Carolyn Ferrell

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History

A People’s Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution

Orlando Figes

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry

Black Zodiac

Charles Wright

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology

How the Mind Works

Stephen Pinker

National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography

Ernie Pyle’s War

James Tobin

National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism

Making Waves

Mario Vargas Llosa

National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction

The Blue Flower

Penelope Fitzgerald

National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

Anne Fadiman

National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry

Black Zodiac

Charles Wright

Nebula – Novel

Slow River

Nicola Griffith

Philip K. Dick – Novel

The Time Ships

Stephen Baxter

Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography

Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir

Frank McCourt

Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Tale of an American Dreamer

Steven Millhauser Martin Dressler

Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Ashes to Ashes: America’s Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris

Richard Kluger

Pulitzer Prize – History

Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution

Jack N. Rakove

Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Alive Together: New and Selected Poems

Lisel Mueller

Theodore Sturgeon Memorial – Novel

The Flowers of Aulit Prison

Nancy Kress

World Fantasy Awards – Novel

Godmother Night

Rachel Pollack

AAFCAYAL – Children/Young Adult

The Circuit

Francisco Jiménez

Agatha – First Novel

The Salaryman’s Wife

Sujata Massey

Agatha – Nonfiction

Detecting Men (Pocket Guide)

Willeta Heising

Agatha – Novel

The Devil in Music

Kate Ross

Anthony – First Novel

Death in Little Tokyo

Dale Furutani

Anthony – Novel

The Poet

Michael Connelly

Anthony – Paperback Original

Somebody Else’s Child

Terris McMahan Grimes

Anthony – Short Stories/Collection

Accidents Will Happen

Carolyn Wheat

Audies – Audiobook Adapted from Another Medium

The Nixon-Kennedy Debates

Peter Marcus

Audies – Business Information/Educational

The Art of War

Sun Tzu

Audies – Children’s Titles for Ages Up To 8

Babe: The Sheep-Pig

Dick King-Smith

Audies – Fiction

The Green Mile

Stephen King

Audies – Humor

Calvin Trillin, Piece by Piece

Calvin Trillin

Audies – Inspirational/Spiritual

The Christmas Tree

Julie Salamon

Audies – Multi-Voiced Performance

Grow Old Along With Me The Best Is Yet To Be

Sandra Haldeman Martz

Audies – Mystery

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Agatha Christie

Audies – Non-Fiction

Genesis

Bill Moyers

Audies – Original Work

Zeus: Thunderbolt from the Sky (Immortal Adventures Series)

Julie Fenster

Audies – Package Design

The Odyssey

Homer, translated by Robert Fagles

Audies – Personal Development/Motivational

101 Great Answers to the Toughest Interview Questions

Ron Fry

Baileys – Fiction

Fugitive Pieces

Anne Michaels

Beehive – Fiction

Watchdog and the Coyotes

Bill Wallace, illustrated by David Slonim

Beehive – Informational

Never Take a Pig to Lunch: and Other Poems About the Fun of Eating

Nadine Bernard Westcott

Beehive – Poetry

A Job for Wittilda

Caralyn Buehner; illustrated by Mark Buehner

Black Caucus – Fiction

Gospel Choirs: Psalms of Survival in an Alien Land Called Home

Derrick A. Bell

Black Caucus – First Novel

Push

Sapphire

Black-Eyed – Grades 4-6

The 13th Floor

Sid Fleischman

Black-Eyed – Grades 6-9

Running Out of Time

Margaret P. Haddix

Black-Eyed – Picture Book

Piggie Pie!

Margie Palatini

Bluebonnet – Children’s

Math Curse

Jon Scieszka

Boston Globe – Fiction & Poetry

The Friends

Kazumi Yumoto, translated by Cathy Hirano

Boston Globe – Nonfiction

A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder with photographs

Walter Wick

Boston Globe – Picture Book

The Adventures of Sparrowboy

Brian Pinkney

Bram Stoker – Fiction Collection

The Nightmare Factory

Thomas Ligotti

Bram Stoker – First Novel

Crota

Owl Goingback

Bram Stoker – Nonfiction

H.P. Lovecraft: A Life

S. T. Joshi

Buckeye – Grades 3-5

Haunted Mask II

R. L. Stine

Buckeye – Grades 6-8

Giver, The

Lois Lowry

Buckeye – Grades K-2

Dogzilla

Dav Pilkey

Caldecott – Picture Book

Golem

David Wisniewski

Carnegie Medal – Children’s

River Boy

Tim Bowler

Colorado Blue Spruce – Young Adult

Downriver

Will Hobbs

Coretta Scott King – Author

Slam!

Walter Dean Myers

Coretta Scott King – Illustrator

Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman

Jerry Pinkney

Costa – Book of the Year

Tales from Ovid

Ted Hughes

Costa – Children’s

Aquila

Andrew Norriss

Costa – First Novel

The Ventriloquist’s Tale

Pauline Melville

Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel

Simple Justice

John Morgan Wilson

Edgar Allan Poe – Juvenile

The Clearing

Dorothy Reynolds Miller

Edgar Allan Poe – Novel

The Chatham School Affair

Thomas H. Cook

Edgar Allan Poe – Paperback Original

Fade Away

Harlan Coben

Golden Archer – Intermediate

Stinky Cheese Man

Jon Scieszka

Golden Archer – Middle/Junior High

Harris and Me

Gary Paulsen

Golden Archer – Primary

Officer Buckle and Gloria

Peggy Rathman

Grand Canyon – Intermediate

Mick Harte Was Here

Barbara Park

Grand Canyon – Picture Book

The Toll Bridge Troll

Patricia Rae Wolff

Great Stone Face – Grades 4-6

Math Curse

Jon Scieszka

Greenaway Medal – Illustrator

When Jessie Came Across the Sea

P. J. Lynch

Hemingway – PEN

Ocean of Words

Ha Jin

L.A. Times – Fiction

In the Rogue Blood

James Carlos Blake

L.A. Times – First Fiction

Don’t Erase Me

Carolyn Ferrell

Macavity – First Mystery

Death in Little Tokyo

Dale Furutani

Macavity – Mystery Novel

Bloodhounds

Peter Lovesey

Macavity – Nonfiction

Detecting Women 2

Willetta Heising

Newbery Medal – Children’s

The View from Saturday

E.L. Konigsburg

PEN/Faulkner – Fiction

Women in Their Beds

Gina Berriault

Scott O Dell – Historical Fiction

Jip: His Story

Katherine Paterson

Shamus – First P.I. Novel

This Dog for Hire

Carol Lea Benjamin

Shamus – P.I. Novel

Come Back Dead

Terence Faherty