All 2002 Book Awards

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Arthur C. Clarke – Novel

Bold as Love

Gwyneth Jones

Bram Stoker – Novel

American Gods

Neil Gaiman

British Fantasy Awards – August Derleth Award – Horror Novel

The Night of the Triffids

Simon Clark

British SF Association – Novel

Chasm City

Alastair Reynolds

Costa Book Award – Novel

Spies

Michael Frayn

Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama

Unity (1918)

Kevin Kerr

Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction

A Song for Nettie Johnson

Gloria Sawai

Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction

Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig’s War Against Big Oil

Andrew Nikiforuk

Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry

Surrender

Roy Miki

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

Thunder and Light

Nigel Spencer

Governor General’s Literary Award – Children’s Literature — Illustration

Alphabeasts

Wallace Edwards

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

True Confessions of a Heartless Girl

Martha Brooks

Hugo Awards – Novel

American Gods

Neil Gaiman

International Dublin Literary Award – Novel

Atomised

Michel Houellebecq

James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography

The Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future

Jenny Uglow

James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

The Corrections

Jonathan Franzen

John W. Campbell – Novel

The Chronoliths

Robert Charles Wilson

Locus – Fantasy Novel

American Gods

Neil Gaiman

Locus – SF Novel

Passage

Connie Willis

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography

Master of the Senate: Volume 3 of The Years of Lyndon Johnson

Robert A. Caro

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest

Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex

Judith Levine

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction

Atonement: A Novel

Ian McEwan

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction

Prague: A Novel

Arthur Phillips

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History

Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Michael B. Oren

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Mystery/Thriller

Hell to Pay: A Novel

George P. Pelecanos

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry

The Watercourse: Poems

Cynthia Zarin

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology

Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA

Brenda Maddox

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Young Adult Fiction

Feed

M.T. Anderson

National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography

Charles Darwin: The Power of Place

Janet Browne

National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism

Tests of Time

William H. Gass

National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction

Atonement

Ian McEwan

National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction

A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide

Samantha Power

National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry

Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest

B.H. Fairchild

Nebula – Novel

The Quantum Rose

Catherine Asaro

Philip K. Dick – Novel

Ship of Fools

Richard Paul Russo

Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography

John Adams

David McCullough

Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

Empire Falls

Richard Russo

Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution

Diane McWhorter

Pulitzer Prize – History

The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America

Louis Menand

Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Practical Gods

Carl Dennis

Theodore Sturgeon Memorial – Novel

The Chief Designer

Andy Duncan

World Fantasy Awards – Novel

The Other Wind

Ursula K. Le Guin

AAFCAYAL – Children/Young Adult

Before We Were Free

Julia Alvarez

Agatha – First Novel

In the Bleak Midwinter

Julia Spencer-Fleming

Agatha – Nonfiction

They Died in Vain: Overlooked, Underappreciated, and Forgotten Mystery Novels

Jim Huang

Agatha – Novel

You’ve Got Murder

Donna Andrews

Alex – Adult/For Young Adults

Kit’s Law

Donna Morrissey

Anthony – First Novel

Open Season

C.J. Box

Anthony – Novel

Mystic River

Dennis Lehane

Anthony – Paperback Original

Dead Until Dark

Charlaine Harris

AR Diamond – Grades K-3

Salt In His Shoes

Deloris Jordan

Audies – Achievement In Production

The Amber Spyglass: His Dark Materials, Book 3

Philip Pullman

Audies – Audiobook Adapted from Another Medium

The Zebra-Striped Hearse: A Lew Archer Novel

Ross Macdonald

Audies – Business Information/Educational

Rich Kid Smart Kid: Give Your Child a Financial Head Start

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Audies – Children’s Titles for Ages 8-12

The Amber Spyglass: His Dark Materials, Book 3

Philip Pullman

Audies – Children’s Titles for Ages Up To 8

Ballet Stories

David Angus

Audies – Classics

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Betty Smith

Audies – Fiction

The Talisman

Stephen King and Peter Straub

Audies – Humor

Napalm & Silly Putty

George Carlin

Audies – Inspirational/Spiritual

NIV Audio Bible New Testament

Zondervan Publishing

Audies – Multi-Voiced Performance

The Amber Spyglass: His Dark Materials, Book 3

Philip Pullman

Audies – Mystery

Tell No One

Harlan Coben

Audies – Narration by the Author or Authors

Ava’s Man

Rick Bragg

Audies – Non-Fiction

John Adams

David McCullough

Audies – Original Work

The Life and Works of Chopin

Jeremy Siepmann

Audies – Package Design

The Caedmon Short Story Collection

Ambrose Bierce, James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, et al.

Audies – Personal Development/Motivational

Self Matters: Creating Your Life from the Inside Out

Dr. Phil McGraw

Audies – Poetry

The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, et al.

Audies – Short Stories/Collections

Blood: Stories of Life and Death from the Civil War

Ulysses S. Grant, et al.

Audies – Solo Narration—Female

My Dream of You

Nuala O’Faolain

Audies – Solo Narration—Male

Coldheart Canyon: A Hollywood Ghost Story

Clive Barker

Baileys – Fiction

Bel Canto

Ann Patchett

Bard – Emerging Writer

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges

Nathan Englander

Beehive – Fiction

Midnight Magic

Avi

Beehive – Informational

The Snake Scientist

Sy Montgomery; photographs by Nic Bishop

Beehive – Poetry

Sitting Ducks

Michael Bedard

Black Caucus – Fiction

I Wish I Had a Red Dress

Pearl Cleage

Black Caucus – First Novel

Gabriel’s Story

David Anthony Durham

Black-Eyed – Grades 4-6

Cody Unplugged

Betsy Duffey

Black-Eyed – Grades 6-9

Define Normal

Julie Ann Peters

Black-Eyed – High School

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Ann Brashares

Black-Eyed – Picture Book

Web Files

Palatini/Egielski

Bluebonnet – Children’s

Because of Winn-Dixie

Kate DiCamillo

Boston Globe – Fiction & Poetry

Lord of the Deep

Graham Salisbury

Boston Globe – Nonfiction

This Land was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie

Elizabeth Partridge

Boston Globe – Picture Book

Let’s Get A Pup! Said Kate

Bob Graham

Bram Stoker – Anthology

Extremes 2: Fantasy and Horror from the Ends of the Earth

Brian A. Hopkins

Bram Stoker – First Novel

Deadliest of the Species

Michael Oliveri

Bram Stoker – Long Fiction

In These Final Days of Sales

Steve Rasnic Tem

Bram Stoker – Nonfiction

Jobs in Hell

Brian Keene

Bram Stoker – Poetry Collection

Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes

Linda Addison

Buckaroo – Children’s

What! Cried Granny

Kate Lum

Caldecott – Picture Book

The Three Pigs

David Wiesner

Carnegie Medal – Children’s

Ruby Holler

Sharon Creech

Charlotte Zolotow – Picture Book Text

Clever Beatrice

Margaret Willey

Colorado Blue Spruce – Young Adult

The Lost Boy

Dave Pelzer

Coretta Scott King – Author

The Land

Mildred D. Taylor

Coretta Scott King – Illustrator

Goin’ Someplace Special

Patricia C. McKissack and Pat McKissack

Costa – Book of the Year

Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self

Claire Tomalin

Costa – Children’s

Saffy’s Angel

Hilary McKay

Costa – First Novel

The Song of Names

Norman Lebrecht

Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel

Line of Vision

David Ellis

Edgar Allan Poe – Juvenile

Dangling

Lillian Eige

Edgar Allan Poe – Mary Higgins Clark Award

Summer of Storms

Judith Kelman

Edgar Allan Poe – Novel

Silent Joe

T. Jefferson Parker

Edgar Allan Poe – Paperback Original

Adios Muchachos

Daniel Chavarria

Golden Archer – Intermediate

Chicken Soup for the Kid’s Soul

Jack Canfield

Golden Archer – Middle/Junior High

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

J.K. Rowling

Golden Archer – Primary

Shake Dem Halloween Bones

W. Nikola-Lisa

Grand Canyon – Intermediate

Ghost of Fossil Glen

Cynthia De Felice

Grand Canyon – Picture Book

Bark, George

Jules Feiffer

Great Stone Face – Grades 4-6

Love That Dog

Sharon Creech

Greenaway Medal – Illustrator

Jethro Byrd, Fairy Child

Bob Graham

Hemingway – PEN

Mary and O’Neil

Justin Cronin

Hurston/Wright – Fiction

Erasure

Percival Everett

L.A. Times – Fiction

Ian McEwan

Atonement

L.A. Times – First Fiction

Prague

Arthur Phillips

L.A. Times – Mystery/Thriller

Hell to Pay

George P. Pelecanos

L.A. Times – Young Adult Literature

Feed

M. T. Anderson

Macavity – First Mystery

Open Season

C.J. Box

Macavity – Mystery Novel

Folly

Laurie R. King

Macavity – Nonfiction

Writing the Mystery: A Start to Finish Guide for Both Novice and Professional

G. Miki Hayden

Newbery Medal – Children’s

A Single Shard

Linda Sue Park

PEN/Faulkner – Fiction

Bel Canto

Ann Patchett

RWA PRISM – Best of the Best

Across a Moonswept Moor

Julie Moffett

RWA PRISM – Dark Paranormal

Danegeld

Susan Squires

RWA PRISM – Fantasy

Goddess By Mistake

P.C. Cast

RWA PRISM – Futuristic

Scout’s Progress

Sharon Lee and Steve Miller

RWA PRISM – Light Paranormal

Just West of Heaven

Kathleen Kane

RWA PRISM – Time Travel

Across a Moonswept Moor

Julie Moffett

Scott O Dell – Historical Fiction

The Land

Mildred D. Taylor

Shamus – First P.I. Novel

The Distance

Eddie Muller

Shamus – P.I. Novel

Blackwater Sound

James W. Hall