All 2003 Book Awards

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Arthur C. Clarke – Novel

The Separation

Christopher Priest

Bram Stoker – Novel

The Night Class

Tom Piccirilli

British Fantasy Awards – August Derleth Award – Horror Novel

The Scar

China Miéville

British SF Association – Novel

The Separation

Christopher Priest

Costa Book Award – Novel

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Mark Haddon

Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama

Einstein’s Gift

Vern Thiessen

Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction

Elle

Douglas Glover

Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction

Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World

Margaret MacMillan

Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry

Kill-site

Tim Lilburn

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

Memoirs of a Less Travelled Road: A Historian’s Life

Jane Brierley

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

The Song Within My Heart

Allen Sapp

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

Stitches

Glen Huser

Hugo Awards – Novel

Hominids

Robert J. Sawyer

International Dublin Literary Award – Novel

My Name Is Red

Orhan Pamuk

James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography

Charles Darwin: The Power of Place

Janet Browne

James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

Personality

Andrew O’Hagan

John W. Campbell – Novel

Probability Space

Nancy Kress

Locus – Fantasy Novel

The Scar

China Miéville

Locus – SF Novel

The Years of Rice and Salt

Kim Stanley Robinson

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography

American Empire: Roosevelt’s Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization

Neil Smith

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest

The New Chinese Empire And What It Means for the United States

Ross Terrill

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction

Train: A Novel

Pete Dexter

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: A Novel

Mark Haddon

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History

An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America

Henry Wiencek

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Mystery/Thriller

Soul Circus

George P. Pelecanos

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry

Collected Later Poems

Anthony Hecht

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology

Protecting America’s Health: The FDA, Business, and One Hundred Years of Regulation

Philip J. Hilts

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Young Adult Fiction

A Northern Light

Jennifer Donnelly

National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography

Khrushchev: The Man and His Era

William Taubman

National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism

River of Shadows

Rebecca Solnit

National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction

The Known World

Edward P. Jones

National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction

Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy

Paul Hendrickson

National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry

Columbarium

Susan Stewart

Nebula – Novel

American Gods

Neil Gaiman

Philip K. Dick – Novel

The Mount

Carol Emshwiller

Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography

Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson

Robert A. Caro

Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

Middlesex

Jeffrey Eugenides

Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide

Samantha Power

Pulitzer Prize – History

An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942–1943

Rick Atkinson

Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Moy Sand and Gravel

Paul Muldoon

Theodore Sturgeon Memorial – Novel

Over Yonder

Lucius Shepard

World Fantasy Awards – Novel

Ombria in Shadow

Patricia A. McKillip

AAFCAYAL – Children/Young Adult

Just a Minute

Yuyi Morales

Agatha – Children/Young Adult

The Seventh Knot

Kathleen Karr

Agatha – First Novel

Maisie Dobbs

Jacqueline Winspear

Agatha – Nonfiction

Amelia Peabody’s Egypt: A Compendium

Elizabeth Peters and Kristen Whitbread

Agatha – Novel

Letter from Home

Carolyn Hart and Carolyn G. Hart

Alex – Adult/For Young Adults

10th Grade

Joseph Weisberg

Anthony – First Novel

In the Bleak Midwinter

Julia Spencer-Fleming

Anthony – Novel

City of Bones

Michael Connelly

Anthony – Paperback Original

Fatal Truth

Robin Burcell

Anthony – Short Stories/Collection

Too Many Cooks

Marcia Talley

AR Diamond – Grades K-3

Desser the Best Ever Cat

Maggie Smith

Audies – Achievement In Production

The Silver Chair: The Chronicles of Narnia

C.S. Lewis

Audies – Audio Drama

The Guys

Anne Nelson

Audies – Biography/Memoir

Lucky Man: A Memoir

Michael J. Fox

Audies – Business Information/Educational

The Art of Profitability

Adrian Slywotzky

Audies – Children’s Titles for Ages 8-12

Troy

Adèle Geras

Audies – Children’s Titles for Ages Up To 8

The Blues of Flats Brown

Walter Dean Myers

Audies – Classics

Complete Short Stories, Volume Two

W. Somerset Maugham

Audies – Fiction

Middlesex

Jeffrey Eugenides

Audies – Humor

Things You Shouldn’t Say Past Midnight

Peter Ackerman

Audies – Inspirational/Faith-Based Fiction

Hidden Victory: A Historical Novel of Jesus

Herbert Francis Smith

Audies – Inspirational/Spiritual

Conversations with God for Teens

Neale Donald Walsch

Audies – Multi-Voiced Performance

Big Mouth & Ugly Girl

Joyce Carol Oates

Audies – Mystery

Jolie Blon’s Bounce: A Dave Robicheaux Novel

James Lee Burke

Audies – Non-Fiction

3000 Degrees: The True Story of a Deadly Fire and the Men Who Fought It

Sean Flynn

Audies – Original Work

Getting to Know William Shakespeare

Joy Wake

Audies – Package Design

John Adams

David McCullough

Audies – Personal Development/Motivational

Anyway: The Paradoxical Commandments: Finding Personal Meaning in aCrazy World

Kent M. Keith

Audies – Poetry

Good Poems: Selected and Introduced by Garrison Keillor

Garrison Keillor

Audies – Science Fiction

Dune: Butlerian Jihad

Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson

Audies – Short Stories/Collections

Classic Women’s Short Stories

Katherine Mansfield, Kate Chopin, and Virginia Woolf

Audies – Solo Narration—Female

Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood

Kate Simon

Audies – Solo Narration—Male

Tishomingo Blues

Elmore Leonard

Baileys – Fiction

Property

Valerie Martin

Bard – Emerging Writer

The Testament of Yves Gundron

Emily Barton

Beehive – Fiction

Two Princesses of Bamarre

Gail Carson Levine

Beehive – Informational

Tiger Math : Learning to Graph from a Baby Tiger

Ann Whitehead Nagda and Cindy Bickel

Beehive – Poetry

Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon

Patty Lovell; illustrated David Catrow

Beehive – Young Adult

Touching Spirit Bear

Ben Mikaelsen

Black Caucus – Fiction

Douglass’ Women

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Black Caucus – First Novel

The Emperor of Ocean Park

Stephen L. Carter

Black-Eyed – Grades 4-6

Million Dollar Kick

Dan Gutman

Black-Eyed – Grades 6-9

Point Blank

Anthony Horowitz

Black-Eyed – High School

Breathing Underwater

Alex Flinn

Black-Eyed – Picture Book

Scranimals

Jack Prelutsky

Bluebonnet – Children’s

The Golden Mare, the Firebird, and the Magic Ring

Ruth Sanderson

Boston Globe – Fiction & Poetry

Jamie and Angus Stories

Anne Fine

Boston Globe – Nonfiction

Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey

Maira Kalman

Boston Globe – Picture Book

Big Momma Makes the World

Phyllis Root

Bram Stoker – Anthology

The Darker Side: Generations of Horror

John Pelan

Bram Stoker – First Novel

The Lovely Bones

Alice Sebold

Bram Stoker – Long Fiction

El Dia de los Muertos

Brian A. Hopkins

Bram Stoker – Nonfiction

Ramsey Campbell, Probably: Essays on Horror and Sundry Fantasies

Ramsey Campbell

Bram Stoker – Poetry Collection

The Gossamer Eye

Mark McLaughlin, Rain Graves & David Niall Wilson

Buckaroo – Children’s

I Stink!

Kate McMullan and Jim McMullan

Buckeye – Grades 3-5

Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman (the Fifth Epic Novel)

Dav Pilkey

Buckeye – Grades 6-8

Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul: 101 Stories of Changes, Choices, and Growing Up for Kids Ages 9-13

Jack Canfield

Buckeye – Grades K-2

David Goes to School

David Shannon

Caldecott – Picture Book

My Friend Rabbit

Eric Rohmann

Carnegie Medal – Children’s

A Northern Light / A Gathering Light

Jennifer Donnelly

Charlotte Zolotow – Picture Book Text

Farfallina & Marcel

Holly Keller

Colorado Blue Spruce – Young Adult

A Walk to Remember

Nicholas Sparks

Coretta Scott King – Author

Bronx Masquerade

Nikki Grimes

Coretta Scott King – Illustrator

Talkin’ about Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman

Nikki Grimes

Costa – Book of the Year

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Mark Haddon

Costa – Children’s

The Fire-Eaters

David Almond

Costa – First Novel

Vernon God Little

DBC Pierre

Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel

The Blue Edge of Midnight

Jonathon King

Edgar Allan Poe – Juvenile

Harriet Spies Again

Helen Ericson

Edgar Allan Poe – Mary Higgins Clark Award

Absolute Certainty

Rose Connors

Edgar Allan Poe – Novel

Winter and Night

S.J. Rozan

Edgar Allan Poe – Paperback Original

Out of Sight

T.J. MacGregor

Golden Archer – Intermediate

Because of Winn Dixie

Kate DiCamillo

Golden Archer – Middle/Junior High

Stormbreaker

Anthony Horowitz

Golden Archer – Primary

Shark God

Rafe Martin

Grand Canyon – Intermediate

Babe and Me

Dan Gutman

Grand Canyon – Picture Book

The Water Hole

Graeme Base

Great Stone Face – Grades 4-6

Loser

Jerry Spinelli

Greenaway Medal – Illustrator

Ella’s Big Chance

Shirley Hughes

Hemingway – PEN

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W

Gabriel Brownstein

Hurston/Wright – Fiction

The Heart of Redness

Zakes Mda

L.A. Times – Fiction

Pete Dexter

Train

L.A. Times – First Fiction

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Mark Haddon

L.A. Times – Mystery/Thriller

Soul Circus

George P. Pelecanos

L.A. Times – Young Adult Literature

A Northern Light

Jennifer Donnelly

Ladybug – Children’s Picture

I Stink!

Kate McMullan and Jim McMullan

Macavity – First Mystery

In the Bleak Midwinter

Julia Spencer-Fleming

Macavity – Mystery Novel

Nine

Jan Burke

Macavity – Nonfiction

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

Jim Huang

Newbery Medal – Children’s

Crispin: The Cross of Lead

Avi

PEN/Faulkner – Fiction

The Caprices

Sabina Murray

RWA PRISM – Best of the Best

Contact

Susan Grant

RWA PRISM – Dark Paranormal

Sacrament

Susan Squires

RWA PRISM – Fantasy

Fantasy Lover

Sherrilyn Kenyon

RWA PRISM – Futuristic

Contact

Susan Grant

RWA PRISM – Light Paranormal

Night Pleasures

Sherrilyn Kenyon

RWA PRISM – Novella

The Day Her Heart Stood Still

Susan Grant

RWA PRISM – Time Travel

The Promise

Dee Davis

Scott O Dell – Historical Fiction

Trouble Don’t Last

Shelley Pearsall

Shamus – First P.I. Novel

Black Maps

Peter Spiegelman

Shamus – P.I. Novel

Blackwater Sound

James W. Hall