All 2009 Book Awards

Click through each award to see the full list of nominees and winners!

Andre Norton – Novel

Flora’s Dare

Ysabeau S. Wilce

Arthur C. Clarke – Novel

Song of Time

Ian R. MacLeod

Bram Stoker – Novel

Duma Key

Stephen King

British SF Association – Novel

The Night Sessions

Ken MacLeod

Costa Book Award – Novel

Brooklyn

Colm Toibin

Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama

Where the Blood Mixes

Kevin Loring

Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction

The Mistress of Nothing

Kate Pullinger

Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction

A Place Within: Rediscovering India

M.G. Vassanji

Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry

The Fly in Autumn

David Zieroth

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

Bella’s Tree

Jirina Marton

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

Greener Grass: The Famine Years

Caroline Pignat

Hugo Awards – Novel

The Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman

International Dublin Literary Award – Novel

Man Gone Down

Michael Thomas

James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography

William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies

John Carey

James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

The Children’s Book

A.S. Byatt

John W. Campbell – Novel

Little Brother

Cory Doctorow

Locus – Fantasy Novel

Lavinia

Ursula K. Le Guin

Locus – SF Novel

Anathem

Neal Stephenson

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography

Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits

Linda Gordon

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest

Zeitoun

Dave Eggers

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction

A Happy Marriage: A Novel

Rafael Yglesias

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction

American Rust: A Novel

Philipp Meyer

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Graphic Novel/Comics

Asterios Polyp

David Mazzucchelli

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History

Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963

Kevin Starr

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Mystery/Thriller

The Ghosts of Belfast

Stuart Neville

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry

Practical Water

Brenda Hillman

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology

The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius

Graham Farmelo

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Young Adult Fiction

Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don’t You Grow Weary

Elizabeth Partridge

National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography

Cheever: A Life

Blake Bailey

National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism

Notes From No Man’s Land: American Essays

Eula Biss

National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction

Wolf Hall

Hilary Mantel

National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

Richard Holmes

National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry

Versed

Rae Armantrout

Nebula – Novel

Powers

Ursula K. Le Guin

Philip K. Dick – Novel

Terminal Mind

David Walton

Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

Jon Meacham

Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

Olive Kitteridge

Elizabeth Strout

Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

Douglas A. Blackmon

Pulitzer Prize – History

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

Annette Gordon-Reed

Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

The Shadow of Sirius

W. S. Merwin

Shirley Jackson – Novel

The Shadow Year

Jeffrey Ford

Theodore Sturgeon Memorial – Novel

The Ray Gun: A Love Story

James Alan Gardner

World Fantasy Awards – Novel

Tender Morsels

Margo Lanagan

AAFCAYAL – Children/Young Adult

Just in Case

Yuyi Morales

Agatha – Children/Young Adult

The Hanging Hill

Chris Grabenstein

Agatha – First Novel

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

Alan Bradley

Agatha – Nonfiction

Dame Agatha’s Shorts

Elena Santangelo

Agatha – Novel

The Brutal Telling

Louise Penny

Alex – Adult/For Young Adults

City of Thieves

David Benioff

Anthony – First Novel

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Stieg Larsson

Anthony – Novel

The Brass Verdict

Michael Connelly

Anthony – Paperback Original

State of the Onion

Julie A. Hyzy

AR Diamond – Grades K-3

Diary of a Fly

Doreen Cronin

Audies – Achievement In Production

Curse of the Blue Tattoo: Being an Account of the Misadventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman and Fine Lady

L.A. Meyer

Audies – Audio Drama

The Odyssey

Homer

Audies – Audiobook Adapted from Another Medium

English Majors: A Comedy Collection for the Highly Literate

Garrison Keillor

Audies – Audiobook of the Year

The Graveyard Book

Audies – Biography/Memoir

The Last Lecture

Randy Pausch

Audies – Business Information/Educational

The Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness

Jeffrey Gitomer

Audies – Children’s Titles for Ages 8-12

The Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman

Audies – Children’s Titles for Ages Up To 8

James Herriot’s Treasury for Children: Warm and Joyful Tales by the Author of All Creatures Great and Small

James Herriot

Audies – Classics

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

Audies – Fiction

Duma Key: A Novel

Stephen King

Audies – History

Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age

Arthur Herman

Audies – Humor

The Learners

Chip Kidd

Audies – Inspirational/Faith-Based Fiction

Prague Counterpoint: The Zion Covenant Series, Book 2

Bodie and Brock Thoene

Audies – Inspirational/Spiritual

The Word of Promise Next Generation: New Testament

Nelson Bibles

Audies – Literary Fiction

Elmer Gantry

Sinclair Lewis

Audies – Multi-Voiced Performance

Mudbound

Hillary Jordan

Audies – Mystery

Voice of the Violin: An Inspector Montalbano Mystery

Andrea Camilleri

Audies – Narration by the Author or Authors

When You Are Engulfed in Flames

David Sedaris

Audies – Non-Fiction

Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—and How It Can Renew America

Thomas Friedman

Audies – Original Work

Louis Vuitton Soundwalk, China: Beijing

Stephan Crasneanscki

Audies – Package Design

The Founding Fathers

Arthur M. Schlesinger

Audies – Personal Development/Motivational

You Staying Young: The Owner’s Manual for Extending Your Warranty

Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz

Audies – Romance

The Dark Highlander: The Highlander Series, Book 5

Karen Marie Moning

Audies – Science Fiction

Calculating God

Robert J. Sawyer

Audies – Short Stories/Collections

Armageddon in Retrospect: And Other New and Unpublished Writings on War and Peace

Kurt Vonnegut

Audies – Solo Narration—Female

Curse of the Blue Tattoo: Being an Account of the Misadventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman and Fine Lady

L.A. Meyer

Audies – Solo Narration—Male

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas

Audies – Spanish Language

Por un Dia Mas

Mitch Albom

Audies – Teen

Curse of the Blue Tattoo: Being an Account of the Misadventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman and Fine Lady

L.A. Meyer

Audies – Thriller/Suspense

Child 44

Tom Rob Smith

Baileys – Fiction

Home

Marilynne Robinson

Bard – Emerging Writer

Last Last Chance

Fiona Maazel

Beehive – Informational

The Dangerous Book for Boys

Conn Iggulden and Hal Iggulden

Beehive – Picture Book

If I Built a Car

Chris Van Dusen

Beehive – Poetry

Dogku

Andrew Clements

Black Caucus – Fiction

Where the Line Bleeds

Jesmyn Ward

Black Caucus – First Novel

Orange Mint and Honey

Carleen Brice

Black-Eyed – Grades 4-6

Swindle

Gordon Korman

Black-Eyed – Grades 6-9

Schooled

Gordon Korman

Black-Eyed – High School

Unwind

Neal Shusterman

Black-Eyed – Picture Book

Chester

Melanie Watt

Bluebonnet – Children’s

One Potato, Two Potato

Cynthia DeFelice

Boston Globe – Fiction & Poetry

Nation

Terry Pratchett

Boston Globe – Nonfiction

The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary

Candace Fleming

Boston Globe – Picture Book

Bubble Trouble

Margaret Mahy

Bram Stoker – Anthology

Unspeakable Horror

Vince A. Liaguno & Chad Helder

Bram Stoker – First Novel

The Gentling Box

Lisa Mannetti

Bram Stoker – Long Fiction

Miranda

John R. Little

Bram Stoker – Nonfiction

A Hallowe’en Anthology

Lisa Morton

Buckaroo – Children’s

Pinkalicious

Victoria Kann

Buckeye – Grades 3-5

Found

Margaret Peterson Haddix

Buckeye – Grades 6-8

Cracker!

Cynthia Kadohata

Buckeye – Grades K-2

The Chicken of the Family

Mary Amato

Buckeye – Teen

The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins

Caldecott – Picture Book

The House in the Night

Susan Marie Swanson

Carnegie Medal – Children’s

Bog Child

Siobhan Dowd

Charlotte Zolotow – Picture Book Text

How to Heal a Broken Wing

Bob Graham

Colorado Blue Spruce – Young Adult

Eclipse

Stephenie Meyer

Coretta Scott King – Author

We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball

Kadir Nelson

Coretta Scott King – Illustrator

The Blacker the Berry

Floyd Cooper

Costa – Book of the Year

A Scattering

Christopher Reid

Costa – Children’s

The Ask and the Answer

Patrick Ness

Costa – First Novel

Beauty

Raphael Selbourne

Dayton – Fiction

Peace

Richard Bausch

Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel

The Foreigner

Francie Lin

Edgar Allan Poe – Juvenile

The Postcard

Tony Abbott

Edgar Allan Poe – Mary Higgins Clark Award

The Killer’s Wife

Bill Floyd

Edgar Allan Poe – Novel

Blue Heaven

C.J. Box

Edgar Allan Poe – Paperback Original

China Lake

Meg Gardiner

Geisel Medal – Children’s Literature

Are You Ready to Play Outside?

Mo Willems

Golden Archer – Intermediate

Marley: A Dog Like No Other

John Grogan

Golden Archer – Middle/Junior High

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Jeff Kinney

Golden Archer – Primary

Chester

Melanie Watt

Grand Canyon – Intermediate

Deep and Dark and Dangerous

Mary Downing Hahn

Grand Canyon – Picture Book

There Was a Coyote Who Swallowed a Flea

Jennifer Ward

Great Stone Face – Grades 4-6

Swindle

Gordon Korman

Greenaway Medal – Illustrator

Harris Finds His Feet

Catherine Rayner

Hemingway – PEN

A Gentleman’s Guide to Graceful Living

Michael Dahlie

Hurston/Wright – Fiction

Say You’re One of Them

Uwem Akpan

L.A. Times – Fiction

A Happy Marriage

Rafael Yglesias

L.A. Times – First Fiction

American Rust,

Philipp Meyer

L.A. Times – Graphic Novel

Asterios Polyp

David Mazzucchelli

L.A. Times – Mystery/Thriller

The Ghosts of Belfast,

Stuart Neville

L.A. Times – Young Adult Literature

Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don’t You Grow Weary

Elizabeth Partridge

Ladybug – Children’s Picture

Waking Beauty

Leah Wilcox

Macavity – First Mystery

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Stieg Larsson

Macavity – Mystery Novel

Where Memories Lie

Deborah Crombie

Macavity – Nonfiction

African American Mystery Writers: A Historical & Thematic Study

Frankie Y. Bailey

Macavity – Sue Feder Memorial Historical Mystery

A Royal Pain

Rhys Bowen

Newbery Medal – Children’s

The Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman

PEN/Faulkner – Fiction

Netherland

Joseph O’Neill

RWA PRISM – Best First Book

La Vida Vampire

Nancy Haddock

RWA PRISM – Best of the Best

The Dragon Master

Allyson James

RWA PRISM – Dark Paranormal

Mona Lisa Craving

Sunny

RWA PRISM – Erotica/Romantica

Siren Singing

Isabo Kelly

RWA PRISM – Fantasy

The Dragon Master

Allyson James

RWA PRISM – Futuristic

Shades of Dark

Linnea Sinclair

RWA PRISM – Light Paranormal

Wicked Game

Jeri Smith-Ready

RWA PRISM – Novella

Dark Nest

Leanna Renee Hieber

RWA PRISM – Time Travel

Twist

Colby Hodge

RWA PRISM – Young Adult

Sleepless

Terri Clark

Scott O Dell – Historical Fiction

Chains

Laurie Halse Anderson

Shamus – First P.I. Novel

In the Heat

Ian Vasquez

Shamus – P.I. Novel

Empty Ever After

Reed Farrel Coleman

Thriller Award – First Novel

Child 44

Tom Rob Smith

Thriller Award – Novel

The Bodies Left Behind

Jeffery Deaver

Thriller Award – Short Story

The Edge of Seventeen

Alexandra Sokoloff

William C. Morris – Young Adult Literature

A Curse Dark as Gold

Elizabeth C. Bunce