Award Winners

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B.C. Book Awards

(complete listing of winners and finalists)

• Ethel Wilson Fiction Awards
  • 2011 - Everything Was Good-Bye by Gurjinder Basran
  • 2010 - Having Faith in the Polar Girls' Prison by Cathleen With
  • 2009 - The Man Game by Lee Henderson
  • 2008 - Conceit by Mary Novik
  • 2007 - Home Schooling by Carol Windley
  • 2006 - Ladykiller by Charlotte Gill
  • 2005 - Beyond Measure by Pauline Holdstock

Canadian Book Awards

• Governor-General's Literary Awards - Fiction
  • 2011 - The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
  • 2010 - Cool Water by Dianne Warren
  • 2009 - The Mistress of Nothing by Kate Pullinger
  • 2008 - The Origin of Species by Nino Ricci
  • 2007 - Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
  • 2006 - The Law of Dreams by Peter Behrens
  • 2005 - A Perfect Night to go to China by David Gilmour
  • 2004 - A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
• Scotiabank Giller Prize (complete list of winners and finalists)
  • 2011 - Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
  • 2010 - The Sentamentalists by Johanna Skibsrud
  • 2009 - The Bishop's Man by Linden MacIntyre
  • 2008 - Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
  • 2007 - Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay
  • 2006 - Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam
  • 2005 - The Time in Between by David Bergen
  • 2004 - Runaway by Alice Munro
  • 2003 - The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by M.G. Vassanji
  • 2002 - The Polished Hoe by Austin Clarke
• Writer's Trust of Canada - Matt Cohen Award (complete list of winners)
  • 2011 - David Adams Richards
  • 2010 - Myrna Kostash
  • 2009 - Paul Quarrington
  • 2008 - Sylvia Fraser
  • 2007 - David Helwig
  • 2006 - Marie-Claire Blais
  • 2005 - Janet Lunn
  • 2004 - Howard Engel
• The Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize (complete list of winners and finalists)
  • 2011 - The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
  • 2010 - Room by Emma Donoghue
  • 2009 - The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon
  • 2008 - The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
  • 2007 - The Book of Negros by Lawrence Hill
  • 2006 - Inside by Kenneth J. Harvey
  • 2005 - Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden
  • 2004 - Runaway by Alice Munro
• Trillium Book Award (Ontario) (complete list of winners)
  • 2010 - The Amazing, Absorbing Boy by Rabindranath Maharaj
  • 2009 - The Boy in the Moon by Ian Brown
  • 2008 - Helpless by Barbara Gowdy
  • 2006 - Fabrizio's Return by Camilla Gibb
  • 2005 - Sweetness in the Belly - Camilla Gibb
  • 2004 - All That Matters by Wayson Choy
  • 2003 - The Truth About Stories by Thomas King

American Book Awards

• Pulitzer Prize - Fiction (complete List of Winners of All Categories)
  • 2011 - A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
  • 2010 - Tinkers by Paul Harding
  • 2009 - Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
  • 2008 - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
  • 2007 - The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  • 2006 - March by Geraldine Brooks
  • 2005 - Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
  • 2004 - The Known World by Edward P. Jones
• National Book Awards - Fiction
  • 2011 - Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
  • 2010 - Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon
  • 2009 - Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
  • 2008 - Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen
  • 2007 - Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
  • 2006 - The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
  • 2005 - Europe Central by William T Vollmann
  • 2004 - The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck
• National Book Awards - NonFiction
  • 2011 - The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
  • 2010 - Just Kids by Patti Smith
  • 2009 - The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T. J. Stiles
  • 2008 - The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
  • 2007 - Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner
  • 2006 - The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan
  • 2005 - The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
  • 2004 - Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle
• National Book Critic's Circle - Fiction
  • 2010 - A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
  • 2009 - Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
  • 2008 - 2666 by Roberto Bolano
  • 2007 - The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
  • 2006 - The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
  • 2005 - The March by E.L. Doctorow
  • 2004 - Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
• PEN/Faulkner Prize - Fiction (complete list of winners and finalists)
  • 2011 - The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg by Deborah Eisenberg
  • 2010 - War Dances by Sherman Alexie
  • 2009 - Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
  • 2008 - The Great Man by Kate Christensen
  • 2007 - Everyman by Philip Roth
  • 2006 - The March by E.L. Doctorow
  • 2005 - War Trash by Ha Jin
  • 2004 - The Early Stories 1953 - 1975 by John Updike
• Spur Award (complete list of winners)
  • 2011 - Last Train from Cuernavaca by Lucia St. Clair Robson
  • 2010 - Echoes of Glory by Robert Flynn
  • 2009 - Shavetail by Thomas Cobb
  • 2008 - The God of Animals By Aryn Kyle
  • 2007 - The Night Journal by Elizabeth Crook
  • 2006 - High Country by Willard Wyman
  • 2005 - People of the Raven by Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear
  • 2004 - So Wild A Dream by Win Blevins

British Book Awards

• Costa Book Award (complete list of winners)
  • 2010 - Of Mutability by Jo Shapcott
  • 2009 - A Scattering by Christopher Reid
  • 2008 - The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
  • 2007 - Day by A.L. Kennedy
  • 2006 - The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
  • 2005 - Matisse: The Master by Hilary Spurling
  • 2004 - Small Island by Andrea Levy
• Orange Prize for Fiction
  • 2011 - The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht
  • 2010 - The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
  • 2009 - Home by Marilynne Robinson
  • 2008 - The Road Home by Rose Tremain
  • 2007 - Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • 2006 - On Beauty by Zadie Smith
  • 2005 - We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
  • 2004 - Small Island by Andrea Levy

Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Book Awards

• Arthur C. Clarke Award (complete list of winners)
  • 2011 - Zoo City by Lauren B
  • 2010 - The City and the city by China Mieville
  • 2009 - Song of Time by Ian R. MacLeod
  • 2008 - Black Man by Richard Morgan
  • 2007 - Nova Swing by M. John Harrison
  • 2006 - Air by Geoff Ryman
  • 2005 - Iron Council by China Mieville
  • 2004 - Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
• Hugo Award (complete list of all winners and finalists in all categories)
  • 2011 - Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis
  • 2010 - (A Tie) The City and the city by China Mieville and The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
  • 2009 - The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
  • 2008 - The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
  • 2007 - Rainbow's End by Vernor Vinge
  • 2006 - Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
  • 2005 - Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
  • 2004 - Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold
  • 2003 - Hominids by Robert J. Sawyer
• Nebula Award (complete list of all winners and finalists in all categories)
  • 2010 - Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis
  • 2009 - The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
  • 2008 - Powers by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • 2007 - The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
  • 2006 - Seeker by Jack McDevitt
  • 2005 - Camouflage by Joe Haldeman
  • 2004 - Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold
  • 2003 - Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
• Bram Stoker Award (complete list of winners and finalists in all categories)
  • 2010 - A Dark Matter by Peter Straub
  • 2009 - Audrey's Door by Sarah Langan
  • 2008 - Duma Key by Stephen King
  • 2007 - The Missing by Sarah Langan
  • 2006 - Lisey's Story by Stephen King
  • 2005 - Creepers by David Morrell
  • 2005 - Dread in the Beast by Charlee Jacob
  • 2004 - The Wind Caller by P. D. Cacek
  • 2003 - The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King
• World Fantasy Award - Novel (complete list of winners and finalists in all categories)
  • 2011 - Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
  • 2010 - The City and the city by China Mieville
  • 2009 - The Shadow Year by Jeffrey Ford
  • 2008 - Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay
  • 2007 - Soldier of Sidon by Gene Wolfe
  • 2006 - Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
  • 2005 - Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
  • 2004 - Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton
  • 2003 - The Facts of Life by Graham Joyce

Mystery Book Awards

• Edgar Allan Poe Award - Best Novel (complete list of winners from all categories)
  • 2011 - The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton
  • 2010 - The Last Child by John Hart
  • 2009 - Blue Heaven by C. J. Box
  • 2008 - Down River by John Hart
  • 2007 - The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin
  • 2006 - Citizen Vince by Jess Walter
  • 2005 - California Girl by T. Jefferson Parker
  • 2004 - Resurrection Man by Ian Rankin
  • 2003 - Winter and Night by S. J. Rozan
• Agatha Award - Best Novel (complete list of winners and finalists in all categories)
  • 2010 - Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
  • 2009 - The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny
  • 2008 - The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny
  • 2007 - A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny
  • 2006 - The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard
  • 2005 - The Body in the Snowdrift by Katherine Hall Page
  • 2004 - Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear
  • 2003 - Letter From Home by Carolyn Hart
  • 2002 - You've Got Murder by Donna Andrews

Children's Book Awards

• Blue Spruce Award (Ontario) (list of winners)
  • 2011 - My Think-a-ma-Jink by Dave Whamond
  • 2010 - Boo Hoo Bird by Jeremy Tankard
  • 2009 - Chester by Melanie Watt
  • 2008 - Scaredy Squirrel Makes A Friend by Melanie Watt
  • 2007 - Scaredy Squirrel by Melanie Watt
  • 2006 - The Boy Who Loved Bananas by George Elliott
  • 2005 - Drumheller Dinosaur Dance by Robert Heidbreder
  • 2004 - Stanley's Park by Linda Bailey
• Caldecott Medal (USA) (list of winners and finalists)
  • 2010 - The Lion & the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney
  • 2009 - The House in the Night by Susan Marie Swanson
  • 2008 - The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
  • 2007 - Flotsam by David Wiesner
  • 2006 - The Hello, Goodbye Window by Chris Raschka
  • 2005 - Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes
  • 2004 - The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordecai Gerstein
• Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award (list of winners)
  • 2011 - Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel
  • 2010 - Watching Jimmy by Nancy Hartry
  • 2009 - The Shepherd's Granddaughter by Anne Laurel Carter
  • 2008 - Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
  • 2007 - Johnny Kellock Died Today by Hadley Dyer
  • 2006 - The Crazy Man by Pamela Porter
  • 2005 - Last Chance Bay by Anne Laurel Carter
  • 2004 - Boy O'Boy by Brian Doyle
• Canadian Library Association Young Adult Canadian Book Award (list of winners)
  • 2011 - Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel
  • 2010 - Wondrous Strange by Lesley Livingston
  • 2009 - Chanda's Wars by Allan Stratton
  • 2008 - Mistik Lake by Martha Brooks
  • 2007 - The Blue Helmet by William Bell
  • 2006 - Swimming in the Monsoon Sea by Shyam Selvadurai
  • 2005 - A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
  • 2004 - The Canning Season by Polly Horvath
• Newbery Medal (USA) (list of winners and finalists)
  • 2011 - Moon over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
  • 2010 - When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
  • 2009 - The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
  • 2008 - Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz
  • 2007 - The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron
  • 2006 - Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
  • 2005 - Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
  • 2004 - The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo