Award Winners


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B.C. Book Awards Canadian Book Awards
American Book Awards British Book Awards
Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Book Awards Mystery Book Awards
Children's Book Awards

B.C. Book Awards

(complete listing of winners and finalists)

Canadian Book Awards

American Book Awards

  • Pulitzer Prize - Fiction (complete List of Winners of All Categories)
    • 2009 - Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
    • 2008 - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wilde 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 2008 - 2666 by Roberto Bolano
    • 2007 - The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
    • 2006 - The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai
    • 2005 - The March by E.L. Doctrow
    • 2004 - Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
  • PEN/Faulkner Prize - Fiction (complete list of winners and finalists)
    • 2009 - Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
    • 2008 - The Great Man by Kate Christensen
    • 2007 - Everyman by Philip Roth
    • 2006 - The March by E.L. Doctrow
    • 2005 - War Trash by Ha Jin
    • 2004 - The Early Stories 1953 - 1975 by John Updike
  • Spur Award (complete list of winners)

British Book Awards

Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Book Awards

 

Mystery Book Awards

 

Children's Book Awards

  • Blue Spruce Award (Ontario) (list of winners)
    • 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)
    • 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)
  • Canadian Library Association Young Adult Canadian Book Award (list of winners)
    • 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
  • Chocolate Lily Young Readers’ Choice Award
  • Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize (B.C. and Yukon)
  • Golden Kite (USA)
  • Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Award
  • Newbery Medal (USA) (list of winners and finalists)
    • 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