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Arthur C. Clarke – Novel
The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood
British Fantasy Awards – August Derleth Award – Horror Novel
It
Stephen King
British SF Association – Novel
The Ragged Astronauts
Bob Shaw
Costa Book Award – Novel
The Child in Time
Ian McEwan
Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama
Prague
John Krizanc
Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
A Dream Like Mine
M.T. Kelly
Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
The Russian Album
Michael Ignatieff
Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Afterworlds
Gwendolyn MacEwen
Governor General’s Literary Award – Translation (French to English)
Enchantment and Sorrow: The Autobiography of Gabrielle Roy
Patricia Claxton
Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books
Rainy Day Magic
Marie-Louise Gay
Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Text
Galahad Schwartz and the Cockroach Army
Morgan Nyberg
Hugo Awards – Novel
Speaker for the Dead
Orson Scott Card
James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography
Victor Gollancz: A Biography
Ruth Dudley Edwards
James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction
The Golden Bird
George MacKay Brown
John W. Campbell – Novel
A Door Into Ocean
Joan Slonczewski
Locus – Fantasy Novel
Soldier of the Mist
Gene Wolfe
Locus – SF Novel
Speaker for the Dead
Orson Scott Card
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography
Hemingway
Kenneth S. Lynn
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
Richard Dawkins
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction
Fools Crow
James Welch
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems
William Meredith
National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography
Chaucer: His Life, His Work, His World
Donald Howard
National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism
Dance Writings
Edwin Denby
National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
The Counterlife
Philip Roth
National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhode
National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
Flesh and Blood
C.K. Williams
Nebula – Novel
Speaker for the Dead
Orson Scott Card
Philip K. Dick – Novel
Homunculus
James P. Blaylock
Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
David J. Garrow
Pulitzer Prize – Fiction
A Summons to Memphis
Peter Taylor
Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction
Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
David K. Shipler
Pulitzer Prize – History
Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
Bernard Bailyn
Pulitzer Prize – Poetry
Thomas and Beulah
Rita Dove
Theodore Sturgeon Memorial – Novel
Surviving
Judith Moffett
World Fantasy Awards – Novel
Perfume
Patrick Süskind
Anthony – First Novel
Too Late to Die
Bill Crider
Anthony – Novel
C Is for Corpse
Sue Grafton
Anthony – Paperback Original
The Junkyard Dog
Robert Campbell
Beehive – Fiction
Skinnybones
Barbara Park
Bluebonnet – Children’s
The Hot and Cold Summer
Johanna Hurwitz
Boston Globe – Fiction & Poetry
Rabble Starkey
Lois Lowry
Boston Globe – Nonfiction
The Pilgrims of Plimoth
Marcia Sewall
Boston Globe – Picture Book
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters
John Steptoe
Buckeye – Grades 3-5
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Alvin Schwartz
Buckeye – Grades 6-8
Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub
Jamie Gilson
Buckeye – Grades K-2
In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories
Alvin Schwartz
Caldecott – Picture Book
Hey, Al
Arthur Yorinks
Carnegie Medal – Children’s
The Ghost Drum
Susan Price
Colorado Blue Spruce – Young Adult
The Third Eye
Lois Duncan
Coretta Scott King – Author
Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World
Mildred Pitts Walter
Coretta Scott King – Illustrator
Half a Moon and One Whole Star
Jerry Pinkney
Costa – Book of the Year
Under the Eye of the Clock
Christopher Nolan
Costa – Children’s
A Little Lower than the Angels
Geraldine McCaughrean
Costa – First Novel
The Other Garden
Francis Wyndham
Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel
No One Rides for Free
Larry Beinhart
Edgar Allan Poe – Juvenile
The Other Side of Dark
Joan Lowery Nixon
Edgar Allan Poe – Novel
A Dark-Adapted Eye
Barbara Vine
Edgar Allan Poe – Paperback Original
The Junkyard Dog
Robert Campbell
Greenaway Medal – Illustrator
Crafty Chameleon
Adrienne Kennaway
Hemingway – PEN
Tongues of Flame
Mary Ward Brown
L.A. Times – Fiction
Fools Crow
James Welch
Macavity – First Mystery
A Case of Loyalties
Marilyn Wallace
Macavity – Mystery Novel
A Taste for Death
P.D. James
Macavity – Nonfiction
1001 Midnights
Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini
Newbery Medal – Children’s
The Whipping Boy
Sid Fleischman
PEN/Faulkner – Fiction
Soldiers in Hiding
Richard Wiley
Scott O Dell – Historical Fiction
Streams to the River, River to the Sea
Scott O’Dell
Shamus – First P.I. Novel
Death on the Rocks
Michael Allegretto
Shamus – P.I. Novel
