Click through each award to see the full list of nominees and winners!
Arthur C. Clarke – Novel
Unquenchable Fire
Rachel Pollack
Bram Stoker – Novel
The Silence of the Lambs
Thomas Harris
British Fantasy Awards – August Derleth Award – Horror Novel
The Influence
Ramsey Campbell
British SF Association – Novel
Lavondyss
Robert Holdstock
Costa Book Award – Novel
The Chymical Wedding
Lindsay Clarke
Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama
The Other Side of the Dark
Judith Thompson
Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
Whale Music
Paul Quarrington
Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Willie—The Life of W. Somerset Maugham
Robert Calder
Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
The Word for Sand
Heather Spears
Governor General’s Literary Award – Translation (French to English)
On the Eighth Day
Wayne Grady
Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books
The Magic Paintbrush
Robin Muller
Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Text
Bad Boy
Diana Wieler
Hugo Awards – Novel
Cyteen
C. J. Cherryh
James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography
Federico Garcia Lorca: A Life
Ian Gibson
James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction
A Disaffection
James Kelman
John W. Campbell – Novel
Islands in the Net
Bruce Sterling
Locus – Fantasy Novel
Red Prophet
Orson Scott Card
Locus – SF Novel
Cyteen
C. J. Cherryh
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography
This Boy’s Life: A Memoir
Tobias Wolff
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest
Parting the Waters: Volume 1 of America in the King Years, 1954-1963
Taylor Branch
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction
The Heart of the Country
Fay Weldon
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History
An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood
Neal Gabler
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
The One Day
Donald Hall
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology
Peacemaking Among Primates
Frans de Waal
National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography
A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt
Geoffrey C. Ward
National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism
Not by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History
John Clive
National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
Billy Bathgate
E. L. Doctorow
National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction
The Broken Cord
Michael Dorris
National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
Transparent Gestures
Rodney Jones
Nebula – Novel
Falling Free
Lois McMaster Bujold
Philip K. Dick – Novel
Four Hundred Billion Stars
Paul J. McAuley
Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography
Oscar Wilde
Richard Ellmann
Pulitzer Prize – Fiction
Breathing Lessons
Anne Tyler
Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
Neil Sheehan
Pulitzer Prize – History
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
James M. McPherson
Pulitzer Prize – Poetry
New and Collected Poems
Richard Wilbur
Theodore Sturgeon Memorial – Novel
Schrödinger’s Kitten
George Alec Effinger
World Fantasy Awards – Novel
Koko
Peter Straub
Agatha – First Novel
Grime and Punishment
Jill Churchill
Agatha – Novel
Naked Once More
Elizabeth Peters
Anthony – First Novel
A Great Deliverance
Elizabeth George
Anthony – Novel
The Silence of the Lambs
Thomas Harris
Anthony – Paperback Original
Something Wicked
Carolyn Hart and Carolyn G. Hart
Beehive – Fiction
Trapped in Death Cave
Bill Wallace
Beehive – Informational
Your Amazing Senses
Ron Van Der Meer and Atie Van Der Meer; illustrated by Keiko Motoyama
Bluebonnet – Children’s
Wait Till Helen Comes
Mary Downing Hahn
Boston Globe – Fiction & Poetry
The Village by the Sea
Paula Fox
Boston Globe – Nonfiction
The Way Things Work
David Macaulay
Boston Globe – Picture Book
Shy Charles
Rosemary Wells
Bram Stoker – Fiction Collection
Charles Beaumont: Selected Stories
Charles Beaumont
Bram Stoker – First Novel
The Suiting
Kelley Wilde
Buckeye – Grades 3-5
More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Alvin Schwartz
Buckeye – Grades 6-8
Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You
Barthe De Clements
Buckeye – Grades K-2
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Laura J. Numeroff
Caldecott – Picture Book
Song and Dance Man
Karen Ackerman
Colorado Blue Spruce – Young Adult
The Eyes of the Dragon
Stephen King
Coretta Scott King – Author
Fallen Angels
Walter Dean Myers
Coretta Scott King – Illustrator
Mirandy and Brother Wind
Jerry Pinkney
Costa – Book of the Year
Coleridge: Early Visions
Richard Holmes
Costa – Children’s
Why Weeps the Brogan
Hugh Scott
Costa – First Novel
Gerontius
James Hamilton-Paterson
Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel
Carolina Skeletons
David Stout
Edgar Allan Poe – Juvenile
Megan’s Island
Willo Davis Roberts
Edgar Allan Poe – Novel
A Cold Red Sunrise
Stuart M. Kaminsky
Edgar Allan Poe – Paperback Original
The Telling of Lies
Timothy Findley
Greenaway Medal – Illustrator
War Boy: A Country Childhood
Michael Foreman
Hemingway – PEN
The Book of Ruth
Jane Hamilton
L.A. Times – Fiction
The Heart of the Country
Fay Weldon
Macavity – First Mystery
The Killings at Badger’s Drift
Caroline Graham
Macavity – Mystery Novel
A Thief of Time
Tony Hillerman
Macavity – Nonfiction
Silk Stalkings
Victoria Nichols & Susan Thompson
Newbery Medal – Children’s
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
Paul Fleischman
PEN/Faulkner – Fiction
Dusk and Other Stories
James Salter
Scott O Dell – Historical Fiction
The Honorable Prison
Lyll Becerra de Jenkins
Shamus – First P.I. Novel
Katwalk
Karen Kijewski
Shamus – P.I. Novel
