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Arthur C. Clarke – Novel

Synners
Pat Cadigan
Bram Stoker – Novel

Boy’s Life
Robert R. McCammon
British Fantasy Awards – August Derleth Award – Horror Novel

Outside the Dog Museum
Jonathan Carroll
British SF Association – Novel

The Fall of Hyperion
Dan Simmons
Costa Book Award – Novel

Poor Things
Alasdair Gray
Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama

Possible Worlds and A Short History of Night
John Mighton
Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction

The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje
Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction

Revenge of the Land: A Century of Greed, Tragedy and Murder on a Saskatchewan Farm
Maggie Siggins
Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry

Inventing the Hawk
Lorna Crozier
Governor General’s Literary Award – Translation (French to English)

Imagining the Middle East
Fred A. Reed
Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books

Waiting for the Whales
Ron Lightburn
Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Text

Hero of Lesser Causes
Julie Johnston
Hugo Awards – Novel

Barrayar
Lois McMaster Bujold
James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography

The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe
Charles Nicholl
James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

Sacred Country
Rose Tremain
John W. Campbell – Novel

Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede
Bradley Denton
Locus – Fantasy Novel

Beauty
Sheri S. Tepper
Locus – SF Novel

Barrayar
Lois McMaster Bujold
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography

Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 1. 1884-1933
Blanche Wiesen Cook
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest

The End of History and the Last Man
Francis Fukuyama
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction

Maus: A Survivor’s Tale: Volume 2. And Here My Troubles Began
Art Spiegelman
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction

High Cotton
Darryl Pinckney
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History

Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism
Alexander Stille
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry

An Atlas of the Difficult World
Adrienne Rich
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology

The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
Jared Diamond
National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography

Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World
Carol Brightman
National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism

Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
Garry Wills
National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction

All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy
National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction

Young Men and Fire
Norman Maclean
National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry

Collected Shorter Poems 1946-1991
Hayden Carruth
Nebula – Novel

Stations of the Tide
Michael Swanwick
Philip K. Dick – Novel

King of Morning, Queen of Day
Ian McDonald
Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography

Fortunate Son: The Autobiography of Lewis B. Puller Jr.
Lewis B. Puller
Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

A Thousand Acres
Jane Smiley
Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
Daniel Yergin
Pulitzer Prize – History

The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties
Mark E. Neely, Jr.
Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Selected Poems
James Tate
Theodore Sturgeon Memorial – Novel

Buffalo
John Kessel
World Fantasy Awards – Novel

Boy’s Life
Robert R. McCammon
Agatha – First Novel

Blanche on the Lam
Barbara Neely
Agatha – Novel

Bootlegger’s Daughter
Margaret Maron
Anthony – First Novel

Murder on the Iditarod Trail
Sue Henry
Anthony – Novel

The Last Detective
Peter Lovesey
Anthony – Short Stories/Collection

A Woman’s Eye
Sara Paretsky
Beehive – Fiction

There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom
Louis Sachar
Beehive – Informational

Ant Colony
Heiderose Fischer-Nagel
Black-Eyed – Grades 4-6

Fudge-A-Mania
Judy Blume
Black-Eyed – Grades 6-9

The Silver Kiss
Annette Curtis Klause
Black-Eyed – Picture Book

Araboolies of Liberty Street
Sam Swope
Bluebonnet – Children’s

Snot Stew
Bill Wallace
Boston Globe – Fiction & Poetry

Missing May
Cynthia Rylant
Boston Globe – Nonfiction

Talking with Artists compiled and edited
Pat Cummings
Boston Globe – Picture Book

Seven Blind Mice
Ed Young
Bram Stoker – Fiction Collection

Prayers to Broken Stones
Dan Simmons
Bram Stoker – First Novel

Prodigal
Melanie Tem
Bram Stoker – Nonfiction

Clive Barker’s Shadows in Eden
Stephen Jones
Caldecott – Picture Book

Tuesday
David Wiesner
Carnegie Medal – Children’s

Flour Babies
Anne Fine
Colorado Blue Spruce – Young Adult

Changes in Latitudes
Will Hobbs
Coretta Scott King – Author

Now is Your Time: The African American Struggle for Freedom
Walter Dean Myers
Coretta Scott King – Illustrator

Tar Beach
Faith Ringgold
Costa – Book of the Year

Swing Hammer Swing!
Jeff Torrington
Costa – Children’s

The Great Elephant Chase
Gillian Cross
Costa – First Novel

Swing Hammer Swing!
Jeff Torrington
Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel

Slow Motion Riot
Peter Blauner
Edgar Allan Poe – Juvenile

Wanted…Mud Blossom
Betsy Byars and Betsy Cromer Byars
Edgar Allan Poe – Novel

A Dance at the Slaughterhouse
Lawrence Block
Edgar Allan Poe – Paperback Original

Dark Maze
Thomas Adcock
Great Stone Face – Grades 4-6

Number the Stars
Lois Lowry
Greenaway Medal – Illustrator

Zoo
Anthony Browne
Hemingway – PEN

Wartime Lies
Louis Begley
L.A. Times – Fiction

Maus II, A Survivor’s Tale
Art Spiegelman
L.A. Times – First Fiction

High Cotton
Darryl Pinckney
Macavity – First Mystery

Murder on the Iditarod Trail
Sue Henry
Macavity – Mystery Novel

I.O.U.
Nancy Pickard
Macavity – Nonfiction

Talking Mysteries: A Conversation with Tony Hillerman
Tony Hillerman & Ernie Bulow
Newbery Medal – Children’s

Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
PEN/Faulkner – Fiction

Mao II
Don DeLillo
Scott O Dell – Historical Fiction

Stepping on the Cracks
Mary Downing Hahn
Shamus – First P.I. Novel

The Woman Who Married a Bear
John Straley
Shamus – P.I. Novel
