Award Sweeps

These remarkable books won multiple major literary awards in the same year.

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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Susanna ClarkeHugo Award (Best Novel)

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The Hours

Michael CunninghamPEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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James

Percival EverettAndrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

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Hamnet

Maggie O'FarrellNational Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction)

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The Poet X

Elizabeth AcevedoCarnegie Medal for Writing

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The Underground Railroad

Colson WhiteheadArthur C. Clarke Award

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The City & the City

China MiévilleArthur C. Clarke Award

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The Secret Scripture

Sebastian BarryCosta Book of the Year

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Anansi Boys

Neil GaimanBritish Fantasy Award for Best Novel

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Small Island

Andrea LevyCosta Book of the Year

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Paladin of Souls

Lois McMaster BujoldHugo Award (Best Novel)

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American Gods

Neil GaimanHugo Award (Best Novel)

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Bel Canto

Ann PatchettPEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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Birthday Letters

Ted HughesCosta Book of the Year

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Independence Day

Richard FordPEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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The Tainted Cup

Robert Jackson BennettHugo Award (Best Novel)

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The Reformatory

Tananarive DueBram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel

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Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

Adam HigginbothamKirkus Prize for Nonfiction

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My Friends

Hisham MatarNational Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction)

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Horse

Geraldine BrooksAnisfield-Wolf Book Award – Fiction

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Happy Place

Emily HenryGoodreads Choice Awards for Romance

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Demon Copperhead

Barbara KingsolverPulitzer Prize for Fiction

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A Desolation Called Peace

Arkady MartineHugo Award (Best Novel)

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The Last Cuentista

Donna Barba HigueraNewbery Medal

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Network Effect

Martha WellsHugo Award (Best Novel)

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Lost Children Archive

Valeria LuiselliAndrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

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New Kid

Jerry CraftCoretta Scott King Book Awards

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The Nickel Boys

Colson WhiteheadOrwell Prize for Political Fiction

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The Testaments

Margaret AtwoodBooker Prize

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The Great Believers

Rebecca MakkaiAndrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

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The Calculating Stars

Mary Robinette KowalHugo Award (Best Novel)

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Heads of the Colored People

Nafissa Thompson-SpiresHurston/Wright Legacy Award (Fiction)

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Spinning Silver

Naomi NovikLocus Award for Best Fantasy Novel

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An American Marriage

Tayari JonesNAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction

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Sing, Unburied, Sing

Jesmyn WardAnisfield-Wolf Book Award – Fiction

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Bluebird, Bluebird

Attica LockeAnthony Award for Best Novel

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Milkman

Anna BurnsBooker Prize

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The Stone Sky

N. K. JemisinHugo Award (Best Novel)

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Flights

Olga TokarczukInternational Booker Prize

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The Calculating Stars

Mary Robinette KowalNebula Award (Best Novel)

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How to Survive a Plague

David FranceBaillie Gifford Prize

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March Book Three

Coretta Scott King Book Awards

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Golden Hill

Francis SpuffordDesmond Elliott Prize

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The Underground Railroad

Colson WhiteheadHurston/Wright Legacy Award (Fiction)

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The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between

Hisham MatarPEN/Jean Stein Book Award

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The Sympathizer

Viet Thanh NguyenAndrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

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The Glorious Heresies

Lisa McInerneyDesmond Elliott Prize

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Do Not Say We Have Nothing

Madeleine ThienGovernor General's Literary Award for English-Language Fiction

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Delicious Foods

Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (Fiction)

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Uprooted

Naomi NovikLocus Award for Best Fantasy Novel

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Uprooted

Naomi NovikBritish Fantasy Award for Best Novel

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All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony DoerrAndrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

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A Little Life

Hanya YanagiharaKirkus Prize (Fiction)

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Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi CoatesKirkus Prize for Nonfiction

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Ordinary Grace

William Kent KruegerAnthony Award for Best Novel

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Ancillary Justice

Ann LeckieArthur C. Clarke Award

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H Is for Hawk

Helen MacdonaldBaillie Gifford Prize

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The Goldfinch

Donna TarttAndrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

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A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing

Eimear McBrideDesmond Elliott Prize

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Annihilation

Jeff VanderMeerNebula Award (Best Novel)

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This Boy: A Memoir of a Childhood

Alan JohnsonOrwell Prize for Political Writing

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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Karen Joy FowlerPEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

Andrew SolomonAnisfield-Wolf Book Award – Nonfiction

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The Luminaries

Eleanor CattonBooker Prize

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The Orphan Master's Son

Adam JohnsonDayton Literary Peace Prize – Fiction

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Redshirts

John ScalziHugo Award (Best Novel)

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Everything Begins and Ends At the Kentucky Club

Lambda Literary Award for Fiction

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Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieNational Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction)

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Bring Up the Bodies

Hilary MantelBooker Prize

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The Buddha in the Attic

Julie OtsukaPEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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Saraswati Park

Anjali JosephBetty Trask Award

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Among Others

Jo WaltonBritish Fantasy Award for Best Novel

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The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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War Dances

Sherman AlexiePEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

Annette Gordon-ReedAnisfield-Wolf Book Award – Nonfiction

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Wolf Hall

Hilary MantelBooker Prize

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A Scattering

Christopher ReidCosta Book of the Year

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The Graveyard Book

Neil GaimanHugo Award (Best Novel)

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Netherland

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot DíazAnisfield-Wolf Book Award – Fiction

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The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Michael ChabonHugo Award (Best Novel)

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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot DíazHurston/Wright Legacy Award (Fiction)

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The Great Man

Kate ChristensenPEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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Half of a Yellow Sun

Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieAnisfield-Wolf Book Award – Fiction

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Day

A.L. KennedyCosta Book of the Year

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American Born Chinese

Gene Luen YangEisner Award for Best Graphic Album – New

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Rainbows End

Vernor VingeHugo Award (Best Novel)

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The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Michael ChabonNebula Award (Best Novel)

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Everyman

Philip RothPEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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On Beauty

Zadie SmithAnisfield-Wolf Book Award – Fiction

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The Inheritance of Loss

Kiran DesaiBooker Prize

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The Tenderness of Wolves

Stef PenneyCosta Book of the Year

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The March

E. L. DoctorowPEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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Iron Council

China MiévilleArthur C. Clarke Award

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Matisse the Master

Hilary SpurlingCosta Book of the Year

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The Master

Colm TóibínLambda Literary Award for Fiction

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War Trash

Ha JinPEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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The Known World

Edward P. JonesAnisfield-Wolf Book Award – Fiction

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The Early Stories: 1953-1975

John UpdikePEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide

Samantha PowerAnisfield-Wolf Book Award – Nonfiction

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Vernon God Little

DBC PierreBooker Prize

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The Scar

China MiévilleBritish Fantasy Award for Best Novel

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Mark HaddonCosta Book of the Year

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Landing Light

Don PatersonCosta Book of the Year

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Moy Sand and Gravel

Paul MuldoonGriffin Poetry Prize

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Ombria in Shadow

Patricia A. McKillipMythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature

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The Caprices

Sabina MurrayPEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self

Claire TomalinCosta Book of the Year

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Perdido Street Station

China MiévilleArthur C. Clarke Award

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The Amber Spyglass

Philip PullmanCosta Book of the Year

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Something Like A House

Sid SmithCosta Book of the Year

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Clara Callan

Richard B. WrightGovernor General's Literary Award for English-Language Fiction

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The Human Stain

Philip RothPEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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English Passengers

Matthew KnealeCosta Book of the Year

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White Teeth

Zadie SmithCosta Book of the Year

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Anil's Ghost

Michael OndaatjeGovernor General's Literary Award for English-Language Fiction

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Waiting

Ha JinPEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation

Seamus HeaneyCosta Book of the Year

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To Say Nothing of the Dog

Connie WillisHugo Award (Best Novel)

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Skellig

David AlmondCarnegie Medal for Writing

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Forever Peace

Joe HaldemanHugo Award (Best Novel)

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The Love of a Good Woman

Alice MunroNational Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction)

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The Bear Comes Home

Rafi ZaborPEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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Tales from Ovid

Ted HughesCosta Book of the Year

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Blue Mars

Kim Stanley RobinsonHugo Award (Best Novel)

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Women in Their Beds

Gina BerriaultPEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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The Debt to Pleasure

John LanchesterBetty Trask Award

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Thomas Cranmer: A Life

Diarmaid MacCullochCosta Book of the Year

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The Spirit Level

Seamus HeaneyCosta Book of the Year

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The Diamond Age

Neal StephensonHugo Award (Best Novel)

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Behind the Scenes at the Museum

Kate AtkinsonCosta Book of the Year

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Mirror Dance

Lois McMaster BujoldHugo Award (Best Novel)

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Snow Falling on Cedars

David GutersonPEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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Felicia's Journey

William TrevorCosta Book of the Year

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Green Mars

Kim Stanley RobinsonHugo Award (Best Novel)

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Operation Shylock

Philip RothPEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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Bootlegger's Daughter

Margaret MaronAnthony Award for Best Novel

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Theory of War

Joan BradyCosta Book of the Year

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Doomsday Book

Connie WillisHugo Award (Best Novel)

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Last Call

Tim PowersLocus Award for Best Fantasy Novel

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Postcards

E. Annie ProulxPEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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The English Patient

Michael OndaatjeBooker Prize

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Swing Hammer Swing!

Jeff TorringtonCosta Book of the Year

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Barrayar

Lois McMaster BujoldHugo Award (Best Novel)

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All the Pretty Horses

Cormac McCarthyNational Book Award for Fiction

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Mao II

Don DeLilloPEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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A Life of Picasso

John RichardsonCosta Book of the Year

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Thomas the Rhymer

Ellen KushnerMythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature

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Philadelphia Fire

John Edgar WidemanPEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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Hopeful Monsters

Nicholas MosleyCosta Book of the Year

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Hyperion

Dan SimmonsHugo Award (Best Novel)

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Eighty-Sixed

David B. FeinbergLambda Literary Award for Fiction

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Billy Bathgate

E. L. DoctorowPEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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Coleridge: Early Visions

Richard HolmesCosta Book of the Year

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Cyteen

C. J. CherryhHugo Award (Best Novel)

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Dusk and Other Stories

James SalterPEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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Beloved

Toni MorrisonAnisfield-Wolf Book Award – Fiction

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The Comforts of Madness

Paul SayerCosta Book of the Year

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The Uplift War

David BrinHugo Award (Best Novel)

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Seventh Son

Orson Scott CardLocus Award for Best Fantasy Novel

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World's End

T. C. BoylePEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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Under the Eye of the Clock

Christopher NolanCosta Book of the Year

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Speaker for the Dead

Orson Scott CardHugo Award (Best Novel)

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The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Richard RhodesNational Book Award for Nonfiction

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Soldiers in Hiding

Richard WileyPEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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An Artist of the Floating World

Kazuo IshiguroCosta Book of the Year

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Arctic Dreams

Barry LopezNational Book Award for Nonfiction

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The Old Forest and Other Stories

Peter TaylorPEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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Elegies

Douglas DunnCosta Book of the Year

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Neuromancer

William GibsonHugo Award (Best Novel)

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Common Ground

J. Anthony LukasNational Book Award for Nonfiction

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The Barracks Thief

Tobias WolffPEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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A Parish of Rich Women

James BuchanBetty Trask Award

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Startide Rising

David BrinHugo Award (Best Novel)

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Sent for You Yesterday

John Edgar WidemanPEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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The Sword of the Lictor

Gene WolfeBritish Fantasy Award for Best Novel

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Foundation's Edge

Isaac AsimovHugo Award (Best Novel)

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The Color Purple

Alice WalkerNational Book Award for Fiction

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Selected Poems

Galway KinnellNational Book Award for Poetry

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Seaview

Toby OlsonPEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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On the Black Hill

Bruce ChatwinCosta Book of the Year

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Little, Big

John CrowleyMythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature

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Rabbit is Rich

John UpdikeNational Book Award for Fiction

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The Soul of a New Machine

Tracy KidderNational Book Award for Nonfiction

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The Chaneysville Incident

David BradleyPEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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The Snow Queen

Joan D. VingeHugo Award (Best Novel)

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How German Is It

Walter AbishPEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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How Far Can You Go

David LodgeCosta Book of the Year

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Tulku

Peter DickinsonCarnegie Medal for Writing

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Samuel Johnson

W. Jackson BateNational Book Award for Nonfiction

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The Honourable Schoolboy

John le CarréGold Dagger Award

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Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

John AshberyNational Book Award for Poetry

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The Great Victorian Collection

Brian MooreGovernor General's Literary Award for English-Language Fiction

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M. C. Higgins the Great

Virginia HamiltonNational Book Award for Young People's Literature

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G.

John BergerBooker Prize

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The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture

David Brion DavisAnisfield-Wolf Book Award – Nonfiction

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The Fixer

Bernard MalamudNational Book Award for Fiction

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Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain

Justin KaplanNational Book Award for Nonfiction

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Henry James

Leon EdelNational Book Award for Nonfiction

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Poems

Alan DuganNational Book Award for Poetry

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Promises: Poems, 1954-1956

Robert Penn WarrenNational Book Award for Poetry

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Things of This World

Richard WilburNational Book Award for Poetry

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A Fable

William FaulknerNational Book Award for Fiction

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A Stillness at Appomattox

Bruce CattonNational Book Award for Nonfiction

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Collected Poems, 1917-1952

Archibald MacLeishNational Book Award for Poetry

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Collected Poems

Marianne MooreNational Book Award for Poetry