Award Sweeps — Books That Won Multiple Prizes in One Year

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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Susanna Clarke

Hugo Award (Best Novel)

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The Hours

Michael Cunningham

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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James

Percival Everett

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

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Hamnet

Maggie O'Farrell

National Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction)

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The Poet X

Elizabeth Acevedo

Carnegie Medal for Writing

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The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead

Arthur C. Clarke Award

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March Book Three

John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell

Coretta Scott King Book Awards

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The City & the City

China Miéville

Arthur C. Clarke Award

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The Secret Scripture

Sebastian Barry

Costa Book of the Year

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Anansi Boys

Neil Gaiman

British Fantasy Award for Best Novel

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Small Island

Andrea Levy

Costa Book of the Year

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Paladin of Souls

Lois McMaster Bujold

Hugo Award (Best Novel)

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American Gods

Neil Gaiman

Hugo Award (Best Novel)

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Bel Canto

Ann Patchett

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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Birthday Letters

Ted Hughes

Costa Book of the Year

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Independence Day

Richard Ford

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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The Everlasting

Alix E. Harrow

Hugo Award (Best Novel)

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Death of the Author

Nnedi Okorafor

Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel

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The Tainted Cup

Robert Jackson Bennett

Hugo Award (Best Novel)

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The Reformatory

Tananarive Due

Bram 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 Higginbotham

Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction

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My Friends

Hisham Matar

National Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction)

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What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez

Claire Jimenez

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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Horse

Geraldine Brooks

Anisfield-Wolf Book Award – Fiction

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Freewater

Amina Luqman-Dawson

Coretta Scott King Book Awards

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Happy Place

Emily Henry

Goodreads Choice Awards for Romance

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Demon Copperhead

Barbara Kingsolver

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

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A Desolation Called Peace

Arkady Martine

Hugo Award (Best Novel)

Winner

The Last Cuentista

Donna Barba Higuera

Newbery Medal

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Network Effect

Martha Wells

Hugo Award (Best Novel)

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Lost Children Archive

Valeria Luiselli

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

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New Kid

Jerry Craft

Coretta Scott King Book Awards

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The Nickel Boys

Colson Whitehead

Orwell Prize for Political Fiction

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The Testaments

Margaret Atwood

Booker Prize

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The Great Believers

Rebecca Makkai

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

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The Calculating Stars

Mary Robinette Kowal

Hugo Award (Best Novel)

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Heads of the Colored People

Nafissa Thompson-Spires

Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (Fiction)

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Spinning Silver

Naomi Novik

Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel

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An American Marriage

Tayari Jones

NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction

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Sing, Unburied, Sing

Jesmyn Ward

Anisfield-Wolf Book Award – Fiction

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Bluebird, Bluebird

Attica Locke

Anthony Award for Best Novel

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Milkman

Anna Burns

Booker Prize

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The Stone Sky

N. K. Jemisin

Hugo Award (Best Novel)

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Flights

Olga Tokarczuk

International Booker Prize

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The Calculating Stars

Mary Robinette Kowal

Nebula Award (Best Novel)

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How to Survive a Plague

David France

Baillie Gifford Prize

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Golden Hill

Francis Spufford

Desmond Elliott Prize

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The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead

Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (Fiction)

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Behold the Dreamers

Imbolo Mbue

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between

Hisham Matar

PEN/Jean Stein Book Award

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The Sympathizer

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

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The Glorious Heresies

Lisa McInerney

Desmond Elliott Prize

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Do Not Say We Have Nothing

Madeleine Thien

Governor General's Literary Award for English-Language Fiction

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Delicious Foods

James Hannaham

Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (Fiction)

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Uprooted

Naomi Novik

Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel

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Uprooted

Naomi Novik

British Fantasy Award for Best Novel

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All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

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A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara

Kirkus Prize (Fiction)

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Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction

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Ordinary Grace

William Kent Krueger

Anthony Award for Best Novel

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Ancillary Justice

Ann Leckie

Arthur C. Clarke Award

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H Is for Hawk

Helen Macdonald

Baillie Gifford Prize

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The Goldfinch

Donna Tartt

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

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A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing

Eimear McBride

Desmond Elliott Prize

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Annihilation

Jeff VanderMeer

Nebula Award (Best Novel)

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This Boy: A Memoir of a Childhood

Alan Johnson

Orwell Prize for Political Writing

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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Karen Joy Fowler

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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

Andrew Solomon

Anisfield-Wolf Book Award – Nonfiction

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The Luminaries

Eleanor Catton

Booker Prize

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The Orphan Master's Son

Adam Johnson

Dayton Literary Peace Prize – Fiction

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Redshirts

John Scalzi

Hugo Award (Best Novel)

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Everything Begins and Ends At the Kentucky Club

Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Lambda Literary Award for Fiction

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Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

National Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction)

Winner

Bring Up the Bodies

Hilary Mantel

Booker Prize

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The Buddha in the Attic

Julie Otsuka

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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Saraswati Park

Anjali Joseph

Betty Trask Award

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Among Others

Jo Walton

British Fantasy Award for Best Novel

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The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg

Deborah Eisenberg

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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War Dances

Sherman Alexie

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

Annette Gordon-Reed

Anisfield-Wolf Book Award – Nonfiction

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Wolf Hall

Hilary Mantel

Booker Prize

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A Scattering

Christopher Reid

Costa Book of the Year

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The Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman

Hugo Award (Best Novel)

Winner

Netherland

Joseph O'Neill

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot Díaz

Anisfield-Wolf Book Award – Fiction

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The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Michael Chabon

Hugo Award (Best Novel)

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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot Díaz

Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (Fiction)

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The Great Man

Kate Christensen

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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Half of a Yellow Sun

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Anisfield-Wolf Book Award – Fiction

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Day

A.L. Kennedy

Costa Book of the Year

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American Born Chinese

Gene Luen Yang

Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album – New

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Rainbows End

Vernor Vinge

Hugo Award (Best Novel)

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The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Michael Chabon

Nebula Award (Best Novel)

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Everyman

Philip Roth

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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On Beauty

Zadie Smith

Anisfield-Wolf Book Award – Fiction

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The Inheritance of Loss

Kiran Desai

Booker Prize

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The Tenderness of Wolves

Stef Penney

Costa Book of the Year

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The March

E. L. Doctorow

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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Iron Council

China Miéville

Arthur C. Clarke Award

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Matisse the Master

Hilary Spurling

Costa Book of the Year

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The Master

Colm Tóibín

Lambda Literary Award for Fiction

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War Trash

Ha Jin

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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The Known World

Edward P. Jones

Anisfield-Wolf Book Award – Fiction

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The Early Stories: 1953-1975

John Updike

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide

Samantha Power

Anisfield-Wolf Book Award – Nonfiction

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Vernon God Little

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize

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The Scar

China Miéville

British Fantasy Award for Best Novel

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Mark Haddon

Costa Book of the Year

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Landing Light

Don Paterson

Costa Book of the Year

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Moy Sand and Gravel

Paul Muldoon

Griffin Poetry Prize

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Ombria in Shadow

Patricia A. McKillip

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature

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The Caprices

Sabina Murray

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self

Claire Tomalin

Costa Book of the Year

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Perdido Street Station

China Miéville

Arthur C. Clarke Award

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The Amber Spyglass

Philip Pullman

Costa Book of the Year

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Something Like A House

Sid Smith

Costa Book of the Year

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Clara Callan

Richard B. Wright

Governor General's Literary Award for English-Language Fiction

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The Human Stain

Philip Roth

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

Winner

English Passengers

Matthew Kneale

Costa Book of the Year

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White Teeth

Zadie Smith

Costa Book of the Year

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Anil's Ghost

Michael Ondaatje

Governor General's Literary Award for English-Language Fiction

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Waiting

Ha Jin

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation

Seamus Heaney

Costa Book of the Year

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To Say Nothing of the Dog

Connie Willis

Hugo Award (Best Novel)

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Skellig

David Almond

Carnegie Medal for Writing

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Forever Peace

Joe Haldeman

Hugo Award (Best Novel)

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The Love of a Good Woman

Alice Munro

National Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction)

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The Bear Comes Home

Rafi Zabor

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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Tales from Ovid

Ted Hughes

Costa Book of the Year

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Blue Mars

Kim Stanley Robinson

Hugo Award (Best Novel)

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Women in Their Beds

Gina Berriault

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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The Debt to Pleasure

John Lanchester

Betty Trask Award

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Thomas Cranmer: A Life

Diarmaid MacCulloch

Costa Book of the Year

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The Spirit Level

Seamus Heaney

Costa Book of the Year

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The Diamond Age

Neal Stephenson

Hugo Award (Best Novel)

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Behind the Scenes at the Museum

Kate Atkinson

Costa Book of the Year

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Mirror Dance

Lois McMaster Bujold

Hugo Award (Best Novel)

Winner

Snow Falling on Cedars

David Guterson

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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Felicia's Journey

William Trevor

Costa Book of the Year

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Green Mars

Kim Stanley Robinson

Hugo Award (Best Novel)

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Operation Shylock

Philip Roth

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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Bootlegger's Daughter

Margaret Maron

Anthony Award for Best Novel

Winner

Theory of War

Joan Brady

Costa Book of the Year

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Doomsday Book

Connie Willis

Hugo Award (Best Novel)

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Last Call

Tim Powers

Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel

Winner

Postcards

Annie Proulx

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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The English Patient

Michael Ondaatje

Booker Prize

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Swing Hammer Swing!

Jeff Torrington

Costa Book of the Year

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Barrayar

Lois McMaster Bujold

Hugo Award (Best Novel)

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All the Pretty Horses

Cormac McCarthy

National Book Award for Fiction

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Mao II

Don DeLillo

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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A Life of Picasso

John Richardson

Costa Book of the Year

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Thomas the Rhymer

Ellen Kushner

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature

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Philadelphia Fire

John Edgar Wideman

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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Hopeful Monsters

Nicholas Mosley

Costa Book of the Year

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Hyperion

Dan Simmons

Hugo Award (Best Novel)

Winner

Eighty-Sixed

David B. Feinberg

Lambda Literary Award for Fiction

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Billy Bathgate

E. L. Doctorow

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

Winner

Coleridge: Early Visions

Richard Holmes

Costa Book of the Year

Winner

Cyteen

C. J. Cherryh

Hugo Award (Best Novel)

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Dusk and Other Stories

James Salter

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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Beloved

Toni Morrison

Anisfield-Wolf Book Award – Fiction

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The Comforts of Madness

Paul Sayer

Costa Book of the Year

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The Uplift War

David Brin

Hugo Award (Best Novel)

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Seventh Son

Orson Scott Card

Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel

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World's End

T. C. Boyle

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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Under the Eye of the Clock

Christopher Nolan

Costa Book of the Year

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Speaker for the Dead

Orson Scott Card

Hugo Award (Best Novel)

Winner

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Richard Rhodes

National Book Award for Nonfiction

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Soldiers in Hiding

Richard Wiley

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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An Artist of the Floating World

Kazuo Ishiguro

Costa Book of the Year

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Arctic Dreams

Barry Lopez

National Book Award for Nonfiction

Winner

The Old Forest and Other Stories

Peter Taylor

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

Winner

Elegies

Douglas Dunn

Costa Book of the Year

Winner

Neuromancer

William Gibson

Hugo Award (Best Novel)

Winner

Common Ground

J. Anthony Lukas

National Book Award for Nonfiction

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The Barracks Thief

Tobias Wolff

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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A Parish of Rich Women

James Buchan

Betty Trask Award

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Startide Rising

David Brin

Hugo Award (Best Novel)

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Sent for You Yesterday

John Edgar Wideman

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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The Sword of the Lictor

Gene Wolfe

British Fantasy Award for Best Novel

Winner

Foundation's Edge

Isaac Asimov

Hugo Award (Best Novel)

Winner

The Color Purple

Alice Walker

National Book Award for Fiction

Winner

Selected Poems

Galway Kinnell

National Book Award for Poetry

Winner

Seaview

Toby Olson

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

Winner

On the Black Hill

Bruce Chatwin

Costa Book of the Year

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Little, Big

John Crowley

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature

Winner

Rabbit is Rich

John Updike

National Book Award for Fiction

Winner

The Soul of a New Machine

Tracy Kidder

National Book Award for Nonfiction

Winner

The Chaneysville Incident

David Bradley

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

Winner

The Snow Queen

Joan D. Vinge

Hugo Award (Best Novel)

Winner

How German Is It

Walter Abish

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

Winner

How Far Can You Go

David Lodge

Costa Book of the Year

Winner

Tulku

Peter Dickinson

Carnegie Medal for Writing

Winner

Samuel Johnson

W. Jackson Bate

National Book Award for Nonfiction

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The Honourable Schoolboy

John le Carré

Gold Dagger Award

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Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

John Ashbery

National Book Award for Poetry

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The Great Victorian Collection

Brian Moore

Governor General's Literary Award for English-Language Fiction

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M. C. Higgins the Great

Virginia Hamilton

National Book Award for Young People's Literature

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G.

John Berger

Booker Prize

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The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture

David Brion Davis

Anisfield-Wolf Book Award – Nonfiction

Winner

The Fixer

Bernard Malamud

National Book Award for Fiction

Winner

Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain

Justin Kaplan

National Book Award for Nonfiction

Winner

Henry James

Leon Edel

National Book Award for Nonfiction

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Poems

Alan Dugan

National Book Award for Poetry

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Promises: Poems, 1954-1956

Robert Penn Warren

National Book Award for Poetry

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Things of This World

Richard Wilbur

National Book Award for Poetry

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A Fable

William Faulkner

National Book Award for Fiction

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A Stillness at Appomattox

Bruce Catton

National Book Award for Nonfiction

Winner

Collected Poems, 1917-1952

Archibald MacLeish

National Book Award for Poetry

Winner

Collected Poems

Marianne Moore

National Book Award for Poetry