2010 Award-Winning Books

Award-Winning Books in the Atwater Library Collection

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2010 Award Winners in the Atwater Library Collection:

Canadian:
BWO Winterset Award( Newfoundland and Labrador)
British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction

CBC Canada Reads
Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction
Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award
Cundill Prize in History at McGill University
Governor General’s Literary Awards for Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry
Grand Prix du livre de Montréal
The Griffin Poetry Prize
Leacock Award for Humour
Quebec Writers' Federation
Scotiabank Giller Prize
Trillium Book Award (Ontario)
The Writers' Trust of Canada

American:
Agatha Award for Best First Novel
Agatha Award for Best Novel
Edgar Allan Poe Award
National Book Awards for Fiction and Non-Fiction
National Book Critics Circle
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Pulitzer Prize

International:
Commonwealth Writers’ Prize
Crime Writers Association Dagger Award
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
Man Booker Prize
Orange Prize
Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Award

 

Click here to see 2009 Award Winners in the Atwater Library Collection


 
TheBoyInTheMo0on

 WINNER of the 2010 BMO Winterset Award

 The Glass harmonica / Russel Wangersky

 Call #: Fic Wan

   
TheBoyInTheMo0on

WINNER of the 2010 British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction
WINNER of the 2010 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction
WINNER of the 2010 Trillium Book Award in English-language

The boy in the moon : a father's search for his disabled son / Ian Brown.

Call #: 362.196 B881b

 
award_nikolski.jpg

WINNER of the 2010 CBC Canada Reads

Nikolski : a novel / Nicolas Dickner. Translated by Lazer Lederhendler.

Call #: Fic Dic / QWF Fic Dic

 

 
sweetness pie

WINNER of the 2010 Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel
WINNER of the 2010 Agatha Award
for Best First Novel

The sweetness at the bottom of the pie / Alan Bradley.

Call #: MYS Fic Bra

 

 WINNER of the 2010 Cundill Prize in History at McGill University

 Christianity  / Diarmaid MacCullock  

 Call #:    270 M133c

 
Cool Water

WINNER of the 2010 Governor General's Literary Awards for English-Language Fiction

Cool Water / Donna Warren

Call #: Fic War

Lakeland

WINNER of the 2010 Governor General's Literary Awards for English-Language Non-Fiction

Lakeland / Allen Casey

Call #: 914.278 D255b

 WINNER of the 2010 Governor General's Literary Awards for English-Language Poetry

 Boxing the Compass  /  Richard Greene   

 Call #: 811.54 G811b

 

 WINNER of the 2010 Grand Prix du livre de Montréal

 L'homme Blanc  /  Perrine LeBlanc   

 Call #: FR Fic Leb

 
pigeon

Canadian WINNER of the 2010 Griffin Poetry Prize
WINNER of the 2010 Trillium Book Award for Poetry

Pigeon : poems / Karen Solie.

Call #: 811.6 S686p

WINNER of the 2010 Leacock Medal for Humour

Beyond Belfast : a 560-mile walk across Northern Ireland on sore feet / Will Ferguson

Call#: 914.16 F353b

 
Ilustrado

WINNER of the 2010 QWF Award - Paragraphe Huge MacLennan Prize for Fiction

Ilustrado / Miguel Syjuco

Call #: QWF Fic Syj

Global Warring

WINNER of the 2010 QWF Award - Mavis Gallant Prize for non-Fiction

Global Warring / Cleo Paskal

Call #: QWF 909.83 P278g

The Empire Within

WINNER of the 2010 QWF Award - QWF First Book Prize

The Empire Within / Sean Mills

Call #: QWF 971.428 M657e

The Certainty Dream

WINNER of the 2010 QWF Award - A.M.Klein Prize for Poetry

The Cerainty Dream / Kate Hall

Call #:  QWF 811.6 H177c

Quebec, ville du patrimoine mondial

 

WINNER of the 2010 QWF Award - Prix de traduction Fondation Cole

Québec, ville du patrimoine mondial / David Mendel, translated to French by Paule Champoux

Call #: QWF FR 917.1404 M537q

 
The Sentimentalists

WINNER of the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize

The Sentimentalists / Johanna Shiverly Skibsrud

Call #: Fic Ski

 
strip

WINNER of the 2010 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize

Room / Emma Donoghue

Call #: Fic Don

WINNER of 2010 Agatha Award for Best Novel

The brutal telling / Louise Penny

Call #: MYS Fic Pen

 
last child

WINNER of the 2010 Edgar Awards for Best Novel

The last child / John Hart.

Call #: MYS Fic Har

 

 WINNER of the 2010 National Book Awards for Fiction

 Lord of misrule / Jaimy Gordon

 Coming Soon

 WINNER of the 2010 National Book Awards for Non-Fiction

 Just Kids  /  Patti Smith   

 Call #:    Bio S656j

 
 WINNER of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

 A visit from the goon squad / Jennifer Egan
   
 Call #: Fic Ega

 Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-fiction

 The warmth of other suns / Isabel Wilkerson

 Call #: Fic Wan

 
award_war_dances

WINNER of the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

War dances / by Sherman Alexie.

Call #: Fic Ale

 
tinkers

WINNER of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Tinkers / Paul Harding.

Call #: Fic Har

 
solo

The WINNER of the 2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book

Solo / Rana Dasgupta.

Call #: Fic Das

galore

WINNER of the 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book Award, Canada and the Caribbean Region

Galore : a novel / Michael Crummey.

Call #: Fic Cru

 
Darkest-room

WINNER of the 2010 Crime Writers Association Dagger Award

The darkest room : a novel / Johan Theorin

Call #: MYS Fic The

twin

WINNER of the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

The twin / Gerbrand Bakker ; translated from the Dutch by David Colmer.

Call #: Fic Bak

The Finkler Question
WINNER
of the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction

The Finkler Question / Howard Jacobson

Call #: Fic Jac

 
lacuna

WINNER of the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction

The lacuna : a novel / Barbara Kingsolver.

Call #: Fic Kin

 
passion nature

WINNER of the 2010 Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Award for Non-Fiction
WINNER of the 2010 Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Award for Book of the Year

A passion for nature : the life of John Muir / Donald Worster.

Call #: SC Bio M953w

strip

WINNER of the 2010 Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Award for Fiction

Strip the willow / John Aberdein.

Call #: SC Fic Abe

Click here to see 2009 Award Winners in the Atwater Library Collection